Hi everyone. I skipped ASA this year. Too expensive, don’t need a job, Covid concerns, etc. I imagine I’m not alone.
For those who are there, what is it like? Attendance estimates? How does it compare to past meetings? Does it seem like a normal ASA meeting, or is it noticeably different? Any good panels?
Expecting trolls and nonsense, and I’m ok with that. But if anyone wants to share real information, my curiosity would appreciate it!
Oh that went through - basically it's a pain to find where things are, what sessions are happening when, what's being presented. Once you get oriented, it's okay, but it's never been like this before. And with the cost to be here, it really shouldn't take any learning curve to find stuff.
Had a late dinner, and a bunch of us are going out for drinks now. Still should be plenty of folks out.Oh that went through - basically it's a pain to find where things are, what sessions are happening when, what's being presented. Once you get oriented, it's okay, but it's never been like this before. And with the cost to be here, it really shouldn't take any learning curve to find stuff.
Networking is a whayt men's land
https://twitter.com/ShawntaeMitchum/status/1556321368756457472?t=1ic7R_Yh-v8myIR4DtNPnQ&s=19
Love taking the universal experience of being a young PhD student who has yet to develop a network and making it into a r/a/c/i/s/m.
I'm not there, mostly for COVID c/oncerns. So just following what happens on social. Wasn't expecting the kind of high drama this Cal State LA guy reports, since ASA is usually a bit dull. I think he is formerly g/ang-affi/li/ated but why/te-presenting (but maybe of MENA he/ritage?), whereas she is a WOC K/aren. A real ID politics conundrum lol.
That's so awesome. Some upper middle class light skinned bIack woman's only defense against a legitimate critique from a former gang member is that he looks white and she then snitches to the police about it. It's the perfect microcosm for cur/rent state of sociology.
Don't cite her being a black woman as the reason you're not criticizing her.
If his account is right and YOU KNOW IT IS RIGHT then she screwed him over, and she deserves to be called out.
If you're not calling her out it's because you're scared.
I can't say anything on social about this because it's IMPOS/SIBLE to critique B women right now in academia, even when they act like this. But wow she done him wro/ng.