📚 4/31 TO THE BONE by Angela Narciso Torres. Excerpt from “Self-portrait as Water”: “most forgiving of/substances, I resolve/to live like you—to fill/and be filled,/to take the shape/of my vessel/dispensing heat/displacing matter/lighter than air" #TheSealeyChallenge

No YOU’RE considering pivoting after graduation to a career that focuses on supporting mothers in academia.

Currently reading: ‘Making It’ as a Contract Researcher: A Pragmatic Look at Precarious Work by Nerida Spina, Jess Harris, Simon Bailey, Mhorag Goff 📚

Finished reading: Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing 📚

📚 3/31 ELECTRIC ARCHES by Eve L. Ewing. Excerpt from “to the notebook kid”: “it’s that flows and flows and flows/and lines like that rip-roaring/bits you got/bars til the end of time/you could rap like/helium bout to spring” ♥️ this collection, so joyful #TheSealeyChallenge

Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time.

Pocketing this Book Riot post on rad poetry from the Women’s Suffrage Movement for later in #TheSealeyChallenge.

Are you in academia or alt-ac? Talk to me about your current productivity or lack thereof, the grace you’re giving yourself right now, whether you’re bothering with CFPs or just trying to get your most important obligations handled.

Feeling bummed because I know the savviest angle on my research is misinformation and disinformation but for my mental health I have to make them peripheral. I will not sacrifice my well-being for what is professionally savvy.

Finished reading: Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen 📚