HeyJaredFieldnotes of a Black Woman Scholar: Writing What I Like!
Living at the intersections of reading, writing, and witnessing.
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Research and Write in Community (opens the original)
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I am sitting at my computer, on Labor Day, researching and reading articles for a book project that I’ve been working on for nearly a year and a half. I keep finding myself getting distracted while plugging in search terms on the computer, reading and annotating the articles, and then writing notes on what I read. As I walk to the kitchen from the den for the umpteenth time, I analyze my thoughts. I hear the voice in my mind say, “This book has to get finished, because it’s keeping me from doing
Write Yourself Well (opens the original)
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Every August, I make a syllabus.I map out readings, assignments, deadlines, office hours, presentations, committee meetings, conference travel, manuscript revisions, grant deadlines, and all of the invisible labor that accompanies academic life. Like many educators, I carefully prepare a plan for how I will care for everyone else’s intellectual development. Read more
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