via Huff Post article “Majoring in Debt“ There have been three things on my mind this week. The first is the labor of graduate students and adjuncts. The second is student debt. The third is the Facebook IPO and who makes money off of what. Yup, it’s going to be one of those kinds of [...]
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The City is Like Chitlins: Notes on Gentrification in Washington, DC.
Friday, July 22nd, 2011Peace to Janel for staying on me to write about class. Peace to Latoya Peterson for reminding me to think about how cities are similar, different and the reasons why DC, with it’s 25 miles, is special to me. I once said that the city was like chitlin’s. Moving from the deep South to DC, [...]
Mommas, Artists and Interns: All Expected to Work for Free
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011On the train a couple of weeks ago, I had an epiphany. I was tripping off of the notion of the student intern, and how that socializes young people to accept working for free. @RafiKam and I have had several conversations on twitter about who is an artist, who should get paid to be an [...]
Capitalism is for Suckas: or, How Constructive Capitalism is our Future
Monday, August 17th, 2009Note: This post grew out of two things. One is a post that I wrotelast week on how the Crack Epidemic was in its essence pure capitalismand my personal transformation from a person who wanted to be aninvestment banker to someone who aspires to be a scholar and communityorganizer. The second thing was a kind [...]
