Please Don’t Make Me Talk About What I Write

I write about my personal struggles because I don’t want to talk about them.

LaToya Baldwin Clark

4 min readSep 29, 2021

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A pen writing “I am a writer” — https://pixabay.com/photos/writer-writing-paper-letter-author-605764/

It happened during a professional discussion about possible collaboration.

“Yeah, I read your work and I read your blog”

It happened at school pick up.

“Yeah, even behind your mask I…

LaToya Baldwin Clark

Written by LaToya Baldwin Clark

Law professor. Living with Bipolar. Teach and write about the law of educational inequality, property and the family. Mom of 3. All opinions my own.

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