October 26, 2017
CONTENT WARNING: Sexual assault. _______ I’ll bet many cisgendered heterosexual men have a story like this. After telling it, I’ll describe how […]
October 21, 2017
They begin to regard their students as idiots, children, incompetents. They begin to loathe them not only for their immaturity, but even more intensely because they are dependent on that immaturity, that devotion, for their daily bread. They're trapped.
October 20, 2017
The explicit minimizations I can verbalize are grounded in countless somatic reflexes that have been trained into me. I believe that before gaslighting becomes an institutional strategy, it is a nervous response. A lot of the vibrant discussion out there focuses on changing behaviors, and that’s as it should be. I’m trying to see what drives the behavior.
October 13, 2017
This summer marked the second time a friend of mine has died, suddenly and unnaturally.