This is literally Maus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning comic made by a Jewish writer based on experiences of his father, a Holocaust survivor. Maree’s tweet is probably the dumbest thing I’ve seen in ages.
I’m an atheist but I really value it when my religious friends pray for me because it’s incredibly meaningful to them, and these takes are just tedious and expose a simple, unimaginative mind.
Also saying that pointing out that porn actors’ bodies set unrealistic expectations is “dehumanising” may sound like a good argument, but prepare for it to be used against you if you decide to raise the same issue with the modelling industry or Hollywood.
Hi, my name is Anna. I am starting a PhD in Law at the University of Cambridge, where I’ll be focusing on
#EvilLaw
in theory & practice. I have had mental health difficulties for ~6 years, but only recently diagnosed with Bipolar disorder
#DEHEM21
#DEHEMRollCall
Some people dislike ‘Latinx’ as a new word. But at some point in human history there were no words. Now there are words. Someone invented them. This process continues.
I’ve never liked Harry Potter. I didn’t even finish the first book. Potter is an English schoolboy genius living in a largely male, white fairytale land that looks like Oxbridge (for the elite). He’s a little patriarch that resorts to magic & violence to rule.
Have just officially accepted my offer from the University of Cambridge. I’ll be doing a PhD in Law, specialising in Jurisprudence, under the supervision of Dr Lars Vinx. My thesis would be entitled “Towards a Jurisprudence of Evil Law”.
SCOOP: Princeton is planning to fire one of the most distinguished classics professors in the country, Joshua Katz, after his criticism of the school’s racial politics made him the target of student protests and multiple university investigations. 🧵
I’m really really mad. My friend got chased off Twitter by more senior people in her field because she expressed discomfort at someone claiming that all saints were horny or something like that.
One of my strongest education opinions is that Britain should borrow from Eastern Europe and introduce Olympiads (apart from Maths and Science ones) as an outlet for smart and nerdy kids who want to be challenged.
@neuroeden
@C_Pley
@DrNoMxMo
You really shouldn’t post your private communication with said student online to laugh at, especially when it concerns something so delicate. Come on, it’s Basic Decency 101.
Parents and friends deserve sensitivity at this time, but their proposals do not. The murderers were known violent drug addicts, whose expulsion from school (reversed for some reason) might have saved Ghey's life. The laws exist, we just need people interested in enforcing them.
The thing about Derry Girls is how does Jenny Joyce have so much social clout??? I was (and still am) a total Jenny Joyce and I was (and still am) universally hated what’s her secret
The “what can a 50 year old talk about with a 19 year old” line in the age gap discourse is so silly, because there is quite a lot actually. Young women are not children.
Reached my dissertation target word count. Doesn’t mean a lot because I still have to add some stuff to the draft and massively edit it, but I’m nevertheless pretty chuffed.
8 months ago I tried to overdose because I got rejected from the Harvard SJD, the second doctoral program I applied to last year (don’t worry - I was quite crap at it so didn’t even feel anything). Now I have offers from Oxford and Cambridge to do the same research project.
@ALEX__SHANN
Меня травили с начальных классов за внешность и за то, что я слишком переживала из-за оценок. В итоге сделала неплохую академическую карьеру 😎 А на фото я в 15, видимо, мои обидчики были слепыми.
@norkmarash
Ничего не знаю об этих людях кроме того, что читала в Твиттере, но лгать родному человеку неправильно, и очень странно это защищать, прикрываясь феминизмом. Просто моё мерзкое мнение.
Me to my students: don’t worry if you don’t get it on the first try, you are doing very well, btw take some rest and have some fun
Me to myself: the beatings will continue until morale improves
You don’t understand - some war criminals are so bad that hanging is not enough of a punishment. Instead, they are being forced to have a polite dinner with Jason Stanley…
Guys. Guys. I have just been awarded the Humane Studies fellowship
@TheIHS
! It’s the first time I’m getting any kind of funding - so happy and grateful that my research was finally judged as worthy of support.
#IHSFunded
I always point out unfair criticisms of Jordan Peterson (or anyone else), but I don’t see the point of him prefacing The Gulag Archipelago. This opportunity could’ve been given to one of many scholars specialising in the Soviet Union, whose scholarship is already vastly ignored.
I hate the notion that for something in education/academia to be valuable means that it’s immediately practically applicable. Knowledge is not an instrumental good but important for its own sake.
My project, 'Towards the Jurisprudence of Evil Law', will focus on how legality can serve evil regimes, both in theory and using three historical case studies - Stalin's Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and slavery in the United States
don’t want to be too dramatic but I was so devastated when I got rejected from PhDs last year I contemplated taking my own life, and nothing can compare to seeing that there is future for me in academia after all
I’ve kept it off main for the most part but I’m really unwell mentally and it’s particularly crushing since I’m at the stage I always wanted to be academically and I ought to be thriving but I’m not.
I recognise that I’m very fortunate and there are way worse places to be stranded in than Cambridge, but it just started to dawn on me that I don’t know when I’ll be able to return back home.
2018, in hospital after screwing up my undergrad exams | 2022, at my birthday party with my (wonderful) supervisor after finishing the 1st year of my PhD
Hot take but a lot of anti-academia sentiment probably stems from a belief that work should be miserable and whoever enjoys what they are doing is a “hobbyist”. Just like at school it’s considered weird if you like studying. Intellectual pursuit is only a means to an end.