Currently reading: Ninth House (Alex Stern Book 1) by Leigh Bardugo 📚

Currently reading: Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930 (CultureAmerica) by Kelly J. Baker 📚

Finished reading: King Of Scars by Leigh Bardugo 📚

I love it so much. Nikolai, Zoya, and Nina have always been my faves so it felt a little like Leigh Bardugo wrote this book just for me.

Finished reading: Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia by Kelly J. Baker 📚

Highly recommend. Baker’s writing is always incisive and accessible. She’s one the writers that inspires me to want to keep writing.

Want to read: The Gig Academy: Mapping Labor in the Neoliberal University (Reforming Higher Education: Innovation and the Public Good) by Adrianna Kezar 📚

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The life of the mind tends to ignore the body, but our bodies aren’t so easily avoided. - Kelly J. Baker in Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia, reflecting on bell hooks’s Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

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Explaining away the plight of adjuncts as brainwashed dupes ignores the structural realities of the disastrous academic job market. - Kelly J. Baker, Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia

I thought the Internet should know: Nikolai Lantsov is now my book boyfriend. Sorry, Kvothe. (Links definitely contain spoilers.) 📚

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One of [the] things about the “love professions,” which includes academia, it is really easy to forget that you are a worker. But when people remember that they are workers, they can make life better for themselves. - Miya Tokumitsu, interviewed by Kelly J. Baker in Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia

Finished reading: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty 📚