I have no publications. But I have a number of possible ones. An incredible number of them in fact. It is exhausting but I’m hoping that all of a sudden, a bunch of them will come out all at the same time.
First priority is my book. I have to revise chapters and don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m just gonna do it and send something in. Rutgers Univ. Press and another one expressed a real interest and I haven’t done a thing with it since. That was rough dissertation chapters. When you’ve never done this and you don’t really know what the hell a publisher wants, it’s dang hard to crank it out. If an editor would tell me, Do this, do that, you need this, take that out, I’d do it in a split minute. But no, you’re just supposed to read 3-4 books they “recommend” and “just do it” and then hope for the freakin’ best. It is really confusing and I feel like I’m fumbling in the dark all over again.
What it really boils down to is the same thing as always: Go forward on faith.
Other publications in the works are:
- my 10-yr-old idea for an article on gender and race in children’s picture books,
- a small entry on “Code of the Street” for an Encyclopedia on African Americans and Criminal Justice. I’ve talked w/ these people a number of X & they always say it’s going forward, but I never see any result.
- a NEW offer to write a chapter for an upcoming book on Private Prisons, with my chapter being “Grassroots Initiatives Against Private Prisons.” No clue where I’ll find the time to write that one but it’s supposed to be sent in 6 mos.
If I ever get these accomplished, I have Bahai-related articles I’d like to work on. For example, comparing Max Weber’s iron cage with Shoghi Effendi’s blueprint for future society. Also publishing something on doing online research, or something on finding white supremacists within a prison reform group. Would also love to go back to & re-do my paper on whiteness and oneness: Racial identity among white women in the Baha’i Faith.
Doctor Grandma 
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