Kaya OakesOvjeren akaunt

@kayaoakes

Writer of books, essays, and journalism. Books . Newsletter . Teaching nonfiction . Clips .

Oakland, CA
Vrijeme pridruživanja: lipanj 2009.

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  1. Here's hoping none of my op/ed writing friends are tempted to use this as an example of anti-Catholicism. It's not. It's anti-faith.

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  2. My mom was an elementary school teacher, and she was frequently pink-slipped due to cascading budget issues from Reagan's time as CA governor. We'd get food stamps whenever this happened and my parents called the food bank cheese "Reagan cheese." Gen X remembers.

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    The should be a prayer of penance for the deaths of these 138 people, who were forcibly deported back to El Salvador and were killed. They asked us for life, and we said no. "I was a stranger and you did not welcome me" (Mt 25).

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    prije 17 sati

    This is horrifying, heartbreaking, and unacceptable.

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    What Sweeney’s book ultimately gives us is a deeper understanding of the life of someone who has helped many people develop and deepen that relationship, writes.

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    "Many people I spoke to about the legacy of Saint Vincent’s said the hospital reflected on how to serve the gay community better—not in spite of being Catholic but because it was Catholic." -- .

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  7. 5. velj

    Years ago I dated an older, very successful white male writer who told me with my writing talent people would eventually find me and publish my stuff. This is... not how it works for women and people of color who write.

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  8. 5. velj

    In setting up my home office for writing I realized my decorative style is pretty much "monastic cell" and I'm okay with this.

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    Never let ANYone tell you slavery was less evil or brutal than other forms of slavery. The archival & oral history record is painfully clear. So, too, is the LONG history of racial segregation & exclusion in religious life, male & female.

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  10. 5. velj
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  11. 4. velj

    How to provoke political PTSD in a Gen Xer: "hanging chads."

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  12. 3. velj

    If you want to support UC lecturers like myself fighting for job security and fair wages, we could use a few calls.

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  13. 3. velj

    This is the best of all possible times to go grocery shopping.

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  14. 2. velj

    Here’s a not great Sunday feeling: wondering why so and so disappeared from twitter and discovering they’re the tenth man In ministry you know to be accused of sexual harassment within a two year period.

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  15. 31. sij

    In the town where I was born and raised, our local icons are... very, very different from one another.

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  16. 31. sij

    I don't know if teaching is a vocation but I do know that along with writing it is both the hardest and the best job I've ever had.

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    30. sij

    future church historians will reflect on the fact that the Catholic Church hasn’t instituted a specific ministry or religious order dedicated to the survivors of sexual abuse

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  18. 30. sij

    Some day, being a left-leaning religious person is going to feel like being a Gen Xer: we did it first, and nobody cared.

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  19. 30. sij

    Great reporting on today's news about Boalt Hall's name change by my former student at KQED.

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  20. 30. sij

    Occasionally when the isolation and solitude required to write gets me down, I return to the consolation of this exquisite essay by Fenton Johnson.

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