writer, researcher, and editor
This section began as emails flooded my inbox asking what to do, many were in crisis or already embroiled in a lengthy battle with either their departments or universities. These posts discuss how to advocate for yourself and fight for the future of education.
In this post: I talk about career transitions from academia to beyond and having to realign your identity, values, and process.
In this post: I am posing the most common concerns this month to an impressive cast of alt-academics, current professors, post-docs, and graduate students to join Post-PhD in a live fireside chat.
In this post: This January's reading list, a fully annotated bibliography including racial pedagogy and foundational critiques of higher education.
In this post: I pose a discourse about the adjunct crisis, and the larger systemic educational crisis we are currently in, and ponder on the differences our generation of thinkers can make for the next.
In this post: As Fred Moten and Stefano Harney make clear: the only ethical relationship to the university today is a criminal one.
In this post: Dr. Caitlin Faas and I go over wtf it means to be both "embodied" and "reduce stress," and how to know your limits while staying productive.
In this post: I write about the satisfaction beyond academia, and how to continue to embody the principles ad methods you honed in academia in the real world.
In this post: I get real about the jobs I tried to get in my transition to alt-ac and Post-PhD. Let's talk about the jobs I tried to get, how little I was paid, ad what I learned from that experience.
In this post: I cover my plenary talk at the Reward Equator Conference in Berlin. I also include an amazing collection of engaged scholars I've found who are dedicated to supporting Ph.D. researchers.
In this post: For the love of pedagogy, I discuss my role as a professor and a teacher in NYC, and how there is zero incentive for educators to care about their students.
In this post: It's been eighteen months since I left academia, here's what I learned in my recovery.
In this post: I talk about my dissociation from the legal drama I was put through, and what it teaches me when it rears its ugly head.
In this post: I talk about the gradual growth of my editing and writing client base and the happiness I've found in learning the ropes of business writing, web copy, and content writing.
In this post: I talk about academic fragility and its role in maintaining the status quo, and the difficulty of entering a career field without being well-versed.
In this post: I respond to those asking what's happened since I left academia and the psychological and practical difficulties in leaving.
In this post: Job opportunities for Ph.D. students from someone who has obsessively researched her own options after leaving academia.
In this post: I discuss the difficulty of leaving academia and the importance of strategic thinking and embracing the unknown when it comes to the next step in career moves.
In this post: A reflection on the UCU strikes, past and upcoming content, and what the f*ck we are supposed to do with all this mess, including a list of what I'm reading.