Ten years ago—in the lead up to its centennial—the #MaxwellSchool launched the Tenth Decade Project to support faculty projects exploring topics related to citizenship. Read about a sampling of them here ⬇️ Ryan Griffiths Jenn M. Jackson, PhD (they/them) Scott Landes bit.ly/3WIHqjZ

As a queer-identifying academic intentional about embodying queerness, I sometimes feel like academia doesn't want (or isn't ready for) me. To queer-identifying academics in my network, has academia made you feel like 'too much'? How do you navigate authenticity? #AcademicChatter

Indeed.

Hey all! Some cool news, I'll be joining Slate's podcast Outward as a recurring co-host every once in a while and my first episode is out today! Listen wherever you listen to podcasts, I guess, but here's a link to the ep! slate.com/podcasts/outwa…

Y'all already know how I feel about academic overwork culture.

I've been following the news about the post-birth diss defense for a few days, too. And I just want to point out that the candidate not telling her committee she went into labor is another symptom of that toxicity.

Just received tenure & promotion to associate professor! 🎉I’m also feeling complex emotions about the news that I am the first Black person to do so in the Rice Univ. Psychology Dept. 🙏🏽

Forever grateful for the generosity, protection, courage, & support that made this possible

This is one of the traumas I live w/. Learning not to interfere in someone else’s journey or to learn the lessons for them is necessary but so difficult.

In academia, too.

If you can’t get equal pay after writing a $240M hit, there’s a problem: Crazy Rich Asians co-writer Adele Lim dropped out of 2 sequels after learning she’d be paid 1/8 of her white male co-writer. 6 years later still no sequel. #AAPIHeritageMonth
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this is hard! because so often i believe that if they struggle too, they’ll get it and they’ll hold space for me. because that’s what i do for others. but i’ve learned that some people don’t operate that same way. they only have space for their own needs.

Recently, someone said to me, 'You can give people their flowers, but you can't force them to water them.'

That's exactly what it feels like to care deeply for someone who refuses to take care of themself.

Neurodivergent babes: Stop dating people who gaslight you or refuse to hold space for your mental health needs.

This message is for me, too 💜

Supporting empire is a choice. I have no respect for people color, especially Black women, who are complicit in our mutual oppression.

I couldn't imagine working for one of these institutions and thinking I won because I opposed students and supported genocide.

Stop dating men.

This truly worries me.

UNC Diverting DEI funds to police sends one helluva symbolic message. The summer of 2020 “racial reckoning” cost way more than we received in return. The backlash is leading to a bona fide police state & unearthing virulent anti-blackness. newsobserver.com/news/local/edu…

I love these stories.