Visibility & Vulnerability in the New Semester

Today I’m taking on academic grind culture through the lens of anti-dieting. I explore how we can mobilize the anti-diet critique of diet culture to better understand how the values, promises, and practices of academic grind culture keep us stuck in cycles of overwork. Based on anti-diet principles…

In this season of institutional annual reports, let’s focus instead on our lived experiences of academic life this year.  In your Shadow Annual Report, we’ll use the framework of empathy, embodiment, and empowerment to dig into the realities of how you showed self-compassion, what it was like to li…

An honest and hopeful conversation with Brooke Hofsess, artist, scholar, and leadership coach.  We talk, laugh, and dream about re-making academia, the deep power of choice, the fun of chairing (really!), and finding our brilliance amid the scarcity and burnout of higher education.  And I get a min…