tw/ Mess and Messiness
This week James and Nic have a few challenging conversations and revisit some ghosts of grad school past. And girl, it gets a bit messy. Hopefully messy in a productive way, but time will have to tell on that one. We think about the politics of self-promotion, the importance of being mindful of those around (and more importantly below) you, and why it always feels so weird to air dirty laundry, even though we know everybody's got some.
From there we take some time to think through the continued (increasing?) bad faith attacks on higher education from politicians and what it means for those of us trying to do the work while we revisit the moral imperative to rethink student loan debt/college affordability. Also did you know that you used to be able to get tenured at **institution redacted** with ONE DAMN ARTICLE! The nerve of this place.
Also SHOUT OUT to the newly minted Doctors in your life, and to the special one in ours, Dr. Ariel Rawson!
Last thing, send us an email sometime: lotjpod@gmail.com We'd love your book recommendations, but honestly it's also just cool to hear what you think!
Further Reading:
James Dawson, Idaho Governor Signs Bill to Ban Critical Race Theory in Schools, NPR
Orin Kerr, Justice Breyer Getting Tenure with One Article at Harvard Law, Twitter
CBS New York, So Long Snow Days
John Ellis, Sorry Professor, We're Cutting You Off, Wall Street Journal
What We're Reading:
Andrew J. Jolivétte, Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community
Special Shoutout: Andreá N. William, Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction
