Tag: Academic Culture

  • Screenshot of the beginning of a parser game, with a white sidebar, golden status bar at the top of the screen, and gray body.

    June 12, 2026
    Due to a perfect storm of medical crises and an uptick in ongoing workplace toxicity from a few academic bullies…
  • Part of a kolam drawing.

    January 12, 2026
    I was invited to co-facilitate one of the three reading circles in the 4C's "Labor, Land, Water, and Writing: The…
  • Blood-painted psoas on a tattoo of a body diagram.

    June 29, 2013
    Lately I've been thinking about a horizontal eyebrow piercing. It's an idle thought. I doubt I'll ever modify any part…
  • Part of a kolam drawing.

    June 5, 2012
    This was my overarching impression of my first year as a Ph.D. student: too much reading, too much coursework, too…
  • Cut made by a thrown plastic object that struck me just at the eyelid.

    July 9, 2010
    Content note: Blood Wednesday was my first day with the rising 9th grade (the students who have just completed 8th…
  • Chalkboard dissecting a line from "Mystic Pad"

    June 16, 2010
    "As I got to know my adjunct colleagues better, I began to see these largely invisible, voiceless laborers as a…