This Report from the Field is a republication of Kolleen Carney’s personal blog post at https://kolleencarney.com/2017/08/24/82317-pt-2/amp/ regarding the developing controversy regarding a member of the...
Archive for tag: Feminism
The Sword
Vera Black walks the line as she empties her email, but in a death march kind of way. She finds herself rummaging through routine rejection...
Failing at Subjects: The Poetics of the Living Idea
I am not not an academic; and I am not not a failure. These double negatives vibrate for me, which is a way of saying...
The Dictator in My Notebook: On Censorship and the Risks of Writing
My mother used to warn me, “Never write anything down you wouldn’t want someone else to read. Not in a letter. Not in a diary....
Writing as a Mother Worker: A Socratic Inquiry
Things we know: Lorrie Moore is a writer of humorous fiction, and many would call her prolific and successful. Lorrie Moore is also mother to...
Report from the Field: About the (Queer) Author
A few weeks ago, a rejection email popped into my inbox. That’s not exactly unusual; dealing with a constant stream of rejections (punctuated, happily, with...
Report from the Field: Encounters with Misogynists or, the Lap Dances I Never Received
This isn’t a lesbian club, the bald-headed bouncer spat before tossing us onto the icy Montreal street. The details before and after are hazy. I...
Building Community: On the Power of Women Mentors
At 17 years old, I kept what I imagined was a riveting journal of high school life. It was rife with rowdy, drunken kisses tasting...