#ucstrike

[reinasedai]

[reinasedai]

[reinasedai]

[phdinprecarity-blog]

Perhaps our peers are right: perhaps we strikers are the futureless, the luckless, the unspecial. To which we should reply—Yes, and so are you! Of course, logic dictates that some of us will be retained by the academy as its favored prodigies; that some of us will best our peers on a tightening job market; that odds will always (ever) be in someone’s favor. But this is not a logic, not a system, that we could ever willingly endorse.

I'm fighting the exact sentiment that "Some strikers, some friends" refer to: the feeling that my grad student existence is only temporary. I study precarious employment, I know the facts about the decline of tenure positions and the rise of adjuncts, and still I cling to the hope that I'll be spared. 

Despite my lingering naiveté, I'll be enduring the 3 hour RT schlep from downtown to UCLA to participate in the UCLA UAW strike.