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Writing a Zine In a Pandemic – BIPOC Guest Post

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We continue to welcome guest posts by BIPIOC scholars. Today's post is by Dr. Ida Yalzadeh. Dr. Ida Yalzadeh is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Asian American Studies program at Northwestern University. She graduated from Brown University with … [Read more...] about Writing a Zine In a Pandemic – BIPOC Guest Post

#Dispatches: Why The F**k Don’t We Revolt??

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#Dispatches From the Frontlines Monday series crowdsources questions to get a broad indication of how our readers are coping with various challenges.The question right now:  Why the f**k don't we revolt???  (contributed by Kel, lol).  New #Dispatches … [Read more...] about #Dispatches: Why The F**k Don’t We Revolt??

The Academy Is The Grift

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Last week in my Starting a Small Business webinar Q&A, somebody asked me, what was your biggest surprise in starting a business beyond what you have shared in the webinar? I was startled by the question, and struggled to answer it for a … [Read more...] about The Academy Is The Grift

Yelling at the Ivory Tower: How the CUNY Professional Staff Congress Came to Fail Its People – Guest Post

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By Barbara K Emanuele. Barbara K Emanuele has served as an educator and an administrator in CUNY for twenty years. Her focus is on composition instruction to students in an urban settings ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After months of negotiations, long past … [Read more...] about Yelling at the Ivory Tower: How the CUNY Professional Staff Congress Came to Fail Its People – Guest Post

Boston U Dean to Struggling Grad Students: Go To the Food Pantry – Guest Post

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This post shared by a reader. ~~~~~~~~~~~ An intercepted email from a dean at Boston University to faculty and staff reveals that the administration is responding to poverty-like conditions among its grad students by sending out links to food … [Read more...] about Boston U Dean to Struggling Grad Students: Go To the Food Pantry – Guest Post

Too Big, Too Brown, and Too Much – WOC Guest Post

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I am delighted to offer another guest post in my series of contributed posts by black women and other women of color. If you’d like to submit a post or an idea for a post for consideration, email me at gettenure@gmail.com. I pay $150 for … [Read more...] about Too Big, Too Brown, and Too Much – WOC Guest Post

Don’t Adjunct at Wright State University – It is Scab Labor

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Real-time Alert: Wright State University faculty have been on strike for over two weeks. This week Wright State University admin has sent out a call for adjuncts to fill in the positions of the striking faculty members. They are offering on-campus … [Read more...] about Don’t Adjunct at Wright State University – It is Scab Labor

Anthropology’s Alternative Facts

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After attending the AAA and AAR meetings, I wrote a blog post called A Tale of Two Conferences. In it, I bemoaned the sorry state of the AAA's engagement with issues of real-life (as opposed to academic jargon) precarity and the scandal of … [Read more...] about Anthropology’s Alternative Facts

A Tale of Two Conferences

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I am just back from a back-to-back conference trip, first to the American Anthropological Association conference in San Jose, and then on to Denver for the American Academy of Religion. At each conference I spoke on the postacademic transition. I … [Read more...] about A Tale of Two Conferences