Post-PhD's live fireside chat this Wednesday at 5:30 PM ET In this post: A reflection on the UCU strikes, past and upcoming content, and what the f*ck we are supposed to do with all this mess, including a list of what I'm reading. Last week: Dr. Tashima Thomas gives Unsolicited Academic Advice on trusting yourself, your methodology, and finding your tribe. What to expect this Wednesday at Post-PhD's 2nd ever fireside chat Dear co-conspirators With the #UCU strikes going on in the UK (if you haven't been paying attention to this, start now– the University and College Union is on strike and aca ..read more

In this post: Dr. Tashima Thomas gives Unsolicited Academic Advice on trusting yourself, your methodology, and finding your tribe.Next week: A reflection on the UCU strikes, past and upcoming content, and what the f*ck we are supposed to do with all this mess, including a list of what I'm reading.Last week: I list sixteen PDFs on different topics including pedagogy, Why We Teach as a Practice of Freedom, Teaching to Transgress in Real Life, and the Pedagogy of Lesbian Feminism. Post-PhD the blog/newsletter: began with a personal story whistle-blowing on academia, and it sparked this amazing ..read more

For February’s Resources for the Resistance, I’m serving up my favorite articles about teaching as praxis and practice. In this post: I list sixteen PDFs on different topics including pedagogy, Why We Teach as a Practice of Freedom, Teaching to Transgress in Real Life, and the Pedagogy of Lesbian Feminism. Next week: Dr. Tashima Thomas gives Unsolicited Academic Advice on trusting yourself, your methodology, and finding your tribe. Last week: I write about why I believe in our (Audre) Lorde's uses of the erotic, the power of lesbian feminism for ALL of us, and how love informs our work both w ..read more

In this post: I write about why I believe in our (Audre) Lorde's uses of the erotic, the power of lesbian feminism for ALL of us, and how love informs our work both within and beyond the university. Next week: I list sixteen PDFs on different topics including pedagogy, Why We Teach as a Practice of Freedom, Teaching to Transgress in Real Life, and the Pedagogy of Lesbian Feminism. Last week: Activist pragmatism, the undercommons, and the task of the subversive intellectual today. I talk about scholars featured in the upcoming "resources for the resistance" post. Oh hi, my fellow academic rad ..read more

January's "the spark" essay discusses Fred Moten and Stefano Harney's conception of the undercommons of the university, and what fugitive planning and black thought offer the subversive intellectual. In this post: Activist pragmatism, the undercommons, and the task of the subversive intellectual today. I talk about scholars featured in the upcoming "resources for the resistance" post. Next week: I write about why I believe in our (Audre) Lorde's uses of the erotic, the power of lesbian feminism for ALL of us, and how love informs our work both within and beyond the university. Last week: I ta ..read more

PLUS for post-PhD community members, real-life resumes that got PhDs jobs incorporate. In this post: I talk about career transitions from academia to beyond and having to realign your identity, values, and process.Next week: Activist pragmatism, the undercommons, and the task of the subversive intellectual today. I talk about scholars featured in the upcoming "resources for the resistance" post.Last week: I am posing the most common concerns this month to an impressive cast of alt-academics, current professors, post-docs, and graduate students to join Post-PhD in a live fireside chat. happy F ..read more

Why is it necessary to transgress the university? When do pragmatic career next steps as an alt-academic become a thought revolution? How do we re-imagine ourselves beyond the university? In this post: I pose a discourse about the adjunct crisis, and the larger systemic educational crisis we are currently in, and ponder on the differences our generation of thinkers can make for the next. Next week: I am posing the most common concerns this month to an impressive cast of alt-academics, current professors, post-docs, and graduate students to join Post-PhD in a live fireside chat. Last week: A b ..read more

Part 1: Radical Pedagogy (how to re-imagine the university) and Part 2: Why we need to re-imagine the university (foundational texts). In this post: This January's reading list, a fully annotated bibliography including racial pedagogy and foundational critiques of higher education. Next week: I am posing the most common concerns this month to an impressive cast of alt-academics, current professors, post-docs, and graduate students to join Post-PhD in a live fireside chat. Last week: I pose a discourse about the adjunct crisis, and the larger systemic educational crisis we are currently in, an ..read more

A discussion guide to undermine the university and a primer for Post-PhD’s inaugural fireside chat in January In this post: A brief annotated bibliography featuring my receipts for the January 2022 essay "What is the Subversive Intellectual," recommendations, and further reading.Next week: I pose a discourse about the adjunct crisis, and the larger systemic educational crisis we are currently in, and ponder on the differences our generation of thinkers can make for the next.Last week: An introduction to Post-PhD's new resources and community dialog and how to engage with our discourse. Why th ..read more

Readings on the Neoliberal University & Why We Must Support Graduate Students. Free Resources: A brief annotated bibliography with full PDFs. In this post: A brief annotated bibliography featuring my receipts for the January 2022 essay "What is the Subversive Intellectual," recommendations, and further reading. Next week: I pose a discourse about the adjunct crisis, and the larger systemic educational crisis we are currently in, and ponder on the differences our generation of thinkers can make for the next. Last week: An introduction to Post-PhD's new resources and community dialog and ho ..read more