Is that the threshold now? I have to stay with you after you shoot yourself on the face??? Because I am gonna be real, that feels like an exit point.
Until this moment I would have felt safe saying, “yes, my last relationship ended after he shot himself in the in the face.” I would have thought everyone hearing that would nod in empathy.
I am not taking care of you if you shoot yourself in the face. I’m just going to get that out there.
If you shot yourself in the face, I can never fall asleep in the car when you’re driving. And I always fall asleep. One of us can’t change and it’s me.
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I mean this is epic. It’s a top tier mentee lesson, for sure: “Have your principles, but also read more than one book.”
The way that whole franchise fell apart after Boseman’s death is kind of sad. It all feels like a very specific Obama fueled delusion now. I can barely remember the mania.
This week in the newsletter, I wrap up a three week series on what the hell is Sinema wearing. We covered speech acts, performance, pinkwashing, fitness morality, racism, and social class. Power is everyday.
This week’s issue — like previous issues — features a sociologist. This time it is Ashley Mears. The issue has one of the sickest sociological burns I have ever heard. Fave when you find it.
I spent about five years on the road talking to institutions, media, faculty, students about how tertiary “partners” like 2U brought the #LowerEd model into not-for-profit universities. I got tired. Money talks.
I had to tell my own institution that I would not partner with third-party vendors to create online graduate degrees. Because I had, uh, written a book called Lower Ed.
In that work and across those travels I saw no appetite for understanding how this works. The arrogance of elite institutions where leadership seemed to really believe they were elite enough that data did not apply to them was a real lesson for me.
This is Fran. She administered my booster shot. It took approximately one thousand hours because Fran has had an interesting life & we had to talk about it!
Fran is a midwife! She learned the craft from Sister Angela, was friends with Dorothea Lange and helped start the Brooklyn Women’s Ctr. She has practiced midwifery all over the world: Darfur, Saudia Arabia, Afghanistan.
Fran got tired of sitting on the sidelines, post-retirement so she is back out here, giving the vaccine first as a volunteer and now with CVS. The tables at CVS are a bit too high so Fran brought in her ironing board and that’s her command station.