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AP News Radio
Saudi National Bank chair resigns after Credit Suisse storm
"The chairman of Saudi national bank has resigned for personal reasons after his comments on Credit Suisse sent the firm's stock cratering. A filing on Monday on Riyadh's tadawul stock exchange announced Amr academia's resignation from the Saudi national bank shares of Credit Suisse had sunk over 30% after Al-Qaeda has announced on March 15 that its biggest shareholder of the Saudi bank would not provide more money to the Swiss lender, while he sought to clarify his remarks, they caused Credit Suisse shares to drop by around a third of their value of the time and fuel this ultimate collapse, the incidents further spooked international markets already reading from other bank collapses and high inflation brought on in part by Russia's war in Ukraine. I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Brandon Straka Reacts to the Potential Arrest of Donald Trump
"I want to get your reaction to when you saw that Trump may be arrested because this is clearly political persecution, the January 6th there's yourself. Many other people have also experienced political persecution, pro life people, and so on. And so what is kind of your reaction to something like that happening when you've experienced that happening to you also? Well, to me, it's really a clear indication that I've been saying for a while now, certainly the last two years, as I've gone through this, that, you know, we've known for a long time that the left has taken over the entertainment industry. They've taken over the school systems, academia. They've taken over so many aspects of our society and culture, but I think the most frightening aspect is them taking over the criminal justice system. And I think that there's evidence all across the board from left to right that this is what's happening. And coming after Trump supporters, including people in their 60s and 70s with no criminal record and sending the FBI to break their door down. And abduct them and take them away to Washington, D.C. in the middle of the night is obviously gut wrenching and sickening enough. But then to see the kind of brazen callousness of going after a former president and a current candidate, the most popular candidate on the right side who's running for president, to me, it just speaks to this incredibly brazen attitude that they have. That they're accountable to nobody. They can do anything that they want. They tend to continuously pretend like 74 million people at minimum who supported Donald Trump voted for Donald Trump don't exist, like we're not real. And we saw that even immediately after the 2020 election, when you had more than 74 million people crying out that we wanted to have the 2020 election authenticated that we wanted forensic audit that we wanted to make sure that we could feel safe and secure that our elections were safe and secure.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do We Take Back Academia?
"Do we start to take academia back? What is the best route to achieve that? Well, that's a great question. Thank you for the enthusiasm and the fact that turning point USA has positively impacted your life makes the last decade of work worth it. So thank you. That really touches me. And for those of you that support turning point USA, you're changing lives every single day. Secondly, to take academia back, look, it's I'm not convinced it's possible in certain areas. I think we have to build new colleges and new institutions. Jordan is doing that with the university of Austin and many other places. But you have to do what we're doing here tonight. You have to try to show up, start turning point USA groups in California. It's hard because the board of regents is just completely and totally lost and out of control. And that's just too bad. And it's a shame. But look, the problem with academia is conservatives don't want to go into it for good reason and liberals just continue to or left wingers continue to protect their own. My big fear is that this woke ideology is now infiltrating the social sciences. It's also infiltrating engineering and mathematics. The things that you thought would be immune to the kind of racial preference worldview is now totally and completely infiltrated. And so I wrote a whole book called the college scam. So I'm not exactly big on saving higher education. But I do think there is a place for higher education. And it pains me because I go and I visit to hillsdale college quite often. Hillsdale college is America's greatest college, by the way. They do a fabulous job. And it pains me because I see how good education could be.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Trish Regan: The Connection Between Canceling Tests Scores & CRT
"I mean, you think about Columbia University. My Alma mater, by the way, saying, okay, you don't need the SAT anymore. Well, part of that is because it's rooted in this CRT, which came out of a lot of academia, specifically law schools, critical race theory, which suggests that you're never going to get a fair shot in this country. If you happen to be born black. And so we need to somehow correct this. And the idea is, well, if we have more people that we allow into these quote unquote Ivy League schools, they'll get that stamp of approval, which will enable them to be on a certain course in life. And the only way may be because unfortunately, and this gets back to some root issues to quote Kamala Harris, rue issues, we got education systems in so many poor minority communities that are beyond messed up Chicago, Compton, out in California and New York City. I did a story years ago about how kids were getting passed from grade to grade all the way to 12th grade. They couldn't read Mike. I mean, this is a problem. And so the answer is somehow, okay, well we're going to just get rid of SATs because we can bring all these people in and I think they're afraid of lawsuits because what about the poor kid who, you know, whose parents immigrated here from India or the Philippines and has been studying his tail off for years and years and years and gets a perfect score on the SAT and straight a's, but that child because he's from Asian descent may not be able to get in. They're preparing for this. There is an agenda. They think they can fix it this way with handouts with college degrees. And the truth is you can't because it goes back to something pretty simple. We need to do a better job organizing at the local level to ensure everybody's got some kind of access to opportunity. We don't do that. When you see Lori Lightfoot out in Chicago, thank goodness Chicago voted her out,
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Marc Thiessen: The Media Dismissed Anyone Who Believed Wuhan Lab Leak
"Have you ever noticed that when the beast is wrong, they never backpedal the beast, you know, as I call the media and academia and Hollywood and all that. You know how they mocked anybody who suggested that COVID came from a lab leak in Wuhan? Mark Titian pointed out last night with Dana perino and Bill hemmer on Fox News. He's a former George Bush speech writer who writes now for The Washington Post. He's a Fox News regular. He said the media, they didn't just downplay the lab leak theory. I mean, they attacked and even mocked anybody who dared to suggest it. But we have to look at our response and why we got it wrong because it's obviously it's going to happen again at some point because China is not going to become more democratic. They're not going to become more open. They're not going to stop doing this kind of research. So what did we do? Why was our response so bad? And then also why did our public health experts go out and say things that turned out to be completely wrong? And then the other big issue that we really need to do some introspection is is the media. So the media didn't just downplay this. They made fun of people who said this was that this was a possibility. They dismissed it. Of course, we're all reacting to the news that the energy department has now joined the FBI, another big federal agency in believing that COVID that the virus was the result of a Wuhan China lab leak.
The Dan Bongino Show
John Solomon: Hunter Biden Connected Joe Biden, Penn, And China
"Came to the conclusion that the Biden family was compromised That no matter what their intention was they had been compromised by all this foreign money particularly the Chinese money And I'll leave you one anecdote that's relatively new that gives you a sense of why the people who pursued this the most all come to the same conclusion that the family is compromised Joe Biden leaves office Hunter Biden sets up an opportunity for him to go to the university of Penn that's where the classified documents also show up at the Penn Biden center Hunter Biden is the guy that kind of sets that emotion He university president He gets his gig for his father And then a lot more money from China starts pouring in and had been previously pouring into the university And Joe Biden gets a $911,000 payday for really not doing anything He didn't even teach a course He did a couple of events That's it $911,000 Well what happens to that university The Chinese don't give money for no reason at all Well Joe Biden becomes president and there's this program at the FBI called the China initiative It is the most effective program The FBI has ever had in rooting out Chinese spies embed themselves in American academia The University of Pennsylvania after getting all that money from China writes a letter and says dear Justice Department it is and I'm not making this up It's racist to target Chinese people when you're looking for China's spies Now I know that sounds insane but that's what the letters was Don't look at Chinese people that would be racist if you're looking for China's spies Who are you supposed to look at Well what happens within two weeks of Joe Biden's China enriched old employer sending that letter His attorney general Merrick Garland shuts down the China initiative over the objections of the FBI That is the sort of sequence of events at least people who've watched this to say the Biden family's compromise whether it's intentional or not they keep acting in the interest of China and against the interest of the United States
The Charlie Kirk Show
Being on Time = White Supremacy?
"Charlie, I saw a viral video of a black woman saying that being on time is a white supremacist idea. Can you help me understand this? It's so confusing. Love the show. Well, thank you and thank you for subscribing. Okay, so this is something that I first was made aware of back during Floyd of palooza, the summer of 2020 when we decided to burn our entire civilization based on a total lie. And at the time, it was this pamphlet by the Smithsonian, the Smithsonian black history museum that came out with this document. It was first I was ever made aware of it. Talking about all these different patterns of behavior that we would consider to be admirable or virtuous as being characteristics of white supremacy or of white culture. Now, this comes from academia. And yeah, that's the pamphlet right there. This idea comes from academia. And it is based on this argument that is now being repeated on shows like the view and all throughout colleges across the country who send your kid to college. They're going to be exposed to this and hopefully they won't actually end up believing it. That the white west, the white supremacist west as they put kind of describe it, captured and kidnapped blacks and made them believe in all these terrible ideas, such as, as the Smithsonian museum would say, having a strong family structure, that's white supremacy. Working hard, that's white supremacy. If you think I'm kidding, this is the Smithsonian museum for black history. This is funded by your taxpayer dollars. Believing in justice is white supremacy, whiteness. Let me be actually clear. It's whiteness and white culture in the United States. It's not, they don't say white supremacy, but that's heavily implied. I mean, come on. The nuclear family, taking holidays off, planning for the future is whiteness, delayed gratification is whiteness tomorrow will be better is whiteness, believing in that. Following rigid time schedules is whiteness, time viewed as a commodity is whiteness, and this document discontinues. No deviation from the single God concept monotheism is whiteness. Love you to say that tell that to the Ethiopian Jews.
The Dan Bongino Show
John Solomon: How Joe Biden Acts in the Interest of Hunter's Clients
"This classified documents scandal And I believe John that it is a rather small scandal in the bigger scheme of things that I believe in I believe Biden was a foreign agent I don't mean like 007 CAA I mean the economic sense of a principal agent problem in that there was money changing hands filtered through his son that was clearly meant to influence Biden I mean Hunter Biden's admitted as such Now your PC yesterday that I covered in the hill where you wrote about the Soros connection in Ukraine is really stunning Because it really speaks to this bigger problem how there were Ukrainian interests to arm and get money to Ukraine way before the war by people like Kalani yuk and others who were lobbying for this Daria Colonia And those were Biden interests too interest as his son was on the payroll of a Ukrainian company Yeah listen all of the foreign ties are troubling now because you see so many instances where Joe Biden each and every time acts in the interest of his son's clients And let's just go through some of them that we now we now see The most recent one this just happened in the last year Joe Biden works for the University of Pennsylvania He is a guest professor there against $911,000 for two years of very light work basically lending his name to a center That university gets a ton of Chinese money as soon as they get that Chinese money What are they doing They're lobbying the Joe Biden administration to shut down the FBI's main counter espionage program And before long boom America Garland goes any shuts down the very program that by the way Chris ray the FBI director says is so important In fact less than two weeks after Joe Biden's old employer which was flush with Chinese cash makes the request put survivor public Merrick Garland complies and shuts down a very important counter espionage program for the FBI trying to keep Chinese spies out of American academia
The Officer Tatum Show
Taking Back Our Institutions
"This is big news. You can't get away from it. Because it's major and it goes beyond it goes beyond hypocrisy. It goes far beyond hypocrisy. What we're seeing is, in my opinion, tyranny at place are in play. You have this revelation that Biden Biden had some classify documents. Very important, high level classified documents at this center in Washington at the Biden pin center or the pin Biden center in Washington, D.C. and everybody is going crazy at least on the left and they're trying to make it sound as if this isn't a big deal. This is a huge deal. You know, I was sitting here thinking about, you know, with all of the news breaking, there's some stuff that I plan to talk about today that I'm just not going to get to, but because I have to tackle this news. I want to talk about laying siege of our institutions. We've got to take our institutions back. Christopher rufo has written about this. He's with the city journal. He's done great work with this. He's written for hillsdale and in primus. Just magnificent work. We've got to take back the institutions. This is why I love being able to interview Kevin sorbo. We have to infiltrate academia. We have to infiltrate entertainment and listen, wherever God has called you to go, you need to go and shine a light spread a light, but also not be afraid to share your values to share your beliefs.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Gov. Sanders Bans 'Latinx' From Arkansas Government Documents
"Right, I had to daily wire Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders bans word from state government documents. I love this. Sarah Huckabee gets it. She was in there with Trump. She knows what's going on. She was such a great press secretary. She was phenomenal. And I have no doubt that she's going to be a great governor because she's starting off with a dang. New Republican Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed an executive order this week banning the use of the word LatinX or LatinX in government documents because it is quote culturally insensitive to the Latino community. Quote, ethnically insensitive and pejorative language has no place in official government documents or government employee titles. Sanders executive order stated. It goes on to say, and I quote the government has a responsibility to respect its citizens and use ethnically appropriate language, particularly when referring to ethnic minorities. Oh my God, I love this check. It goes on. The executive order noted that polling from the Pew Research Center has found that roughly only two to 3% of Latinos even use the word LatinX and those are the radicals, frankly, to describe themselves and that the real academia espanola, a Madrid based institution that serves as a guide for the Spanish language, has officially rejected the use of X as an alternative to O and a in Spanish.
The Dan Bongino Show
Amber Athey: Biden Could Not Declassify Documents Found as VP
"But you said it right the institutional left the media the entertainment community and academia They don't really care This is power to them It's hierarchy It's like yeah of course we look like hypocrites We're in charge we run these political narrative machines You don't shut your mouth and sit down But one of the components of the story the left wing media is leaving out which is a critical aspect of it Donald Trump was the president Joe Biden at the time the documents were taken was not He was a vice president and former vice president He had zero ability to declassify any of this stuff which there's no dispute about There is a dispute however about Donald Trump's documents where he's saying hey I declassified them There's a dispute over he went through the proper procedure but no dispute he's claiming that That's kind of the crux of the matter And you hear none of it with the media folks out there Yeah that's a great point Dan And there were several members of the Trump team who indicated that the president had told them that he was declassifying this set of documents before they removed to Mar-a-Lago If I remember correctly the discussion that was being had in some of his final days in office was which documents he wanted to take with him and thus declassify And yeah there's a debate over whether or not he went through the proper channels But these documents that were found at Biden's office you nailed it they couldn't have been declassified by him because he didn't have the authority to do that Right And when you look at the articles as this has been reported I'm looking at CNN right now These are top secret files with quote sensitive compartmented information which is the SCI designation which is highly sensitive and inclusive intelligence sources and remember the conversation about the Trump documents was that he was somehow going to expose access to national security secrets and here we are looking at the exact same thing from Biden
Mark Levin
Andrew Breitbart: The Democrat-Media Complex
"An original so many original statements and sayings can be attributed to my dearly departed friend Andrew breitbart who was my mentor and brought me into this crazy world For my second career Andrew breitbart coined the phrase that Democrat media complex It was of course a twist on the phrase military industrial complex where captains of industry and corporations In manufacturing would be in bed with The Pentagon in the military they would spend their money to ensure that politicians were put in place to give big defense contracts and keep a military build up going and then that money would then funnel back to those very same corporations that made the donations for those politicians that they could get rich off of the military build up And of course there's some truth to it It was really coined I think by president Eisenhower If anybody knew anything about the military industrial complex it would have been 5 star general leader of the allied forces in World War II and the president for two terms Dwight Eisenhower And you would hear from the left all the time military industrial complex Oh it's the military and the military industrial complex And so Andrew had such a great way with words and a great way of framing stories for the media and busting narratives in creating his own narratives that he coined the phrase the Democrat media complex And the Democrat media complex basically take the military industrial complex and take it out of the realm of manufacturing and corporate big manufacturing corporations And Republican politicians and The Pentagon and military spending remove that aspect of it but put it instead over into the media information entertainment culture the music industry academia
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Surviving Wokeness on College Campuses
"So I'm reading to you a piece by Joshua Katz, Professor of classics until last year at Princeton highly regarded in his field by his colleagues at Princeton, but he wrote a piece about wokeness. And that ended his career. Listen to this. Let's give you an idea of the moral quality of the cowardice that is a scenic one on college teaching. If you're not a coward, it's very hard to rise in academia. Let alone be a president or a dean. Cowardice is essential in your resume. Exactly one of my 16, none retired former colleagues in the department of classics at Princeton University. Has been in touch touch since I was fired last May. I'll continue with that in a moment. I want you to understand non retired. See, the retired, they don't fear being fired. They don't fear, but you won't be fired if you're in touch with Joshua Katz and you teach at the classics department at Princeton. It's that you don't want to be on the outs with your colleagues. To be to actually be a human being and contact your former colleague one of my 16 non retired former colleagues in the department of classics at Princeton University. Has been in touch since I was fired last May.
The Trish Regan Show
Biden Begs Supreme Court for Loan Forgiveness
"Let's get into the news the day here because we have the president thinking he can wave a magic wand and somehow turn around the courts on this whole student loan debacle. Don't forget this was struck down. It's not constitutional. They say, well, somehow he's going back at it again. He now has a lawsuit. He now has a lawsuit that he's taken to the Supreme Court because the Biden administration wants the Supreme Court to revive. His student loan relief program that would forgive up to $20,000 in student debt for tens of millions of Americans. You know what this really is about. Unfortunately, it is about politics because if they actually cared about fixing the system and making sure that more kids didn't take on debt, they couldn't afford it. They'd actually put it back on the colleges. The colleges that are sitting on billions of dollars in endowments were in the colleges are ones with the money. Let's be very clear. And the colleges took advantage of the system that the government, very poorly set up, which then took advantage of a lot of kids, of course, I still believe Gianna know what you're doing when you sign on that dotted line. We have gotten such a massive academia complex that really rivals what we saw once with the military conflict. Remember how back in the 80s everybody was pointing to that big giant military complex they hated it so much. We have the equivalent effectively. If you would in academia, and it's not really serving our country, it's not serving these kids, and it's landing them in tons of debt because, hey, you get a blank check and nobody thinks about having to pay it back. Meanwhile, colleges are out of control in terms of what their inflation rates are because, hey, it's free money. What happens when you have free money? Have we not learned anything over the last couple of years anyway, the Justice Department said in a court filing on Thursday that it planned to ask the Supreme Court to reverse an injunction that was issued earlier in the week by the 8th circuit Court of Appeals prohibits the administration from carrying out student debt relief separately the Justice Department is asking the 5th circuit Court of Appeals to put on hold a decision by a district court judge in Texas to strike down the debt relief program as illegal because hey, why not?
The Trish Regan Show
Americans Are Feeling NO Economic Empathy
"Got a situation right now where people, they feel as though there's no empathy on the economic front. I mean, hey, when you get James Taylor out there singing away and you're having this big blast to celebrate a reduction in inflation that's what, a ton of percent, I'm sorry it's not going to work. When you go on 60 minutes and you try and tell us that inflation is coming down when we know it's upwards of 8% higher than where it was last year and somehow your solution for that is to descend a helicopter money out to all those college grads that had all these wild degrees and wonderful things. Don't get me wrong, but not things that are necessarily moving our country forward. I mean, this is part of the danger and you've heard me speak about this before with WOAK academia that is not focused enough on the here and now in what we need as a country to succeed in the immediate sense of the word, but also in the future. China is very good at this. And you saw the study, we talked about it, that showed the rise of the Chinese universities. You compare and contrast that with the decline, if you would, of U.S. universities. And I think what you're finding is that we're kind of getting fat happy and lazy, right? Like it's easy to say, ah, you know, it'll all work out and we can focus on all this nonsense over here. Instead of engineering, instead of the kinds of fields of study that would really enable us to be strong and independent in the future.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
The Woke Movement Has Penetrated the Scholarly Journals of Academia
"Unfortunately, the so called woke movement has penetrated the scholarly journals of academia. And this includes journals of science and social science where you study matters, but what the journals do now is they say that if you have the wrong views, particularly about race, about gender or sexual orientation, or even if you are studying topics that we consider to be quote taboo, we're going to block you. We're going to not publish your article, we're going to exclude this discussion from our journal. We're going to we're going to make our journal activist in taking positions on issues, even though they are open questions as far as academic debate is concerned. Now, it turns out that there is a further escalation by the national Institutes of health, which is now withholding scholarly access to an important database. This is a database that scientists use to study the relationship of things like race and health or ethnicity and economic success. Or gender and performance in physics. So in other words, this was a database that's been available to social scientists, particularly scientists who are studying the relationship between on the one hand race ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation. And on the other hand, a whole set of outcomes, whether they be biological outcomes in the case of health. So for example, certain genetic groups may be more disposed, for example, they're getting a particular kind of disease. That's obviously been a long time subject of study. Obviously there are differences between men and women in terms of biology and health, but not held only, but also things like why is it that so few women become physicists? Well, you want to look at databases to see, for example, how many women are physics majors? How many of them take an interest? How many of them express a desire to be a physicist? How many of them? So all these sorts of questions are can only be studied if you have access to data. Well, it turns out we're hearing from James Lee who's a behavioral geneticist at the university of Minnesota. He says, quote, my colleagues and other universities and I have run into problems involving applications to study the relationships among intelligence, education, and health outcomes.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Eric and Michael Wilkerson Unpack His New Book and Post-Modernism
"Book, you do really beautifully move through the decades and help us understand kind of how we got here. So in the 20th century, this new idea comes in. And again, there are no new ideas. It's just the new version or the new manifestation of it. But yeah, this war on truth, which if you don't believe in truth, it's really hard to believe in transcendent values in the dignity of the human being. And so the deconstruction critical theory really undermines everything that makes liberty and freedom possible. I mean, liberty and truth possible. You know, I think in the 60s and the 70s, even in the 80s, post modernism was in a corner of academia. It was seen as, okay, there it is. I don't think we've appreciated how pervasive it's become, how much it has leaked out into society as a whole. And what is it? What are we talking about? It's the idea that there is no truth that you can't make any judgment on absolute sense. It really is subjective as to the meaning. And the way this manifests is in power and language in a view in that world that power, you can understand everything by looking at the power structure, who's in charge. And that's how identity politics really comes up with this idea of intersectionality and being able to look at somebody based on an oppressor victim construct. But it also comes down to language. And one of the things that this ideological attack is doing is systematically undermining for all of us, the meaning of words,
Therapy for Black Girls
"academia" Discussed on Therapy for Black Girls
"Do get a PhD, most programs worth their salt will pay you to get your PhD in the sense that you do not have to pay for the actual college credits, et cetera, and that you will be able to get a teaching assistant position or research assistant position. Now, whether or not you're able to really live off of those wages, that's a whole different story, but while you are going to college, you hopefully won't leave with as much debt as you might have included as an undergraduate or in a master's program. And doctor Neville, I wonder if you could also share because you talked earlier about the teen year track piece, but I also have heard from colleagues in academia about some of the difficulties. So, you know, sometimes the research that black women want to do in the academy isn't always approved of or thought as highly of also to your earlier point, doctor Moseley you talked about being this listening ear for students. So we know that there are a lot of tests that black women typically take on in academia that do not count towards a ten year portfolio so I'm wondering if you can kind of speak to some of that. Yeah, there are a lot of tasks. Some people say that some of the work that we do, we should be paid hazard pay for some of the things that we do, not that the work that we do with other black students, but the work that we have to do with white colleagues and white students to sit and bear witness to their racism and take that in. So I guess the things that I struggle with is the balance between what I get from it and what I have to put up with. And there are things that black women have to deal with in the academy in terms of having the opportunity and privilege to work with students with the demands of having to do research. You have to set some boundaries there. The other thing is having to deal with gendered racism or what like yoni Lewis talks about gendered microaggressions, where things are targeted specifically toward us as black women. Like I had a white male colleague who felt the need to disagree with me in every single public setting. Any time that I made a statement, whether it was in front of students or whether it was in front of faculty. And so at those times you just have to dig in deep and understand who you are in the strength and tap into my larger purpose. There are many ways that we are dismissed. But again, reflecting back on doctor white's words, I do not look to white people, and their systems to judge or validate me. So I've always decided that I will publish the work that I want to publish in the journals that I think are most appropriate. And if that is not good enough, then I need to find another way. So I have been really privileged that way. There are other people who've done the same. And I would encourage people never, ever make yourself smaller or to do work that you do not think is important or to silence yourself because what I have seen is that when women particularly silence themselves so that they can get tenure when they get tenure they do not speak up after that point and that many times they don't achieve what they want to do. So live your truth loudly every day and boldly and you will find a place if that is not your place. The other thing that I think people don't realize is that there are different kinds of academic institutions. There are research intensive institutions which doctor Moseley and I have worked in that have a different set of expectations. And there are teaching institutions where you teach more and you have an opportunity to work more closely with students that don't have the same research demand. So people really need to kind of think about what might be the best fit for their goals. So I also hear in your question, like why the heck would anybody want to go into academia and stay in there? And I guess I feel a little bit guarded 'cause I'm like, come come, come. But to your earlier question that I realized I did not respond to that people should go in with their eyes wide open. And I feel incredibly privileged now to be in the field of counseling psychology versus other areas of psychology because it allows me to do things that are important. Things related to liberation psychology, where I can talk about anti racism. And I realized that is not available in other fields. So if people that are listening are thinking about and contemplating what program to go into or what field to go into, do your research to think about will you be able to be cultivated and nurtured as a learner you are in the areas that are interest for you as a total person. Thank you for that. I can know, yeah, you definitely heard that in my question. I didn't necessarily want to ask that. Outright, but I do think it is so difficult because you do like doctor mostly said, you are hearing so many sisters right now talking about leaving academia, right? And I think there's something particular. I think it was always tough, but I think there's something about the pandemic, of course. That has accelerated this for people, especially I've also heard colleagues talk about their research, like the bands on CRT and all of this stuff and so now like the presentations and the work that they were doing for people who may be at state funded schools is even being further scrutinized right. And so I think there's something about it right now that feels really difficult and so I appreciate you putting that into context that just go in with your eyes wide open and kind of know what you're getting into. So doctor Moseley, I would love to hear a little bit more about academics for black survival and wellness, so I'd love for you to talk a little bit more. You talked about it being started. Some wrote 2020 when I think it was very, very greatly needed, but it has since continued and so can you talk to me a little bit about the growth of the program and the theme for this year? Because it is continuing. So tell me a little bit about what's happening. Yes, thank you so much for that question. Paris and I along with sunshine Adam, who's been another one of the primary organizers of academics for black survival and wellness. We came up with it being this year of pathways to liberated black features. And have decided that it's going to be our last run of academics for black lives. Because we came in trying to do this intervention within academia to see what academics who were finally quote unquote so woke in this moment around the anti black violence that's happening everywhere and they were really alerted to the ways that it was happening through police violence and we wanted to bring the attention to the way that it happened within the academy. And I started a lot during that first year about how my pathway to academia was led by sort of fueled by a close friend of mine who didn't make it through grad school due to anti black racism and the depression and
Therapy for Black Girls
"academia" Discussed on Therapy for Black Girls
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Looking for more ways to be well as you enjoy summer fun, visit WFM dot com slash wellness for more wellness tips. So that can mostly I wanted to explain some of your thoughts about the safety and wellness that you feel like is really critical to protect black women in academia. Can you say a little bit more about that and what that might look like? What it would look like to have the safety and wellness while going through the program is I think it's like what got me through my PhD and I hope I was able to provide some of my students while I was there, but it was having mentors, educators, advisers, who allowed you to be a learner, I think, that so often black women in academia go into a space where one of the only black people there or black women there. And especially if you're in mental health or counseling realms, then you're being asked to be an educator more than you're allowed to be a learner. And so the safety to not know and to not be the spokesperson to be able to bring in what you do know that might not fit for your people as you're learning new theories or techniques and to be able to have someone actually give you something useful that you can use and bring back to your practice. I think that's what safety and wellness looks like. It's being able to get your needs met in the academic space. And that's really rare for black women, I think, even today. And so when we have those educators who can answer those questions or who allow us to push whether or not they know the answers and who push back on the other students or other faculty members who might be pulling for us to take on other roles versus being that student in a training program. That's I think a way of safety being provided. For black women navigating academia, I think it's important to have someone outside of your university as your mentor, someone who you can go to to help you figure out what you're getting through and how to get through it, but doesn't have some of that power over you in the system that is going to be granting you your degree or doesn't have to worry about the relationships or less likely to have to worry about relationships with other faculty members as you bring those problems. And doctor novel was that for me. And so I think that's one pathway toward safety and wellness in the academy. And safety and wellness also comes from having to be the only one. So when I was recruiting students, I often tried to bring them in to our Doc program impairs or after I knew that there was someone else who was studying something similar to them or was going to be on a similar timeline as them so that they wouldn't have to be the only one. I think just being intentional about how we are with black women when we're bringing them especially into primarily white historically white institutions is a way of providing safety and wellness so thinking about who they're coming in with what the rest of that cohort might look like and then being the kind of mentor that sees them as a whole person and is about them succeeding professionally in their mental health career or careers or psychologists, but also who are they as a person and how can they have as much wellness as possible in a holistic way as they move through the program. Not that we have to be the ones to provide that. But to be in conversation with them about it to allow them to know that they are more than just their academic cells, that it's a gift for them to bring more than just their academic self to this space. Thank you for that. Doctor W you mentioned, it feels like the world is so much bigger for PhDs now. I agree with you historically, it has been either you had a faculty job, or you had a clinical job, right? At least in psychology or the mental health fields. So can you say a little bit about what makes it attractive for someone to pursue a PhD right now? What kinds of career opportunities open up with a PhD? A lot of opportunities open up with a PhD. I think it allows you to have a sense of credibility in your particular area that can open up a lot of different avenues for you to establish whatever dream it is that you want to do. Of course, people are dream making and achieving those dreams without a PhD, but it gives you that sense of credibility. I also think that there's other things that are particularly important for black women and black women who were first generation college students or who don't have access to some of the social capital that many of our white colleagues do. It gives you greater financial security and it can help you and your family and your community because of that financial security. It allows you to engage in meaningful work with your degree because it opens up a whole range of doors and opportunities for you. I think higher education can be so rewarding if you are privileged enough to be able to pursue higher education, that you grow as a human being and as a person and by your growth, your family grows and your community grows. So there's so much that you're able to do with a higher education. So don't let folks tell you that a PhD doesn't get you anything. It gets you a lot and it provides a lot for your families. And so I think those are really important. What people don't know is that if you
The Officer Tatum Show
The Motive of the Civil Rights Movement
"Larry, I know that a lot of people in this country have a conflict sometimes. I see a lot of people. They have a conflict sometimes when it comes to race specific issues. And I'm a firm believer that this film is not only for the consumption or the viewer, the viewing from Americans of African descent. But can you explain to the audience and if this is your consistent opinion, can you explain to the audience why this is important not just for black people, but for every single American today? It's important because what it shows you is what made America great is our reliance on judeo, Christian values. And as we get away from those, our country is being undermined. As we get away from the belief that America is a shining city on a hill, you're having a growing number of people on the left of all races believing that America is systemically racist that capitalism is fundamentally flawed and nothing could be further from the truth. We show how entrepreneurs coming out of slavery were buying buildings in Harlem for crying out loud. That's what caused the Harlem renaissance. Now you go through Harlem and you find anger and despair and many people in academia are in Hollywood in the media have no blooming idea about the history of this country and we explore it in Uncle Tom too. And by the way, you are quoted in Uncle Tom two Brandon and saying, I'm now beginning to question the civil rights movement because as honorable as MLK was, he was also somebody who basically believed in wealth redistribution.
Code Story
"academia" Discussed on Code Story
"Things that seemed kind of simple in academia were kind of actually more complex kind of being able to work in a group with I think the first thing they have really was a different skill set. It kind of found to interact with other humans and build systems around that and collaboration ended up being a new set of skills that I picked up similarly as a kind of moved around the world, picking up management skills. So I've never actually been trained in management. The opportunities just afforded themselves, talking to groups and people and not something that you do as an engineer in academia. So that's another one kind of interesting thing. And right now I kind of get around and say that I was trained as a computer scientist, but my job is a psychologist. What I'm doing is kind of, you know, just making sure that people are motivated. Because a lot of the work gets done through motivated people. So huge set of skill sets, non technical skill sets. And of course, around the technology itself, it's super interesting. One of the biggest realizations was that all these things that we studied around analysis of algorithms. It's super relevant actually in industry because how quickly how responsive your staff is and how well that works is actually something that delights users was a big differentiator. The problems are generally simple, much, much simpler than what you would see in academics, but when you apply them at scale, all the practical engineering skills, I think that the biggest technical stuff that I picked up. Junior, do you find it's kind of similar for you or has the world changed so many in so much in 30 years that you have a different experience? Yeah, like probably about to solve the things you said. In school in academia, you get right papers, you get to have some theory about different things.
Another Mother Runner
"academia" Discussed on Another Mother Runner
"But we have been running together. Well, I ran throughout my entire pregnancy. Even running the day or the morning before I went into labor. And that day I was so happy. It was moral day weekend, it was low humidity, which for D.C., summer is a miracle. And I just, you know, I knew she was coming in a few days, most likely. And everything just felt so as hopeful as it could be in May 2020, but I was giving birth to my first daughter, everything seemed to be going well, I was so happy. And so I ran out of that a few years later, my water broke, and then she showed up the next morning. But running became such an important part of our first couple of years together because particularly with the pandemic, it was one of the few fun things I could do regularly. And it was something that I could do with her. And, you know, from a parenting perspective, it was also the easiest hour of parenting. I'd spend each day because she was safe. She was secure. She was getting fresh air. Sometimes she took a nap. Instead of all of the time, I would try and spend getting her to nap on her own. And so she really has enjoyed being in the stroller, checking out different sites. So I was hopeful that she would also enjoy this race as well. Which I did I've done this race before a number of times without a stroller. On this particular day, it was pretty cold, cold enough that I put snow pants on Lucy to keep her warm. Even though it was 35° and I handed her a book, she held on to the book the entire race, it was very windy. And that was honestly the hardest part of the race because pushing a stroller around with the wind felt like you're just, you know, it's like an open sail just catching all of that wind. Right. But people were so positive and cheered behind and saying, you know, go bomb a girl and, you know, Lucy wasn't startled, thankfully, by the starting hoard or anything like that, and I made a little side that I decorated the store a little width that said Lucy's first race. So not only were people saying go. Mama, they were saying, go Lucy, go loosely. Very sweet. It was really cute. It was a really special moment. And I hope we'll be able to do more of that. And do you have anything next on your racing calendar and will that be, are you going to do any solo endeavors? I don't have any races on the calendar yet. With or without Lucy, I definitely want to be able to do more races with her down the road. And for a while, I was a girls love the red coach. I hope someday to get her into that as well. That's definitely a big dream of mine. But in the future, I've never done an ultra marathon before. And I would like to try a 50 K at some point..
Another Mother Runner
"academia" Discussed on Another Mother Runner
"And that seemed to be this really pivotal moment in my life. I graduated college in 2008. I had moved to Washington D.C. to start grad school. And I thought this was the time to create new habits, and that it would be worth trying this new thing or returning to something that I knew I could at least kind of do. And so I thought, grad school is going to be hard. This could be helpful. And I have a jog occasionally in college, but not with any sense of regularity. But I thought, you know, new city, new school, try this, try this new thing. And then that was life-changing. Yes, and by the time we met in 2009 at the Marine Corps marathon, you were really quite serious about running. And we're running marathons since ask marathons at that. Absolutely. So I, you know, that first semester of grad school fall 2008. Just really started testing the waters running around the campus, running around D.C. for 5 miles at a time. And met someone else who was into running more regularly at that point and we would go out red around the national mall on Saturday mornings to the so beautiful. And whatever we would read together, we would talk big ideas because he was also under grad program, so we talked about school and our hopes and dreams and sometimes we would talk about marathons and how cool that seemed and he finally, after doing this for a couple of months wrote to me and said, I think we should commit to doing this. There's a marathon in D.C. in March. That's 5 months away. I think we could do this. And so I said, why not? And at that point, we had run 6 miles. That's pretty bold at that point to say, you know, hey, I've read 6 wise I could do over four times that. In less than 5 months time. But I really fell in love with the trade egg. I'm certainly someone who appreciates structure and routine. But I also became more adventurous as I got into my day, and I liked the idea of stretching my abilities. And regularly doing something I had never done before. Okay, this is the first time I've ever read for an hour at a time. This is my first double digit rod. Going all the way up to the 20 mile training route, each time checking off one of these new boxes was just this really unique feeling of accomplishment and I certainly loved singing and the performing arts and as they did in college,.
Another Mother Runner
"academia" Discussed on Another Mother Runner
"Peruvian accent and she just clearly enjoying their performance of the book and her story is incredible and the walking she walks the group to base camp. She interweaves her personal backstory and then she talks about going up to summit of mount anniversary and it's just really, it was thrilling and delightful at the same time. Oh my gosh, I think that's the book that Molly mentioned last week on the podcast because last week's guest had just is an o-b-gyn in Virginia who had just hiked to base camp. Okay. That was her intent. That was her final destination was to get to base camp. And so I'm almost positive that is the book she mentioned as well. So there's something in there. Okay, something in the air. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I just started listening to a novel called the people we hate at the wedding and it's by grant ginder, I think is like grinder, but without the first R and he's actually I think it's the cousin of a Bamber one of our bastards Pam. And his newest book, which I'm spacing out on the name of just got really good review in The New York Times. And so I don't think the wait list for that was too long. So this one, one of his earlier books sounded good, so I started listening to it. I like the title. Yes, yes, yes, yes, and so far it's a brother and sister and their half sister is getting married at a very posh wedding in England. And so kind of and there's two narrators because there's the one who plays the sister and the one who plays the brother. So it's fun. It's your voices. Yes, yes, yes, yes. So it's good but gosh, I tell you here in Portland there's such a long wait for audiobooks from our library. Ah. So our library is very well loved and used..
Sex with Dr. Jess
"academia" Discussed on Sex with Dr. Jess
"That i might actually be leaving academia as a researcher or as a artist or as an activist. Yeah i mean the is. The limit was abolished presents and abolish borders and decries sex work and make sure that everyone has access to all the things that you to survive and thrive not based on whether they have citizenship or whether they are enabled by person or whether they're married now all these things that we've decided are like whether or not people get delivered. I are arbitrary arbitrary. So yeah i mean. I hope my career so to speak can contribute to those goals of making this world a less awful base for everyone for everyone. Yeah so sky's the limit. I love that. And the last person i have for you is. Do you have any advice for students. Currently sending such malady or people who wanna get into the field. I guess abroad general case of advices to know that academia is not an equitable place. It is not like academe is part of the problem. Maybe as what. I want to say in terms of if you have a vision for a more just better world. Part of that actually begins rethinking. The academy as it exists in terms of his higher v in terms of its cultural capital. Two very few people while there's lots of part time faculty your contract instructors or whatever working for little pay no job security. it's a it's a very challenging place in. It has lots of problems. Like i came into university thinking i was going to pursue knowledge and it was gonna be awesome and there's going to be all these other students there that like wanted to be there and then i got to university in no one cared. It was like a bunch of people. His parents made them go yet. No one no one cared about the pursuit of knowledge and i was like so disheartened by that and really saddened than bummed out. And i was like oh. This isn't what i thought it was gonna be. I would wish other chester's other people in the field would be really upfront with students about the limitations of academia as the place to to do things. I wouldn't say that in a way to discourage people from participating but to participate in a way where you understand how academia can also cause harm or it can be limiting it actually allows you to like exist in that place in a way that's healthier and in a way that is self preserving That's really good advice. Not just for anyone in the sexuality field but anyone in academia in general. So thank you for sharing that and thank you so much for chatting with you today and answering all my questions ryan. This conversation is definitely going to give me and hopefully others something to think about so again. Thank you thanks for having me. It was a pleasure again. Everyone that was dr ryan. Conrad zinn activists academic in artists. If you're interested in learning more about his past or current projects especially his activism in his art go to vegas dot org and that's what he said so f. a. g. g. o. teeth said dot org and i'll make sure to put that in the show notes as well. Thank you everyone for listening today. And as dr just would say wherever you're at folks. You're listening to the sex with dr jess podcast. Improve your sex life improve your.
Sex with Dr. Jess
"academia" Discussed on Sex with Dr. Jess
"Be a way to actually include in a meaningful way more grand chance faculty which they're pretty limited if you haven't noticed yeah like the distribution of resources are not towards things like sexuality studies. I think there's many reasons for that. But one is that it seen as like not a real sub-field not are important thing or it's like oh thinking about sexual these extra when we should really be thinking about these important things and yeah. I'll say just like straight up homophobia your research isn't that important. It's just about queer people in. That's like three percent of the population select. Your research is really important even within the deal when there is a strong studies program or department. Or what have you. It's still within the higher structure of academia. Which could people against each other right so your colleagues actually become competitors for grants or for prestige or for advancement and. I hate all of that stuff. It's so repulsive to me and maybe part of wine don't have fulltime job but yet those are all real things that happen in academia. that are unpleasant. Yeah i can see how a lot of those conditions would be frustrating to work with. And what about your intersectional identities. Have you think that they've affecting your career. That's a great question and sort of alluded to it a little bit earlier just in terms of like being queer person in the world who otherwise has lots of privileges and benefits greatly from things likewise premacy or misogyny by benefit from those things simply by existing as a white guy in the world but being queer was my open to understanding that people experience the world. Different for me right like straight people get a lot in the world in terms like and privileges we can even think about like how the state is set up to support families that reproduce which used to be exclusively realm of of stray people. But there's some people that are gays and lesbians. That are doing this now. yeah it was. It was my clearness that really opened up to understanding that people experience the world differently. And it's why. I work really hard to work in solidarity with other people who are from other marginalized groups. Identity isn't necessarily intersectional. Which i know is the language we often use but that identity is actually co constituted right. They're actually not. Overlapping are intersecting. They're all squished together. And they are dependent on one another right like my clearness despite it being my part of my marginal status my criticism inseparable from my whiteness at my mail. That's right so i experienced clearness in a way that like a racial person would experience chris differently than me. Ride like their quickness would necessarily open them up to the world Impressions of other people in the same way. I would because right. They're also dealing with the oppression of being racialist person so their criticism the door that opens for that. But it was for me because i'm otherwise a very privileged person and then yeah i would. I would add that. I've run into other people other faculty other funding people who have dismissed my research because it's about queer stuff and also i don't know for fact because we know in these things because they never tell you why you don't get the advancement or the grand or the research money but i have no doubt that i've missed opportunities because i do stuff on. Hiv and aids. Where people. Oh that was the thing in the night. Why are people still do research on that. And that's been particularly important to me like my my research is largely revolved around hiv. So yeah there's there's all those questions in terms of how we move through places and spaces and institutions with our co constituted identities. What doors that open doors. That close and sort of west indies and collaborations solidarities can exist within the institution. I love that and those questions are so great and important for everyone to consider so you mentioned that you do a lot of activists work around. Hiv and aids. among other things. How would you say that. Your role as an activist in an academic intertwine. You know a lot of people say that activism shouldn't have a place in universities or other academic institutions because the focus should be on academic integrity in academia and whatnot at not politics. You feel about that. I mean there's lots of ways to to think about an answer to this question but when thing is like there's no outside of politics like everything's political you know if someone has a syllabus in every single person so business white that's political the same way if they're all straight that's what a call and so this idea that there's something like objectively or like academic integrity that's some somehow outside of the political his just. The pursuit of knowledge is like a very dated way of thinking. So i would say that everything's always political all the time whether you're actively doing something or not right by not doing something. You're also making a decision. And i think he's cedric. Actually a very important scholar in sexuality studies mesa really interesting argument about what she calls the paranoid position. When you approach something it's research or relationship and you already know in advance what you're gonna find and sedgwick was saying. Everyone has a hypothesis. Research proves that. And that's the problem right like we should actually be wrong so yeah but having sort of this radical openness to being surprised by our research or being surprised by are finding is would actually get to more truthful conclusion about what we're thinking about her questions for asking so one example of this house or the hacktivism cloud once abilities do good research as the research project. I'm working on now. With another doctoral. Fellow dr emma mckenna whose at university of ottawa criminology program. She teamed up with the prostitutes of auto again at work. Educate recessed aka power and we were really interested in the claims being made about sex workers and their ability to access social safety programs during the koga pandemic and the sort of activists claim was that sex workers were defacto excluded from these social safety net programs. Because sex workers work is illegal or demi criminal and they don't file taxes so therefore they're not eligible for these things and so. I understand why this argument might be made but i i would suspect up the claim and so my colleague and i applied for research money to do research on actually talking to sex workers and ask them if they access these social safety nets whether or not they filed taxes and it turns out the majority of them do file taxes in the majority of them did access serves esp or guy and that's not to say some people were excluded because already clearly shows that many people did miss out but about two thirds of them did collect some sort of social benefit. We actually need to be more thoughtful in our framing of these questions about sex workers exclusions from society and from social programs. And what stigmas. We might refi by making the fantasy. Sex workers are excluded from these things and therefore sort of outside of the social world or outside of society. They're just pitiful creatures. That need some sort of support when when in reality. Sex workers are extremely organized and basically run independent businesses so there are ways in which people's ideology or political vision can cloud. Their research are actually make their findings. Questionable right or questionable. Things they do with their their outcomes are there with their data and this is a problem across disciplines as not just sexuality studies that so. Yeah i think the like academia should be academic pursuit of knowledge. That's all ridiculous like i. Don't listen to those people. But i do think there are legitimate concerns within academia around how ideology might influence how one conduct the research in what one does with that results. I think sedgwick was really pressing asking this question of us as researchers very early on to say. Hey actually we need to figure out ways of being radically open to finding something that wasn't bogere looking for and being responsible to and yet that's a much more interesting question sort of weird appealed to like not be political as a possibility in the world. We all have subject position. We all come from place. So doesn't bubble. Sorry yeah yeah no. That's very very true. So i'm gonna give it a little bit here and i'm going to ask you. What is it that you still want to accomplish in your career. While getting a fulltime job would be wonderful just in terms of my own. Yeah getting old. I'm almost forty. And i don't have a fulltime job at night. Been paying off my student debt forever and so yeah. I would love to have a bit more stability in my life in terms of the career and.
Sex with Dr. Jess
"academia" Discussed on Sex with Dr. Jess
"Great. That's doing something that feels good in the world right right. Thank you for going over that. That sounds like such an interesting journey. What made you want to get into the field of sexuality in the first place. It's a bit self serving. I grew up in the nineties and didn't have a lot of access to things about history or your activism or even just like the history of sexual liberation from the seventies forward as born in the early eighties so i was born at the height of like the conservative backlash and reaganomics and the mulroney government here in canada. The beginning of the aids crisis has also the beginning of a really conservative shift in gay and lesbian politics right from being the inheritors of sort of sexual liberation in the nineteen seventies to actually having a really conservative political agenda in the nineties early two thousands in the states from demanding universal healthcare to demanding access to healthcare through partner benefits so the sort of more radical demand that is like everyone should have health care to people that get married should be able to share their private insurance and to me. That's like oh how did that happen. Such a conservative shift. That happens right. And there's also a large demand for like people should be able to get married. People should be able to serve in the military openly and like both. The police on the prison system should be set up to protect queer people from him. Run when i think of the police and the prison system as a hate crime and so for me. It was going to school in studying. The things that i was studying was in part of figuring out my own life in a particular way right like i wanted to understand how queer people gave up on the sort of radical vision of sexual liberation and turned it in for like weddings and like serving. The military guy. Couldn't figure it out as out understand like how a went to be and so so. My research dissertation in my desire to go into sexuality studies to study sexuality is really about trying to figure out what happened because i saw such radical potential excitement in the past and the present was like abysmal. I like things i didn't want to be part of. I felt really contrary. And i felt very alone in that too. There wasn't a lot of people that i was connected to the service smaller place that i lived. That had the politics that more lined up with my sort of more. I lean more towards anarchism in ports sort of radical left politics. That's like much more inclusive. And yeah like i don't believe billionaires like they should exist. I don't believe presents they shouldn't exist and so trying to think about sexuality and the sort of radical inheritance of sexual liberation which did have these demands. That's like redistributing wealth rethinking equity was all given up and so. I really wanted to let give myself time to read right. Think through these questions of what propelled us conservative term game us in politics so i could better understand myself like why. Didn't i follow the larger gay and lesbian community in that direction and also what was propelling them in that direction. And so yeah. That's how i ended up there. And maybe i'll share. I'm going to be really real with you. You know like how did i end up in academia. I was chasing a boyfriend. So i applied to abuse program in canada. Because i been dating someone in montreal. It is interesting to have been your teacher. Because i'm also like super-critical academia he gets. It can be very terrible place and it causes harm and does terrible things and a lot of aided are trying to figure out what to do with that contradiction and try to think about you know. Are we changing the institution or is the institution changing us. Which is like a question. I'm always asking myself. But i'm a bit of an accidental academic. I applied to school in canada for immigration purposes. So i could live with my boyfriend and not be dependent upon him or be forced into getting gay married. Because that would be the other way that i could move across the border and so people end up in academia for all sorts of reasons. Maybe what i'm trying to say and not all of us have the sort of standard trajectory of going to undergrad than immediately going to grad school. And you know like. I didn't do that after finishing my undergrad. Like i started a queer punk house with my friends and like the pump house for like five years. Then i went back to school and the time off in between and i also find people that don't do the go to school. Go to grad school than get a job that have just been out in the world and living and working crappy jobs and living in the real world to actually have a lot to share to teach i guess on translates. There's a lot of people in academia who've never done anything else. And i think they're worse off for that like they don't have real world experiences living in a bad neighborhood because it's the only place you can afford to live to make decisions about many. That are great and yeah like hamas on your values because you need to pay rent or pay your student that right and so you take jobs. That may be necessary to take because your bills to pay so i think people that have had that more dynamic not just a life in academia but like a life in the real world are better teachers for it and so. I'm glad i accidentally got to where i am because i think i have valuable things to share. But yeah people's trajectory attack game. It can be very different ryan. That's really interesting. Those are some really important questions in idea that you're working through there. And what would you say. The most rewarding part of your career is at the moment. Beta one thing is like academia itself is very unrewarding place most of the time. But i've met some really amazing researchers a really amazing people that really inspire me and challenge me and get me to think about things in more complex ways that i mean again. It sounds narcissistic. But it's like personal growth. Like i have grown as a person i feel like i have better critical thinking skills. I'm more empathetic by meeting. People and like reading work that comes from people have different life experiences right understanding that marginalized people often have a better reading of how power works within institutions because of their status as like a oppressor marginalized person right. I'm i'm marginalized pretty limited way as like a non trans white gay dude with a phd. Right i'm not the oppressed in most ways but mike weirdness has really been what's opened the app to having more empathy and understanding. How other people's lives are different and had different struggles and being able to connect with those people read their work engaged their work. So i guess maybe the most exciting rewarding part for me is that i get to keep learning which i think can be true outside of academia that structures really good for me i realise while the structure decide despite being an anarchist. I love some and so yeah. Being part of academia has loud for like a structured interaction with people that i find really inspiring so yeah. The most rewarding part is the ability to keep growing learning. I agree and especially within the sexuality field. The conversations that you have with others are always so interesting on the other side of that. What are some of the challenges that you faced in your career. I think there's lots of challenges but maybe some of the bigger ones are like the sort of structuring of academia. A very higher co pays the challenges as like a place of sexuality studies within the university is very small and it's not particularly well supported also circum at the federal federal level in terms of funding bodies. They don't actually think of sexuality studies as as disappoint really lacks. The necessary resources for to blab amon bloom in a way. That would be really wonderful to have you know more Scholars universities and a lot of people in sexuality studies equator a lot of people doing gender diversity of trans and it would.
Sex with Dr. Jess
"academia" Discussed on Sex with Dr. Jess
"Maggie is interviewing dr ryan. Conrad who is an activist and artist scholar. A professor a teacher and they talk about the challenges of academia activism within academia discrimination within academia and all of the contradictory feelings that kind of come with that with the elitism and with the fact that academia so often out of reach for most people and this is something that i've thought about and kind of struggled with for years and i don't think i've done the best job personally working through it so this conversation is very helpful in meaningful to me. I just had a listen. And i think you're really going to enjoy it. They also talk about queer politics and radical openness and dr konrad shares his career story as well as his thoughts on working in the field of sexuality and academia. And i guess the intersection of those two things and some of the challenges like the reality that for so many people working in the field it entails doing so piecemeal in order to to make ends meet. So i'm gonna throw to that conversation that i think maggie does a really great job facilitating and quickly before i do. I want to shout out our sponsor. Adam and eve dot com. They continue to extend that fifty percent off coupon doctor jazz. So with co doctor. Jesse get fifty percent off almost any item so everything from butt plugs to vibrators to harnesses to lingerie and more at adam and eve dot com fifty percent off plus free shipping and some other free gifts. They're going to throw in with co doctor jazz. So do checkout. Adam and eve dot com. And that's it for me. Am throwing it to maggie and her conversation with dr ryan. Conrad hi everyone. My name's maggie. I'm a student at concordia university in the surmountable voire institute. And i've been working as dr jessica's intern over the summer. I initially started this many podcast series to explore different jobs in the sexuality field as a resource for people who might be interested in a career and sexuality that being said during my interviews. I found that much more interesting. Topics came up from sex education. Second substance abuse sex in cancer to racial and social justice to activism in academia queer and sex worker politics prison. Abolition and really a whole range of topics related to sex and sexuality. In this podcast. I'll be speaking with dr ryan. Conrad who i know. Actually because he was my first professor in the sexuality program at concordia doctor conrad's really interesting because he's both in anarchist and academic and he'll be talking about some really important issues like queer politics activism in academia sex worker research and more high ryan. Thank you for talking to me today. How are you doing well. That's good to hear so jumping right in on your website. You describe yourself as an activist and artist in an academic. Can you briefly go over some of the work that you do yoga so i sort of go by all those titles when it's useful to be one of them if that makes sense in terms of making oneself legible certain situations sometimes. I'm an activist on artists scholar and academic and sometimes all three at the same time. But i'm very much by any medium necessary if that makes sense so depending on the goal of what i'm doing i'm more of a activist or an artist scholar men so i worked sort of at the intersections of sexual liberation politics. Sex worker politics hand. I do everything from teaching. In sort of more academic settings to running workshops and stuff in more community based settings as well as making cultural production or cultural work there. It's film or video or performance sometimes just visual are so may what. I'm trying to say as Multidisciplinary interdisciplinary kind of person men. Depending on what the goal of a particular event or situation or experiences. I engage in in different forms of yeah different practices to to sort of make things happen so to speak. I read that. And i think those three titles academic artists and activists are such an interesting combination together. Could you maybe go over how you got to where you are in your career. In terms of training or educational background. I have three degrees three degrees. Interdisciplinary somewhere on them. So my undergraduate degree interdisciplinary bachelor's degree private studying political science and performance are and so i. I went to a smaller college where you could actually sort of make up your program and i was working with a really interesting black performance. Artist name volume powell who does work about race whiteness and sort of americana right the american experience. So i did that. When i was state's working with william powell and that was really formative experience for me. Seeing the capacity to make cultural commentary on political things through the work of performance video hardcore film and video. Broadly i have a masters of fine arts from the main college of art. I'm for maine. So that's that's where i went and it's a interdisciplinary studio arts degree from there. I ended up at concordia in michelle. Where i did a phd in the interdisciplinary humanities program that is essentially is a cultural studies program and so i can cut it. I was working film studies in our history. But while i was at concordia what is essentially doing was a sexuality studies but those don't really exist and so you have to go into injured this programs for your kind of make up your department or make up your programs. You go so. I've been in sexuality studies but i've been in that field through the more sort of cultural side of things right like i'm interested in hardened performance and video and thinking about sexuality studies through looking at those types of mediums as opposed to people that might come from the social sciences like sociology anthropology. Who would be doing more like research. With human subjects right saying it would be like doing surveys or qualitative interviews. I'm more interested in like cultural detritus right. Like the objects that are left behind by social movements like aids activists movement or the sexual liberation movement. I'm interested in the posters. They made and the films. They made both documentary and and performances in theater pieces that were made about those things. So that's my trajectory who as interdisciplinary degrees kind of all over the place. And yeah. I landed right now. I'm a post doctoral fellow at york university in toronto and working with grayson engineer marsha so in the cinema media studies department but particularly working on working on a book about as actress omon video. In canada with john grayson. I'm specifically working on a project about toronto living with aids which is cable access. Television series was on in one thousand nine hundred ninety ninety one but i also teach as he said so. That's my research. Background is over at your. I've been teaching proteomic concordia sexuality studies program but i also teach part time at carlton in ottawa. Where i teach in the women and gender studies program. I teach an introduction to lgbt studies course for first year students. Yeah that's a lot. It's a lot everywhere. That what i'm doing is not unique. There's very few jobs in our feel and there's a lot of us who are working part time at many places to sort of make career as to. What would be much more pleasurable as having one job at one school and just working there but it's a condition of academia right. It's unfortunate there's very few jobs that are full-time. I've taught in a bunch of places of doing a bunch of research at different places at all feels very overwhelming. But i love it. I love teaching. Find it really exhilarating and exciting to teach in. I think of teaching as part of my activism. I think teaching young people critical thinking skills around issues of sexuality is activism for me. I used to not think that. I thought that was a cop out for a really long time and i felt like i always had to be doing bar but i also maybe as part of getting older and recognizing that like teaching. Is this really wonderful. Exciting and meaningful thing that has impact on people's lives. And that's what i want my activism to be. Then that's.
Talk Nerdy
"academia" Discussed on Talk Nerdy
"The scales and so people will will assess them as having more psycho pathology and having more potential psychosis when really if you look at the questions. They say things like the police are out to get me. Oh my god what is like they are you know. And it's one of those things that if only white people are writing the tests and if only white it it's just like if you've never had the experience of you've never opened that frame there and how do we change that. It's not that yes it helps reading. Your book helps opening up my perspective and my mind helps but you have to have seat at the table. You have to also be writing the test. That's why i appreciate you for having me on today. Because you know in academia. I feel like people like me are often swept under the table. And what do i mean people like me. People who have the lived experience of being at the very bottom you know. I think that there is sort of like a bourgeoisie academia alley and sold. They're like okay. You have skin. That is consistent with Having the experience of this race but then you find out that in fact that's not their experience of a of that. Why won't they give the microphone to someone who's actually You know sold a dime bag here and there. You know what i'm saying. Yeah no absolutely. I think humor why they won't do it. Oftentimes i think they're scared of what you're gonna say. Yeah and i feel like people talk to people feel comfortable are who reflect them in a way. You're so right. And i think that the i mean the whole point of this is that i've been really working to change the narrative of my show. It's not just about science but science happens. it doesn't happen in a vacuum. It happens in a cultural context and so as much as like. Thank you for thanking me for having you all i want to say to you. Thank you for coming on..
The Wise Fool
"academia" Discussed on The Wise Fool
"Called them or are you are oem and those who were artists architects. They physically contributed to product an exhibition while the others are not so we are rather walking on like eh long-term publication probably and seminars. But it's quite a different experience of having time to reflect on things to discuss it together and then make something together and that was a very new experience for me when working on the border between practice and as autistic practice and academia. It's very different. Like i was in academia a hundred percent for a lou maybe about twelve or thirteen years full-time professor and i came out of that. And i'm now part time professor. And i am trying to be a practicing artist. And it's the industry of the arts in academia is very different than the industry of the arts outside of academia and then of course within that they're many different subcategories of like being a institutional or non profit or commercial or all the different sort of little subcategories in that. But there's so much to it. And unfortunately while i feel this horrible imbalance where like the people that are in academia and i'm pointing the finger at myself for this as well so this is no judging of other people. We don't really know how the world is working because we're in academia and there i it's a great luxury to be in academia and there's a lot of time and space and creativity allowed in that industry that you were practicing working artists curator's and such don't have and i feel so we're the ones teaching the next generation but we don't really know how it actually works and it's a very unfortunate situation. The ads actually to. I mean. I'm i kind of sidestep my career now being in my forties and deciding to embark on this pitch knife talking to many who only have been working academia and wanna talk about bonding experiences that this pretty cold wind out there. Many don't believe me that is.
ABA Inside Track
"academia" Discussed on ABA Inside Track
"They made these elaborate system. So sports was the highest playing sports. Which makes sense because everyone knows play games with class medium or things like seeing the classroom animals or being on a committee public service students. I guess they haven't been in academia for long..
Nerd On! The Podcast
"academia" Discussed on Nerd On! The Podcast
"I was watching season. Four as it was going. I'd wait every week for new episode and then like i stopped because you know things shut down in twenty twenty so like it stopped and then finally the two came. Oh cool and then preparing for this episode. I've watched the entire season for it through. And i like what are. We're season five fifteen episode. That's like that's like an evening. So i was like i'm just gonna why i was. It was one evening for me. And it's time fifteen it was. They're not even twenty minute episodes. Yeah because the runtime. It's twenty two minutes over two minutes of front credits. Two minutes back credits. They are like eighteen minutes. Max and some of them. Don't even have a end like post credit scenes. So i'm like oh next next. That's why i could get through like two to three episodes while. I'm doing the precor because i'm like he's kind of like okay. One four and a half hours still in evening teen. So i mean look at it like this if i get home at six thirty i start cooking food and it's ray by seven and then i i q it up and then i e and then i don't really move. I leave my plate next to me until like is just right and i work on my computer until like eleven. And i'd take my okay so you're multitasking. Oh yeah okay. I'm zombie And this is all you boys. Ian and charlie they fucking hate me here because i i multi task almost everything in my life where it's like. Oh i can play a game and watch us at the same time. I could write an watches at the same time. I can and at the same time. Like but also jackson multitasking. To like if you want to be like to be a heavy cardio day. Because i'm watching a shootin anime. Good good for you. that's it. i'm just saying that's not like throw today away just to watch enemy so i'm glad you have the option to do that. Good for you. I have enough monitors room to accommodate. I had like eight margerison anyways. That is our episode on season. Four of my hero academia did the thing. This has been highly anticipated. I know that when we get Comments for do this thing. This has come up quite often So thank you so much for watching if you're on youtube Thank you so much for listening if you're on your favorite podcast app Speaking of these episodes are available.
Papa Phd Podcast
"academia" Discussed on Papa Phd Podcast
"How you know because one of the things that you hear a lot when talking with people who transitional were thinking of transitional were faced with the fact that they're going to have to transition outside of academies as a period of grief of leaving this family and this this university was academia that you were in that you so you know it so implicated in for so so long plus after there's this grief that i think is unjustified or not totally justified of oh my gosh did i lose this these six years or five years of my life and my not going to be able to use the skills developed during my and i think what you're saying is that this is not true. Yeah and it was a great lesson for me. Because i had a lot of grief and resentment towards my phd must recently just gotten over it. Now it's taken therapy and a lot of self reflection and a lot of realizing that. I did learn really valuable skill. The just in academia aren't highlighted as much right. I have published papers. I have grants to my name. You bo where. I work now. Don't care but i really resourceful. If you need something figured out. I know how to do the research to figure out. What the best way do it is. You need me to jump in somewhere. I did a lot of field work in remote locations. Where i had very like. I had no internet access very little contact with my mentors or anyone. Outside of where i was located so i had to macgyver a lot of stuff. I had to figure it out as i went. Why do i need to do here. I don't know let's troubleshoot it. Let's ask for help where we can. And so A great writers were good at analyzing things. Were good editors we know. I love giving. I love giving presentations and doing speeches. The like jumping in front of the cameras really easy for me. It's not for everyone in that world by..
The Python Podcast.__init__
"academia" Discussed on The Python Podcast.__init__
"It and in fact will have done this their papers doing this kind of converting by imagine allies into our graph problem. But i think doesn't really help. I think it adds unnecessary complexity. Hasn't mentioned there are more specialized tuesday veterans cases in terms of projects that you've built with graph tool or things that you've seen other people use it for what are some of the most interesting or innovative or unexpected ways that you've seen it used to it used in research all of the time and this gives me tremendous joy is cool and new open up a paper and there's like graph like i know this has been done with graft we can tell right and this is cool because even if it's been i'll task if they're just doing like graphics which is rather basic analogy of. I feel very happy. Because i feel like i have helped a little bit this research to do something. They're all sorts of things. People are using the methods do analysis of gene sequence date for example. It's all over the place tissues in sales disaster example. I so there was a paper. I think science some years ago where they had defacement of cells in tissues and they had a collapsed. Representation of this graph tool to allies is totally blown away. Never thought they would be able to never imagined this type of application. You mentioned a few times that you have within graph tool and i know that there's also a growing trend of having citations for open source software libraries in research and then there's also the archetypal challenge of working in academia of publish or perish and i'm wondering what your experience has been as to the overall weight that you're open source. Software contributions have in your role somebody working in academia versus the pressure to have published research papers. And you know just the overall balance that you have in terms of the effort that goes into the different avenues and that's a interesting question. The reason why i do graph tool is not to cater to my citations because when the have be smart.
The Wise Fool
"academia" Discussed on The Wise Fool
"That it's like once you find a a model that works you got class structure and you're like this and this and this and you get good students. Good students produce good work. Then the academic structure expects you to just stay with that model. Just keep teaching the same thing for the rest of your career and it's like boop But that's not interesting. It's not exciting. It's not keeping up with the times. As not using new technologies not using new advancements or new research. That's being done that. You could integrate into it like i. I'm for always sort of pushing it forward and keeping it keeping it fresh and interesting but that's not what academia wants us to do. Yeah i mean it depends on institutes. I guess because like i guess a my department people were encouraged to change classes a maximum every four years. Sorry i mean it's still a long period of time but you. You're not expected to do it more than that. If you're teaching four four years three semesters a year. That's teaching one class twelve times before you change it. Yeah yeah i mean. I don't know. I'm complaining about academia. But i never got any of these nights out different classes each time and i got to decide what i was teaching and i'd go to decide methods and even then i didn't like it. Fair enough. Academia is not for you got it so recess still is and i think this is kind of i mean. Even though it's self exploitation on my part. I still think it's really good to be able to combine research inc in some ways see i would just say automatically if somebody said there is a curator would assume there's an amount of research in there. I don't see the light to me. A researcher is a separate field slash career. Almost but i mean. I guess the only places in my mind keep in mind wise. Fool kinda stupid in my mind. The places that you can do. Research are either institutions or institutions of higher learning so schools or museums or dolls. Or whatever kind of places but how else do you do. Research outside of those formal institutional ideas..