I know a girl from college who thinks misery is a sign of great success. When I see here, which isn’t often, she brags about having to check her work email around the clock and the weekends– it’s a sort of […]
My sister is a florist, so she is wont to notice any and all blooms when we walk down the street together– way more than I do. I often feel guilty for not noticing. I tend to walk quickly and am so concerned […]
The first paragraph was a facetious telling of the Neoliberal position– a type of insouciance I feel Rodríguez is responding to. Perhaps the idea of de-colonizing does not exist in the neoliberal […]
Rodríguez’s piece underscores a central theme in neoliberal conversations of colonization. Decolonizing means that we rid ourselves of the notion and responsibility of ra […]
Consistently this semester, I’ve thought about a lecture by Derrida at the inauguration of the Women and Gender Studies department at Brown in the 80s. Entitled “Women in the Beehive,” Derrida goes on to argue […]
While reading Professor Brim’s book (which I thorough enjoyed– especially the reference to A Room of One’s Own), I felt a common theme appearing– Queer Studies as a discipline, and the associated tension that […]
The Brian Lehrer podcast of course resonated with our discussions last week– the brick wall and perpetuation of White Supremacy in another form (a horse of another color), but it also led to me to consider […]
I absolutely agree with your skepticism of being Harvard-centric, and I wonder (although maybe this is optimistic) if Harvard were less Harvard-like, if we’d speak about it less. Are we all just in […]
I love your response and agree with your points about PR and the emotional labor forced on faculty to increase diversity initiatives at a school-based on White Supremacy.
I hope you’ll speak about some of these points tonight– specifically, what is the next best thing? Diversity and a lower standard of excellence– is that a necessary trade-off? Does the current […]
I do not deny that my take is cynical and discounts the legitimate intellectual motivation of an individual. If that individual happens to be Chelsea Clinton, so be […]
David and I met with Professors Rogers and Brim last week to present our ideas. We both seemed to want to focus on Elite Education but from slightly different angles. David was interested in looking into the nuts […]
Thank you for your comment Professor Brim– I think after last week’s class, what struck me most is this idea of necessity. There’s a component of gaslighting involved. It’s as if a to say, not only do we need to […]
Reading through Austerity Blues, I had a hard time thinking of what an argument for austerity could possibly be. I know I live in a quasi Democratic/Socialist bubble, but how could the erosion of publicly funded […]
Thank you! I think sometimes when we consider schooling, we forget the fact that it’s made of people with hopes, dreams, and goals. I don’t think it’s naive to think people who go into teaching, […]