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Discussion Guide: Academia, Love, and Madness

February 23, 2022 by Allison Harbin in How to Leave Academia, Unsolicited Academic Advi

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.

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February 23, 2022 /Allison Harbin
Fireside Chat, UCU Strikes, Liberal Scholar, Solidarity in Education, Radical Pedagogy, Alt-Ac, higher education, teaching, Black thought, CRT, LGBTQ+, intersectional feminism, Academic fugitive, Undercommons
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Unsolicited Academic Advice: Dr. Tashima Thomas Dishes

February 18, 2022 by Allison Harbin in Interviews & Collabs

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

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February 18, 2022 /Allison Harbin
Methodology, Radical Pedagogy, Alt-Ac, Black thought, intersectional feminism, Tashima Thomas, Papaya Rose, Black in Academia, BIPOC Education, Systemic Racism, Academia is racist
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Resources for the Resistance: 16 must-reads on queer, anti-racist pedagogy

February 18, 2022 by Allison Harbin in Systemic Problems In Ed

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.

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February 18, 2022 /Allison Harbin
Lesbian Feminism, Radical Academia, White-Privilige, Academic Exploitation, Audre Lorde, Sara Ahmed, Feminist Killjoy, uses of the erotic, social justice in education
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All About Love, Knowledge, and Writing: Why Academia Needs Lesbian Feminism

February 14, 2022 by Allison Harbin in Systemic Problems In Ed

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

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February 14, 2022 /Allison Harbin
Lesbian Feminism, Radical Academia, White-Privilege, Academic Exploitation, Audre Lorde, Sara Ahmed, Feminist Killjoy, uses of the erotic, social justice in education
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The Radical Pragmatism of the Subversive Intellectual

February 04, 2022 by Allison Harbin in Systemic Problems In Ed

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.

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February 04, 2022 /Allison Harbin
Subversive Intellectual, Undercommons, Fred Moten, Stefano Harney, academic activism, re-imagine the university, Black thought, CRT, radical academic
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Answers for your anonymously asked questions, alt-ac career advice edition

January 21, 2022 by Allison Harbin in How to Leave Academia

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

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January 21, 2022 /Allison Harbin
Resumes, Alt-Ac, Career Advice, Corporate, what to do with a Ph.D., is a humanities Ph.D. useful, art history Ph.D., consulting, qualitative research, non-academic jobs
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Discussion Guide to January 28th's Fireside Chat: How to Transgress the University

January 17, 2022 by Allison Harbin in How to Leave Academia

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.

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January 17, 2022 /Allison Harbin
Transgress the University, Radical Pedagogies, Queer, Anti-Racist, Radical Pedagogy, Alt-Ac, higher education, intersectional feminism, Black in Academia, BIPOC Education, Academia is racist
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Resources for the Resistance: Radical Pedagogy & Early Critiques of Higher Education

January 11, 2022 by Allison Harbin in How to Leave Academia

In this post: This January's reading list, a fully annotated bibliography including racial pedagogy and foundational critiques of higher education.

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January 11, 2022 /Allison Harbin
Anti-oppressive education, teaching as an act of freedom, bell hooks on education, Paulo Fiere, Henry Giroux, re-imagine the university, radical pedagogy, pedagogy of the oppressed, higher education
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Towards the Undercommons: Reimagining the Role of the Intellectual

December 31, 2021 by Allison Harbin in How to Leave Academia

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.

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December 31, 2021 /Allison Harbin
Subversive Intellectual, Undercommons, Fred Moten, Stefano Harney, academic activism, re-imagine the univeristy, Black thought, CRT, radical academic
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Readings on the Neoliberal University & Why We Must Support Graduate Students.

December 17, 2021 by Allison Harbin in Systemic Problems In Ed

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

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December 17, 2021 /Allison Harbin
Neoliberal University, Graduate Students, How to Fix the Adjunct Crisis, Moten, Fred, and Stefano Harney, Lorde, Audre, and Bousquet Marc
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