Depending on where you live and what type of job you do, there may not be much choice other than to take the job with unfair terms.

About half the people I know from graduate school are adjuncting now. It’s terrible. The good news I guess is that the other half are actually gainfully employed, many of them as tenure track professors. But it’s crazy how different the lives of the two groups are. Same degree. Same qualifications. Same publication…

Good for them! One of the biggest “public secrets” about the education-industrial complex is that adjuncts are treated like shit and deserve better.

I assume this includes adjuncts? This is great. (And hereby putting in a request for more Gawker coverage specific to adjuncts and organizing. We lead lonely lives.)

Another adjunct here who thinks this is awesome!

Yes! As an adjunct, you go ladies!

Maybe if you had seen a tampon change as a toddler, and all the other sundry stuff that goes along with having a body, day by day, you wouldn’t have had the same strong reaction having so much new information unloaded on you all at once.

People can be assholes in the Internet. Just today someone to me said that if American Indians had their own version of Donald Trump we would have been able to keep white people out instead of all being alcoholics who owned casinos. That was rather stunning in its racism and ignorance. Still it’s not the same thing as…

My niece walked in on me changing my tampon and I said something like “Oh hi, I’m having my period.” Her alarmed reply: “AGAIN!? BUT YOU SAID IT HAPPENED WHEN YOU WERE TWELVE!”

Yes, sorry, should have put that in the post. After a couple of terrible months we found her in a situation no child should be in, luckily the scumbag who abused her actually is in jail, although he is still fighting some appeals. After a lot of therapy and support, she is living a normalish teenage life now, and…

Um...how is 9 or 10 way too young to be exposed to reproductive stuff? I’m sure I’m not the only woman who got her first period at age 9 - good thing I knew what it was, and didn’t think I was dying, right? Children should know the proper names for body parts as young as they can pronounce them, and not be given a…

You find yourself saying things like “you can play with your penis in your room, but not in the living room.”

I also think that shifting the focus back to serial rapists helps put the onus on the community/culture to stop propping up systems that allow them to be serial perpetrators. Too many people are under the belief that most sexual assault was an “Whoops! I don’t have a firm grasp on consent!” when the reality is that…

I’ve been thinking a lot about the need to emphasize how many rapists are serial rapists. When we read accounts of rapes so much of it is focused on what the victim did, as if the rapist would have only raped her and if only they hadn’t been drinking or some other bullshit. We know that’s not true, and usually all…

Because hate speech kills people, that’s why.

I’m sure the American anti-abortion crowd will support him despite also being anti-immigration. And so the hypocrisy continues.

We don’t do the whole fundie Christian thing very well down here. Nobody in the government or anywhere else wanted him here so he was told he wasn’t allowed into Australia and his visa was denied.

kind of a #notallmen argument you’ve got there.

Young, sexually frustrated white men are the real terrorists in this country. fuck man...

What if a panda with HIV was dreaming about cuisinarts while preparing the food? What THEN?