There are terrible, bigoted things happening every day of the Trump presidency — and terrible, bigoted things that have been happening for a long time but only shamefully recently came to the attention of those of us they aren’t happening to. It seems right to feel angry and upset and…
Happy Chanukah! The last quarter of the year feels about five times as long as all the rest. Daylight gets shorter, the school semester gets more intense (hello, end-of-term papers to mark!), and I get more stressed out. But class is over, and I’m chilling in the eye of the…
Ah, Baby University Instructor Sarah of five years ago. I’m jealous of you because there’s so much for you to learn and do. But I’m also totally not jealous, because there are a few important things you don’t know. Like…
Don’t worry, this is my last to-do kick for a while. In Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, the White Queen tells Alice that she sometimes believes six impossible things before breakfast. This is in response to Alice’s denial that one can believe impossible things, and I have…
To do — a not-comprehensive list for me, a white Canadian writer in 2017:
OK, fellow white people*, if you really want, let’s talk about Nazis. (*People of colour, it’s not that you can’t read this, it’s that you probably already know way better than I could ever put it. But you shouldn’t have to dredge up the emotional energy to confront and educate…
Last week, I tried to persuade you to join me in my fangirling for Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch series. This week, allow me to make the case for another series. Just like last week’s, this one is incomplete; just like last week’s, the final volume is scheduled for publication in…
(Alternative title: fortune cookies by Sarah) Today is the thirtieth anniversary of my existence. They say that you’re supposed to get wiser as you get older, but to be honest, I don’t feel much of either. I’m sure my ten- or twenty-year-old selves would see the difference between me then…
Hey, folks! It turns out that revising a novel while also teaching (reduced) full-time is a lot more time-consuming than I anticipated. In order to do a good job on important things rather than a terrible job on everything, I’m giving the blog a rest until Dec.1, 2014. Or until…