The second biggest strike in the country is happening at Columbia university right now. 3,000 student workers are striking, and the picket line is beautiful today.
On Sabbatical: they are attached to you taking time away from paid work to train, travel and expand your horizons in some way. That’s not my goal. A Sabbath centers that there is no more work to do cuz the Creator has done it all. I studied Sabbath in seminary so nerd out on it.
A windowless tomb: the $1.5 billion UCSB Mega-Dorm “was conceived by 97-year-old billionaire-investor turned amateur-architect Charles Munger, who donated $200 million toward the project with the condition that his blueprints be followed exactly” https://t.co/cGgvdEEhUA
I guess trying to put aside the whole name/citation game a bit and hold onto the core threads. Then maybe fit in citing/etc. as necessary to move to next stages. But still keeping the spirit of the work to the forefront
Trying to circle back on "literature review" less as how do i fit myself into this convo and more about what concerns, hopes drive my searching and writing. Then the writing that has spoken to these most helpfully and helped clarify my own feelings on those issues
touching:blackstudy, a zine
We invite black grad students, indep. scholars, artists to reflect on: black touch, intimacy, desire, & study; Navigating pleasure in a pandemic; managing life/work in a pandemic; and more!
Info: https://t.co/HEd3zPu8Su. Priority deadline July 1 🌸
Academia is a weird place where you are required to perform collegiality with people who prove themselves to be both unprofessional and unlikable every chance they get
teaching (🥴) a class exploring antiracist feminist research and ties to organizing and liberation.
if you have pieces (academic, print, or creative) that have been Most influential and guiding for you … please share with meee!
thursday on clubhouse
we're brainstorming on a zine to hold space for black sexuality grads/practitioners/educators to sit with our feelings, thoughts, desires. in a time when touching is difficult and motivation for study (as work) is hard to find
https://t.co/jXpusu1wf7