Duke Students and Workers in Solidarity In the spring semester of 2016, I was one of the founding members of Duke Students and workers ...
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Notes on Burnout from Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers)
Last spring, my friend Rachel lead an interfaith Shabbat outside of Duke’s administrative building, where nine undergrads held a week-long sit-in to protest anti-black racism ...
Free Podcast Alert: Disrupting the Archive
When protest movements, hate speech, and other turbulent events sweep a university, they enter into conversations rich with history and often fraught with conflict. This ...
Link Roundup: Emotional Labor, Tone Policing, and the “Rules of Engagement”
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the *rules of engagement* we create in our conversations– within family, online, and in our communities. Especially in ...
Basketball Tribes and the Importance of One Direction: A Vindication of the Fangirl
I watch the championship match in the upstairs bar of a casino in London. There are about twenty Wisconsin fans and only three of us ...