Kara’s Blog

This blog post is not about the death of the queen, though the bad hot takes on social media are the inciting incident. This is a blog post about white supremacy and white fragility and the fallacy that you can be progressive without feeling uncomfortable about your whiteness or doing a damn thing towards actual change.

Don’t Speak Ill of the Dead

Last Thursday, Queen Elizabeth died, and the internet lost its collective mind. Suddenly,…

Why are the things we want most sometimes the toughest to obtain? Now, finally, some traction.

Not actually about shoes but rather the need for radical collective action. All of us deserve more than just survival. We deserve luxury too.

Whether or not I personally choose to stay in adult education, we need to change the way we think about it.

If you care at all about other people, you don’t vote Conservative. It is that simple.

I can’t speak for the other teachers in your life, but I am not OK. You know why. But here is the whole story—for posterity?

Calls from both ends of the political spectrum for education to be neutral, apolitical, etc., are fundamentally flawed. Here’s why.

I’m not leaving teaching, but I’ve had my moments. This is my attempt to breathe.

I celebrate and reflect on two years since coming out as trans: the joys, the hardships, the freedom to be me.

One surprise during my transition has been how my relationship with my hair has changed as I have grown it out, and the way this affects not only how I see my body but also how I move through social spaces.