CUNY Academic Commons | Matt Brim | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/mattbrim/activity/ Activity feed for Matt Brim. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 dbb3703c33b049cf226c233922672aa8 Matt Brim created the site Queer-Class Relations Conference https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1081359/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:10:31 -0400 9e7a2f43aedaba140e06b4d159cec9d3 Matt Brim started the topic Invitation to the CLAGS annual Kessler Lecture by E. PATRICK JOHNSON in the forum Transformative Learning in the Humanities https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/transformative-learning-in-the-humanities/forum/topic/invitation-to-the-clags-annual-kessler-lecture-by-e-patrick-johnson/ Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:48:03 -0400 Dear Friends,

Please join CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center for the 31st annual David R. Kessler Lecture. The Kessler award recognizes significant and sustained achievement in LGBTQ studies, art, and activism.

This year’s honoree will be E. Patrick Johnson, a luminary in the fields of Black Queer Studies, African…[Read more]

]]> 126fb62784be4a4811c29917ee27cd17 Matt Brim created the site ENG 170: Literature and Society, Fall 2023 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/935331/ Sun, 27 Aug 2023 20:38:12 -0400 58f269ce24eaefdbc28616f5f9a2d1eb Matt Brim edited the blog post FFPP Welcomes Spring 2024 Fellows! in the group Faculty Fellowship Publication Program (FFPP) https://ffpp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/12/01/ffpp-welcomes-spring-2023-fellows-2/ Thu, 01 Dec 2022 15:56:54 -0500 FFPP Welcomes Spring 2024 Fellows!  The FFPP Academic Directors and Mentors offer our warmest congratulations to the Spring 2024 Fellows. We look forward to another productive […]

]]> cfd9464bd923c7be9b38714e0de69a4e Matt Brim edited the blog post Working-Class Studies Association: Call for Annual Awards Submissions in the group Faculty Fellowship Publication Program (FFPP) https://ffpp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/11/23/working-class-studies-association-call-for-annual-awards-submissions/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 17:50:25 -0500 Dear Fellows, please consider submitting your work produced in 2020 and 2021 for one of the annual awards from the Working-Class Studies Association. Though you may not explicitly locate your work within […]

]]> 10dd5023cf825b571833d6ccad0af576 Matt Brim created the group Open Knowledge https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/772775/ Tue, 13 Jul 2021 22:33:13 -0400 3c3fd21dd63df4ade3a596714fcbdc6d Matt Brim edited the blog post Share Your FFPP-related Publications and Awards on Our Live Google Doc in the group Faculty Fellowship Publication Program (FFPP) https://ffpp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/05/12/share-your-ffpp-related-publications-awards-and-presentations-on-our-live-google-doc/ Wed, 12 May 2021 19:22:25 -0400 Share Your FFPP-related Publications and Awards on Our Live Google Doc  Dear Fellows and Mentors: Please join us in collecting and celebrating the good work of FFPP. Add your FFPP-related publications […]

]]> 9ceeea2572a6f5c7b3c8ca063ae54ebd Matt Brim commented on the post, Week 13: My Noticings., on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-13-my-noticings/#comment-213 Tue, 04 May 2021 21:57:32 -0400 Eve,
These photos are gorgeous! Thank you!
Matt

]]> 12593c2fdc6d91feced093409f009f57 Matt Brim commented on the post, What I noticed., on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/what-i-noticed/#comment-212 Tue, 04 May 2021 21:56:49 -0400 Troy,
It’s an interesting, thinking about teaching everyone we come in contact with.
Matt

]]> 284bae3dce0366a598d1af8ba531ab96 Matt Brim commented on the post, Noticing and remembering, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/noticing-and-remembering/#comment-211 Tue, 04 May 2021 21:54:38 -0400 Samantha,
You’re working in a long tradition of thinking in/with nature here, a act sometimes associated with “the sublime.” (You have totally brought me back to a graduate class I took in 1999!)
Matt

]]> ea5b1533dc32a25895541d72369e2645 Matt Brim commented on the post, Akihime Strawberries, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/akihime-strawberries/#comment-206 Tue, 04 May 2021 18:20:27 -0400 Hi Jess. I’ve been a teacher for 24 years and not once has anyone I taught written a spontaneous haiku! 🙂

]]> d975cba310e4096dbf852d7d1e4cf007 Matt Brim wrote a new post on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=720 Tue, 27 Apr 2021 22:24:20 -0400 For this week, please read excerpts from Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s, Mushroom at the End of the World (ch1, “Arts of Noticing”). An optional reading is “The Spark Bird” by CUNY professor Emily Raboteau.

Follow […]

]]> e870ef13233c8a1975291b49d0c36c8d Matt Brim edited the blog post FFPP Mentor Lina Newton on Blocking out Noise in the group Faculty Fellowship Publication Program (FFPP) https://ffpp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/04/26/ffpp-mentor-lina-newton-on-blocking-out-noise/ Mon, 26 Apr 2021 19:02:00 -0400 Lina Newton, Hunter College

“The reduction of noise is something we can make for ourselves in small ways.”

]]> 74571fdd0b2ebe1d6d167fcefea54b80 Matt Brim commented on the post, Week 11: Cry out for consideration, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-11-consideration-of-others/#comment-198 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 18:19:09 -0400 David,

It’s interesting to see this photo juxtaposed to the Rodriguez quote, especially insofar as children occupy a special place (supposedly) in helping people to feel or sense or come into their humanity. Is […]

]]> 5ae10022817d7e9b56ceebd2a47d45bf Matt Brim commented on the post, Week 11, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-11/#comment-197 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 18:14:56 -0400 Karen,

It would be wonderful if you could be sure to point the class to McKittrick’s Dear Science in class tonight (at least in the chat, if possible). I’m embarrassed to say I hadn’t looked into The Hawthorn […]

]]> a52eaf4560caa4d03e582ce54c666dda Matt Brim commented on the post, Week 11: Imagine something completely new, Eve., on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-11-imagine-something-completely-new-eve/#comment-196 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 18:07:15 -0400 Eve,

I’m having some trouble tracking your voice in this response (I think this is a matter of tone or use of irony, but I feel like I’m not hearing what you intend for me to be hearing). So I think hearing […]

]]> 6b85d05be6588e43a885c95f29a6b566 Matt Brim commented on the post, Queerness, Indigeneity, Two-Spirit, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/queerness-indigeneity-two-spirit/#comment-191 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:30:30 -0400 Jess,

That section of the Wilson/Laing interview caught my attention as well. There was a fair bit of deconstructing myths of Indigeneity going on there, actually, so maybe we can talk about that work this evening.

Matt

]]> cdafff236d9ac8e4aaf724bd6903a946 Matt Brim commented on the post, Week 11 - Decolonizing Academia, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-11-decolonizing-academia/#comment-184 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:53:59 -0400 Dennis,

I love lists (perhaps I’ve mentioned this?). There was a “queer lists” panel at MLA this past year, and just last night there was a Black methodologies conversation hosted by Intellectual Publics at the […]

]]> 8d6b0d79441096627fe3827d4d42df9e Matt Brim commented on the post, The spirit of the law, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/the-spirit-of-the-law/#comment-174 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:57:42 -0400 Keshia,

I’m sending the same post to you that I sent to Dennis and Troy:

A recent issue of the Clarion advised that we all keep an eye on how our campuses are spending CARES Act money. This chart is […]

]]> 52c968fa1f0340744513304b610a5169 Matt Brim commented on the post, Troy, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/troy/#comment-173 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:44:22 -0400 Troy,
You very clearly lay out the tensions in this week’s readings, so please reiterate them in class. I want to draw your attention (as well as Dennis’s…so you might look at his post too) to a recent issue of […]

]]> 980a2d21c7609df718db480bea52db29 Matt Brim commented on the post, Week 10 reflection, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-10-reflection/#comment-172 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:01:43 -0400 Samantha,
There’s an instructive act of misquoting in your response, namely, a missing “not.” Lowe’s quote should read “is not an ‘identity’ movement…” What I love about you inadvertently (I think?) dropping […]

]]> d117692774b88401b6c289020345c892 Matt Brim commented on the post, Miguel - Week 10, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/miguel-week-10/#comment-171 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 15:24:38 -0400 Miguel,
Could you unpack the sentence “Community control looks like what it wants to be (that might be confusing) but it means that it can be what folks want it to be” for us in class a bit further?
Matt

]]> 1f13a9a2f0cb4f11ad304da76ef0cc80 Matt Brim commented on the post, What importance does funding have in the non-traditional sense? Does it matter where funding originates?, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/what-importance-does-funding-have-in-the-non-traditional-sense-does-it-matter-where-funding-originates/#comment-170 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 15:19:30 -0400 Dennis,
A recent issue of the Clarion advised that we all keep an eye on how our campuses are spending CARES Act money. This chart is interesting because we can see that there is targeted HSI money, and in fact […]

]]> 80c7c44ca25089177c2ac3d51bf37d53 Matt Brim commented on the post, A few reflections on week 10 (Katina), on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/a-few-reflections-on-week-10-katina/#comment-169 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 14:29:44 -0400 I think we’ve mentioned it before, but the book The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, might be helpful here. […]

]]> 7871f6ecbc88c8066d6992bfe905394a Matt Brim commented on the post, Week 10: Importance of sense of belonging and leadership, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-10-importance-of-sense-of-belonging-and-leadership/#comment-168 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:12:26 -0400 David,

Can the class have permission to reuse this pairing of images in our future classes? It’s such a great pedagogical tool for surfacing complex ideas. I join Lucien and Katina in hoping that you’ll unpack […]

]]> e628e80a0cfd594a0098fb7dafbddebf Matt Brim commented on the post, April 13 Blog Post, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/april-13-blog-post/#comment-166 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 12:47:48 -0400 Karen,
Thank you so much for this post. One of your sentences really resonated with me: “Stories of struggle to shape an institution reveal that institutions are formed through struggle–an empowering thing to r […]

]]> 4a87337f4ed53b8f563c12e96410ac72 Matt Brim commented on the post, Black universities, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/black-universities-2/#comment-158 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 22:24:48 -0400 Lucien,

I bet Rachel Corbman (a former GC MA student and now visiting assistant professor of WGS at Wake Forest) would know if Bambara was at the Howard conference. She’s writing a book about feminist […]

]]> 472985c3eec0a9d27da8549c72a22e8e Matt Brim commented on the post, Week 9: A multi-purpose University, Eve., on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-9-a-multi-purpose-university-eve/#comment-157 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 22:21:35 -0400 Building on Katina’s post… you might look at Robyn Wiegman’s great (difficult) book _Object Lessons_ to think about how some disciplines’ commitments to social justice (she’s calls these the “identity […]

]]> 791d72d753a65d77b16965113020865b Matt Brim commented on the post, Abolition and knowledge production, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/abolition-and-knowledge-production/#comment-156 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 22:15:42 -0400 Samantha,

Your final question reminds me of the discussion Katina and I had earlier today about the boundary created when one’s vision and one’s constraints are especially stark (and I see that Katina has used […]

]]> cc6eb451160ccce605e1a61b04ed1d22 Matt Brim commented on the post, Punitive University, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/punitive-university/#comment-146 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 19:52:37 -0400 Dennis,

Are you thinking too about the militarization of universities? This can mean the militarization of campus police but also formal military presence of any sort on campus. I ask this because you stand at […]

]]> 9174b3125a7291a7421a83275eec5666 Matt Brim commented on the post, Week 9 - Miguel, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-9-miguel/#comment-145 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 19:38:58 -0400 Miguel,
The first few lines below are just notes from your podcast:
–Theme: systems of organized violence
–“new crimes” for existing while Black and a person of color
–RWG offers historical context for […]

]]> e9d7aa1971d538404c2b808485d63381 Matt Brim commented on the post, the university and Abolitionism, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/the-university-and-abolitionism/#comment-144 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 19:30:05 -0400 Jess,

I have two thoughts: 1. I’d love to hear you begin to answer your own question, “If it’s not possible to extract the individual from the university, to subvert or rise above, what is the s […]

]]> d3ca3a1ece31dec7ac8d64dc9fc39bed Matt Brim commented on the post, The Black University, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/the-black-university/#comment-143 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 19:18:52 -0400 Keshia,

I want to note a key move you make in your response. You agree with our source text (Bambara), and then you extend her good idea into a more expansive one by thinking through your own experience. Not […]

]]> 10a51f6923021ccbbb0b38ac3cdd75fa Matt Brim edited the blog post Anahi Viladrich, FFPP Mentor in Medical Sociology and Anthropology, on How to Appeal an Article Rejection (yes, it is possible!) in the group Faculty Fellowship Publication Program (FFPP) https://ffpp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/04/02/anahi-viladrich-ffpp-mentor-in-medical-sociology-and-anthropology-on-how-to-appeal-an-article-rejection-yes-it-is-possible/ Fri, 02 Apr 2021 13:50:36 -0400 Anahi Viladrich, Queens College

“Turn a rejection into a win-win situation.”

]]> 296427b74745697d7768c41d50718c2f Matt Brim created the site Queer Sharing https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/754144/ Tue, 30 Mar 2021 02:57:12 -0400 3b40d659834bc6f951d0dcdb00224b99 Matt Brim wrote a new post on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=589 Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:07:30 -0400 Next class (April 6) we’ll dive more deeply into Black Study and the University. The readings for that class are below. Please write your own prompt this time and then be ready to discuss your self-guided […]

]]> 69cb36b890ef37e4bf325729e33678bc Matt Brim commented on the post, Week 8: Where is the "I" in The Academy, Eve., on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-8-where-is-the-i-in-the-academy-eve/#comment-133 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 22:23:52 -0400 Eve,

Your final question seems to me to divide college from the rest of life, but is higher ed a separate sphere? One of my main realizations in writing the book is that the academy is class stratified […]

]]> e8edb363b829aabdd9e16e59356cf404 Matt Brim commented on the post, Week 8, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-8/#comment-131 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 17:54:34 -0400 Karen,

You perfectly tapped into the issue of queer methods that was at the front of my mind as I wrote much of PQS. I had begun coediting the special “Queer Methods” issue of WSQ in 2014 and then that turned […]

]]> 1b8c73f9b58de9f40f6fa559a7a22776 Matt Brim commented on the post, Week 8 poor queer studies, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-8-poor-queer-studies/#comment-130 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 17:46:07 -0400 Jess,

I’m happy you mentioned students taking queer studies out into the workforce. This question was most difficult for me to confront when I knew my students would be going into jobs where queer knowledge may […]

]]> f95acda81080ba6f153e2b177ea56a65 Matt Brim commented on the post, Week 8: Queer Studies & Pedagogy, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-8-queer-studies-pedagogy/#comment-129 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 17:37:28 -0400 Hi Everyone,

David, it seems to me that whether you intended it or not you’ve got a project on your hands–maybe for our class but maybe not. Moving forward, keep your responses somewhere handy and take them […]

]]> bb0809e9e390977ea9b8ffa10199daac Matt Brim commented on the post, Troy: The proof, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/troy-the-proof/#comment-128 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 17:30:33 -0400 Troy,

I’m very interested in “the hook” in the last sentence of your response. Does your reference to an “overarching theory” point to your final project in the course or to an idea that already has […]

]]> 25c1d7f57cee4b6128d46338c5f7aad0 Matt Brim wrote a new post on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=536 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:52:27 -0400 For week 8, please read:

Matt Brim, Poor Queer Studies (Intro, ch4; optional reading: ch2)Roderick Ferguson, The Reorder of Things (ch3)

You might consider the following questions:

How does Ferguson […]

]]> dfde96a0e7eab018bb1daa05270d5243 Matt Brim edited the blog post FFPP Mentor Moustafa Bayoumi Shares His Experience Writing Op-Eds in the group Faculty Fellowship Publication Program (FFPP) https://ffpp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/03/12/ffpp-mentor-moustafa-bayoumi-shares-his-experience-writing-op-eds/ Fri, 12 Mar 2021 00:36:25 -0500 Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn College

“Short sentences help.”

]]> d89f36e5d90e5a58e1accc33483d5b2b Matt Brim commented on the post, Mentorship in graduate studies - Troy, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/mentorship-in-graduate-studies-troy/#comment-106 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 23:12:27 -0500 Troy,
I found this sentence of your to be very poignant: “Reflecting, I recognize that there was never a forum and hardly ever any opportunities to praise my advisors for their great mentoring work and recognize […]

]]> ba35a95a4ae269a99d44ea1767508c54 Matt Brim commented on the post, What's valuable? - Keshia, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/whats-valuable-keshia/#comment-101 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 19:54:07 -0500 Keshia,

Your question, “If the work faculty do for the university is not valuable, what is?”, makes me think that there’s work in the university and then there’s “real” work in the university. But are we at the […]

]]> beb8a543328ac7df4cf2fdcdc05eb8a1 Matt Brim commented on the post, Week 6: Unspoken university, now hiring, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-6-unspoken-university-now-hiring/#comment-100 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 19:47:35 -0500 Samantha,
Amazing! It’s almost easy to forget the standard Job listing after reading yours. In fact, it would be great if you could remind us of what a few of those standard lines are and walk us through how you […]

]]> 820d024ef84e5e3cb8bfab8fe4bec182 Matt Brim commented on the post, week 6, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-6/#comment-98 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 19:37:50 -0500 Jess,

Thanks for sharing this great resource with the class.

You’ve got me thinking about all the sites of inequality that you name. Each one seems to have its own logic that grounds it (the gender gap […]

]]> 0d44dfc95e5973b6e7ba1fd94514cc65 Matt Brim commented on the post, Reaction # 6 - Unspoken University, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/reaction-6-unspoken-university/#comment-97 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 19:30:46 -0500 Dennis,
I did not see your last question coming. You write: “I’d also like to question as to how the countless number of CUNY’s tech systems; CUNYFirst, Portal, DegreeWorks, EAB, Blackboard, Cloud Virtual Des […]

]]> 09c03d44a55741b54829f9a245ecdcdb Matt Brim commented on the post, Week 6: The Unspoken University, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-6-the-unspoken-university-2/#comment-96 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 19:20:46 -0500 David,
I love your idea for creating a mechanism for U.S.-born students to better understand their international student peers. You could create a final project that argues for the need for that education and […]

]]> 14595e331427afa8997e6c1344e1df54 Matt Brim commented on the post, Some questions, on the site Equity, Elitism, & Public Higher Education https://equity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/some-questions/#comment-94 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 14:20:47 -0500 Lucien,
You write, “is the departmental funding model worth maintaining? Should the humanities embrace external funding in ways that resemble the sciences in the US academy?” I wonder what kinds of external […]

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