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Jessica Pratezina's avatar

Wow. I stumbled across this post somehow and I was....not expecting this. This is not only really insightful scholarly work, but genuinely moving. We should talk!

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Gann Herman in Durham NC's avatar

My own earliest attempt at being a patron was giving a composer friend my entire paycheck as a TA at UNC, and I’m grateful that your essay helped me recover that unknowing resistance to

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Melissa Florer-Bixler's avatar

You also help fund my writing!

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Kathryn Melody Farrell's avatar

This is my truth. Hmm🫤

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Amy Peterson's avatar

I have the house to myself today and tomorrow and guess what I’m doing 😭

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Sarah Jessica Farber's avatar

I think I first leaned about enclosure in AP European History, in high school, but the last time I was taught it was in Sales and Secured Transactions in law school. My prof was a very quirky individual, I think the lone libertarian at Central then, and truly got ecstatic when he waxed poetic about the way the law works to enforce the contracts which undergird this capitalist economy. These in single architectures do so much work to make other pass times (other "work") seem impossible.

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