Organizing Undergraduates: Expanding the Academic Union
Incorporating undergraduates into graduate unions, which are already mobilizing student workers on campus, is one potential method for organizing this growing labor force.
#UsToo: How Unions Could Fight Harassment in STEM
Calls for more data and institutional leadership can only do so much: we must also change who holds power in our universities and who is subject to that power.
I found myself constantly assigned to the kitchen, a supposedly naturally shared sphere, where I was to keep other women company and help with what I could. I had none of the requisite skills.
Organizing Graduate Workers Beyond Trump’s NLRB
The University of Iowa is a prairie-bound theater of the entwined ideological wars on labor rights and academic freedom.
On the Student/Worker Distinction
Uncovering the Popular Midwestern Gothic
The American Midwest in idea and in fact is girded.
Hating Valerie Solanas (And Loving Violent Men)
When we talk about men the same way men have talked about women for centuries, it reads as grotesque and insanely violent, un-compassionate, and shocking, which was exactly Solanas’s point.
Coover, Vollmann, Wallace, and Gayl Jones — I believe these big, wide-ranging books are postmodernism’s best, for the Bullshitters engage more directly and profoundly than the Artistes with significant cultural subjects.
The figs you eat have the bodies of the dead who tried to enter those to whom they are the same rather than those to whom they are different—Leviticus tells us such things are an “abomination,” and this fruit is your caution as it is your knowledge.