Letter Thirty-Six: Dear What if My Mental Illness is What Makes Me a Great Academic?

I think both you and these artists were resourceful and creative, finding ways to get connection and encouragement from the world around you through your external accomplishments. You through a publication record and them through the showing or purchasing of their art.

Letter Thirty-Five: Dear Drowning with No Sign of Land

Because as you mentioned, we’re existing in a broken system. Academia as a system certainly does not meaningfully encouraging rest or free time or sustainable workloads. And systems are not for taking on as individuals, that’s something that requires community and organizing and capacity.

Letter Thirty-One: Dear Please Help with Embarrassment

Embarrassment is considered a complex emotion, meaning its root emotion is one of the major five: happy, sad, anger, disgust, and fear (otherwise known as the characters from the first Inside Out).

Which I think allows us to consider something important here: what feelings were also present while you practiced your symposium work.