This is a continuation from last week’s essay, Prisoners of Higher Ed: Part 1, which lays out the ways in which higher education creates conformity in the professionals it trains. I’ve been fortunate in my lifetime to have had zero first-hand experience of war, but if war broke out around me, […]
Speaking Up: The Struggle to Remain True
Here’s a poem I wrote in October of 2019, before the world became unrecognizable: She Opened Her Mouth and the Roof Fell In She opened her mouth and the roof fell in. The walls collapsed around her and the house she had built with the sweat of her […]