While away on retreat with the DRAW (Departing Radically in Academic Writing” group at the end of 2020, we were tasked to create a writing manifesto, a statement which clearly set out our beliefs in who we are as writers, what we write and why. I immediately thought of Valerie Solanas’ 1967 “S.C.U.M (Society for…
In-sistered writing
Returning to Laurel
Every once in a awhile you return to writing you love by writers you adore, writing that is filled with love for words and the world, and reminds of you why you love writing too. Today I returned to Laurel Richardson https://laurelrichardson.blog/. Laurel is a feminist sociologist well-known for her book Fields of Play: Constructing…