THE JOURNAL #1
Launching a new format, a brief discussion of an interview of a Crip Theorist.
Happy Snow Day!
I’ve decided to expend this snow day on productive end, namely, launching a new format for the blog. Provisionally, I’m calling it The Journal. I have a lot of ideas, some more fully formed than others, but I’ve consistently been frustrated by a lack of somewhere to put them. Ironically, of course, this was meant to be the problem that this blog solved, but because I have published works to a certain standard of editorial polish in the past, I expect myself to publish works to a similar or superior quality in the future. Additionally, given that I am one day interested in having a career, I would prefer not the publish a piece containing some controversial idea without having given it apt space to breathe and then lose out on future opportunities. Accordingly, my editorial goal on this blog has evolved from “anything goes” to “definitive statement”— again, not a model suited to regular production.
These are the problems that this new format is intended to solve. I will be publishing more regular works containing less filtered takes on a greater variety of issues than I would normally feel comfortable discussing. The catch? Given their regularity, these essays will only be lightly edited, and given they will be lightly edited, I don’t want just any rando stumbling around looking for dirt to just be able to access them at will. This new column will have a paywall.
To the extent that I publish anything like what I have been publishing, I will continue to post these essays free of charge. But in a world where people are so often and so easily misunderstood based on the blurriest facts, I am simply not at a point in my life with my reputation where I feel comfortable exposing myself to a degree any greater than I already have.
Anyway, with that out of the way, if you choose to throw a dollar at me, enjoy the essay!
22 January 2026
This semester, I am taking a gender studies class, whose works and arguments will undoubtedly be the subject of many a column for the next few months. I took one gender studies class a few years ago when I began university, and I thought it would be interesting to return to WGS to conclude my time at university. I genuinely enjoyed my introductory class a few years ago, and I have little doubt I will enjoy this one as well, especially insofar as it is a glimpse into a discipline about which people on both sides of the political spectrum often epouse views that are as strident as they are irrational.
Today, I am reading Defiant Memory as Disability Justice: An Interview with Patty Berne of Sins Invalid by Alison Kopit and recording my live reaction to it as I read.