Cops are not medical professionals. They should never be given the power to decide who can legally wear a mask for health reasons.
Most of all, thanks to Andrea and all the survivors who reached out to talk this week.
Thanks to Victoria Richards for giving me the space to write this and for the thinking of Brandon Taylor and Claire Dederer, which influenced my own. The payment I receive for this will be donated to The Gatehouse, the organization that has supported Skinner and so many others in their healing.
For the Independent, I wrote about Andrea Robin Skinner and her mother, how the question of reckoning with the art of monstrous people has long been answered, and how our treatment of survivors is the question that persists. www.independent.co.uk/voices/alice...
Andrea Skinner has revealed she suffered child sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather â and her mother, the Nobel Prize winning author Alice Munro, knew but did nothing about it. What do we do wi...
For my newsletter, I wrote about school shootings, struggling to find that third place, and the one small thing thatâs helping me practice hope and plan for an uncertain and unimaginable future. I hope youâll read it when you have a moment. Link here: craftwork.substack.com/p/one-small-...
On Building the Third Places
What happens when you put business interests in charge, instead of educators.
âaiâ edtech company collapses after taking six million dollars from the Los Angeles school district to develop an âeducational friendâ platform.
Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.
JUST IN: The former Uvalde school police chief and an officer are indicted in the first criminal charges filed over the failed response to the 2022 mass shooting
A grand jury has indicted two former Uvalde school police officers in the botched law enforcement response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers de...
"Kill your darlings" only applies if you're holding onto something that actually hurts your story. But jerks sometimes use "kill your darlings" as a weapon to try to break you. Don't wantonly kill what you love the most about your story. That's why you're writing it. Make it work.
thank you greg!!!!! the party is ongoing! books don't vanish: they stick around! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...