Today I was on strike. I did not go to the picket line: instead, I caught up on the self-care I haven’t had time for
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Author: Carron Shankland
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Reviews are in: a bit of me just died
Judgement happens all the time in academia. You write a thing, spending days of your life making it as beautiful as you possibly can. Maybe
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Is your inner impostor holding you back?
Do you walk into that important meeting feeling that everyone else is expert and knows what they’re talking about, and that you must have been