Monthly Archives: August 2016
Defending Trigger Warnings as I begin YEAR 20 in the classroom
In the past three days, I have been interviewed twice about trigger warnings. What I have realized from these two interviews is that many issues are being conflated into one, and the term “trigger warning” is now synonymous with “censorship.” You can listen to my ten-minute interview with Dom Giordano on CBS Radio here. I was […]
Misogynoir at the Olympics and in the News
I recently wrote a few articles for Teaching Tolerance about the Olympic coverage and how it can be used in the classroom. The original draft of my piece about intersectionality talks about misogynoir, a term that suddenly everyone is googling: Phelps’s subject position is rooted in being one of the greatest swimmers of all time—but his male […]
Review of Little Bee
I have had plenty of people ask me about this book over the years, so here’s a piece I wrote on it back when it was flying off the shelves. Would love to know what folks thought of this book! –Serious spoiler alert– Everyone is talking about Little Bee. Reviewers love it. It is […]
