I know that to many people who have never felt the brunt of a capitalist colonial policy of genocide, this tweet may well sound alarmingly paranoid. So, a thread about what is happening in #Ontario. This is not a TEDTalk. It is a plea for recognition and action. 1/15

https://twitter.com/zugenia/status/1511448002325630980

Here’s what I’ve learned as someone who recently traveled—and spend nearly two extra hours on a plane on the ground breathing recycled air due to airport staff shortages at Pearson—and is now experiencing a checklist of typical COVID-19 symptoms: 2/15

This reminds me of my conversation with @travisclau and @hmchaskin the other day, about how to commit to flexible praxis with students when we all work under varying levels of constraint on flexibility. +

https://twitter.com/theadhdacademic/status/1510958222366105611

For me, it has helped to ask myself routinely: What freedoms can I exercise within the broad conditions of structural unfreedom? I am blessed with a relatively high level of autonomy in the classroom, and I try to use every inch of that room to maneuver. +

On the ground in Toronto, just learned we are stuck on the plane indefinitely because there are not enough staff—including border agents—in the airport to process arriving passengers

Colleagues don't let colleagues use peer review as a chance to ritually shame authors who are 1. taking worthwhile risks 2. not wasting their time reproducing the tired litany of "standard" citations that show you know "who's who" 3. engaging theories the reader just doesn't like Such a manuscript may well not be publishable yet. But these are not the reasons why.

The academic job market is not “in” a death spiral. Markets, including this one, ARE death spirals. I hear a lot of colleagues trying to talk about what to *do* about the death spiral, now that more and more people feel caught up in it.

The most serious work on this front has never been interested in “saving the job market.”

Of the myriad injustices folded into university “diversification” strategies is the very, very bad idea that the exclusions and erasures performed by the inherited canon can be rectified simply by adding new voices to it. I mean, in addition to the way this approach ignores the power dynamics of discourse, consequently reproducing forms of marginalization within the expanded “conversation,” it also leads to syllabi that are just too fucking long to be adequately engaged.