I think that there are misconceptions about grad school (that faculty sometimes play into) that make everyone’s lives more difficult & contentious. The first is that grad school is primarily spent reading & discussing cutting edge, cool books that everyone is dying to read. (1/?) That’s true in part. And you do spend A LOT of time reading. But you will often be expected to read things that are boring, difficult, abhorrent, & very very old for your research and course work. Getting to read stuff you ❤️ is 👍🏼 but you gotta read a lot of stuff you don’t ❤️.

Today for the #ScholarStrike I'm going to do a 🧵on the history of policing in the U.S. We can't understand how we got to where we are with policing today without going back to this history. First, policing is not and has never been about public safety or fighting "crime." The history of policing Is one of colonization, racial domination, xenophobia, and labor control. Police are enforcers of a particular vision of citizenship and nation. #ScholarStrike