Ihave been teaching for over 10 years, and yet I find myself packing my boxes of books once more; I have reached the end of yet another temporary academic contract, and I’m about to dive headfirst into the unknown. I feel like the embodiment of the twelfth tarot card, the Hanged Ma n. How did I end up here, upside down again?

I admit, nearly everyone in academia in North America (and likely the world) is feeling some flavor of career panic: national funding has either been cancelled or is under threat , visas and legal status are or will be questioned, institutions both private and public face economic turmoil, many people have been “let go” to balance budgets. Recent anti-DEI legislation limits the structure and functionality of departments, student programs, and individual fa

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