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snapshots of academia from my own narrow wisdom

“Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening.” 

—Audre Lorde

Books I’ll reference in this essay, including Eli Meyerhoff’s Beyond Education, Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism, and Lester K. Spence’s Knocking the Hustle

Look, I’m not proud of the naïveté with which I jumped into grad school. I was an investigative journalist, I knew how to do research, fact-checking, interviews. Why didn’t I do it with my own life?