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Doomsday Politics

Published at Sacred Matters on March 16, 2016. Faithful readers also receive comfort in the knowledge that accepting of Jesus as lord and savior will spare you from the apocalypse. The Rapture will ferry you away from the fallen world. The rest of us will be left behind to its horror and torment. Interpreting the signs grants […]

The Men Who Email Me

Published at Chronicle Vitae on May 3, 2016. The emails and messages were anomalies in my life that I tried to make into funny stories about the weirdness of being a scholar in the Internet age. When freelance writing became my career, the messages were no longer anomalies but constant realities. I’m a woman who writes on […]

Make America White Again?

Published at The Atlantic on March 12, 2016. Trump’s “Make America great again” language is just like the rhetoric of the Klan, with their emphasis on virulent patriotism and restrictive immigration. But maybe Trump doesn’t know much about the second incarnation of the order and what Klansmen and Klanswomen stood for. Maybe the echoes are coincidence, […]

Loving in Public

Published at Bearings on January 14, 2016. Two seconds. Two gunshots. One child’s death. One year of waiting. Zero indictments. This is not justice. I can’t help but feel like blood is on our hands. America is awash in the blood of black people, and some can’t stop blaming the victim long enough to try.

On Rejection

Published at Chronicle Vitae on May 16, 2016. Rejection forced me to find another career and another way to live in this world. Rejection opened me up to possibilities I never would have imagined and allowed me space to recognize that academia was only a part of my world, not the defining feature. Rejection made me […]

The Vitae Bookshelf: Kelly J. Baker

Published at Chronicle Vitae on May 27, 2016. I am, however, fascinated by what these gory human-eating monsters tell us about American culture in various historical moments. Why is it always zombies? I’m still working that one out. This means I’ve spent much time reading and thinking about the scholarship on zombies, horror, fear, and monsters […]