The Academy operates like a corporation, and like every corporation it will work hard to maintain its facade of diversity.
You’re not doing it for the money, but you’re making it impossible for me to earn a living.
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How to Be Poor
When we berate the poor for their “waste” or, for that matter, the rich for their “excess,” we are simply engaging in personalised narratives that do nothing to explain or even reveal the larger systems of power at work.
What is it about writing that we don’t see it as something that deserves compensation as labour? And why do we think that it’s okay to pay millionaires and billionaires with our labor instead of demanding that they pay us?
This is not a woman who was hit hard by the taxes but, rather, someone angry that she had to pay them in the first place.
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Weekly Roundup: November 22
Power couples are scum multiplied into two.
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Weekly Roundup: November 11, 2015
“We ought to complicate academic freedom even as we vigorously defend it.”
