Kimberly Hirsh

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

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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

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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

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

Dana has a lightsaber now.

[Image description: An 18 inch doll holds an appropriately scaled lightsaber.]

🔖 Read Women of a Certain Age.

Great piece about how the Golden Age of TV creates space for roles beyond somebody’s mom, somebody’s wife, and harpyish crone. 📺🍿

I Kimberly Hirsh am RSVPing yes to Micro Camp 2022 .

I’m psyched to present my dissertation research at FanLIS 2022: Fan Futures Beyond the Archive. I’ll talk about how cosplayers find, evaluate, use, share, and create information, as well as possibilities for FanLIS as a discipline to expand into fan practices beyond fanfic.

The doll is named Dana. She is here now and I think she’s actually 200% haunted. The mid-life crisis continues.

The great achievements of humanity were born out of the deadlines imposed by death. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory

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Accepting death doesn’t mean that you won’t be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like “Why do people die?” and “Why is this happening to me?” Death isn’t happening to you. Death is happening to us all. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory

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

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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

My kid definitely just said “Thwip” in his sleep. 🕸️

The Kimberly urge to write Picard/Gomez fic. 🖖🏻

Me, thinking about my mom’s experience with leukemia: The medicine will be what it will be, but what about her feeeeeeelings?

(Never has it been more appropriate that my sun & rising are in Cancer.)

It’s February. Black history is important all year long but February is extra awesome because Black cosplayers show off their stuff daily all month. Search #28daysofblackcosplay on your favorite social media platform to see some amazing cosplay. Learn more at this link.

Welcome to my mid-life crisis.

[Image description: An eBay item page for an 18 inch fashion doll. The page says “You purchased this item on Feb 01, 2022.”]

“People as everyday theorists of their experiences” - great insight from Bill Penuel at the Crown Institute Participatory Toolkit introduction webinar.

Feeling cute today.

[A pale white woman with dark hair & blue eyes wears black cat eye glasses, a black cable knit sweater over a white dress with a black jaguar & hot pink rose print, & large silver hoop earrings. She holds a cane in one hand & phone in the other.]

We must be brave enough to look at our own academic systems, if we plan to make them just and equitable. - Kelly J. Baker, Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia

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Hello, I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just bought and set up creativityforscholars.com. If the domain name intrigues you, why not pop over and sign up for the mailing list?

Me, gathering up all my old dolls that I gave my kid so I can brush their hair: “I know - dolls.” (Oh, Clyde Bruckman. You ask such good questions.)

The concept of the body as canvas becomes more powerful if the canvas is dead. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory

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🔖 Read A Counterintuitive Nighttime Routine For The Type A Insomniac.

I love this. I’m constantly trying to Type-A-away symptoms of chronic illness and it Does Not Work.