Discussion Guide: Academia, Love, and Madness
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.
Read MoreAnswers for your anonymously asked questions, alt-ac career advice edition
In this post: I talk about career transitions from academia to beyond and having to realign your identity, values, and process.
Read MoreDiscussion Guide to January 28th's Fireside Chat: How to Transgress the University
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.
Read MoreResources for the Resistance: Radical Pedagogy & Early Critiques of Higher Education
In this post: This January's reading list, a fully annotated bibliography including racial pedagogy and foundational critiques of higher education.
Read MoreTowards the Undercommons: Reimagining the Role of the Intellectual
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.
Read MoreLetters to a Young Scholar: A Bill of Rights for Early Graduate Students
In this post: As Fred Moten and Stefano Harney make clear: the only ethical relationship to the university today is a criminal one.
Read MoreAdvice for Overachievers with Dr. Caitlin Faas
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.
Read MoreI can't get no (intellectual) satisfaction
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.
Read MoreOn Leaving Academia and Failing (over and over)
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.
Read MoreIt's Better in Europe: My Plenary Talk at the Reward Equator Conference
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.
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