Residuum
Kaya OakesWriting at the intersections of gender, culture, education, politics, cancer and religion... and many other things.
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It's never enough
A few weeks back, the New York Times ran an opinion piece called “Why Aren’t the Kids Out Protesting About Trump?” It was written by Thomas Edsell. Edsell does not interview any of the college students he assumes are indifferent to Trump. I...
Needs
As a Gen Xer I have little vested in conversations about Millennials and their relationships to the internet. People my age have a mostly voyeuristic relationship with online culture. When a debate flares up about an internet celebrity, it’...
You didn't get invited
You didn’t get invited because years ago at a party, a tiny fleck of spittle flew out of your mouth and landed on the lenses of someone’s glasses, and they have secretly held onto the idea that you are a disgusting slob ever since. To be fa...
Aphasia
The trade off for having a job that requires the entirety of your intellectual focus is that it is distracting. You can’t afford to make mistakes when you teach, especially at a place like Berkeley, where your students are smarter than you...
RIP, The Defiant Middle
The Defiant Middle died on March 5, 2026, when its author received notice that the book was now out of print. TDM was conceived in the mid to late 1970s, around the first time the author was told by an adult male that she was wrong about so...
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Book #6, Not So Sorry, is available now. Teaching writing at UC Berkeley, living in Oakland CA, writing about gender, religion, culture, and life with cancer. This newsletter is free.
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