Hey everyone! Many of you know that I’ve had a donation button on my tumblr for a long time. I am about to take competency exams for my PhD and could really benefit from help to feed myself / self care during them.
If you don’t know what competency exams are, for mine I will be taking them for 2 weeks with a week off in between each week. Each week I will get 2 broad questions about sociological theory / my specific research area and need to answer each question with a 16 – 20 double spaced page response. I’ve spent the last 6 months reading 80 articles (about 20 of those were books) for one reading list and then reading 45 other articles for the second week that is designed to turn into my dissertation topic.
In between each week I am going to an academic conference, driving there + staying at the cheapest places possible to afford it. Though, I’ve paid for most of it months ago. I am camping for $12 a night in northern Pennsylvania after the conference to recover a bit and prepare for week 2 of exams.
Basically, if you have been following this blog, support the work I do and want to support my continued work financially please donate so I can make this time a bit easier. I’m working hard to care for myself so my disability doesn’t make the time unbearable. Any donation will be directly going to self care and helps me work towards finishing my doctorate. It also helps me create amazing research that looks at the lived experience of fat people.
Donate here! ( If this link doesn’t work there is a donation button on my main blog page) (or send directly to fatbodypolitics at gmail)
Updated this with a new link and other ways to donate. I think the link times out after a bit.
Thank you to everyone who donated to my self care fund for prelims. They start at 9am tomorrow. I am fully prepped and ready. If anyone else wants to donate send it to fatbodypolitics at gmail via paypal.
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