I originally wrote this for the Handbook of Texas’s Handbook of Houston back in July. Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in June 2003 and in a 6-3 decision, Lawrence v. Texas overturned the United States’s remaining laws… Read More ›
Thoughts and Perspectives
I’ve chosen to only use the category “thoughts and perspectives” for two reasons. One, having a hierarchy of categories would get overly complex, as everything I write about could fit a variety of categories and having multiple categories per post would too confusing. Two, everything I write about is summed up with the words “thoughts and perspectives.”
News and Clichéd Conversations and Responses
A few years ago now, I wrote about how people are simply overwhelmed with the amount of tragic news presented 24/7. While still maintaining this positions, I am increasingly concerned and frustrated by clichéd responses. Where there is a mass… Read More ›
Being Disabled And Unconditionally Rejected in Higher Education
At some institutions of higher education, faculty who are not perfectly able-bodied are effectively barred from even stepping on campus. Such practices—on top of the already-difficult job market and added to the ubiquity of microaggressions directed toward us crip people—automatically… Read More ›
More Queer Studies Class Poems
Everything has been so busy, I almost forgot to share the poems my students in Introduction to Queer Studies wrote this semester–they gave me permission to share them! (Spring 2017 poems are here.) These are the poems they write as… Read More ›
Facts Exist on a Spectrum – Adventures Teaching Writing
Teaching First Year Writing this semester continues to be an exciting, interesting journey. A few nights ago, I was trying to decide how I wanted to address a lesson introducing the broad topic of facts, opinions, arguments, and related topics. My approach… Read More ›
More Gender and Race Perception Experiments
This serves as a kind of followup to this post where I described an experiment I did with a group of students. I recently did a similar version of this experiment but with some modifications based on suggestions I received… Read More ›
