Every week I try to listen to Clearing the FOG, a podcast created by Washington, DC activists Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese which challenges the status quo of corporate greed that has resulted from the rising preeminence of the neoliberal worldview in the United States. Flowers and Zeese welcome weekly guests to discuss the prison-industrial complex, global warming,…
March Conferences: Eastern Sociological Society, NYCore
A milestone: I delivered my first solo presentation at the Eastern Sociological Society conference in Boston, MA, whose theme this year was, “My Day Job: Politics and Pedagogy in Academia.” Like I told the participants in the paper session, I felt that as a second-year PhD student, this was a major triumph, even if I passed…
Blog posts 2014-2015: “Ahead of the Hydra”
In 2014-2015 I blogged on a number of different topics, from the use of psychometric testing in Israel to the disadvantage of Arabic-speaking minority students, to the politically charged conversation around voting rights in Texas, to Islamophobia and ESL teachers’ unique position as cultural conversation-makers. I will continue to write later this spring…in the meantime,…
