Author Archives: Teresa Blankmeyer Burke

After being tailed like a common criminal at the last annual meeting of the bioethics organization, I was nervous about returning to the annual bioethics conference. It is never a good feeling to realize that your actions are being monitored … Continue reading →

After my first year of attending my professional association conference, I realized that I needed to specify to the bioethics organization and the association management company that they ought to provide qualified interpreters. This was not something I had ever … Continue reading →

When it comes to some professional goals, I have played the long game, including accommodations requests for a major organization in my field of bioethics. By long game, I mean over 16 years of aggravation, fury, and tears. I am … Continue reading →

Last winter just a few days before the vernal equinox, I was enjoying being home in Albuquerque when I learned that a right-leaning blog across the pond had picked up a blog post I had written about genetics and the … Continue reading →

  a) Ask the deaf academic if she is willing to write a grant to cover the cost of her interpreters or CART captioning. b) Return the deaf academic’s conference registration fees, telling her that she cannot come to your … Continue reading →

Heading into work yesterday, I reached up to adjust my glasses and my fingertips came away wet. I hadn’t noticed until then that tears were spilling out of my eyes. Hours before that, I had posted an article and photograph … Continue reading →