Wildcats against “Instructional Continuity”
Rent, utilities, groceries, loan repayments, shitty housing conditions, shitty landlords: these all continue as normal.
Tag: graduate students
How to Be a Wildcat
All people deserve the opportunity to teach and learn in the community, not just those whose family can subsidize their graduate education. Until then, we strike!
The COVID Cliff: Underfunded Graduate Workers in Crisis
Imagine that degree of disconnect—urging employees who have to work several jobs and find external support just to make ends meet to set up a rainy day fund. Every day is rainy for us.
Students as Workers and the 2019 Québec Student Strike
On how the 2019 Québec Student Strike has made it possible for a new generation to conceive of study itself as a form of intellectual labor deserving of wages and suitable working conditions.
Holiday Hospitality and the Virtues of Academic Commiseration
Staying with Prexy in Chicago reenergized me. I felt better about my own scholarship, and wanted to continue it. Moreover, I determined to start drawing more connections to the injustices I saw in the present.
Review: Jane the Virgin and #MeTooPhD
It’s not every day that a CW drama features a storyline about power dynamics and romantic relationships in academia, but Jane the Virgin did just that in its March 2, 2018 episode “Chapter 75.”
