Frequently Asked Questions:

Wait, are you the art historian whose work was stolen?

Why, yes, I am. After completing my dissertation on postcolonial feminisms in contemporary art (if you really want, you can read my diss here), I had a particularly nasty run-in with a professor. Adamant I was not the only one to be exploited and discarded in academia, I decided to be a whistle-blower and toss seven agonizing years of work (and of course, my academic career) in the trash. Then I made a blog, effectively lighting a match and throwing it into the trash pile of my former career. But at least I went viral?

What’s your blog about?

As always, you can take the scholar out of academia, but she’s still going to doggedly research and write. In the four years since my academic exodus, I have been investigating the systemic flaws inherent to higher education, discovering (among other things) 75% of undergraduate classes are taught by adjunct professors, who make 26k a year with no benefits or job security. But all of this pales in comparison to what I came to discover in the bowels of the U.S.’s public education system when I decided to become a high school teacher hellbent on restorative justice.