Sigh. I needed to remember a name for the newsletter, so I cracked open my dissertation for the first time in years.

It is so heartbreaking to revisit, because I'd written it twice before discovering that committee was absolutely not the right fit. One prof was a very defensive Christian who seemed to think I'd chosen to study literary responses to the rise of stellar evolution just to pick on Christians. That hurt my humanist heart. But this was GOOD work. I should have been allowed to defend.

@MLClark your work is incredible and more than good enough. The luminaries and scholars raised up by future generations often struggle against the prejudice of the old, the now and the biased. Please never stop fighting. We need your voice!