I love this! Can we bring it back?! I just put my feelings into words yesterday. What I am seeing and how I am contributing to the dismantling of the Ivory Tower as a new lecturer.

I didn’t expect to be back in academia so soon. Neither a plan, nor a desire — but a deep-rooted need. — During the final days of 2021, I resigned from a safe and secure job in ecological consulting and committed to the uncertainties of becoming a university lecturer. I saw an opportunity, and in desperation I leapt towards it with everything in me. I realize that my identity is not an accessory item to be flashed and flaunted on que, but instead my identity shows up wherever I show up.

RE: An essay in response to making a Sunday breakfast with my white-cis-hetero-male husband, where in an attempt to use his subtle authority — I, a white passing-cis-hetero-woman denied it. He operates with authority in our home, I reminded him. And for the case of his making a joke of…