Sanitize and Simplify
In my blog post “Dick and Jane Go to the Homeless Shelter,” I wrote about the methods that educational publishers use to sanitize their books and articles, usually so as to not offend the […]
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The Power of Voice
Let’s be honest: when it comes to publishing, most academic specialties, sociology included, tend towards being dry. Papers, reports, charts, graphs, data, innumerable footnotes, and complicated academic vocabularies dominate. Granted, there are those people who […]
Don’t Worry, Kids, It’ll Only Be Hot for a Little While…
As I noted in my previous post (“Dick and Jane Visit the Homeless Shelter”), Texas is one of the largest purchasers of textbooks in the country, owing to its sheer size. And as a […]
Dick and Jane Go to the Homeless Shelter
The theme of this year’s ASA conference was “Hard Times,” specifically, the brutal inequalities that have resulted from the restructuring of power and economy in America. Many Americans have been feeling the pinch of […]
Just Bleed
“There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” -Red Smith For those who think that writing is easy– and for those who know that it is […]
A More Honest Story
I am so grateful to Nomad Press for letting me explore brave topics in my new book Civic Unrest: Investigate the Struggle for Social Change. This book for teenagers seeks to move beyond simply […]
On Writing and Complacency
I have become, in certain ways, a complacent writer. I have spent many years of hard work, frustration, persistence, tears, rejections, and near surrender to make a career out of my craft, […]
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A friend working in sustainable development one day threw up her arms in disgust at how phony the “Green” movement had become. From her point of view, the world was not growing or changing from […]
Gnostic Green 