I generally respond to Big News by reading around. My last thread reflects some of what I see from that reading. Another thing I find interesting: the wildly powerful & popular feminist-lite empowerment community has been pretty silent.
There’s a genre of big books and niche confeeemces and social media accounts that I won’t name here but that are familiar to most women #onhere. Their content has barely changed this week.
How are you going to sell smart budgeting and SHEOing and Passport Lyfe and all of that jazz when the foundational assumption of your audience’s entire economic base — that they can participate somewhat freely in paid work — is questionable?
It’s going to be interesting to see if they even try to brand this or if they just ignore it.
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All caveats about the survey instrument noted, I do wonder about the numeracy of today’s early career workers. It feels like somewhere along the line we sort of…messed up.
My mother recently gave my high school senior memory book. Ignore everything else, unless you need and deserve a laugh. But at 16, I predicted an annual salary that was almost exactly the median salary in ten years.
For 13 years I have believed that who I argue with and how I argue with them gives them power, all of which I control. The tension is that for the other 30 years of my life I have developed exquisite training in how to cuss somebody to filth. There are two wolves…
Almost every day. I’m basically a Buddhist now at not cussing people out.
I wish it was my highest self that checked my impulses the most. But the truth is, it is my lowest self that usually does it. “Oh she wants to fight bad. Let’s ignore her until I die.”
We have an update on my mannerly neighborhood gang.
Spoiler: I get shook down. How I got shook down is the story.
I had a business trip last week. I left the child-dog with my mother (primary) and Lauren (secondary). No sooner do I land in a foreign place does Vivian start testing me photos of my dog with what appears to be TWO gangs of children.
It is similar to how we starve public goods and then punish them for failing. Denying the status & professionalization of an award and then punishing a scholar for not having the networks that produce most of our professional status
From the university's position, the logic is usually: 1. you are not a real researcher so why do you need awards
2. your unit is a service unit, meaning it provides service to real units by teaching. i suspect in this case, the very popular race/class/gender courses that other majors farm out to more vulnerable departments.
I will never ever understand why a quick, “you good?” for permission to offer help tests people’s entire moral fiber but truly just a little “you good” and “my bad” will solve 70% of all things.
Just today a stranger man tried to physically move me to where he thought I should be standing. And it’s just a normal part of life. It doesn’t amount to trauma per se but it is so annoying.