Today I had the honor of defending my dissertation, “Drag Artists on College Campuses: A Black feminist woven Ethnography.” I am forever indebted to my collaborators for gifting me with a wealth of knowledge which I hope positively impacts the lives of QTPOC. We did it.
I’m confused as to why
@IndyaMoore
is expected to speak for everyone? They are speaking from THEIR experience. And they never claimed to do otherwise.
Shout out to you for being gracious, and patient; and willing to learn.
Well the ink is dry, and this Nittany Lion is taking flight. I am elated to share I will be an Assistant Professor of Student Affairs Administration at the University of Wisconsin- La Crosse this fall! Thank you to my community of mentors who helped along the way.
#WeAre
#UWL
Today I celebrate my advisor
@wilson_okello
for fostering an environment that allowed for creativity and deep reflexivity. May you always be protected. I could write another dissertation on your brilliance, sing you praises all day but for now I’ll stop and simply say, thank you.
Cheers to my last
#ASHE
as a doctoral student. Thank you all for making it such a beautiful, memorable, and restorative space. I am so full and so ready to wrap up this part of my journey.
#RoadToGraduation
Congratulations Dr.
@wilson_okello
. I am constantly inspired by your heart and spirit. I am forever grateful for you. This world is better because of you.
As an emerging researcher and graduate student, most days I feel like I do not know anything but today I felt so comfortable discussing methodology, methods, and epistemology in my Feminist Methodologies course.
Fact, I almost did not make it to penn state because of the cost of moving. If you or any 1st year Phd needs assistance with moving cost, please feel free to read this thread.
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicChatter
Dr. Foreman bless you; and thank you.
Congrats on the start of your PhD programs, new fam! There’s a small
#mutualaid
fund for AfAm, Indigenous and Latinx 1st year PhD students who could use some assistance with all those moving costs. DM me! Contributors welcome too. 1st gen/undocumented students, we’ve got you.
I survived my first ASHE conference submission 🙌. Is stressed even a fitting word?
Grateful for my advisor Dr.
@royeljohnson
for answering my many (I mean many) questions this morning.
After a series of summer academic rejections (insert sentence about part of the process), here’s some good news.
I am excited to be a part of the inaugural poets and scholars writing retreat held at
@RutgersU
& for the opportunity to learn from
@EbPoetry
God said get to ✍️.
We are excited to introduce our 2023-2024 Graduate Scholars: Ramon Johnson, Gabriel Pulido, Omar Sanchez, and Briana Savage. Congratulations to our newly selected cohort!
Read more about our scholars here:
So excited to see you all in Puerto Rico at the 2021
@ASHEoffice
Conference.
This year our research team (
@royeljohnson
@AllanteMoon
) proposed a self-designed paper session titled “Advancing Higher Education Research on Young People Impacted by Foster Care.
A huge congratulations to
@DrRaquelWrightM
for being awarded a grant from the Spencer Foundation. I am forever inspired by your heart and brilliance.
Love to see the good people in our field shine. ✨
@dafotochica
@Jessiereyez
@billieeilish
Children should know that sexual harassment is not ok. Literally teach your kids better or
@Jessiereyez
can. If you have seen her perform, which it sounds like you have you know she centers love at her shows. So what’s the issue? A word? Or that she’s calling out people who r*pe
This is my first publication, ever. And I am so grateful for the opportunity I had to work alongside such incredible, thoughtful, and affirming people.
Check it out 👇
New work with
@kelly_rosinger
and brilliant graduate students
@jchoi_24
@gabrielpuede
.
Two gender categories are not enough. Law schools have been using 3 gender categories since 2014.
So exited to have Dr. Ward join HESA for our first seminar series.
As HESA we want to extend this opportunity to anyone interested.
Please share with your contacts and reach out to me for the link if you are interested as I will not post it do to zoom bombings.
Two days ago I had a meeting with Dr.
@annemariemingo
, she reminded me to be unapologetic and to own that I am a scholar in multiple fields.
Today, my paper was accepted for the Ida B. Wells Conference and my higher ed book chapter was accepted.
Affirming is not enough. ✨
I am so honored to be serving as Poet-in-Residence and Resistencia. I look forward to connecting artistry and academia but for now take a listen to the wonderful conversation I had with
@LaProfesora08
on
@LatinxUplift
Words cant begin to express how grateful I am to have had the opportunity to work with
@Dr_RoberOrozco
and
@ant_duran
! Thank you both for dreaming alongside me, and for your offerings.
Please check out our publication!
🚨New Publication🚨 Creando Mundos y Futuros de Joteria: Ofrendas of Queertorship for and by Queer and Trans Latinx/a/o People…shout out to
@ant_duran
&
@gabrielpuede
for being amazing co-authors…get your free download by clicking the link
I had not read poems in front of an
audience since 2020. My god did it feel
good to be back home on a stage. Thank
you cabaret for welcoming me with
open arms. I love us.
#ACPA22
A huge congratulations to
@AllanteMoon
for submitting her first dissertation draft!We Are so close. So proud and inspired by you. Now get all the rest!
#road2graduation
HESA is excited to be joined by
@karlysarita
for our 2nd seminar series.
HESA extends this opportunity to anyone interested.
Please share with your contacts & reach out to me (dm or gabriel
@psu
.edu) for the link if you are interested as I will not post it do to zoom bombings.
I’m learning the differences between reading for pleasure, reading for learning, and reading for reviewing.
They are distinct and I don’t think we talk about them enough.
#AcademicTwitter
I’m in this raggedy weekend class and the professor had the audacity to say regardless of your affiliation try not to bring that back to this space...
I’m presenting next, and I will for sure be bringing it.
This joy? Brought. This relieve? Brought. This celebration? Brought.
@xheirjordanx
I think for anyone who is non-Black to use it, it’s incredibly inappropriate and flat out appropriative. White passing was utilized by the Black community during slavery as a way to escape it.
Latinx people using it is just anti-Black.
Journal submissions are something else! Beyond grateful to the amazing work we did, and can’t wait to see what folks have to say!
A special shout out to
@ant_duran
for walking me through the process and putting me on. I appreciate you so much!
I was voted the inaugural Vice President for the Sacramento Area Youth Speaks Alumni Collective and I’m in my feelings.
That organization and the poets involved introduced me to Poetry, Spoken Word, and Slam. I have every intention to do good work, and keep it moving forward. 🙌
“Have you ever tried to tell someone you’re not okay, and they’re like, “you’re good,” and you’re like, “but I’m not,” and they’re like, “you’ve got this,” and you’re like, “but I don’t,” and they’re like, “keep going,” and you’re like, “okay.”
-
@EbPoetry
So grateful to
@orozco333
for sharing his emerging dissertation findings to the
#QTLatinxHigherEd
group tonight! This work is going to be so meaningful for our field. He’ll be a true gift for any institution he’ll go on to work at!
I am done with my 1st year, which means I am officially a 2nd year PhD student. It is necessary to celebrate every milestone because systems and people will try to push you out.
But I am here, with a great group of people.
@AllanteMoon
@royeljohnson
@DrRaquelWrightM
#DrWard
Performing at Cabaret is a joy filled experience. It is the 1st place where my academic and creative practice have been able to meet. Thank you
@acpa_csgi
for welcoming my art in what has been a historically and importantly a drag show space. Zoom in for a
@Beyonce
feature.
After 15 years of writing I finally had the courage to submit. Here’s to the first of many more to come.
Check out this phenomenal issue, “Injury.”
Thank you
@tendonmag
!
@dafotochica
@Jessiereyez
@billieeilish
I’ll wait... we should be focusing on the bigger picture. Talk to YOUR children about the words, and WHY
@Jessiereyez
chose to use such strong language. Be critical and compassionate with them. They deserve to know that this world is dark and that people are predatory.
There are two Gabriel’s in my transnational feminism class, and today my professor referred to me as the other Gabriel.
I said I’m THE Gabriel, not the other.
Somebody come stop me. 😂
UC Santa Cruz student/professor/staff Activism is unmatched.
Graduate and undergraduate students took over a dinning hall, and allowed anyone to eat for free. Because food insecurity is real, and because there is more than enough for all.
UCSC grad students just took over a dining hall and are opening it to anyone who’s hungry because the university is starving its students and workers. 🔥🔥🔥
It's not okay to offer funding where the recipient uses their own money first and is reimbursed later. This puts serious pressure on those in less privileged positions. Many struggle (silently) or lose out completely. Reduce inequity by offering resources up front.
I am reading the feedback from my methods professor Dr.
@UjuAnya
& I am just a mess of emotions. Thank you for providing rich commentary & feedback.
How lucky am I to have been one of your last students at PSU? You will be missed & I am so honored to have been in your class. 🙌
My 9 year old nephew just interviewed me for a school project... and the way he carried himself, made space for me, and kept me on track left me stunned!! I am so impressed by him. Honestly, he is who I wish to embody when I start working on my future diss.
Love that people are speaking positively about Megan. As a reminder y’all didn’t need a verdict to do so. 😊
The law has never been an accurate measure of right/wrong/truth/lie.
Dr. Duran is a beacon of light and love. I am so happy for you and honored to have witness part of your journey and eagerly look forward to the future. You are so deserving, proud would be an understatement. Felicidades Profe 💫🫶
As a queer first-generation college student whose parents emigrated from Mexico, this news means so much to me. It represents the work of my parents, communities, and countless others. I am
#tenured
.
@ASU
@asueducation
And some of us, do not need degrees to know what life has taught us.
As
@terisasiagatonu
said, “it’s one thing to major (study) ethnic studies, it is another to be the reason for its existence.”
Yesterday I read Dr.
@javonism
letter to his students, and today I read this from Dr. Gonzalez Van Cleve.
I’m taking notes, if I’m ever in a privileged position to teach (formally, bc I stay teaching) I promise to do the same for my students.
All Love to educators who see us.
In my capacity a professor, I can release my students from additional stress during this time. I can teach them important lessons about priorities, peace and why we strive to learn.
Here is my note to them... “you have nothing to prove...you are brilliant and capable.”
Me to my 8 year old nephew: I gotta write 18-20 pages. My nephew: that’s not bad I do 12-15 pages a day.
His pages are multiple choice bubble in answers. How I miss being 8 😂😭
Will I finish my finals or will they finish me? Find out on the next episode...
Still feeling so energized from this collective space!
Thank you so much Dr.
@ant_duran
for opening up this space and thank you to everyone for filling it so beautifully.
Special shout out to
@SerxioGonzalez
for extending the invitation. 💜
Question for Creative Writers/ Academics:
Do y’all include your presentations/awards/ invited performances in your CV? I’m struggling. I feel like they should stay as they are part of my intellectual work but I also don’t want to be dismissed?
#AcademicChatter
While I wish I could have read
@trans_killjoy
“Identity as Inquiry, Living and Researching from the Borderlands,” my first year... I am so grateful to be reading it now.
The way/ I am feeling seen and affirmed. 🥺 If you are in a graduate program it is a must read.
It is truly wild how I spent a few months in dissertation limbo only to have a few conversations with folks that have not only taken me out of it, but have reenergized me??
Trusting the process is hard but worthwhile.
I had a meeting with a professor today, and she kept referring to my future career as an academic… and how I could focus some of this work on future studies. I have not told her what my goals are but it was really nice to be seen today.
All I can say after going through a few interviews is that I’m so grateful for the community I have built for myself and those who have found me.
We’re taught to do academia independently, but I really wouldn’t be here without the multiple people who have loved on me. Grateful.
All this time talking about affirmative action when we should have been talking about monetary action.
With that said, I’m no longer allowing
#impostersyndrome
to stop me when coaches recruited people into sports teams they never even played.
#highered
Enrollment cart: *nothing*
Me: 5 amazing classes stand before me, but I only have room for 3. This schedule represents the courses in the running towards becoming a PhD. The classes that I do not enroll in must immediately return to the university and pack your syllabi.
Observing Trans Day of Visibility this year meant being vulnerable and sharing my work when I saw
@CultureStrike
call for art submissions.
I was selected, here’s Legally Blonde
Thank you
@CultureStrike
for highlighting my art on your Instagram page.
It is my first day as a fourth year doctoral student… How did I get here and why did I stay? Community. I get the dissertation portion is individually completed but it will only be done by surrounding myself with my loved ones.
#cheers
#year4
#academia
#mentalhealth
#Fall
#WeAre
For the past few weeks
@CCP_org
, Commonwealth Monument Project and Penn State’s Center for Black Digital Research have been putting in hard work and dedication to make this happen. Join us: