For me Title IX, meant words become weapons, heroes fall, and when it comes to harm, the house always wins.

Until recently, I saw my relationship to education, academia, and professional success through the prism of the classic overachiever hooked on the opiate of meritocracy. But all my thinking about trauma this last year has me wondering how achievement functions as a trauma response to systemic oppression and intergenerational violence.

People always ask me how I got into French history. I usually tell them the same thing. it’s taken a while, but I see now that there are two stories: one true, another truer.

something unforgivable, something forgettable. part 8

when memory returns. part 7.

a memory of forgetting. part 6