HeyJaredResiduum
Writing at the intersections of gender, culture, education, politics, cancer and religion... and many other things.
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Do less (opens the original)
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When I joined the faculty at UC Berkeley, I was what today seems shockingly young, just 28 years old, but I’d already been teaching for five years. My teaching experience had primarily been at the tiny liberal arts college where I’d gotten my MFA along with some adjunct gigs at other private colleges, so I mostly taught the kind of kids who go to a tiny, not very academically selective liberal arts college: usually a little sheltered, often very affluent, usually happy with a passing grade as lo
Fight me (opens the original)
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For those of us who are not naturally athletic, exercise is a kind of necessary punishment. If you don’t do it, you’ll die, but when your body was designed to pick potatoes in a field, lifting, running or doing hot pilates is not “fun.” It is awful. This is why I stopped paying for a gym membership and switched to walking and hiking outdoors. Even in terrible weather, at least I’m not staring at my reflection in a smeary mirror, watching a guy blow his nose into a towel and then wipe down a bike
An ignominious re-entry (opens the original)
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At some point in mid July, an email arrived announcing the date of our first fall semester meeting. I was still in the midst of teaching a summer class at that point, and brushed off the email. Who thinks about fall semester in July? I mumbled, smugly. Yet here we are, and the fall semester starts in two weeks. Every year, we begin with an all day meeting where people gab about their summers. Every year, impostor syndrome rages as a result of these conversations.Let’s get this out of the way: th
Kayfabe (opens the original)
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Years back, there was a pattern among theologians, religion journalists and clergy on social media. Many of them were into posting about the usual things you’d suspect from that group of people: God memes, videos of popes making borderline rude comments, digs at megachurches that were mostly thinly veiled jealousy about the Sunday headcount. But many of these (mostly) men of God had something else in common. They were obsessed with professional wrestling. In between exegesis of scriptures and ho
Summer loving (opens the original)
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I’m currently teaching a three week intensive class on writing about art and culture, so this newsletter and most other things have moved to the back burner. Eventually, I’ll be back here with something substantial, but until then, thanks to my summer colleague Joe Horton who runs the Dispatches from Raimondi website for the Oakland Ballers, I got to write the silliest pitch ever: in what way is baseball like Love Island? They’re both for romantics.
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