Here’s an interesting one from orgtheory via Katherine Chen’s work on organizations and charisma. I find this line of questioning very interesting. As someone mentioned in the comments the succession of Apple post-Jobs exposed, for some, the limitations of personal charisma in necessary bureaucratic processes. But I also think further back to civil rights organizationsRead More
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Amazing Grace: The End of Student Loan Six Month “Grace” Periods
From the Chicago Tribune today comes a story about what, I agree, is a criminally under-reported change in the administration of federal student loans. The byline reads: Starting Sunday, grad students to pay interest while in school, undergrads lose 6-month grace period That’s true but a conversation on Twitter earlier today made clear that thisRead More “Amazing Grace: The End of Student Loan Six Month “Grace” Periods”
All Your Skinfolk Ain’t Kin Folk?
That’s what my spirit animal, Zora Neale Hurston, is quoted as saying: “All my skinfolk ain’t my kinfolk.” My experiences in academe have been…a textbook case of everything that could happen would happen. That includes a rocky start in a different program and a transfer and yadda, yadda, yadda. Needless to say my experiences primedRead More “All Your Skinfolk Ain’t Kin Folk?”
Reading Privilege
My tweep and friend, Melonie Fullick, has written a great piece about the privilege bubble in academe. It’s in response to an article that many of us in my twitterverse found disturbing in its lack of critical reflection: Yesterday, as I was taking a short break between grading assignments and exams and working onRead More “Reading Privilege”
How Will I Know How To (Mis)Treat You If I Don’t Know What You Are?
Back in the olden days before I understood the weird space the Internet could be I was much more forthcoming about my personal life. And, by forthcoming I mean I way overshared. I probably still do but I try not to conflate my work with my self. I have friends who do work on identityRead More “How Will I Know How To (Mis)Treat You If I Don’t Know What You Are?”
The Atlantic Article, Trickle Down Feminism, and my Twitter Mentions. God Help Us All
This is one of those posts that can go nowhere but down. There are things you simply cannot do in this life and slaying unicorns is one of them. What do I mean by “slaying unicorns”? It’s an old Livejournal term. It means providing evidence that one’s sacred emotional belief or object is either notRead More “The Atlantic Article, Trickle Down Feminism, and my Twitter Mentions. God Help Us All”
NC Senate Denies Victims of State’s Eugenic’s Program Justice
I was appalled, although not surprised, by the N.C. Eugenics story as it unfolded several years ago. Bodies considered property and cost centers are subject to violent abuses and subjugation by the state all the time. That’s how it goes. However, it was hard for me to imagine a political body so immune to publicRead More “NC Senate Denies Victims of State’s Eugenic’s Program Justice”
Boy did I step in it with my twitter response to Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article in The Atlantic about women having it all. For some reason it didn’t resonate with me and I made the mistake of saying so aloud. I am, apparently, the only one. I’ve always said that I’m the anti-taste maker, though. IfRead More
WebCite and Transforming Academic Internet Wormholing Into Actual “Work”
There’s a current debate among cool academic people (yes, I say that ironically) about the future of public scholarship in the age of social media, collaborative online environments, and more calls for democratized research. Academics are online, sometimes when we shouldn’t be (coughselfcough). But, as of yet, what we produce on, through, and for theRead More “WebCite and Transforming Academic Internet Wormholing Into Actual “Work””
I know this young man, Jonathan Wall, and if ever one was going to class up a sports bar in the entertainment capital of a two block stretch of pavement & half-full storefronts that is the urban, urbane utopia that is Raleigh, NC, USA it would be Jonathon. Forgive me but I know this areaRead More