Kara’s Blog

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.

While we engage in hypotheticals of free speech and age-appropriateness, real-life trans kids need us. Let’s step up and stop allowing transphobes to derail the conversation.

Did you know that the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives publishes an education journal called Our Schools/Our Selves? Neither did I, until I saw a call for proposals for articles related to teaching during the pandemic. My proposal to write about adult and continuing education during the pandemic was approved. After a couple of months of drafting and editing, the final version has been published! You can download the PDF from this page—my…

I’ve redesigned my personal site to match Kara.Reviews and learned Tailwind, a CSS toolkit, in the process.

Season 3 fixes so much I disliked about the first two seasons.

To be asexual in our society is to be told constantly, in ways big and small, that you are broken. But we can change that, and everyone will be better for it.

Intersectionality means I can’t separate my whiteness from my transness, nor can I ignore how the privilege the former identity grants me moderates the marginalization of the latter identity. We white trans people need to do better at acknowledging this.