whilst i attempt (only intermittently successfully) to avoid hyperventilating/doomsaying/general mental health disaster regarding my examthatstartsin39hours, please y'all go and read this brilliant and pithy disentanglement of the concepts "powerful" and "empowered."
a brief illustration: if i had real power, i would be able to refuse to jump through hoops that do not make me smarter or prepare me for any job skills at all. but since i am "empowered" instead, i have the (em)power to demand a "break room" where i can eat crappy soggy sandwiches and/or overly sugary desserts during my (proctored, because We Are All Dirty Cheaters Here) exam.
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by day a political scientist! by night a significantly less intellectually responsible political scientist!
amelia.hoover@[university].edu
welcome to my blog. i'm a ph.d. candidate in political science at yale, a native midwesterner, and a happy californian. right now my research is about armed organizations and how they organize their violence against noncombatants, or fail to. i'm also interested in intentional community, gender in the academy, grad school pedagogy, fat politics, the religious left, my partner, our local farmers' market and idiosyncratic capitalization practices.