#Brownbags

[pepperlo]

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[dissizdan]

🍕 Margherita

[nicolehewitt]

[majorgurbert]

Todays Lunchbox BrownBag Challenge, Day 4

[timberprincess]

Todays Lunchbox BrownBag Challenge, Day 6

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[fymikeness]

Todays Lunchbox BrownBag Challenge, Day 4

[cardhousedotcom]

Todays Lunchbox BrownBag Challenge, Day 17

[slightlyoutoffocusphotos]

Todays Lunchbox BrownBag Challenge, Day 6

[melivillosa]

part 03 from melissaballesteros on Vimeo.

Comparison of the storyboard with the final animation of the show Rosies`s rules that I made as a freelance for brownbag studios as a freelance storyboard artist

[eudaemaniacal]

found this in a craigslist post for a jumble sale benefitting two cancer patients and i cant decide if its more deranged to have a kraft paper bag full of (caseless?) lesbian porn or, like, D.E.B.S. before anyone gets too wise, i know its porn and thats why its brownbagged but can you like think through the mindset. the ethos. of whoever brought this to the multifamily neighborhood charity garage sale

[drdemonprince]

Hey! I was the anon who asked about autism, socialising and lying. Thanks so much for responding. I was thinking of 'deeper' lies than the polite ones - specifically, navigating a workplace environment that requires you to spend time with people who don't at all value what you value.

I teach a subject that is related to my special interests and my values, so I find it intrinsically fascinating and important. However, it's also a subject of economic value, which means the students and most of the other teachers are only interested in it as far as it lets them keep making money or make more money. I want to keep working with it, but it can be extremely painful to be around people who blatantly don't care about it the way I do.

Thank you so much for the additional context! And I definitely have thoughts on this subject, I left social psychology for much the same reason honestly.

I think one piece of advice I'll give, but which I personally was not able to follow, is to try and draw a boundary between your view of the world and your commitment to adhering to your values, and what other people think and feel. It is possible, especially in academic o educational environments, to hold fast to your values, express open disagreement with interpretations of data and theories that do not seem well supported to you, and to refuse to participate in initiatives that go against your beliefs.

In education, there's a space and a degree of tolerance for the well-read iconoclast. If you can stand to be the needle in every neoliberal's side, and just set yourself apart from your profit-motivated colleagues, both mentally and in actual behavior, you can get along fine in departments where that's a role people already anticipate somebody existing to serve. and even outside of departments like that, most schools do consider some degree of disagreement proof of their own intellectual rigor, even if many people do wind up eye rolling at you and considering you the resident communist crank or whatever.

I assume you're probably already doing a lot to fight these battles professionally, and I encourage you to continue to do so. it might just be a matter of mentally divesting from ever changing these peoples' minds and letting their comments slide off your back more. You can still create a bit of an intellectual home for yourself in your work and in the students who are challenged or supported in their thinking by your perspective.

i think there is real value in being that person, the one who bursts the bubble that everybody's on the same page ideologically and morally. i personally relish getting to be the person who states openly that what an organization is doing is ethically troubling, or who inquires openly into the unspoken assumptions that are floating around uncontested in the room. and there are diplomatic-enough ways to go about doing that without losing your job or your good standing, if you're an academic or an educator.

the other option is to remove yourself from this kind of environment -- which might already be necessary if you're at a school where the insistence upon intellectual agreement is especially punishing. that will depend a lot on what level you teach at, whether it's a public or private school, who funds it, the school's approaches to accreditation and teacher evaluation, and the place's overall attitude toward intellectual debate. but suffice to say, you definitely can find a place to teach economics where you can question your students' profit motives, expand their horizons, expose them to readings and theories their neolib instructors wouldnt, and could raise plenty of smarmy but correctly placed questions at department brownbags and speaker series' and the like.

i understand neurotypical culture deems it impolite to be a disagreeable, forever questioning communist crank, but those of us in education are some of the rare people who do have the social cachet to get away with it, and the obligation to use that cachet to move the needle.

there's already an existing social script in people's mind for the eccentric, brilliant, disagreeable professor type, and you can use that to your advantage. my personal disagreeable professor persona at work is a kind of neurotic, interior, introverted deep thinker who sits and ponders in the corner of the room and lets everyone say their peace and then stands up and delivers a pained, but on point comment synthesizing everything that's wrong with how the university is handling matters, or how the field views a topic. im also the type of person to pull my weight when it comes to obligations that serve students, but who wont agree to take on a task that i think is wrong or a waste of time and i can articulate why.

people don't interpret me as difficult or hostile at work because of the way ive engineered this persona to seem very genuine and anguished by the things i perceive to be wrong, and im not pushy, just quietly assertive, and i stand by my own boundaries even if i cant move anybody else's. that's what works for me. it's not too far from the reality so it's not a performance, just a playing up of my more earnest qualities.

what works for you will be different probably, but there are ways to make it work without having to lie or to pretend to believe something that you dont. and on days when its not worth the trouble, you can just give a slight nod of mildly puzzled thoughtfulness (not agreement) and be silent.

[pint-o-beans]

kinning the lady brownbagging DayQuil on the train

[shoval24]

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[datainteg]

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[tsailii]

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