"Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing." - UC Press

You can learn more about the artist, Dougie Padilla, at his website www.dougiepadilla.com

Also check out more art and articles in vol. 62 "Unsettling Global Midwests"

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First photo is of Gronk and Patssi Valdez in "Instant Mural", 1974, Photograph by Harry Gamboa Jr.
Gronk and Patssi Valdez were members of Asco, a Chicano art group active in the 70s and 80s. It's not related to the article, but this is a good time to highlight an incredible article and art group.

Art is by Dana Verkouteran (AP Press, 2009)

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Seeking a range of perspectives– student, faculty, teacher, researcher, staff, administrator, etc.-- we want to contribute to a more complex understanding of “the university” or academia more generally, especially thinking about how Chicanx/Latinx students, faculty, and staff experience it.

Our goal is to publish a rich and varied collection of work that demonstrates how Chicanx/Latinx studies scholarship offers a critique of academic institutions and practices.

You can learn more about him on his website ashoncrawley.com

You can read the full article in Vol. 60, No. 3/4 of our journal and of course check out Butler's trilogy series "Lilith's Brood"
(First book in the trilogy is called "Dawn" as an fyi)

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