Roxane Gay + Adele = Current Mood
Roxane Gay and Adele sum up my current mood perfectly…
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“I work hard. I volunteer for things. I try to deliver when I say I will do something. I try to do my job well. I extend myself, then overextend myself. I work at work and I work at home. I study my teaching evaluations, trying to make sense of my imperfections so that next time, I might get it right. I sit with my colleagues and think, Please like me. Please like me. Please like me. Please respect me. At the very least, don’t hate me. People often misunderstand me, misunderstand my motivations. The pressure is constant and suffocating. I say I’m a workaholic and maybe I am, but maybe I’m just trying, like my student, to show how I’m different.” -Roxane Gay from “Feel Me, See Me, Hear Me, Reach Me” in Bad Feminist
“During long conversations we question the choice to be proper, modern women. There is so much grading. There’s a lot to be said for barefoot kitchen work when staring down a stack of research papers.” -Roxane Gay “Typical First Year Professor” in Bad Feminist
