Burn 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 MoreA Field in Which the Old Devours the Young is a Field that is Dying
In this post: If academia is a place where professors can take, without consequences, the work of graduate students to claim as their own, what does this say about the future of academia?
Read MoreWhy I Left Academia: Part Three
In this post: Part three of Why I Left Academia. About what happens in the aftermath of intellectual trauma.
Read MoreWhy I left Academia: Part Two
In this post: Part two of Why I Left Academia. About my attempts to follow procedure and how institutional procedure protects aggressors instead of students.
Read MoreWhy I Left Academia: Part One
In this post: I talk about the moment I knew I was done with academia and the events before defending my dissertation.
Read MoreWTF to do with a Ph.D. beyond Academia
In this post: Job opportunities for Ph.D. students from someone who has obsessively researched her own options after leaving academia.
Read MoreAdjuncting (and the Academic Job Market)
In this post: A cold dose of reality demonstrating academias failure to be the meritocracy we all thought it was.
Read MoreOn Leaving the Academic Pyramid Scheme›
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.
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