Avital Ronell

What NYU’s Harassment Scandal Tells Us About Academia’s Culture of Abuse

Every professor and graduate student who cared about the future of my career and my sanity told me not to apply to certain graduate schools. I don’t think they were warning me I would be assaulted or sexually harassed. On the contrary, they were warning against a more general kind of toxic culture — where ego and competition got in the way of academics. The phrase…

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Desirée Annis Miranda

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Desirée is a Mexican-American Jewish woman. Writing on politics, pop-culture, & more.

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