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@academicmermaid
I’ve disappeared again.
I’m supposed to defend my dissertation eight weeks from tomorrow (which means getting a complete finalized version to my committee six weeks from tomorrow), and I just. don’t. know. how. it’s. going. to. happen.
Seriously.
I feel ill.
A community for sharing news about religion and politics (and thinking critically about that news!)
Hey all, my undergraduate course on Religion & Politics has begun to blog on its very own Tumblr. Check it out!
Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student in Kampala, Uganda. You’re sitting in class and discreetly scrolling through Facebook on your phone. You see that there has been another mass shooting in America, this time in a place called San Bernardino. You’ve never heard of it. You’ve never been to America. But you’ve certainly heard a lot about gun violence in the U.S. It seems like a new mass shooting happens every week. You wonder if you could go there and get stricter gun legislation passed. You’d be a hero to the American people, a problem-solver, a lifesaver. How hard could it be? Maybe there’s a fellowship for high-minded people like you to go to America after college and train as social entrepreneurs. You could start the nonprofit organization that ends mass shootings, maybe even win a humanitarian award by the time you are 30. Sound hopelessly naïve? Maybe even a little deluded? It is. And yet, it’s not much different from how too many Americans think about social change in the “Global South.” If you asked a 22-year-old American about gun control in this country, she would probably tell you that it’s a lot more complicated than taking some workshops on social entrepreneurship and starting a non-profit. She might tell her counterpart from Kampala about the intractable nature of our legislative branch, the long history of gun culture in this country and its passionate defenders, the complexity of mental illness and its treatment. She would perhaps mention the added complication of agitating for change as an outsider. But if you ask that same 22-year-old American about some of the most pressing problems in a place like Uganda — rural hunger or girl’s secondary education or homophobia — she might see them as solvable. Maybe even easily solvable. I’ve begun to think about this trend as the reductive seduction of other people’s problems. It’s not malicious. In many ways, it’s psychologically defensible; we don’t know what we don’t know. If you’re young, privileged, and interested in creating a life of meaning, of course you’d be attracted to solving problems that seem urgent and readily solvable. Of course you’d want to apply for prestigious fellowships that mark you as an ambitious altruist among your peers. Of course you’d want to fly on planes to exotic locations with, importantly, exotic problems. There is a whole “industry” set up to nurture these desires and delusions — most notably, the 1.5 million nonprofit organizations registered in the U.S., many of them focused on helping people abroad. In other words, the young American ego doesn’t appear in a vacuum. Its hubris is encouraged through job and internship opportunities, conferences galore, and cultural propaganda — encompassed so fully in the patronizing, dangerously simple phrase “save the world.”
“The Reductive Seduction of Other People’s Problems” by Courtney Martin
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Capitalism can’t save the world, but it can simulate the experience and sell it to you.
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Pastafarians, followers of a parody religion created to mock Kansan creationism, have been wearing colanders on their heads in photo IDs for several years. Without doing a detailed Google search, my memory is that this practice began around the same time when Muslim women were fighting in Western democracies for the right to have their hijabs on in their photo IDs, and so this practice has always struck me as vaguely Islamophobic, but these days I think most Pastafarians are doing it for shits and giggles, not as a reductio ad absurdum political protest against hijabs in photo IDs.
Hemant Mehta has a fairly good argument for why the ad-hoc policy discussed in the link is a bad idea:
This spur-of-the-moment rule basically says that whatever religion you have when you get your license is the religion you have to keep for the next several years (until the license expires). There’s no room for a genuine change of heart. The Moscow government is really forcing Filin to follow a particular religion under threat of revoking his license.
We’re all aware that people can change their minds about God at any age.
Kuzin may have felt he was outsmarting Filin, but he’s absolutely overstepping his authority by telling Filin which religion he must follow for the next several years.
What if a Muslim woman decides to take off her hijab because she no longer considers herself a Muslim? Or a Sikh man decides to remove his turban?
Will their licenses be revoked, too? If not — and let’s all agree they shouldn’t be punished for changing their beliefs — then this is selective discrimination against Pastafarians. Even for a parody religion, the government has no right to implement this rule.
So stuck.
I am so so stuck.
But chapter four needs to get written. The dissertation needs to be drafted.
UGH.
Caught in a blizzard.
If it has to be snowy conditions... I'd like to be here.
Guys guys guys guys guys!!! I went to the dentist today, for the first time in like...three? maybe four? years. And I didn't have any cavities and my teeth aren't falling out of my mouth and my gums look pretty healthy for someone who had all the orthodontia as a kid and on top of it all the dentist was comprehensive and transparent and communicated every detail to me and was gentle during the cleaning and checked repeatedly to make sure I was okay and I didn't cry. Adulting.
When the movie Suffragette came out in October, critics noticed something off: The film’s struggling women were all white. In fact, one of the most important women in the suffragette movement was an Indian princess, Sophia Duleep Singh. But she didn’t make an appearance in the movie.
“Suddenly there was this sort of tidal wave of outrage from people who were saying, why wasn’t she in the movie?” says Anita Anand, author of the book Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary. “So my first response was, why are you so angry? You hadn’t heard about her until fairly recently.”
Anand herself knew nothing about Sophia until she saw an interesting face in an old magazine photo. “It was black and white, but something about it just told me that this woman was as brown as I was,” she says. “She had the same sort of features as one of my aunties, and I just thought, you know, I’ve been a political journalist for 20 years; how is it that I don’t know about an Indian suffragette?”
Here’s how the suffragette princess disappeared from history.
With ‘Sophia,’ A Forgotten Suffragette Is Back In The Headlines
Photo: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images
Sometimes I feel like I’m too much work for everyone around me, like the effort in loving me is more than the payout.
ASKING MY ADVISOR WHEN I CAN GRADUATE
Starting 2016 off right: a small gathering at my house last night with friends, board games, Matt's homemade chili, and a sparkly gold dress I never get to wear -- and pajama brunch this morning with his family and some ridiculous Bloody Marys.
Grad Student Blog Roll~
Hi everyone! I was gonna wait to post this, but I figured, what the hell… There’s no better time than the present.
So, one community that I fell in love with even before I applied for grad school was the gradblr and grad student community. It is filled with amazing people that have been so supportive of anyone that potentially wants to pursue a higher education. We rant together, celebrate together and even drink together!
As such, I want to make a list of all the active gradblrs and grad student blogs out there of any and all disciplines! This way, fellow grad students can find people to cope with and complain to while prospectives have a resource they can ask any questions to without judgment!
So, if you would like to be a part of this list, submit, message or reblog this post with your:
Name (optional) Field of study (Be as specific as you like) Pursued Degree (Masters, PsyD, PhD, etc) Year Any other degrees you have (optional)
Those who are in that weird in between stage of undergrad/post-grad and grad school are still more than welcome to join the list as well! Also, you can even join if you’re not really part of the studyblr/gradblr community, yet still have an open ask box, if needed.
Much love, Krystal
Thank you for all the responses. I’ll begin putting together the list after the new year!
In the meantime, please reblog and spread the word! I’m hoping to get as many blogs as possible before this goes live!
Many thanks!
Also, @caffeinebooks, @cancerbiophd, @onceuponapsydstudent, @kitty-wine and the other awesome people I follow, would you guys like to be a part of the list or even just spread the word? That’d be cool!
Yes! Count me in. Field of study: Clinical Psychology Pursued Degree: Psy.D. Year: 1st
Any other grad students out there? :)
Organic chemist. PhD. Fifth year with plans to defend in May 2016
I'm game! 6th-year religion and politics PhD, planning to defend in late spring 2016 (April? May? June?).
Trying to write the first paragraph of a thing
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Drafts of chapters 1-3 done; now for chapter 4...
Well hello again tumblr. I can hardly believe that the last time I posted was before Memorial Day weekend this year. It’s been like... six months? I’d apologize but I’ve been hard at work. Here’s the rundown, if anyone cares (if I have any followers left at this point?):
May: Friend’s wedding in Philly. Visited family at home. Was granted an international external fellowship! (American Association of University Women, American Dissertation Completion Fellowship) Wonderful news but also means I actually have to finish my dissertation by summer 2016. Whoa.
June: Finished out the school year. Presented a chapter of the dissertation at a workshop (learned I need to rewrite it). Traveled to Israel for my student’s Bat Mitzvah.
July: Traveled to Joplin to finish dissertation research. Went to Wisconsin for a friend’s wedding.
August: Went to Twin Cities for the wedding of one of boyfriend’s friends. Tried to get my research organized. Planned a trip to India. Turned 29.
September: Traveled to India for two weeks! Sweaty but enjoyable trip. Came home and applied to jobs.
October: More applying for jobs. Some dissertation-writing. Dad came to visit me in Chicago.
November: More applications. More dissertation. Finished writing paper to present at discipline’s national annual conference. Traveled to Atlanta for the conference. Presented paper. Went home for Thanksgiving and a break from Chicago.
December: Dissertation boot camp. Lots of dissertation writing and revision. Full draft of substantive chapters due to advisor by Jan. 1. Deadline looming, so... back to work.
Anyway, I’m still here. There’s been so much going on, and I’ve been in and out of Chicago for months and trying to craft a dissertation (since I now need to finish the PhD) and trying to find a job (again, because I have to finish the PhD). A little hectic, and so much time on the computer that I’ve really not wanted to be on screens in my spare time. But, I’m here, and may be back again before the next six months pass -- although if that happens, odds are that I’ll just close off this account since I’m tapering anyway.
Blah blah blah. Can you tell I’m procrastinating my writing?
The latest
1. Week 8 of the quarter is over. Only one more week of classes, reading week, and finals week. Then I’ll be a sixth year?
2. Only 6,000 words of a chapter that should be at least 12,000. Guess I have some work to do before June 1, huh?
3. Heading home today for a brief visit with the family and a friend’s wedding. Relieved to be taking a quasi-break, even if there’s a ton to do while I’m there.
4. I’ve been in a work sinkhole this quarter, so that’s why I’ve been MIA.
5. Still no word on external fellowships. No, don’t worry, Foundation X, I have no problem lingering in limbo about my financial situation next year.
6. Just ate three different foods with peanut butter on them. Oreos were one of those items. Guess I should maybe try to get out for a run before I go to the airport?
