“This semester has taught me how much I crave a fully cultivated life removed from my schooling and work mainly because it’s taught me the extent of the grip of capitalism on us all.”
Based on your reflection, it seems like you’ve given yourself the space to reflect on a tough time and have been able to see abundance ahead. Thank you for sharing!
Nicol, D. J., & Yee, J. A. (2017). “’Reclaiming Our Time’: Women of Color Faculty and Radical Self-Care in the Academy,” Feminist Teacher , Vol. 27, Nos. 2-3 (2017), pp. 13 […]
The (essential) distinction between settler colonialism and the colonialism that was made in Tuck and Yank’s introduction encouraged me to question the chronology of learning. For example, so often in our g […]
“Stories of struggle to shape an institution reveal that institutions are formed through struggle.” YES, you bring up such a good point about how learning about one’s school history (whether as a student, teacher, […]
In Rivera and Nadal’s chapter, I was prompted to think about the different structural symbols that are given to students. For example, if an LGBTQ+ center wa […]
Gilmore’s conversation with Scahill made the relationship between anti-capitalism and anti-racism inseparable, which she first attributed to her childhood and her family’s multigenerational labor struggle. Thi […]
This is a really interesting point. I think you’re right about how more critical fields are “tucked away” under the umbrellas of larger departments. At my undergrad, our Gender and Women’s Studies department was […]
The fourth chapter of Poor Queer Studies truly blew me away; it was rich and thoughtful, and I found myself connecting many sentences to wildly different personal experiences I’d had and I wanted to use this s […]
I distinctly remember sitting with my two roommates last March, in grief and in shock about the state of the world, wondering if the mandates to stay at home, isolated and indoors, would inflict some sort of […]
I enjoyed the Brian Lehrer show’s interview because it gave me a new framework to engage with the issue of inclusion work in diversity. I’m realizing more how linked it is to the gaslighting of people of col […]
