Blog Posts

Educating myself during #ShutDownAcademia

By Kate Blackwood / June 10, 2020

It gave me hope to be part of a day in which instructors, advisers, staff, and students step back—whether to heal or to learn—and focus on the unjust elements of academia.

Book review: Reading Station Eleven during a pandemic

By Kate Blackwood / May 13, 2020

After a second reading—this one during a pandemic much less severe than the one in the book—I see more. It’s a story about gratitude. And grace. And tenacity.

Mask Necessary

By Kate Blackwood / May 6, 2020

When you put on a face mask, it’s like buckling someone else’s seat belt.

Crawl

By Kate Blackwood / May 5, 2020

A poem I wrote in late April 2019, after returning from a 10 day solo hiking trip in Japan.