I desperately wish we could have a conversation about how the issues economists are facing now were perfected on the humanities and ethnic studies years ago. Being the golden child field with a conveyor belt to prestige and affluence will not protect you when authoritarians come knocking.
So, ya know, join a union or find ways to work collectively with your peers to push back. Be cool earning less and advocating for adjuncts in other fields to have full-time work.
We must see that our lives, our struggles and successes, are bound up in each other. What does collective action look like if you stop being optimistic your discipline's market will improve and instead think about academia as a whole?
Academic models of individual success undermine our habits of solidarity thinking. It’s so hard to get some people to see the big picture.
Why can I only like and repost this once. I wish I could *LIKE INTENSIFIES*
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