christinaley

she/her | trying my best 🌱 | profile pic by @vandoesthings

[christinaley @christinaleyy]

I’ve struggled to understand why I’m feeling so 🫠 and I just realized that it’s academia. It keeps trying to strip me down while demanding all I am as I try to preserve myself, prove I belong, and that my research is worth investing in. I love what I do, but I’m tired af.

[Kirsten. @ReneauGlow]

If anyone is wondering, I taught a creative nonfiction flash workshop today. If anyone wants to do a little work on their own, here are some of the pieces we discussed and the prompts given 🧵

[christinaley @christinaleyy]

@TicketmasterCA I have been contacting customer service for help for the last 48 hours and still haven’t received help. I transferred my ticket, my friend can’t accept it, and I can’t cancel it so it’s in limbo. Please help.

[Luscaaaaaaaa💕 @CaptAmazo]

Friendly reminder that Elon Musk told the UN that if they gave him a budgeted breakdown of how $6Bil could end world hunger, he would do it. They gave him the budget and then he decided not to do it, and instead decided he would buy Twitter for $45Bil.

[OISE Grad Conference @OISE_GSRC]

🧵Thread of important links and info for the #OISEGSRC2022:

[OISE Grad Conference @OISE_GSRC]

We are thrilled to announce our two Keynote Speakers for the #OISEGSRC2022

[Ahmed Ali @DrAhmednurAli]

What’s “mild” for one person can be a death sentence for another. Our discussions of Omicron are steeped in ableism.

[Pole Doctress, MD 🍉 @PoleDoctress]

There is a nursing shortage because everyone has covid. There is a blood shortage. There is an IV potassium shortage. We keep talking about how the hospital system is at the brink of collapse, but girlies, it is already collapsing

[christinaley @christinaleyy]

The amount of times I’ve heard and seen racalized students silenced in the academic space to then seeing yt students praised for parroting the thoughts, ideas, and works of racalized students, scholars, and community organizers…. Im tired.

[christinaley @christinaleyy]

I’m tired of hearing yt education researchers talking about EDIA especially without consulting or highlighting works of racalized researchers/students/families.

[christinaley @christinaleyy]

@ChelseaLaVecch You’re inspiring me to finally call that rock climbing gym and book an orientation 😂

[Vanessa Vigneswaramoorthy (vaxxed) @vandoesthings]

I was in this week's episode of @livinghyphen podcast, reading out my piece "A Letter to An Ancestor Whose Existence I Cannot Confirm." Give it a a listen!

[christinaley @christinaleyy]

It literally didn’t click until now that making an initial mess and cleaning the data afterwards is okay - it’s literally what you do. It’s literally the research process. I wish they made this clearer 🙃

[christinaley @christinaleyy]

I wish someone told me how messy the coding and analyzing process is. I tried starting over. I ruined the observations I originally made and just went back to the first data base I made.

[Vanessa Vigneswaramoorthy (vaxxed) @vandoesthings]

It's just difficult for me to see all these GTA school boards recognizing Tamil Genocide, bc I remember coming to school when I was 13 in May 2009, and having a teacher ask me to explain the entire history to her while also telling me that we had no reason to be on the highway.

[christinaley @christinaleyy]

Hi, how do people manage multiple projects? Because everything has turned into alphabet soup in my brain and nothing makes sense anymore.

[christinaley @christinaleyy]

LOL I always have to shake off the excess anxiety after every single presentation I do. This will now be my state of being for the next half hour 🙃

[christinaley @christinaleyy]

@mikeDROPpod @LeonardoYokhana @vandoesthings @fordnation Then take action. Stay home. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. And stay socially distanced. The lack of support, resources, consistency, AND reopening too early shows @fordnation’s dedication to the economy not to lives.