As a historian 🗃️ I was grateful to be encouraged to write this for @americananthro.bsky.social. It's important to me not to just write about #Haitian history or the history of US foreign policy, but also to try to redress the effects of our actions NOW.
🙏 for reading! #WelcomingWithDignity
#Resubmitted! Big ups to the spouse for his great suggestion - for forgiving me for ignoring it initially 😄 - AND for reviewing my revision & pushing me on a few other things. He & the editor seemed to be on the same wavelength as for how to perfect the piece, so 🤞. #WelcomingWithDignity
Draft finished! I'm waiting to see if the agency lets me name them or I have to use a pseudonym for them. Then I'll circulate to trusted readers before submitting. I'm glad I got this out of my brain/heart/fingers instead of just raging & we'll see what happens next. #WelcomingWithDignity
I just cut 500 words from my #WelcomingWithDignity essay - I have 22 to go to get to the necessary submission word count. 😄 I know I'm almost there!!! 🙌 #AmCutting
Ok, up and ready to edit! During the night my brain said “yo! That little conclusion you wrote last night needs to tie back to your intro!” It would have been better to dream of rainbows and green fields, but my partially-sleeping brain was right. It’s a needed fix! #AmRevising #WelcomingWithDignity
I love when students come to office hours... but no one is here so I #AmWriting my #WelcomingWithDignity essay! 🤗 I have a lot to say and want to be concise so it's taking a while. But it's hard to steal minutes here and there, which is why I almost never write during the semester!!!!
Just got home from my farewell party/🥳/shiva at the migrant shelter with my staff colleagues. We laughed & cried, & now they have a career training as they’ll have to look for other jobs. 💔
Some let me interview them about what the work MEANT & I’m fired up to WRITE. #WelcomingWithDignity
