Disability Justice and Mutual Aid Pedagogy or: How I Learned to Keep Worrying and Teach Later On
We don’t want to teach students to work themselves to death over a dollar in someone else’s pocket.
Tag: higher ed
Wildcats against “Instructional Continuity”
Rent, utilities, groceries, loan repayments, shitty housing conditions, shitty landlords: these all continue as normal.
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!
Dear Colleagues
The promise of a better future through education and agitation is a calling that no pandemic, however serious, could interrupt. We must and will persevere.
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.
Dear Students
Based on your class schedule, format, and requirements, this may look different for each of you, but it’s important that you maintain a routine.
A Week in the Life of Ole Miss: February 2019 and the Fight to Take Down the Confederate Statue
“At the University of Mississippi, the incompetence and unwillingness of the administration to address Confederate symbols further entrenches white supremacy. It is, as they say, a feature and not a bug.”
The Cocking Affair: UGA’s Commitment to White Supremacy
“Cocking accepted his job offer by telegram in September of 1937. A year and a half later, Dean Cocking held a staff meeting so controversial that it led to the state revoking UGA’s accreditation and mobs burning the governor in effigy.”
Buying Space, Policing Race
How Virginia Commonwealth University’s efforts to expand by buying up property in Richmond and creating a highly-policed bus route through historically Black neighborhoods has contributed to White Supremacy.
Diversify Academia: A Pledge
We hope, by publishing a pledge and a public list of those who have taken it, to pressure academic institutions and societies to better reflect both the diverse nature of existing scholarship and to foster a more inclusive profession that embraces the diversity of our communities worldwide.
The Activist History Review 