remember how you want people to recognize your humanity? Remember how you want room for it? That need and desire does not go away when you cross some invisible finish line into a slightly higher place in the hierarchy of this abusive capitalist structure. So
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Don’t make dehumanizing people who are being open and honest about their struggles part of your “woke” work. Rather, make building solidarity your central praxis, always.
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Tangentially, unless your professor is tenure track faculty in the sciences at an R1, there’s a decent chance their salary is not that fantastic and even if it is, you have no idea how many people that salary feeds, especially with first gen faculty of color
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As I said a few days ago, two people crossed the line with me so badly that my patience with y’alls bullshit has dried the fuck up. I had a couple of years where ppl tried this shit with me & I took it, rarely wielding the little power I had to protect myself. That time is over.
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You do not have to love or even like the women junior faculty you see out here on the front lines talking about change. But I will not be patient anymore with specific attempts to destroy us as if we are gods in charge of this system.
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If you are constantly focusing your complaining and gossiping on the moral failures of faculty of color and activist white women faculty, ask yourself why you are so keen about letting white men off the hook. Because you are. Your behavior has a name: white supremacist patriarchy
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It is also okay to disagree with someone and go about your business. Don’t make your life about someone else’s.
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Also just wait until you are a senior postdoc or junior faculty and people expect you to do godlike shit while you can barely pay your bills or keep your heart together. You aren’t superhuman either.
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So, while everyone is here, SUPPORT GRAD STUDENT AND CONTINGENT FACULTY UNIONS!!!!pic.twitter.com/9B0xjE8tea
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Union and community organizing together >> expecting individual minoritized faculty to fix everything that’s wrong in a white supremacist worldpic.twitter.com/mOXw8I1E5e
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Thank you for this thread. So much.
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