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How I Stumbled onto Black Science Fiction Prior to graduate school, fantasy of any kind was never a part of my reading interests. For most of my life, I’d always loved historical fiction. Mostly because I loved history, and they …
Over the last few weeks I’ve been reading Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarashina. It is a fantastic collection of essays that thinks through the possibilities of a political future where disability justice is a part of …
Do I Have a Superpower? What Illness Can Teach Us About Ourselves Read more »
Being a faculty member with a chronic illness is a mixed blessing. On one hand, like with any job, the anxiety of never knowing whether my body will show up on time and ready to go, is not necessarily the …
Communicating with Students about Faculty Chronic Illness Read more »