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[ID: tweet by @/DrJonathanRose “If your proposed response to “systemic” or “institutional” discrimination focuses on modifying individual behaviors, then you do not understand the meaning of systemic or institutional.” ]

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I saw this on Twitter and I should share this.

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BURN THE WHOLE CANON DOWN / Kat Stratford is the only white feminist I love 💕

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Me talking to Foucault during witching hour

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my response to end-of-semester evaluations that say i’m too hostile to conservative students 😘

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when my advisor asks why i didn’t discuss a particular theory

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me, filling up my tupperware at department happy hours and promptly leaving

#me at family gatherings

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On Monday, students at Harvard held a sit-in to protest the tenure denial of Latina professor Lorgia García Peña and demanding an ethnics studies program.

According to student newspaper The Harvard Crimson, about 50 students joined the demonstration at the University Hall. Demonstrators took over the facility for 48 minutes, each minute representing the years that students at the Ivy League have been calling for a formalized ethnic studies program.

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Writing Papers in Grad School:

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writing

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instagram.com/traitspourtraits

“Between the wage gap, the domestic work (which includes more than you think), the poorly paid care jobs, and so much more! The amount of unpaid work is huge… I listened to a podcast on mental workload and unpaid work and it reminded me of a part of Naomi Wolf’s “The beauty myth”: “The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn’t do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent of the gross national product."” 

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i love it when you’re reading an article that came out let’s say 5-10 years ago, and the author references (Smith and Jones, forthcoming)…and then you look and Smith and Jones STILL hasn’t been published.