How Did We Learn to Hate the Hood?
A friend of mine and I recently co-led a poetry workshop with a group of 7th, 8th and 9th graders, all of whom qualified for the workshop because of coming […]
Category Archives: Education
Coming Out in the Classroom
Last semester I student-taught in a third grade classroom at a small, public elementary school near my university in CT. Though the reinforcement of racial redistricting codes had recently shaken […]
Identifying as Mixed-Class: Or; Why Does ‘Diversity’ Tend to Leave Out Economics?
My parents met in their freshman year of college. My white mother had arrived from a wealthy Chicago suburb, was the daughter of a professor, and from a long line […]
An Introduction: Why I Use the Word ‘Faggot’
As an undergraduate, I majored in African American Studies, I program which was chronically understaffed, underfunded and under-supported by my diversity-touting university. During one of my introductory courses, the professor […]
Radical Faggot 