My Life As a Grad Student

Me rambling about my frustrations as a first-year grad student in a doctoral gender studies program.

[fmlgradschool]

When I think about how fulfilling teaching can be 

And then only 5 of my students show up for class

[phdstress]

Moving from intersectionality to assemblage

Reading the argument:

Employing assemblage analytical:

[fmlgradschool]

When the Journal Rejects my Abstract

[downye-deactivated20191021]

[fmlgradschool]

realizing how much grad school is bs when talking over your research with non-academics

[mhpproblems-blog]

[fmlgradschool]

Writing Final Papers during Spring Quarter

[whatshouldwecallgradschool]

WHEN THE FIRST YEAR TRIES TO CELEBRATE MY FIFTH YEAR

credit: jerunplugged

[fmlgradschool]

When I realize it's Friday

[kikoldr]

[fmlgradschool]

after getting feedback from the advisor

[phdstress]

Writing

[fmlgradschool]

When Adobe Reader mysteriously loses all my annotations from the week. 

[factfiction]

by Jorge Cham

[mansplainedmarxist-blog]

When I try to explain the psychological effects of graduate school

[recovering-academic]

My summer plans

[thephdgirl]

When I get comments back from my advisor

[phdstudents]

what being in grad school feels like

    [gifset]

[fmlgradschool]

When gifs make me feel like i need to be writing more about transspecies intimacy.

[phdstress]

Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled...