This is SUCH a good post! Thank you, Holly! I also developed chronic illness when I was in grad school and had a years-long process of getting a diagnosis (Lyme Disease and chronic Epstein Barr Virus) and it was just so incredibly sucky. I felt so alone in it, but then found amazing community outside of academia with other folks who were sick and disabled and that was a gamechanger for me. It also radicalized me in terms of seeing how gatekeeping academia is of folks who live with chronic illness/disability who can't or just don't want to participate in the normalized overwork. Thrilled to read this post, Holly. Can't wait to dive into your other writing!
This is an incredible post. Thank you for putting into words the nebulous feeling inside me that I dismissed with shame. When you called grad school what it is, "a performance," I felt that. Thank you!
This is SUCH a good post! Thank you, Holly! I also developed chronic illness when I was in grad school and had a years-long process of getting a diagnosis (Lyme Disease and chronic Epstein Barr Virus) and it was just so incredibly sucky. I felt so alone in it, but then found amazing community outside of academia with other folks who were sick and disabled and that was a gamechanger for me. It also radicalized me in terms of seeing how gatekeeping academia is of folks who live with chronic illness/disability who can't or just don't want to participate in the normalized overwork. Thrilled to read this post, Holly. Can't wait to dive into your other writing!
This is such a needed post! Thank you for your words.
Wow. This is powerful and so eloquent. Thank you.
This is an incredible post. Thank you for putting into words the nebulous feeling inside me that I dismissed with shame. When you called grad school what it is, "a performance," I felt that. Thank you!