Role Reboot

What The Owen Labrie Trial Says About Rape Culture In This Country

Our justice system conducts the trial of Owen Labrie and other alleged attackers under the auspice of “innocent until proven guilty.” However, victims are not given the same even-handed treatment. This week in New Hampshire, the boarding school culture is under intense scrutiny in the rape trial of Owen Labrie, a 19-year-old accused of raping […]

I Am A Queer Teacher

I keep my guard up, my mouth closed, because I won’t forget that it only takes one student, one parent, to take it all away. When I take the job teaching English at a small Connecticut boarding school, my parents ask when I’ll tell my colleagues I’m bisexual. I’m folding laundry in their house in […]