#whackademia

[sonofahurricane]

this is like really gay, but every time I include a story about like my folks from high school in something academic, I feel like I’m invoking them and our histories together and putting out there that first and foremost my work is for my people and I really love that feeling and want more of it all the time

[sonofahurricane]

coming to you live from our department diversity subcommittee meeting

[sonofahurricane]

god throwback to a few weeks ago in workshop where I don’t speak if I can help it

when someone was talking about struggling to find something in the National Archives and I just went “you can try [name of a specific archivist]” 

one of the professors looked at me like “what kind of weird freak brain do you have that you know this”

[sonofahurricane]

I've had a lot of Peak Grad School Moments, but I think the most Peak was

walking home from the public library with a 12 pack of alcohol laying across my forearms so I could still read and annotate my professor's book for class that week

[sonofahurricane]

I just realized that I’m literally writing this terrible response paper about necropolitics while wearing a giant flannel shirt 

like could I be any more of a lesbian academic stereotype

[sonofahurricane]

i’m up an hour past my bedtime, organizing my library again so I can easily distinguish between digital books I own and physical copies I own

except in my librarything, they’re labeled “Kindle” and “Analog”

i’m classy as hell

[sonofahurricane]

when I got up this morning at like 8 I was like “yeah! I’m gonna DO THINGS today! I’m gonna get all my homework done! Hell yeah!”

Instead I have: read like a chapter of this book, napped for ~2 hours, talked to my mom, bought a book on amazon that I won’t read for like 80 years because Grad School

[sonofahurricane]

Not every woman lived this normative life cycle... There were women who never married because they died as infants.

- Mike, summarizing a terrible reading he's doing