Thread by @MsEntropy

I happen to fit some of those categories also, so don’t assume or project.

But since the publication who tweeted this article is dedicated to higher education, and the article addresses that context, that’s why I’m commenting on that particular aspect of the pandemic.

https://twitter.com/kawaiilovesarah/status/1420429471195226114

And, because of factors my critic above mentions - like homelessness, poverty, and related marginalization mentioned and not mentioned):

I wouldn’t even alive today, let alone an academic, or able to help others, without mentors who took the time to care.

And that’s the POINT.

As you know from my thread, I’m clearly not the same as “higher education.”

I was homeless in high school, from a family too poor to afford trailer doors, so I’m aware of the dire state of the true working class.

Your criticisms are why I do what I do. And that’s the point.

https://twitter.com/kawaiilovesarah/status/1420432059516981253

My entire life’s purpose is about giving everything I have to “everyone who never made it out.”

I never said - and don’t think - I “deserve” it. I live to pay forward mentorship I accidentally received.

You’re wrongly projecting the worst intentions. So have a good day.

https://twitter.com/kawaiilovesarah/status/1420432734439231488

I’ll be generous, and assume this person didn’t actually read the thread - but instead decided to (completely inaccurately) project the worst possible of intentions on the first Tweet.

So, for others: read the entire thread; this clearly isn’t about me.

#AcademicTwitter

https://twitter.com/msentropy/status/1420373873065746442

I’m so irritated. I understand bitterness towards privileged elites, but how someone could read that thread and accuse me of ignoring “those who never made it out” and “valorizing myself” — while also expecting me to fix the whole system, with no power or job — is beyond me.

It’s not “celebrating myself” to speak facts on why my unemployment is an example of the problems in higher education, especially because the whole point is:

I’m in higher ed to help other people, above all students, “get out.”

Without a job, I can’t help anyone - even me.

Logging off to exorcise my frustration through exercise.

Demand higher education reforms for the COVID era. And demand them now.

Whether you recognize it or not, a collective better future depends on them: for all of us.

#YallaBye

https://twitter.com/msentropy/status/1420440404294393859

Here's another incredible former student - and (again) one so genuinely kind she's focusing on me here when:

I'm not the issue here. The students this system fails, through screwing over faculty, ARE the issue.

Student like Sarah - the reason I'm here.

https://twitter.com/saraherickson57/status/1420501677417902086?s=20

Justine is another former (and DREAM) student. She’s taught me more than I can say.

And she’s yet another brilliant young mind who higher education is failing, with the heart to keep fighting.

Academic New Deal and higher ed reform for the COVID era — NOW.

#AcademicTwitter

https://twitter.com/jyiyihu/status/1420429640032788490