Oof, the issue of students harassing/stalking professors is so complicated. This piece (by a CUNY alum) might be of interest: https://www.chronicle.com/article/when-students-harass-professors. It would be […]

Thank you for this visual reflection, Brie. The sketch of the pillars got me thinking along other metaphorical lines: pillars are key for support, but they are also rigid and inflexible. Maybe that tracks—maybe p […]

I think this is so important in a CUNY context. Another question that I have alongside this is how to work in a way that doesn’t lead straight to burnout. Those systems that deny fundamental resources—whether l […]

What an interesting idea! I was also interested to notice “boundaries” in the 2020-2021 visualization.

I like this question a lot too, Adrianna. Let’s use it in class today, maybe as a discussion topic toward the end of the session.

I’m also thinking a lot about Risam’s idea of diversity work as a ‘trap’. I was struck in this read through by the idea of the double-bind, that this is work that is both desired and not desired. That double-bind […]

YES, this is such a tricky tradeoff. I’m reminded of this 2011 piece by Bethany Nowviskie, “A Skunk in the Library” (https://nowviskie.org/2011/a-skunk-in-the-library/): > A “skunkworks” (all one word) des […]

Oof. And building on both of your thoughts, someone recently shared this Chronicle of Higher Ed interview with Roxane Gay. The quote they called to my attention was this: “..if a university can only succeed […]

beautiful, d. “there was just each other. living disobedient, bold, hopeful, scared, hungry lives.” Networks of care and foreclosed possibility; power and oppression alongside fragile possibility.

YES to restructuring spaces in order to support basic needs. Grad programs sometimes ask me how to better support students’ overall wellbeing, and a big part of my answer is just to give them more money. Puppies […]

Nelson, I like your comment about not stressing if you did not opt into a particular situation. With apologies for the weird analogy, a parenting book I read recently focused on the idea that “you don’t have to go […]

Oh, Adrianna, this is heartbreaking and infuriating.

Jen, this is fantastic! What a thoughtful and thorough consideration of the different valences of care. I’d love to look at this during today’s discussion.

I love this, Brie. Especially the fact that it’s spring, that new buds are emerging, and there’s a vibrance as well as a fragility in the new life. I’m thinking too about the optional article on attunement, and […]

D, I appreciate the acknowledgement that the piece by Jade Davis sparked feelings of tension for you. It does for me, too, which is one of the reasons I wanted to assign it in the context of this class—I find it r […]

Thanks, Tuka—it’s really interesting to hear the way your mind moved through all these concepts. Maybe we could do some sketching/mindmapping in class today as a warm up activity.