The Keener

04/06/26

study date with my fiancée. I swear I haven't dropped out of my PhD program. I'm still late with my qualitative analysis but I started my last quantitative study last month so at least that's happening

this month I'll be presenting my progress in my university. hopefully, I'll figure out the analysis by then. I wanna feel confident enough in it to start working on the paper

song on repeat:

💿 ice in my oj - hayley williams

currently reading:

📕 queerowa rodzinność

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

I have been more appreciative of the rough edges of human communication since chatGPT came to be. The misspellings and turns of phrase that real people produce.