transracially adopted queer theatre-maker, professor @ucsc, & activist who likes snacks, naps, and revolution (she/they) 🇰🇷🪴🍩🥸
Santa Cruz, CA
Joined April 2013
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When 48,000 UAW Academic Workers go on strike on Monday, Nov 14, senate faculty at the University of California have a legally-protected right under the Higher Education Employment Relations Act (HEERA) to respect the picket line. Some reasons + resources for showing solidarity:
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Come work with me! @SociologyatUCSC is hiring for an Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Politics: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01382
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This is great to see on a mainstream platform, and I think it is limited by positioning the critique as what an individual family should or shouldn’t do...
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Students taking up acting: be particularly wary of anyone who positions themself as the sole expert on something, especially you and your performance. No true expert will pretend they know everything, and nobody knows everything.
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Telemundo in San José has been reporting on scams and just featured findings from my new paper on immigration scams: youtu.be/kW-o7TLzo6A
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We talk about how junior faculty (esp faculty of color and women) get pulled into all the additional service work. We don't talk enough about the necessity and lure of that work. Real talk: there was a reason I kept saying "yes" to all that stuff when I should have said "no."
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“Underrepresented” sounds like a random accident rather than what it is, the result of a deliberate plan of exclusion.
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Today, a tenured faculty member strongly advocated for me during a meeting. Tenured faculty: please do this more for junior faculty. It means so much, and we do not forget.
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I critique DEI efforts because they don't promote change; they promote assimilation. They provide a smoke screen for people socially defined as white to avoid grappling with their own whiteness.
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I, too, am mad that adjuncts and other contingent faculty are so poorly compensated. The answer is that they should be compensated better, not that graduate workers shouldn't be compensated so much.
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In case you need to hear it: your main audience for a first draft is yourself. It’s purpose is to help you make sense of your own ideas. So write that shitty first draft with reckless abandon, and revel in the mess that it is. That’s what a first draft is *supposed* to look like.
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With Black History Month approaching, I must remind you not to ask a Black professor to do for free what you pay white speakers to do the rest of the year.
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If you let institutions define your success, they will always have the power to take it from you.
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In 2022, can yall start supporting your POC colleagues during the meeting and not waiting until after the meeting? Make your support public!
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v v cute job alert!!!
are you an artsy abolitionist with most or all of a PhD, but wants to free yourself from the tomfoolery of the academic ladder? check out this gig - salary starts at $89k +bennies, funded thru 2024 but hopefully will become permanent, hybrid remote/norcal.
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I will never stop saying this:
A university’s ability to recruit and retain faculty of color (FOC) is directly related to treatment of their current FOC.
We talk to each other on and off the record.
So keep playing if you want to… & you’ll never be able to keep any of us.
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::10 years from now::
RESEARCH STUDY: Were you faculty hired as part of a race cluster following the "racial reckoning" of 2020? If so, be part of a research study on whether universities utilized the moment as a catalyst for change, or were you just a bandaid to shut people up?
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At DANM you will work with faculty like @michacardenas who produce art and scholarship across genres and disciplines. The application deadline for DANM Fall 22 is January 13. Register for our Jan 4 info session: ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/registe…
ALT poster for application to DANM MFA program featuring images of 3D game art from work Sin Sol