In this post: The real story of what happened after I left academia, on the loss of my academic career and feeling adrift.

In this post: I talk about the consequences of my academic relapse and how academia shapes us.

In this post: I talk about professor salaries and the declining availability of tenue positions within the university in relation to money allocation.

In this post: I talk about my role as a polarizing figure in academia, and the story of the day I decided not to remove my posts.

In this post: A retelling of my day in court and what I learned.

In this post: I talk about being served with a lawsuit by my former advisor, alleging conspiracy and defamation in response to my Why I Left Academia blog posts.

In this post: I talk about my former department's response to my blog and what it has shown me about the toxicity of academic culture.

In this post: I list sixteen PDFs on different topics including pedagogy, Why We Teach as a Practice of Freedom, Teaching to Transgress in Real Life and the Pedagogy of Lesbian Feminism.

In this post: I talk about career transitions from academia to beyond and having to realign your identity, values, and process.

In this post: Activist pragmatism, the undercommons, and the task of the subversive intellectual today. I talk about scholars featured in the upcoming "resources for the resistance" post.

In this post: A brief annotated bibliography featuring my receipts for the January 2022 essay "What is the Subversive Intellectual," recommendations, and further reading.

In this post: An introduction to Post-PhD's new resources and community dialog and how to engage with our discourse.

In this post: A growing list of peer-reviewed essays, books, and articles addressing neoliberal policy in higher education driven by the need to know how the university got here.

In this post: I talk about the revelatory impact of Bell hooks' Teaching to Transgress and how it taught me how to be a fully engaged educator.

In this post: Society tends to hate women, and the maddening experience of being victim-blamed, being gaslit, and having your experiences trivialized.

In this post: What is culturally responsive pedagogy? How do you decolonize the classroom? On the importance of refined critical thinking skills.

In this post: I talk to a friend of mine from graduate school and asked her what the most enraging thing a professor told her was, and her response was worse than I could've imagined.

In this post: It's too late to save education, and it has been since the 1970s. In this post, I explain why in the context of neoliberal policy and deregulation.

In this post: Academia is no meritocracy. Neoliberal ideology-driven competition turns us into fools, shame on us.

In this post, I talk about my evolution as a person both through and beyond my PhD in art history, why the concept of the “canon” is racist and sexist since the grant majority of “canonical” artists are but white and male. And how Kimberle Crenshaw's "intersectional feminism" is the only canon I answer to. Screw Paul Gauguin.

In this post: I talk about the hilarity of this week's admissions scam and how it sheds light on the concept of educational privilege and its abuses.

In this post: I talk about the need for discussion about adjunct and graduate student exploitation and false promises.

This is a post about how systemic the abuse and exploitation of adjuncts and graduates students is: Know if this is happening to you, or in your department, you are not alone.

In this post: About the toxic culture of academia and its perpetuation of systemic abuse, my expulsion from academia, and what I came to find when I left.

In this post: If academia is a place where professors can take, without consequences, the work of graduate students to claim as their own, what does this say about the future of academia?

In this post: A cold dose of reality demonstrating academias failure to be the meritocracy we all thought it was.

In this post: Dr. Tashima Thomas gives Unsolicited Academic Advice on trusting yourself, your methodology, and finding your tribe.

What does it mean to unite praxis with practice when you are a radical academic? Shuttleworth fellow Chris Hartgerink's plan to Liberate Science through organic networks of exchange and a bottoms-up approach to research challenges the status quo of the scientific publishing oligarchy. In line with Open Access proponents, Hartgerink seeks to go even further.

In this post: I review former academic turned novelist Amy Gentry's latest thriller "Bad Habits" and its reminder of the crucial role of imagination.

In this week's post, Jillian and I's interview turns to talk about applying for jobs post-academia, the struggles of being a PhD in the business space, as well as the invaluable insights a mind trained by a PhD rigor offers. 
I love this post because Jillian makes no apologies for her desire to make a comfortable living (and, gasp, even a 401k!) despite her hatred of capitalism. Yeah, they're conflicting objectives, but life itself cannot be reduced to simplistic binaries of either/or.  Similarly, the life Jillian has constructed for herself appears to be an "and, and" situation, where she pursues social issues that matter to her-- such as her forthcoming book about adjuncting and her social engagement class that she teaches, alongside a burgeoning career as a consultant in market research. 

In this post: Dr. Jillian Powers provides us with invaluable insights a mind trained by a Ph.D. rigor offers.