Yesterday I wrote my first piece for the Washington Post on a bad experience we’ve had with Nico and inclusion. It’s not a terrible experience, but I worry a lot about kids whose families don’t know how to advocate for their children, or those who do but feel alone. “Nico will get to participate as an…
Last month, I wrote a widely-read blog post on what I found when reading 2 months worth of opinion essays on higher ed at the New York Times. I’ve been trying to get a publication interested having me write up what I find when reading a years’ worth of essays, but so far no dice….
Today over at Inside Higher Education, John Warner has a great piece on “After Wisconsin.” He writes: The erosion, or worse, destruction of tenure is very bad news for contingent faculty[1].The forces that seek to erode tenure are the exact same ones that are the root causes of the adjunctification of the professorate, shrinking public…
My book isn’t about racists. It’s about people falsely accused of racism by people in an ideological fervor. https://t.co/QgaCtWMZdS — jonronson (@jonronson) June 9, 2015 So my morning on Twitter was interesting. Apparently, one of the racist women at the pool in violent incident in McKinney TX has been identified, and there’s a Facebook page calling…
I like this Jonathan Rees post about rules for online teaching. At Dominican, we’ve had many conversations about how to teach online while preserving our relationship-centered mentality. Rees is, similarly, thinking about how to make online teaching more than just a different delivery system. Here are some best practices he’s extracted: 1) They do not…
I had three published essays and five blog posts this week. One of them was on the problems with Autism Speaks, published in the New York Times – Motherlode Parenting section. It was important to me to put this piece in a high profile, high prestige, publication. I keep meeting smart, well-intentioned, people who do not…
Quite impressive: “Crusaders” are targeting the “New Turkey” of Erdoğan. Today’s cover of a pro-AKP daily. pic.twitter.com/Aw8dG3O4lC — Mustafa Akyol (@AkyolinEnglish) June 6, 2015 Wow. “Crusade” continues to evoke such a powerful set of memorializing impulses around the Judeo-Christian-Islamic world. Update: Mustafa was kind enough to translate for me. @Lollardfish @rezaaslan It reads, “New Crusaders…
I haven’t had time to write about the Vox piece of “Liberal professor scared of liberal students.” But I’m pleased to say that Amanda Taub, at Vox, has rebutted the piece published by Vox. Big websites like Vox are formed of independent turfs, with lots of people having access to the “publish” button (with a…
I have a new piece out at Al Jazeera America on the concept of inspiration porn. Inspiration porn still dominates depictions of disability in the news, so her work continues. In the last few weeks, three stories about disability have gone viral. A high school quarterback in Pennsylvania took a girl with Down syndrome to prom,…
I am working on a piece about accessible academic conferences and am, intentionally, focusing on academia. But there are two speculative fiction conventions that deserve mention. Convergence holds a special place in my heart. I’ve never been deeply involved with it, but have gone and performed there many times, especially in the early years before…