Dr. Lisa Munro
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PhD, historian, writer, Latin America, returned Peace Corps volunteer (Guatemala, 04-06), #adoptee , #studyabroad & intellectual dilettante. Nachos. She/her/Dr.
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Making a "how to skim an academic article" guide for students because I spent years assuming that everyone was reading every word.
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Today I got a letter asking me to donate to my employer, who is terminating my job.
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Adoption in the United States is so widely perceived as an altruistic social good that I'm not surprised that people are apparently struggling to understand it as oppressive practice.
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Remember, you're not doom scrolling. You're keeping up with the literature in your field.
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I see a lot of PhD students trying to find a dissertation topic by trying to first find a gap in the literature. I get why you're doing this, but my best academic writing advice for you is to write about something you deeply deeply care about.
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@drlungamam
I never miss an opportunity to say that standardized testing is racist and classist gatekeeping trash. I didn't know about the SAT guy but not shocked.
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I'm also a high school dropout (no GED either) with a PhD in case anyone thinks it's necessary to be successful at high school to go on to graduate school.
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@kenklippenstein
Human interest stories are really just celebrations of structural inequality.
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@raejuhnayyy
I don't think adoption is the best solution in most cases, as it usually about parents who want children rather than children who need homes.. We could first try supporting families in crises so they don't have to decide to give their children to strangers.
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Woke up to this tweet doing numbers. 😳 I have nothing to promote except to say to say that I also teach journal article writing workshops for graduate students and early career researchers.
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The dead horse I won't stop beating: your PhD will cost you approximately 5-10 years of retirement savings
Doing a PhD costs, time, energy, and resources.
What has been a hidden cost of doing a PhD you weren't aware of when you started it?
(Mine was the mental drain it would take, to the point where I didn't have the energy to do basic stuff at home in the evenings)
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Hey, friends: I'm working on defining goals for next year. One thing that's come to my attention is that I'm not having enough fun in life. What are you doing for fun (esp. if you're a middle aged adult person) these days?
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Thanks for the love and support, y'all. ♥️ Some of my favorite places to donate are independent bookstores, libraries, and local food pantries. Today would be a great day to donate to your favorites!
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@CharterVanilla
That's happened to me as well. Bubbly sophomores used to call me on the phone and ask for donations. I'd amaze them with my student debt figure. 😬
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Oh, people... my dad passed away really peacefully at home tonight surrounded by family. He's off touching the most unknowable void of all. ♥️♥️♥️
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I lost my job in Dec 2020 but had zero desire to try to find another one and potentially have to move back to the states. Through my own ingenuity and small biz, I've now been fully self-employed this year and have now made more money than I did last year at paycheck job. 🎉🎉🎉
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@Used2BU
@raejuhnayyy
I'm suggesting thinking further upstream. How do we keep families together and supported to prevent children from entering systems in the first place? How can we stop using the state violence of child removal as a solution to other problems? That's where I'm starting from.
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Literally go wherever they give you the most money.
What advice to y’all have for students considering multiple grad students offers? What questions should they ask the institutions and those they meet from them to make the most informed decisions?
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Your periodic reminder that screaming babies on planes are just small people trying to get their needs met and also have a right to appear in public.
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I forgot to tell you all the most wonderful thing:
After almost four years without, I have institutional library access again.
I have to keep checking JSTOR to make sure it's real.
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I'm not doom scrolling. I'm keeping up with the literature in my field.
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I have no academic job market advice except this:
You're a worthy person even if you don't get the job you hoped for.
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People I have saved up my pennies for Bose noise cancelling headphones AND I CAN NO LONGER HEAR ANYONE. It is glorious.
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I always feel weird about this but it's my birthday about which I have complicated feelings but if you wanted to say hi that would be lovely.
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Some of y'all are really invested in the idea of adoption as individual acts of altruism rather than as a racist and classist system that moves children from families we consider undeserving and towards those that embody our idealized idea of the right kind of families.
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If formatting your dissertation is making you cry, I actually do this as a paid service. You send me your chapters and formatting requirements, I send you a PDF to submit.
#AcademicTwitter
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I'm seeing a lot of tweets about language requirements for PhDs.
My uni told me that Kaqchikel Maya didn't count as my second language and would only accept Portuguese or another European language to fulfill the language requirement.
I'm still angry about this.
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I am begging you all to read some books on the history of adoption.
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Maybe no one needs to hear this but if you're in your first semester of your PhD program and you feel like you understand nothing anyone is talking about, it's okay.
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if you're appalled about the "we will adopt your baby" signs, wait until I tell you about how actual adopted people have to post pictures of themselves on social media with signs about their birth families because the state refuses to release any information to them.
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There's a lot of tweets in my timeline about women accomplishing certain things by age 40. I'm 44 this year and am just entering the best and most productive time of my life. So there.
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Does anyone else of Gen X remember playing dodgeball in school and have ongoing trauma from having to run to avoid being hit by a hard ball that mean kids would throw at you in the name of physical education.
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Hey, if you're trying to figure out how to keep up with THE LITERATURE in your field in a way other than doomscrolling twitter, I have a great tech tip for you!
#AcWri
#AcademicTwitter
🧵A thread:
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subtweeting to say it's amazing how many people appear willing to die on the hill called "he's always seemed so nice"
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Your periodic reminder that adoption should be about finding homes for children that need them rather than finding children for adults who want them.
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I've had my PhD for five years now and I think today I figured out what my dissertation was really about.
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"salary commensurate with experience" is not a substitute for posting the actual salary
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Miss me with all of these pseudo gotcha takes about "WELL WHAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE TO ADOPTION?"
I AM LITERALLY BEGGING YOU TO IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
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My most boomer complaint right now is that everything has an often unnecessary app.
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If you're looking for a show to watch in which a diverse group of female actors play capable women in serious leadership roles that's refreshingly free of sexual violence, may I recommend
#TheExpanse
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Many adopted people I know justify searching for their families of origin in terms of only "wanting medical history." Normalize wanting to know your story for no other reason than because it's yours and you deserve to have it.
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help i am having to explain that faculty don't run universities
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Just wanted to say that if you're feeling disoriented because your assumptions about adoption as an unqualified social good have been suddenly disrupted, it's normal to feel like the rug has been pulled out from under you. Welcome.
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@UjuAnya
My mom went to a grief support group once for the newly widowed and found herself surrounded by elderly male widowers who had started "dating" and moving new women into their houses almost immediately after their wives had died because they didn't want to do laundry. 😬😬😬
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It's my birthday, which is complicated. I simultaneously don't want to burden anyone with having to acknowledge my birthday and yet am equally afraid of being forgotten. :/
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@kingstonwrites
Yup. Related, via my mom: "Women grieve. Men remarry." We had a long conversation about how this is mostly because men need someone to cook and clean for them. 🙄
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My prediction is that study abroad isn't going to be viable for at least the next 2-4 years. I hope we can take that time to make it more equitable and address the racism, classism, and colonialism that shapes it.
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I get what you're saying but it's Reagan.
Every miserable thing happening in America can be traced back to Trump.
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The "gap in the literature" is just one way to help identify the importance of your topic, but it's not the only way or even the best way. A PhD is hard enough without writing about what you think you "should" write about rather than writing about what you really care about.
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I applied for a job recently and though I didn't get it, I received the loveliest rejection letter rather than being ghosted. 🙌
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There's no ethical way to adopt. I said what I said.
i’ve been thinking a lot on adoption and the ethics of it since my friend recently shared they are adopting through a method i do not think is ok.
and i just wonder, what is the best way to do it? not for the sake of growing one’s own family. but to genuinely help.
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Here's an adoption story in the news about a mother who was told the baby died and then illegally adopted, not from 1950 but from *checks notes* two days ago.
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@TheStrugglingS4
Retirement savings. You can expect to be approximately a decade (or more) behind your non-PhD peers in retirement savings. I don't hear anyone talking about this nearly enough.
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I've seen so many older people struggle with QR code menus, robbing them of dignity when they're just trying to order a meal. HAVE PRINT MENUS AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE.
Restaurants: I am begging you to PRINT YOUR MENUS. You can still let your "ooo technology" bros have QR codes, but I don't wanna sit there and try to connect to WiFi, try to get it to scan, try to get to load, and sometimes I just wanna be off my phone. So just PRINT UR MENUS!!!!
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People like to talk about the zillions of potential adoptive parents waiting for a baby. People dislike talking about how this creates market demand.
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People suddenly getting wise to the fact that Juno was not, in fact, a heartwarming film.
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Welp it's happened again: the six avocados, each roughly the size of a dinosaur egg, are all ripe for the next two hours and nine minutes.
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Good morning to everyone who thought it would be a good idea to postpone all incomplete July tasks to August 1.
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I can't say enough great things about
@WendyLBelcher
's amazing workbook on getting your journal article written, revised, and published. It's at U of Chicago Press for 30 percent off with discount code: 12WEEKS30 for print and EBOOK30 for the ebook
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Maybe we can imagine, for example, not using state violence against families and child removal as a substitute for a non existent social safety net, for starters.
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Such a shame that there isn't any historical precedent for a massive government employment program dedicated to infrastructure construction.
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My eventual parody account is going to be tweeting out New Deal policies in response to current events.
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I always feel weird about today because it's my birthday (which I no longer celebrate because my feelings about it are COMPLICATED) but if we've connected here or you've appreciated something I've said on this garbage platform, maybe you could say hi to me today?
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I was at a presentation and the presenter seemed to need encouragement, so started nodding vigorously at key moments.
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Professional news update: I can't tell you yet but the short version is that a miracle fell out of the sky and hit me on the head. :D
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Back when I used to apply for academic jobs, I couldn't believe how many search committees ghosted me. I get that the sheer number of candidates makes sending rejection emails time consuming, but candidates spent MONTHS but together applications. An email is the least one can do
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My newest favorite game is yelling I'M TALKING when men interrupt me.
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Your periodic reminder that adopting POC children doesn't mean that you're not a racist.
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Apologies for QTing myself but I wish I'd thought more about the retirement implications of devoting a decade of my life to not saving for retirement while doing my PhD.
@TheStrugglingS4
Retirement savings. You can expect to be approximately a decade (or more) behind your non-PhD peers in retirement savings. I don't hear anyone talking about this nearly enough.
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I have a job interview this week and it's because it's the second time that someone in my network has unexpectedly sent me a job description that's a total bullseye for my particular skill set.
Networking is frustratingly slow but sometimes incredibly accurate.
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@CharlesFinch
It's a solid interview strategy, but if that's not enough, try denying sexual assault allegations and telling the interviewers you went to Yale. Works every time.
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Women are tired because 30 minute dinner recipes are LIES.
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@ClimentQD
@PrincetonEcon
Just here for the ratio but no one owes anyone free labor and the word no is a complete sentence.
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I temporarily have institutional library access and you know that I'm downloading all of the articles on JSTOR.
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I've given up revising my dissertation and have started writing a book I'd actually want to read.
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I respectfully submit a request to change the spelling of bourgeoisie.
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Believe it or not, the adoptee community noticed this immediately.
Feels like this has been largely overlooked, but Alito's draft Supreme Court opinion on abortion uses the phrase "domestic supply of infants." It's real, on page 34. DOMESTIC SUPPLY OF INFANTS.
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I got my first library card when I was six. I was then, and still am now, overcome by awe every time I walk into a library: "OH MY GOD I CAN READ ALL THESE BOOKS FOR FREE?"
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I AM SORRY TO SHOUT BUT I JUST SUBMITTED MY SECOND ARTICLE THIS YEAR!
#getyourmanuscriptout
#12weekarticle
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Anyone else feeling like this whole remote learning thing is still going to be with us in the fall?
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Someone blocked me today for saying this, so allow me to tell you that my "anti adoption" tweets are a structural critique of racist and classist systems that unmake certain types of families in order to remake more socially desirable ones send tweet
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Abortion and adoption have very little to do with each other but I'm over here screaming into the void about adoption politics because I want people to understand how utterly inappropriate it is to suggest adoption as a "solution" (as if one were needed) to abortion.
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My dad helped me with my last big move when I rented a U-Haul. I sent him the truck measurements and the dimensions of all of my furniture and he made a 2-D model of where everything would go and packed the truck with absolute precision.
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I'm massively stabby over the idea that social isolation is going to lead to writing productivity. If you're feeling alone and scared and ashamed that you're not using this time to write, I'm holding you in virtual and COVID approved ways. It's okay. ♥️
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The last time I went to an academic conference, I had no institutional affiliation, so wrote my Twitter handle on my name badge with a sharpie.
I have to say that the palpable confusion ("Uh, so...where are you?" "Here. Right here.") was glorious.
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Found out recently that some distant family are considering adoption but aren't sure because "you can't be sure what you'll get" and I'll be over here screaming into the void if anyone needs me.
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Just came across a suggested COVID schedule for kids who are home from school and quite frankly adults would do well to divide their time into academic time, creative time, quiet time, chore time, lunch, and afternoon walk time.
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I'm operating on the assumption that talking to my unconscious and dying father is meaningful and important. I told him everything I remembered about when we climbed Mt. Bierstadt together in August and summited in a blizzard. One of so many adventures with my dad. ❤️
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My entire life goal right now is to work less and make more money than I would have as an academic.
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I swear there are real psychological benefits to clean sheets on the bed.
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