Teaching to Transgress (Bell Hooks)

I actually really enjoyed this reading. It gave a name to an experience I have often felt well before I ever ventured into academic theory. I have long used deductive reasoning and critical thinking to understand things that were well out of my control. I didn’t need a scholar to introduce it to me or a complex paper to qualify it. My experiences and the factors that helped me understand what was happening and why were real to me all the same. From making sense of my adoption, to why my brother-in-law will no longer talk to me requires a degree of understanding so I can release myself from the frustration and heartache they have brought me.

My exhaustion has set in and I am making mistakes. Leaving things behind, falling asleep in lectures, and a general mental daze when traversing from one place to another. I am finding it difficult to hold attention on much of anything.