Racist 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 MoreAcademia's Bonfire of Vanities
In this post: It's too late to save education, and it has been since the 1970s. In this post, I explain why in the context of neoliberal policy and deregulation.
Read MoreMyth of Meritocracies (Revisited)
In this post: Academia is no meritocracy. Neoliberal ideology-driven competition turns us into fools, shame on us.
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 MoreIn defense of the admission scammers... they weren't doing anything new.
In this post: I talk about the hilarity of this week's admissions scam and how it sheds light on the concept of educational privilege and its abuses.
Read MoreTeaching Under Trump: One Adjunct's Story
In this post: Theorist of race and gender Kevin Allred shares his story of how a classroom exercise about free speech got him arrested.
Read MoreThe Myth of Meritocracies
In this post: I talk about recognizing the meritocracy of academia as a myth, and what it allows us to step back and see.
Read MoreWhy This Conversation Matters: Adjunction & Systemic Breakdown
In this post: I talk about the need for discussion about adjunct and graduate student exploitation and false promises.
Read MoreBurn it Down: A Systemic Crisis in Academia
This is a post about how systemic the abuse and exploitation of adjuncts and graduates students is: Know if this is happening to you, or in your department, you are not alone.
Read MoreMob Mentality and Toxicity in Academia
In this post: About the toxic culture of academia and its perpetuation of systemic abuse, my expulsion from academia, and what I came to find when I left.
Read More