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I need every TT/tenured faculty member to understand that the difference between you and me is about more than just salary disparity: being contingent faculty robs us of adulthood, not just as scholars, but as human beings.
It's more than not being able to buy a house or having time to write my book, both things I would very much like to do one day. It's more than not having my own graduate students or a book budget.
I don't have children because I don't have the kind of job security that makes adoption agencies say "yes, give this nice, responsible lady a small human."
I don’t know how to continue building a life for myself when I don’t know what state or country I’m going to be living in next year.
TT and tenured faculty: our labor makes it possible for you have the teaching load that enables you to write the books that win the awards and give the lectures that come with plane tickets and honoraria.
New and newly-hired tenure-track faculty: Congratulations, you are about to profit from a system that steals from your colleagues. What are you going to do about it?
If your advocacy for anti-racist, anti-queer, anti-trans, and misogynist scholarship stops before it reaches contingent faculty, it is meaningless.
