Posts by sarcozona
February Migraine Log
I can’t seem to get the frequency of my migraines down, but the severity seems to be improving with my new abortive meds.
February Berry Go Round
February’s Berry Go Round is up at Garry Rogers’ blog. My favorite submission this month is a post on algal defenses.
Allies
One of the strengths of Beyond the Fragments, then and now, is that it captures so much of the significance and organizational self-reflection not only of Women’s Liberation groups and activity, but of black groups and LGBTQI groups, while highlighting an understanding of the need and difficulty of bringing these “fragments” together. As Wainwright wrote […]
Class matters
I’m collecting posts on class and higher education here. Add others to the comments, email (enchantressofnumbers at gmail) or tweet (@sarcozona) them to me. One of these things is not like the others: on being an academic from a non-academic family by Acclimatrix Poverty in the Ivory Tower by Sarcozona Economic barriers in the elite University […]
Taking a medical leave
If you’ve been following me here, you know that my migraines are really out of control lately. To try and get a handle on that, I’ve gone on medical leave. I wrote about some of the challenges with that on Tenure, She Wrote a few days ago. In a month or so I’ll have another […]
Will your church buy you groceries for 20 years of retirement?
The everyday practice of mutual support cannot take the place of social security, no matter how much successive governments try to spin the issue into one of “deserving” and “dependency.” Power in Jacobin.
While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading Athena FF: Amma Asante’s Belle Revisits Jane Austen Through Black POV To watch On Hild, Female Readers of Genre Fiction, and Not Being Game of Thrones To read “Jonathan Ferrell ran towards police seeking help after a car accident and was given a hail of…” Frontier takes over Verizon’s network, complaints fall […]