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assistant professor | ethnographer of da black south | wrote vibe | Patricia’s son | ΚΑΨ

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Corey J. Miles
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I once heard @tressiemcphd say that the best scholars are good storytellers. All of my favorite sociologists were ones who wrote the South. I wanted to follow in that tradition & use storytelling to bear witness on NC to use words honestly, beautifully .
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When I graduated high school my mama went to a rent-to-own store and got a computer so I could go to college with a laptop. Over the course of her payments she ended up paying $2400 for a $700 laptop. Being poor is expensive & college isn’t the equalizer we think it is.
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Just realized my mom doesn’t know what my PhD is in, she just tells people I’m a doctor. I’m over here writing about hip-hop and she got the family thinking I’m doing surgeries 😂😂😂
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this so racist even the white people uncomfortable
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I didn’t realize how poor I was until I got a good job. Education and a middle class salary can not undo the long term economic and emotional damage of living most of your life in poverty.
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I respect people who can save money by eating at home. If I have a bad day at work, I’m picking up food on the way home. If I have a good day at work, I’m picking up food to celebrate. If I make my own lunch, I’m picking up food for dinner since I already saved money on lunch.
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Things white people think Black people get because of race: College admission Scholarships Athletic ability Things white people think have nothing to do with race: Police brutality Incarceration Income inequality Health care disparities Employment Selective colorblindess
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Y’all be praising black excellence but I support black aight-ness. We don’t need to be excellent to be loved, celebrated, and valued. Being aight is good enough.
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While getting my PhD a lot of the people I passed on campus that looked like me were groundskeepers, housekeepers, & other service staff. The generous statements they gave me on my good & bad days lifted my spirits in ways they will never know. They were part of my village.
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As a person with a PhD I’m often asked ‘what do their parents do?’Whenever I answer with clean white folks homes & work in a factory, I always notice their pause & I’m reminded that folks who write & teach about poor folk have little experience with them.
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Y’all dont like angry black women because yall aint built meaningful relationships with BW. When I needed special testing in school it was an angry black woman that demanded it, when doctors didnt know why I was sick angry black women made them figure it out. Anger kept me alive
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You ain’t seen diversity until you seen the Facebook timeline of someone who grew up in the hood and went to grad school. My posts be having scammers debating medical doctors and my aunty posting a heart under it.
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If a white person has never called you racist before then you aren’t anti-racist enough.
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How might we understand mourning, when the event has yet to end? - Saidiya Hartman
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Corey J. Miles
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I just read an article that completely shaped the future of my research, so I googled the author & found out they are an undergraduate student of color. Whatever stage of your career you are at know that your work and voice matters and will shape lives.
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Grad school needs to be less of training folks to always have the hottest or best take and more of positioning people to sit in community and struggle with ideas, problems, & not knowing.
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Grad students of color are never just grad students. We mentor undergrads of color. We fight the oppressive structures of our departments. We get called to do diversity work when the few faculty of color have been drained.
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My point isn’t that education can’t lead to a different life, but rather for us to interrogate the assumption that we have an educational system designed to support social mobility.
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Me: It ain't my job to teach white people about racism. Also Me: Accepts position as Assistant Professor of Race & Ethnicity at PWI.
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We need to talk more about how education & increased income alone dont fix the psychological violence of poverty. After graduating & securing a job I still get anxious buying a meal over $10, I get nervous buying a $20 book. Purchases normal to my colleagues I dont feel I deserve
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“I shop like my mama, I buy my coats in the summertime” I love black folks from the south 😂
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This is the start of Keon Coleman's first press conference as a member of the Buffalo Bills. Covering this man is going to be a real treat. #BillsMafia @WKBW
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I’m tired of universities winning diversity awards because of the initiatives and organizations started by students and faculty of color to combat marginalization on campus. Change on university campuses is rarely from institutional benevolence but labor by the most marginalized.
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Confession: if we follow each other, when I teach your work I tell my students we are friends to seem cool.
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I don’t have my students call me doctor for my ego, but for theirs. They deserve to know that Black women get PhDs and love to work with Black students. They deserve to know that we succeed. ~A Black Woman HBCU Professor
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I did my entire schooling from headstart to PhD in public institutions. I never knew how rare this was for academics until I got my job post PhD. Shoutout to my public school folks!
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I am beyond privileged because of my degrees, but formal education has been fantasized as an equalizer and employed as a liberal solution to structural issues that extend beyond each of us.
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Universities want to treat students like customers until its time to give out refunds for poor products.
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My family insist that academia is a cult that starts by separating you from family. They question why I don’t get paid when I publish, why I pay to go to a conference & present my work, & why I make so little with advanced degrees when I could make more doing something else.
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For my students final they submit a playlist with 5 songs that I should listen to while grading their final paper. The playlist sets the vibe for how I engage the work & attempts to capture the nonwordness of thoughts, feelings, & arguments that our thinking often relies on.
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Black entrepreneur single father, black feminist daughter, genius son; one of the most progressive and underrated shows in the 90's.
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It is foolish to think white folks are not aware of the system they created.
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PhDs & graduate students are facing imposter syndrome & contemplating their worth to the academy, and undergraduate depression & anxiety is rapidly increasing. We have created an educational structure where knowledge is produced out of uncertainty & stress; this is not healthy.
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My dissertation advisor drove over 5 hours to give me his condolences in person when he found out my mother passed. In our 3 minute conversation I remembered that his acts of care were the most important parts of his mentorship.
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Corey J. Miles
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In academia your to-do list is a never ending cycle and at times it’s difficult to judge progress. Writing a paragraph is progress. Reading 10 pages is progress. Taking a break is progress. Surviving is progress.
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Given the culture of academia is organized around overworking and productivity we are only comfortable resting after we get exhausted. Rest is NOT a reward. It is a mandatory part of life that shouldn’t be conditional. We have to prioritize our selves better.
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All white department asking for a diversity statement in their job post: 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩
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Black people doing relatively well in violent anti-Black structures does not mean those structures aren’t any less violent or anti-Black. Our persistence in forcing structures to bend, is not their benevolence.
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affirmative action wasn't filling colleges with folks of color, that ain't the issue. the issue is what it signals - that structurally our systems are unequal. this is part of a larger project to undermine any idea that suggests racism is built into the design of this country
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Universities responded to critiques of having no diversity on panels by putting one POC on a panel to fend for their self in a sea of white panelists, a white audience, and white questions.
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A university will hire you to write and teach about a community with no intention of ever making that university safe for that community.
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If you think students are going to look back on Spring 2020 and remember your zoom lectures you are fooling yourself. They will remember how you handled the transition. They will remember your compassion. They will remember moments of healing.
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Corey J. Miles
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So much advice about how to be successful in academia boils down to denying yourself joy. I ain’t here for any of it.
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Just because your work doesn’t easily translate to policy recommendations does not mean it is not extremely needed at this moment, mainly because we can’t legislate ourself out of this crisis. We need work that makes us think, feel, and dream otherwise. Find what’s past policy.
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When I’m lecturing and the entire class randomly starts writing in my mind I’m like, “Oh shit, did I say something important”.
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A lot of people think first gen college status is about lack of resources & mentorship , but it’s so much more. It’s carrying the weight of the sacrifices made for you to be in a place not meant for you & having to succeed for fam even though they don’t know the violence their.
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@theyoungjoo One of the worst!!!
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When someone can see your vision.
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Corey J. Miles
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Undergrads, grad students, & faculty members of color go into the school year knowing there will be times where we will have to put our education, job, & future in jeopardy to stand-up against a violent structure. Our presence is bigger than representation, it’s survival.
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The culture around publish or perish has been violent not only to academics, but the communities we write about. If our intellectual obligation is to write a lot, rather than give ideas care, time, and development then we deprive real people of the best we could offer.
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Black success doesn't mean racism is decreasing but signifies our ability to be magic despite being in a system designed for us to fail.
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Twitter has created a space for academics of color to link and engage each other in ways the university is unwilling or unable to. It has shown me that undoubtedly there are people doing similar work as me, but the university has never created a space for me to read or hear them.
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Being a first gen student is this dialectic of having your family emotionally praise & celebrate every aspect of your career, while they also don’t get how much of academia is rejection, so when you succeed they take it as a given because to them you are the brightest out there.
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One of my students came to me after class and he wants to change his major to Sociology, but will only do it if I stay at the university for his four years. Even students know that student success depends on faculty members making a department home. Create more TT positions.
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Don’t underestimate the ways universities profit off of intellectual radicalism and activism. They love it on campus in the context of publications and workshops as long as it isn’t directed at challenging the structure of the university itself.
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When I first got to grad school I sat in my office & cried because I thought I couldn’t do the work, and I listened to Biggie “Juicy” to get through it. Today I’m giving an academic job talk about frameworks to understand the affective benefits of hip-hop.
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White people center their selves in everything except conversations about white supremacy.
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I was playing Knuck if you Buck to open up my class today and a white faculty member shut the door to my class while it was playing. Who should I contact, the NAACP or the ACLU?
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For first gen college students education is a way to bring economic security to our families. When we pursue academia we have major moments of guilt thinking about how so many sacrificed for us but we can’t contribute financially because of the financial uncertainty in academia.
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The person who was the most tender with me was angry a lot, I want to develop a grammar to understand it.
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My office hours get no love so I started going to the student center to grade and answer emails. Conversations with students in the student center flow differently than ones in my office. We should dismantle the idea that some spaces are for students & others faculty.
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My fav grad school memory is when the graduation speaker had to step aside so my advisor could come up & award me my PhD at graduation because my dissertation title had nigga in it. He rode for me when they wanted to edit my title.
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This is just me venting about missing my mama. I was a bad kid and made her angry a lot, but the way she navigated it was beautiful. I miss our good times but I even miss when we were angry at each other.
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When you grow up poor you develop unique standards to measure economic status. I knew if I ever got a refrigerator with an ice-maker on the door, then I made it.
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When scholars and professionals of color post their accomplishments we must remember these people are succeeding in structures organized for their failure. The accomplishment it self shows their brilliance, achieving it in the face of marginalization shows they have purpose.
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@KaelanSays I think the benefits are real, but I question the ways in which a lot of things academia frame as sacrifice is really the reproduction of oppression. I love my work, but also know the system needs change.
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There is no scholar whose work doesn’t engage race. Since whiteness has been marked as normative white scholars have not only generalized their experiences to the world but reduced the work of scholars who focus on race to identity work, not legitimate knowledge and theory.
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My failure CV past 5 years: Got denied by 3 out of 5 Phd programs Got denied by 15+ fellowships 3 papers I invested in got turned down for publication Got denied for every damn postdoc I applied to Got denied for 40+ faculty positions This failure in no way reflects my value
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As a person who grew up in the projects & got a PhD, I notice that hood culture can get appropriated in a way that middle class can’t. Middle class folks fuck up hood language all the time but if a person from the hood messes up conventional English y’all think we illiterate.
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What’s the best way for me to put “Kimberlé Crenshaw liked one of my tweets” on my CV and Tenure and Promotion packet?
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@jcrawfordtv There is, you are right. But I want to sit with anger. Anger can be productive, anger can be loving. Anger makes room for conversations other emotions can’t hold.
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PhD students make sure you follow and connect with other PhD students up here to support each other. In 3-5 years we will be the faculty members inviting speakers to campus, on search committees, & looking for book collabs. We can break the competitive nature of academia.
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Being a great grad student in many ways made me a bad writer. Grad school made me feel I had to know every scholar so I over cite to compensate. We try to convince the reader that we have something to say rather than saying it. We have to find the voice grad school tried to kill.
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I noticed when I tell academics that I was raised by a teenage mom and we lived in the projects on Section 8 and that close family members are incarcerated they engage me differently. It’s almost as if they kinda realize that some of us have a personal stake in the work we do.
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I am humbled to announce that I have accepted a joint appointment in the Sociology department & the Africana Studies program at Tulane University. I look forward to working in community with amazing faculty, students, and community members. My Morgan family will truly be missed.
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When I got to graduate school I tried to mask my southern slang with academic jargon and I thought professional attire could hide the scars of poverty. Not knowing that these pieces of me the academy made me feel shame for, would lead me to my purpose & motivate me to finish.
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Ever had a conversation with a person & their opinion is so misinformed that you would have to give a whole history lesson before you could even state your point because they don’t have a frame to understand it, & you realize even that will not be enough so you just say “cool”.
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I could have 3 PhDs, don’t come up to me and have a conversation using words like “ontological” or “metaphysical”. I’m just going to smile and nod my head, and hit you with, “that’s what up”.
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Academia is a space where the work is continuous, but milestones are few and far between. You have to celebrate progress that doesn’t come in the form of a milestone. Asking for help is progress, writing a paragraph is progress, finding inspiration to keep going is progress.
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There should be a graduate course for grad students of color where they talk about all the wild stuff that’s said in their other classes. They can bond, talk about stratigies of survival, & have “real” conversations with faulty of color.
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Universities stop hiring faculty of color to do your social justice and diversity work and not provide a safe space for them to engage in that type of work. We are the ones seen as agitators on campus, while ya'll use our suffering as a sign of your supposedly inclusive values.
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When white folks made it illegal for black ppl to read, elected not to make college free, based their K-12 educational system on the economic background of parents, they told you everything you need to know about their understanding of education. Merit has nothing to do with it.
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Random white person to me a sociologist of race: If racism didn't exist you wouldn't have job. Me: Naw, if racism didn't exist ya'll mediocre white people wouldn't have a job.
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The success of people of color does not mean institutions are being less oppressive. Our success speaks to our purpose, hard work, and dedication; it does not imply that the structures we succeed in help facilitate or even want that success.
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Someone make a dating app for grad students where our bio has research interests, things we do to take our mind off graduate work, and student loan debt amount.
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When the social justice hire starts doing social justice work on campus.
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@eugenejohnson_ I’m Corey, I have a PhD in Sociology/Africana Studies from Virginia Tech. I study how Black Americans use hood aesthetics and politics to reposition the importance of mainstream institutions to reimagine citizenship, belonging, and Black subjectivity.
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academia attempts to kill every piece of your desire to be creative, imaginative, and deal with the messiness of human life. it really just makes you get to a point where you write bullshit articles so you can keep getting a paycheck.
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I have random moments where I forget I completed my PhD and get momentarily anxious about finishing and submitting my dissertation.
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I didn’t spend $100,000 on 3 degrees to teach white people on social media how to be less oppressive. But, if you put a dent in those student loans I will consider it.
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Academia not only takes time & energy from family & other passions, but leaves us so mentally tired that when we aren’t working we can’t fully enjoy other parts of our life. Self care isn’t just taking time away from work, but knowing you don’t have to be exhausted to do it.
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After an emotional roller coaster of a summer I’m happy to announce that I will be returning to my alma mater Morgan State University and joining the faculty in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
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Low income first gen students live with the unrealistic expectation to be perfect, because society not only forces them to but blames their failure on their imperfection; but when they do succeed in academia their triumph is appropriated as a sign of an inclusive environment.
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My syllabus includes unlearning objectives because they call into question the foundation of learning. It forces us to not only grapple with what we have learned, but the assumption that learning is an inherently good linear process. To know certain things is to un-know others.
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A lot of folks thought a few days off last week would rejuvenate us, but all it did was show us how exhausted we really are. Often we don’t truly know how drained we are until we rest. Care and rest during a pandemic is an important form of productivity.
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Academia forces us to buy into the idea that if we are not exhausted then we havent worked as hard as we could. Since there is always more that can be done we never fully feel at rest. I push back against the idea that I have to do as much as I am physically able to be successful
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Today I retracted an accepted paper because it was under review so long that my ideas changed. The publish or perish framework almost stopped me me from making this move. I only want tenure if it comes from words I fully believe will be of service.
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White terrorism is not due to a bad day, but hundreds of years of history legitimatizing white men’s inalienable right to violence.
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Throughout my PhD journey I have had scholars of color on Twitter celebrate my wins and push me through my losses more than most in my department. Never underestimate the power of people of color coming together purposefully.
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the assumption here is that the most qualified person is always white. It lets me know that most white people have no idea what people of color go through because generally POC hired are more qualified than the white people they beat out. DEI benefits businesses more than POC
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@ScottAdamsSays Current DEI implementation harms people of color the most. When used to promote unqualified individuals, people then (falsely) assume that all people of color in positions are not qualified. This does great harm to the thousands of highly trained, hard working, competent…
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I didn’t really negotiate my grad school offer, first TT job, or book contract, I was just excited that someone valued my work. When we dont place a premium on ourselves the only one who benefits is institutions. We cant wait for institutional acceptance to see our own importance
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Colombia’s treatment of its students shows that universities are not organized for intellectual & political rigor nor care; but rather corporations that serve the interest of elites. Young people should not be treated like this.
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