“I am forced to live in a parallel world to the one I wanted to live in, where I could have been a physicist without also constantly being asked to speak on or attempt to compensate for the persistent racism of institutions.”
Academia
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He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?
Dan-el Padilla Peralta “believes that classics is so entangled with white supremacy as to be inseparable from it.”
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The True Story of Jess Krug, the White Professor Who Posed as Black for Years—Until It All Blew Up Last Fall
“She fabricated harrowing personal backstories, peddled gross caricatures, and spoke from perspectives she had no right to claim. And nobody stopped her.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quote Posts, Quotes
‘Writing Was a Way to Have My Say’: An Interview with Author Sejal Shah
“I didn’t know at first what I was doing. I was just trying to represent the inside of the feeling.”
Posted inNonfiction
Jersey Girl
Too Japanese for Americans and too American for the Japanese, one New Jersey native traces the influence of racism on her parents’ careers and her own life.
Posted inBooks, Highlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
If Following McMillan Cottom and Gay on Twitter Isn’t Enough, Here You Go
More of this sort of thing, thanks.
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The Big Lie
How the story of an ambitious chemistry professor in Colorado who forged a letter and lost everything.
Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Quotes
Graduate School is Wonderful and We Are All Very, Very Happy
Avital Ronell is both product and perpetuator of an abusive academy.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Drowning In a River of Murky Thought
After his high school friend drowns, a young academic’s mind leads him down a dark path of conspiratorial explanations.
Posted inCollege, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
Grieving the Academic Life
Grieving after giving up on academic life.