Right now, events accommodate cameras first, and people second. We need to turn that around ..read more

I’ve defined fusion a few times now – sometimes alone, and sometimes with friends. Sometimes to reflect words people currently use, and sometimes something all my own. I keep defining fusion because I don’t think there’s actually one correct and complete answer to the question. There are as many fusions out there as there are ..read more

Some days it feels like the world is burning… and let’s be honest… it is. I try and write a post each semester about my values for going back into teaching, and something I’m going to try and align myself with in my life and in the classroom. But with multiple genocides ongoing, a pandemic ..read more

Hello from my whirlwind multi-city tour! This is the latest sabbatical update, you can read part one, part two, and part three at these links. For those of you following the saga of people stealing my work, these sabbatical posts seem to be some of the most egregiously plagiarized – if you see someone pretending ..read more

It’s time for another sabbatical update! If you missed the first, or have questions about what a sabbatical is, you are welcome to read part one. Since then, I’ve flown to Vienna to officiate a dear friend’s wedding, and spent a grueling week by a hospital bedside watching my fiancé slowly recover from emergency surgery ..read more

It’s job hunt season on the academic market right now, and so to go with my article on DEI statements, I feel like it’s finally time to write my guide to good cover letters. I got my current job because of my cover letter, and I’ve read a whole lot of them since I started ..read more

Imagine a cabin in the mountains. Hundreds of acres of trails winding through woods, waterfalls, and wildflowers. Imagine waking up with the sun, drinking your coffee in a hammock on your porch, and then getting to grips with your art. Imagine dinner each night served at a communal table of artists and friends. Imagine weekends ..read more

Back in the 1950s, the US government made a bad decision. In fact, it made several, but that’s another blog post. In the 1950s, the US government decided that the Venn diagram of communists, artists, and LGBTQ people overlapped so much that all three groups should be considered a danger to US society.  Of course ..read more

Do you know what your teacher is paid to do? What kind of contract they are on? Do you know that teachers at the same university can be paid very different amounts, and that one teacher might be working for a salary while another works for free, or below minimum wage, even if they’re teaching ..read more

Dance organizers have to make a decision. No, not “should you require vaccinations?” Or “should you have people mask?” Although those questions are important. But first you need to answer a deeper and more fundamental question about the organization you’re running and how you make policy. The question is: Are you a community, or are you an activity group? Go back and read that a few times. This question was posed to me by a fellow organizer (who I’ll credit if they ask me to), and it clarified so many things for me about what I value in an organization and what I do not. In an activity group ..read more