Journalist – Historian – Speaker
I’m contracted to write 6 columns a month for Pacific Standard Magazine. I might actually write more or less depending on how long they are, what news cycles require response, or whatever. But for January, I have now published 6 pieces. They are, in reverse order: Maria Town was the disability community liaison over the …
Dear Readers, Since the election, it’s been difficult to write more than strings of upset tweets as we processed together. I was not shocked that so many people voted for Trump. For a year, I’ve been predicting he’d receive 48-52% of the vote, with most people who voted Republican continuing to do so. I did …
In May 2013, I had a bunch of half-formed and un-sold essay drafts in a folder on my computer, and I decided to make a blog as a place to dump them, even if no one read it. I had only published 5 or 6 essays at that point and had no idea what I …
I got a lot done on my book in February, but I got more done chasing big stories. Here are some: Inspiration Porn Objectives People with Disabilities (The Establishment, 2/25/16) Sexual Ableism (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2/25/16) Guns on Campus Jeopardize Education (CNN.com, 2/24/16) Mount St. Mary’s Ableist Plan to Push Our Disabled Students (The Establishment, 2/25/16) Job …
Yesterday I wrote about my year of published writing. Here’s my review of a year of blogging. I wrote 312 blog posts in 2015. They vary in length and topic and I have no means to search them and organized a word cloud or tag cloud. Help? 2015 also featured the great migration to Wix, …
Last December, I published a year-in-review for my “published writing” and “blogging” in review. I’ve decided to make it a tradition, in part just to keep track, and maybe to suggest a few pieces that didn’t get the readership I feel they deserved. I had 61 pieces published in 2015 (unless I forgot to note …
I wrote two pieces about presidential debates: Politicians are Ignoring Americans with Disabilities (Al Jazeera America, 11/10/15) – this is a big one for me, and a theme to which I expect to return a lot. Yesterday, for example: Reminder: My @ajam piece: disability’s invisibility in presidential election. #DemDebate https://t.co/rgHqJVsyM3 https://t.co/CHDtv4AnfA — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) …
I finished a major corporate (disability-related) project this week and am hard at work on a major non-profit (disability-related) project now. That, plus teaching, plus the book, has slowed me down in terms of writing for mainstream media, but I trust that the depth of these bigger projects is more than worth it. In the …
Next Tuesday I will speaking about disability and diversity at Lewis University. Details here. Open to the public. Last week I went to Toledo to talk about public writing with other academics, then gave a talk on why police kill people with disabilities. Grateful to my hosts and everyone who came. I was also on …
Well, my move to Wix was a disaster. I did, however, defeat sunk cost bias and moved back here. I’ll be writing more about the lessons of the disaster in the next week or so. Here’s what I wrote this week, even as I continue to work on my book and other long-term projects. Inspiration …