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“Writing goals” have never worked for how I write. I’ve spent two months reading and reading and thinking through my next dissertation chapter without writing at all.Then, in the shower

In their essay "Is Latino/a Identity a Racial Identity?" Linda Martín Alcoff cites philosopher Ofelia Schutte who argues that Latinx identity "may be a means to disaffiliate us from our

IMO, grad workers get nothing out of—and might even be put at risk by—writing Book Reviews. We don’t get paid, they don’t make CV’s that much more competitive, there’s no

When did we start talking about race as something we identify with as opposed to a system that maps onto us and shapes conditions of possibility for individuals, communities, and

Organizing something—a strike, a sickout, a boycott—has to account for, and create systems that protect, your most vulnerable members. Otherwise privileged members will get speaking tours at the end of

There were a few weeks in 2016 where I said Hillary and Trump were two sides of the same coin. I didn’t have the language to name that the neoliberal

A few years ago, a scholar of color reflected on being interviewed for a new position. White scholars questioned why they moved across several institutions in a short period of

I didn’t know there was a distinction between PhD “Student” and PhD “Candidate” until I kept getting policed by white academics who reminded me I was a “student.”I still find

Hamilton is artistically incredible. It sucks you in. It's innovative. It builds on decades of hip-hop and throws it squarely in a place—the theater—where hip-hop has been ignored. That's why

Important in this convo is how race and class informed the reception of Espiritismo in Puerto Rico versus Santeria: in short, historically, white, upper class folks were allowed to be

What if Lin Manuel made a play about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution instead of Hamilton? They were contemporaries, died pretty close to one another. The former led a

I agree with students who want tuition adjusted/lowered based on going online. I *also* agree with faculty who say their salaries should not be lowered because teaching online is 10x