Kyla Wazana Tompkins
kwazana
Dear first-generation graduate students: I’m thinking of you today. Here are some things that I wish someone had told me when I started graduate school. /1 a. Every encounter from
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Seriously, qualities of the academic fuckboi, i'm so sick of this shit. 1. collects vinyl 2. black literature is "an interest" or "a hobby" 3. thinks Joel Chandler Harris was
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Okay. so: how does this happen?https://twitter.com/kwazana/status/1300397553603604481 First, repair. Whatever else be sure that the faculty of color/black faculty who work with you are tired. If they have checked out, it’s
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English departments have so much work to do to correct course on the insidious racism they have visited on their faculty, their students, and thinking itself. I can name three
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Calls for civility, "openness" and "freedom" by people who institute and enact structural violence on the regular, but feel like their freedoms are eroded when they are challenged, can bite
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