Gay Art History
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.
Read MoreThe Venn Diagram of White Privilege and Academics: How We Hate Women
In this post: Society tends to hate women, and the maddening experience of being victim-blamed, being gaslit, and having your experiences trivialized.
Read MoreBad Habits & Other Reasons to Flee Academia
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.
Read MoreOn Decolonizing My Classroom & Leaving Academia to Do It
In this post: What is culturally responsive pedagogy? How do you decolonize the classroom? On the importance of refined critical thinking skills.
Read MoreRacist Knowledge(s) & Being a Minority in Academia
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.
Read MoreUnlearning Art History
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.
Read MorePost-PhD: 18 Months Later
In this post: I talk about what I've learned about how to exist as an educator and how to extend that beyond the context of academia.
Read MoreEducating for the Resistance
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.
Read MoreAcademic Relapse, Part 3: Total Recall
In this post: I talk about the consequences of my academic relapse and how academia shapes us.
Read MoreAcademic Relapse, Part 2: The Return
In this post: I talk about professor salaries and the declining availability of tenue positions within the university in relation to money allocation.
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