Journalist – Historian – Speaker
The stats: 93 published columns. 66 at Pacific Standard 9 at CNN 5 at The Nation 4 at Washington Post 2 at The Ladders 1 at The Guardian 1 at The Atlantic 1 at Newsweek 1 at Eater 1 at The Establishment Writing is very different as a column. I’m grateful to Pacific Standard for bringing …
I am pleased to announce that I will be joining Pacific Standard as a regular internet columnist on politics and culture, starting in January. I will be producing reported features, opinion columns, interviews, and other pieces, focusing around history and disability rights, both construed as broadly as possible. Here’s my editor: .@PacificStand is pleased to …
Yesterday I had a piece published at Al Jazeera that I’m pretty proud of. I found dozens of academic job ads that discriminate against people with disabilities, in many cases illegally, and published on it. It’s as close to straight revealing reporting as I come, taking something boring (boilerplate HR clauses) and demonstrating their social impact. …
This is the 500th post on How Did We Get Into This Mess? I started the blog as a place to dump essays that I couldn’t sell, as I was new to freelancing in May of 2013, and caught up in the rush of public writing. I wrote, and wrote, and wrote, and pitched and …
One of my frustrations with disability writing is that it’s often perceived as a niche, and a small one at that. Instead, it’s us. All of us. Not all of us at once. Not all of us now. But disability is a fundamental component of the human condition. And of course disability is also diversity, …
♫I enjoy being a man!♫ Says the author of this piece on academic dads. http://t.co/ZLHhkltDDA — Karen Kelsky (@ProfessorIsIn) May 19, 2014 What do we, as writers, owe other writers? I’ve been thinking about this in the context of my “talking while privileged” argument. In general, when making arguments about privilege and power, I try …
From http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/01/05/killer-of-scribes/ A week or so ago, on Twitter, Virginia Heffernan introduced me to the word “hyperlexic” in the context of her piece on the speed-reading app Spritz (which Bogost has addressed here). She talked about the way we generally valorize certain kinds of reading, like novels, and dismiss others, like texts or Facebook. However one …
In the last two weeks, I have received a half dozen requests for advice from newish writers looking to expand their readership or break into more formal publication. They all ask me roughly the same questions – how did you do it? Does blogging help? Unfortunately to those seeking my advice, the true answer is …
Blogging is not (necessarily or probably) scholarship. Who cares? That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t count. There was a great session at the OAH (Organization of American Historians) annual conference last month on blogging and scholarship (summary, critique, and video, another summary and critique here, Ann Little’s introductory remarks here). The general conclusion is no, blogging isn’t scholarship. …
Apparently it’s a write-about-writing week so far on the blog. I really like Rebecca Schuman. This week, she has a call out for why academic rejection hurts more than other kinds of rejection. If it does for you, you should go give her your story, as she curates data well and writes beautiful polemics on …