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“For any academic, this is pure podcast gold. Karen and Kel bring enlightenment in an age academic gaslighting, and the podcast is the latest medium through which their font of academic career wisdom burbles forth. (The [free!] blog, the book, the webinars, and the YEARS of their indescribably helpful archived Facebook Live videos which are only available to subscribers--these also are pure gold). Their advice was indispensable to me getting through graduate school and building a CV that could turn my PhD into a job, and as a newly minted PhD from the Class of 2020, their podcast is now my weekly tether to sanity. The entire point of TPII from its inception was truth: truth about how academia works as an institution of late capitalism, truth about how the tenured university professorship is disappearing, and truth about how academia menaces new academics' mental health and financial security.
In every episode, Karen and Kel lay out the unvarnished truth with compassion and with the tools for the listener to better confront the realities of academia and career transitions beyond academia--and, now, the surreal world of total system collapse because of the COVID-19 pandemic in the face of merry university chancellors' rosy denial of that collapse. These "wise aunties" complement each other in this crusade of truth. Karen often focuses on telling the truth about big picture power structures in academia, while Kel often exhorts us to tell the truth about ourselves as writers and workers. Together, they make visible the holistic human being that the cult of academia and the corporatized university have transfigured into a machine cog, and they empower their scholar-listeners to reprioritize themselves as people and as professionals instead of internalizing the subordinate dependency that PhD programs can inculcate in their students. These truths emerge organically in the podcast through the dialogue between Karen and Kel (and between them and their subscribers' and followers' questions and comments). Even their conversations' most whimsical meanderings frequently end up tracking down new profundities like pigs sniffing out truffles.
This benevolent, acerbic duo was already terrific, but their podcast is all the more important a beacon of truth in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Karen and Kel confront head-on the uncertainty and anxiety gripping everyone now, and for me the podcast has been the closest thing I wish to experience to listening to the BBC during the Blitz: Everything is not OK, the old normal will not return, and here is what we can do individually and collectively to survive. Whether you're a grad student now or already have your degree, whether you're pursuing an academic career or are transitioning to a new career, you have come to the right place. The compassionate real talk from this podcast and from all of TPII's media will help you reclaim your sanity, complete your PhD, plan your career, and put your experience in higher education in service of YOUR own interest instead of your advisor's, your program's, the academic cult's, or your capitalist overlords' interests. Thank you, Karen and Kel!”Read full review »
Dr. Jeffrey, PhD via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/23/20
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