A response to Monica Potts on trans students at women’s colleges
Update 2/22/15: It has been brought to my attention that there are parts of this post where through lazy language use I conflated assigned-female-at-birth nonbinary people and all nonbinary people. I...
View ArticleThat safe-space room was actually well-done, please stop mocking it now
I’m not going to go deeply into the now-famous Shulevitz op-ed in the New York Times about how students are “hiding from scary ideas” and trying to “self-infantilize,” though I have many thoughts on...
View ArticleSteelmanning and responding to trigger warning arguments
This post was spurred by the discussion about trigger warnings in academia over at Lawyers, Guns, and Money. Over the last year and a half or so, there have been a lot of terrible arguments about...
View ArticleWhat’s going on with all these campus ideological battles?
A note: I am aware that freedom of speech as described under the First Amendment only applies to the government. I’m talking more in this post about norms of academic freedom and campuses as a place...
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