The not so well kept secret in universities is that the whole apparatus floats on free labor from professors working relentlessly in their unpaid time, often for love of students and craft. The love is weaponized against us to hard-wire that free labor into the system.
when you had to quit your Grad assistantship cuz your supervisor was harassing you and constantly asking you to work outside of hours and the university's response is "you should have just not read your email"
Like I wasn't being texted and called #AcademicChatter#gradschool
It is actually heart melting listening to some Nigerian students in Ukraine right now crying on Twitter spaces. Some have trek for as far as 30km to Poland border in the freezing weather only not to be let in.☹️🤦♂️
#NigeriansInUkraine#Africansinukraine https://t.co/nPtuEDofGb
@ those distrust the pharmaceutical industry: capitalism is greedy and exploitative, but that doesn't make the science of vaccines any less robust
Protect yourselves and your communities! Cherish your loved ones!
bonus 2/2
It is not “encouraging”that most of the people who are hospitalized or dying from Omicron are disabled and chronically ill people.
It is devastating.
It is a sad commentary on our ableist society and our government’s wholly inadequate Covid response.