Often, when white writers like me consider how we write about race, we discuss how we write about racialized people. We seldom (with some exceptions) discuss how we think and write about the experience we know most about: that of being white. This is not about the ludicrous idea that white…
So I was gearing up to write about The X Files revival (short version: I think it’s a lot of fun, minus the -isms and -phobias that shamefully pop up on– and offscreen), and then the second episode made me realize that’s not what stuck with me at all. Without spoiling XF…
So I think I’m ready to write about why I disagree with the Sept. 2015 Atlantic cover story, “The Coddling of the American Mind.” The authors, both university professors, claim that requests for “trigger warnings”–that is, warnings about content that may link to students’ own traumatic experiences, such as sexual…
As I work on my current MS, I’ve learned one of my weaknesses: dialogue.
This year, I tried for the second time to play an installment of Phoenix Wright, mystery-solving, case-winning video-game lawyer extraordinaire. And, for the second time, I gave up in frustration close to the beginning of the game. I did this even though this particular game was a crossover with Professor…