The story To Be Black at Stuyvesant High from the NYTimes this week did not sit well with me. This story focuses on the sad reality of some specific individuals, which is interesting and important in its own way, but it means the story doesn’t get at the root of what’s actually happening here. Black …
Author Archives: Jessica
just don’t finish it.
Perhaps you know the feeling: so many thoughts, so many half-baked phrases, not quite sure how to put it all on paper, mind going crazy with hyper-links to all the other still-doughy ideas of the last forever. Perhaps you also know this ending: no writing accomplished, many pages surfed, beers ingested, feeling of failure. A …
A New Place, Some New Thoughts
It has been a long while since I’ve published. In the spring, I went through what many of my new friends also experienced: PhD rejections… from everywhere. It was a hard couple of months of reevaluating self “truths.” I decided to continue to pursue my passions in a slightly different (and slightly more expensive) way: …
fat girl syndrome
I appreciate when my sister stands up for me when men tell me in some form that I’m too fat to love. “What an asshole!” she says. “He doesn’t deserve you! You’re beautiful!” I know she means it, and I know she wants me to agree. But she simply cannot understand. Every time I hear the …
pencil marks from the last few months
When I made this website, I was still living in New York, and I was still living in a state of mind that I can’t access now any more easily than I can access the Brooklyn Bridge. Technology was my life. I checked Twitter every 15 minutes from anywhere I was via iPhone. A day …
the idiot gap
There’s nothing like trying to create something new to remind you of just how much you don’t know. As I’m googling html help for my website, I’m reminded of freshman year Chemistry. I remember religiously attending office hours, really hoping to understand, and really failing at that. My knowledge wasn’t enough that I could even …
