comic books, science fiction

A Vision of Being Human: “Am I normal?”

February 17, 2021

Adrienne Rich, Margaret Atwood, science fiction, sexism

Things Fall Apart for Women (Again): Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks

August 15, 2019

comic books, genre, Margaret Atwood, science fiction, World War Z

The Handmaid’s Graphic Tale

April 2, 2019

George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, science fiction

Wherefore Capitalism?

February 7, 2018

Bicycling, memoir, science fiction

The Existential Itch: “It’s the most human thing we can do”

January 29, 2018

Eugene V. Debs, George Orwell, Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, politics, privilege, science fiction, Trumplandia

Beware the Bastards: On Freedom and Choice

February 23, 2017 — 3 Comments

Capitalism, Disaster capitalism, science fiction

8 January 2016: “Quite an experience to live in fear isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave”

January 8, 2016 — 2 Comments

canon, CCSS, comic books, Democracy, Education, education reform, George Carlin, literacy, privilege, science fiction, Standards, Teaching

Students, Not Standards: Calling for Solidarity in 2016

January 2, 2016 — 11 Comments

Childhood, Poverty, race, racism, science fiction

UPDATED: The Martian: Allegory of Whose Lives Matter

December 29, 2015 — 4 Comments

Education, education reform, Lou LaBrant, NCTE, Neil Gaiman, reading, science fiction

NCTE 2014: “Why do we need the things in books?”: The Enduring Power of Libraries and Literature

July 23, 2014 — 2 Comments