Audrey Watters

Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Rationalizing Those “Irrational” Fears of InBloom Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 205 via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on robots.hackeducation.com Life and Death Before the Affordable Care Act on audreywatters.com Federal Money Bought Me This… on fragments.audreywatters.com Contrafabulists Podcast, Episode 46 Contrafabulist Newsletter,...

Cross-posted from Facebook Tressie McMillan Cottom wrote on Twitter about how she'd benefited from the various federal education programs that Trump wants to cut. The responses are amazing (and her observation, of course, that by cutting these programs the Trump Administration absolutely hopes to target brilliant Black folks like her...

When the Republicans in Congress introduced their replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act, I felt like I’d been kicked in the stomach. Kicked in the stomach by their callousness. Kicked in the stomach by the grief and trauma of remembering life (and death) before Obamacare. I took to Twitter...

Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News The History of the Future of E-rate and Affordable Internet Access at Schools Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 204 via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on robots.hackeducation.com Distraction Shaming on fragments.audreywatters.com The History of the Future of E-rate and Affordable Internet Access at...

Cross-posted from Facebook I grow weary of all this talk that certain things are "distractions" from "the real story." I believe you can hold many ideas, multiple agitations and angers in your head all at once. You can pay attention to many stories. Really. You can. See, I was widowed...

Words have been hard to summon for a while now. One of the things I enjoy about writing this weekly review of my work is it helps me to see that I still do accomplish things, even when I'm feeling remarkably unproductive. This week, there were many words. Hack Education...

Cross-posted from Facebook I'm from a red state, from a red family, tho I know my politics deviated early. So I'm used to different politics and visions for the future. But right now I am so angry and so disappointed and so disgusted in every single person I know --...

Disclosure (because I guess we are supposed to be more forthright about this): I have connections with the Russians I visited the Soviet Union in 1991. It was a school field trip. I traded rubles on the black market. I traded a Metallica t-shirt for a Red Army belt. I...

Family My little brother and his family were visiting this week, so I did much more touristing than work. We went to Disneyland, Le Brea Tar Pits, Griffith Observatory, and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Calling Education to a Count Writing Here and Elsewhere...

Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News What’s On the Horizon (Still, Again, Always) Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 201 via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on robots.hackeducation.com Rationalizing Those “Irrational” Fears of inBloom on points.datasociety.net Contrafabulists (Podcast and Publishing) The Tech Gypsies Podcast, Episode 43 Introducing: The Contrafabulists Contrafabulists...