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Women’s boundaries and male exclusion
I am glad my friends set boundaries and excluded me, because it taught me a valuable lesson: women have the right to say no.
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Sarah Mary Chadwick’s “Full Mood” is a hauntingly beautiful love song for our time
“Full Mood” didn’t remind me of any one man I dated. It reminded me of many.
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Ramblings on a snow day
Maybe its the weather. Maybe I didn’t get enough sleep. Maybe its the fact that we just lived through an attempted coup. Who can say?
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Sonia Weiser’s “Opportunities of the Week” newsleter – a great resource for freelance journalists
I first came across Sonia Weiser when she came across me. I tweeted about a website with absurd requirements for its writers, and she asked where. I looked at her profile and discovered she produces a weekly newsletter called “Opportunities of the Week,” in which she collates various calls for submissions from editors. Intrigued, I […]
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Calendars and racist tchotchkes
That’s the thing about writing professionally no one tells you about: you spend a lot of time not actually writing but rather doing office work.
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Looking back on 2020, looking ahead to 2021
If you can’t tell, that picture is fake. My teeth aren’t that white, or that straight. My skin is not that flawless. Oh, and as if anyone is celebrating New Year’s Eve in a massive crowd this year. Yeah, that isn’t happening. At least IT BETTER NOT BE HAPPENING. (Looking at you. Yes you. You […]
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Thoughts and advice for aspiring writers on pitching, waiting, and rejection
One of the questions I get asked the most by people who want to write for a living is “how do I pitch?” Folks simply don’t know how to communicate to a newspaper or website that they would like to write for them. When I first stared writing, this was one of my biggest obstacles. […]
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Skylar Baker-Jordan interviewed by Democratically and the LaFollette Press
Last weekend, I was a guest on Karin Robinson‘s Democratically podcast. I have done Karin’s show several times this year, and it is always a delight to speak with her. This was, however, my favourite appearance. We had a thoughtful conversation about Joe Biden’s cabinet nominees, the changing political landscape of the South, and how […]
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On writing, and going forward into 2021
This is the first in what will hopefully be a series of personal blogs, reflecting on, well, whatever the hell I want to reflect on. A lot will no doubt be on politics, though I plan to migrate most of that writing to Medium where it can pick up more traffic and make a little […]
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