Dawn Elizabeth Wright

I think all trans persons experience difficulty with navigating bathroom issues, particularly before they have surgery and get their walking papers. I know some trans-folks do not get any surgery and a few jurisdictions allow trans-folks to use the bathroom that...

Just who owns your data? Are the privacy mavens right about the doom and gloom they predict is upon us because we are not protecting individual rights to big data. This article in the Stanford Law Review poses some interesting perspectives: http://goo.gl/i6mybY

My dear Ellie, At the urging of your Dad, I am going to try to write something every day in the hope you will eventually read this part of my blog. I'm going to tell you a lot about myself and my family's doings long before you arrived on this earth. Let's start with...

National polls don't show gains for Trump per se. More about Clinton losing ground to Johnson/Stein/undecided. https://t.co/CRYunHNsaa— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 14, 2016

Today I was lucky enough to be able to pay it forward. Years ago after  I lost my job, financial security, and family, I was out on the streets. I had no income, was evicted from my little apartment in Fairhope and my car was repossessed. But I was lucky in that I had...

This morning while scanning the tv channels looking for something to distract me, I stumbled upon a “marathon” presentation of the 1950’s TV show “Death Valley Days.” What caught my attention was the theme song being played at the end of an episode from 1953. I...

I have enrolled in a MOOC on Coursera, Duke University's Data Analysis and Statistical Inference. I'm having to learn a new (to me) programming language, R, that is frequently used in data analysis. I had forgotten what learning a coding language was like. It's fun...

I have a number of younger trans folk on my friends list. And some of them are righteous in their indignation about the increasing number of people, some trans and others not, that are being called out as they attempt to use the bathroom of their choice. I’ve...

I am taking time away from my teaching duties – no I will never be able to retire – to voice some troubling thoughts I have been having. I am distressed at the extreme polarization that I see because of the upcoming election. While I can understand and support people...

As I've previously posted, I have been taking several MOOCs in an effort to keep my skills sharp and also learn new things. I just had two MOOCs end, one successfully and the other not so successfully. By that I mean I will earn a certificate of completion for one and...