I haven’t felt like writing a long blog post for the post couple of weeks. Maybe tomorrow. I’m reading a lot though & that has made me really happy. I’m also drinking a lot of smoothies and eating a lot of oatmeal. I hope that’s enough of an update for now. Stay safe, friends!
Currently reading: Ninth House (Alex Stern Book 1) by Leigh Bardugo π
Currently reading: Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930 (CultureAmerica) by Kelly J. Baker π
Finished reading: King Of Scars by Leigh Bardugo π
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 π
Highly recommend. Baker’s writing is always incisive and accessible. She’s one the writers that inspires me to want to keep writing.
π Read The Holes We Live With by Katie Rose Guest Pryal.
I think my hole is named in the Encanto song “Surface Pressure”:
I’m pretty surΠ΅ I’m worthless if I can’t be of servicΠ΅
Dana has a lightsaber now.
[Image description: An 18 inch doll holds an appropriately scaled lightsaber.]
Want to read: The Gig Academy: Mapping Labor in the Neoliberal University (Reforming Higher Education: Innovation and the Public Good) by Adrianna Kezar π
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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