I get called some form of nasty every day. It is part of my identity as a rigorous female teacher at an all-male prep school....
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Report from the Field: On Publishing a First Book at [almost] 50
In the summer of 2015, I opened the covers of a book and read aloud to a sizable audience inside an elegant black box theater....

Spotlight On! Black Napkin Press
Black Napkin Press is “committed to disrupting the heteronormative white-cis-male-centric publishing industry by publishing and promoting the work of artists from across the spectrum...

Where We Go From Here: The Moon Does Not Fight
Tonight, the moon comes the closest to the earth that it’s been in almost 70 years. Like a silver ghost rising up in a cloudless...

Where We Go From Here: Dear Students & Dear Trump
Dear Students, Good morning, class. Welcome to a new year, a new semester, and to my Race, Nation, and Borders in American Literature course. I...