Recently a tankard of ink, both physical and virtual, has been spilled on the topic of depression and suicide. A significant portion of this, particularly on Twitter, was focused on […]
I originally wrote the post below in June 2011. I had finished defending my PhD in English Literature in the fall of 2010 and I was depressed, in pain, and […]
The hullaballoo over the increase in takeup of student mental health services has a disturbing undertone. Alan Percy’s recent Guardian article on the subject calls for a “nuanced” approach […]
One of the most important things in my life is philosophy. I live it and breathe it. I’m not in academia but I manage to fill my life with probability […]
This article is a follow-up to “The Headache and Heartbreak of doing Academia with Chronic Migraine” and is written by the same anonymous author. When you last heard my story, […]
A few weeks into my first year as a Sociology PhD student, I started to notice intense pain after working out. I don’t know exactly when things changed, but I […]
Since I was thirteen my education was constantly interrupted by a certain ‘monthly visitor’. I’m now in the second year of my PhD in Modern History and my ‘lady bits’ […]
