I voted last time with little fanfare BC I didn’t feel particularly moved. I expected interest convergence x neoliberalist norms… but we are rly next level reaping the sexism folx sowed. Elizabeth Warren, most recommended by Black women, was right there. Y’all don’t listen.
With respect to the Khive folx, many of us knew she didn’t stand a chance. AND there were some valid critiques.
But Elizabeth Warren was light years ahead of the entire grid. It wasn’t even close.
I don’t know that anyone has benefitted more from B.O. adjacency more than than Biden.
I don’t think this admin is useful.
But they’re just useful enough in terms of LGBT rights, abortion, etc. that I will again vote for them with little fanfare if no one mounts against them.
And they’re probably gonna get creamed. And they will have earned it.
The suffering is the point.
And every day I am glad I will never bring a child into this cruel ass world. That the suffering ends with me.
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I feel this thread. One of the reasons I give blanket extensions is BC I’m the only Black woman in my dept. I get enough misogynoir in my teaching evals, I’m not about to add on this. So I understand.
It does make even more work for me later, so I give little to no feedback.
I will say, I find these conversations cringe because some students never give faculty any grace. They don’t care.
Part of these #AcademicTwitter convos around extensions, ethics of care, etc. need to consider how students back faculty (esp. w/ marginalized IDs) into corners.
Reciprocity is a real thing. And I understand power dynamics. Yes.
And yet, when students ask for extensions and we grant them, sometimes the same student will say “took too long to give feedback” on the eval.
If you think having the means to support your child (adult or not) but letting them live on the streets is “tough love,” you don’t deserve kids.
I truly hate anyone who can show disdain towards a life they created *without the input* of said person. We didn’t ask to be born.
We are living in times of extreme wealth inequality. Extreme food and housing insecurity to match. And you think tough love is what folks need?
18 years is just a start. It’s only a piece of what you owe your kids. And for someone who has borderline limitless wealth? Plz.
This isn’t a discussion about a struggling family who can’t afford to help. And even if it were, parental support is not solely about money. You can’t, with all your resources, connect your kid to services? And for the sake of your grandkids?
I am seeing a massive number of higher ed jobs with salaries under 30,000.
It’s 2021.
Everything costs more generally but even more so BC of the panoramic.
Has anyone considered how completely unethical it is to offer this substandard salary generally but especially now??
The worse part is, some of the salaries *for full-time employment* are similar to those of graduate students who only work part-time AND report they can't afford to live off these salaries?
The burden and disparities this is and will continue to cause higher ed are profound.
For one, most first-gen and low-income graduates cannot afford to exist with these salaries when they have no social safety net. That means your applicant pool will be full of people who can afford to take a low salary for "experience" because they have other resources.
You know what’s funny about this? Many men *sings* love to make babies because they know it’s socially acceptable for them to do the bare minimum work or none at all.
When I was in my 20s and still undecided about kids, I laid my cards on the table for the men I seriously dated—
When I laid out my expectations for procreation, they all had a aneurysm.
I didn’t even ask for a lot: marriage, private school, FL tutors, nanny/ day care, health care, house with lots of space, meal delivery service, cleaning service 2x a month, I keep my career, etc.
Now— if you grew up solidly upper middle class or better, every thing on that list is normal as hell.
But many of them went on about how I was being unreasonable. No. I realized early in my 20s that I couldn’t have the life I envisioned for myself without all those things.