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~ postcolonial blackout rage ~

[muybarra]

It can be very dangerous to identify as disabled when your survival depends on you denying it.

Mia Mingus

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People always say that they are going to stand up for something as soon as they get tenure, she said. But if they are going along with things when they are an assistant professor, they will be an associate professor who goes along with things and a department chair who goes along with things. Bravery does not come with tenure.

Academia’s White Voice

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let’s be real.

if you ever try to act like Derrida is worth reading / citing / engaging with, read this letter and think on it, tho:

http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2018/06/this-isnt-the-first-time-theory-professors-have-tried-to-bully-a-school-out-of-investigating-sexual-.html

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Mass incarceration is mass elimination.

Hernández, KL (2017) City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965. UNC Press Books

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When people tell me, “Trust your gut! Follow your intuition!” Like, bitch, I have anxiety. My “gut” is usually telling me that everyone hates me and that I’m going to die. I can’t trust what that motherfucker tells me.

[muybarra]

When a whole world is organized to promote your survival, from health to education, to the walls designed to keep your residence safe, to the paths that ease your travel, you do not have to become so inventive to survive. You do not have to be seen as the recipient of welfare because the world has promoted your welfare.

Ahmed, S (2017) Living a Feminist Life. Durham: Duke University Press

[muybarra]

May your rage inform your actions and your actions transform you as you struggle to transform your world.

Susan Stryker

[xkcds]

Your manuscript “Don’t Pay $25 to Access Any of the Articles in this Journal: A Review of Preprint Repositories and Author Willingness to Email PDF Copies for Free” has also been rejected, but nice try.

Peer Review [Explained]

[nyshadidntbreakit]

@elodieunderglass

[muybarra]

Those of us who come to embody diversity for organizations are assumed to bring whiteness to an end by virtue of our arrival.

Ahmed, S (2017) Living a Feminist Life. Durham: Duke University Press

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“Canon building is empire building. Canon defense is national defense. Canon debate, whatever the terrain, nature, and range (of criticism, of history, of the history of knowledge, of the definition of language, the universality of aesthetic principles, the sociology of art, the humanistic imagination), is the clash of cultures. And all of the interests are vested.”

Toni Morrison (Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature 1988)

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COMPLETELY NEUTRAL, RACE-BLIND COLLEGE ADMISSIONS QUESTIONS

“The Trump administration said Tuesday that it was abandoning Obama administration policies that called on universities to consider race as a factor in diversifying their campuses, signaling that the administration will champion race-blind admissions standards.” — New York Times, July 4, 2018

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Is your first name Jamal / Denasia or Theodore / Chad / Mackenzie / Juniperberry?

Is your last name displayed on the entrance to one of our campus buildings?

Can I pronounce your last name without having to sound it out one syllable at a time?

Do you live in a neighborhood that was redlined when your grandparents moved there, or was your family displaced by the construction of a new Bikram yoga studio?

Did you have any family members who attended this college, or were your ancestors legally barred from formal education altogether?

Did you attend a criminally underfunded public school or one whose tuition exceeds the annual operating budget of Flint, Michigan?

Did your education involve being kidnapped, having your hair forcibly cut, and being forbidden to speak your native tongue, or did you have ice cream socials on the first of each month?

What is the total value of your family’s financial assets, and how much of it was accumulated while being exploited for free labor under inhumane conditions?

What were your grades in the school where none of your teachers looked like you?

What was your score on that super important standardized test designed by a eugenics enthusiast?

How many times have you summered on Cape Cod? Does your family use the word “summer” as a verb? How many pairs of pink shorts do you own? What is your favorite flavor of kombucha? Do you want to join my frisbee golf league? Do you like Belle and Sebastian? What’s your favorite TED Talk? Does this plaid shirt make my stomach look fat? Where should I spend my gap year? Do you like my finger tattoo that looks like a mustache when I hold it up to my lip? Do you want to go to Burning Man with me? Why can’t I get dreadlocks? Where are you really from? Can I touch your hair? Isn’t that just reverse racism? Can I use the “n word” if I’m just singing the lyrics to a song?

What is a challenge that you’ve overcome in your life?

[muybarra]

One trauma does not and should not become an alibi for the other.

“In the wake of [Junot Diaz’s] damage” by “S”

[muybarra]

There’s more, but there’s already so much: genius, by definition a male condition

David Foster Wallace and the Dangerous Romance of Male Genius

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Me, every time I can’t find a book on shelf:

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Universities can afford half a million dollars to protect nazis but can’t afford to pay adjunct instructors a living wage and can’t afford to drop tuition and make education affordable for anyone

[muybarra]

Western Marxism, in either of its two variants--critical humanist or scientific--has proven insufficiently radical to expose and root out the racialist order that contaminates its analytic and philisophic applications or to come to effective terms with the implications of its own class origins. As a result, it has been mistaken for something it is not: a total theory of liberation.

Robinson, CJ (2000) Black Marxism: The making of the Black radical tradition. 2nd Ed: University of North Carolina Press

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