Every story I read about that poor man put me right back in that space. Paranoid, terrified, alone, hypervisible, a target on my back. I know how he could decide the pain is too much. Meanwhile, white men and “conservative” coded academics lie and plagiarize and steal as their due.
Shayna Weiss@shaynamalka.bsky.social · 2w agoOne day maybe when it’s further in the distance I’ll write about book anxiety and how I regularly gave myself panic attacks. A lot of things helped but the biggest thing was negotiating for research funds for a developmental editor
