Shine Kim, PhD

Stickers and zines that call out injustice

My favorite part about being a writer and aspiring author are all the procrastination projects I develop to avoid writing. Look at these zines and stickers I've made!

If you want some of my cute stickers, I'm mailing free stickers to my 100th subscriber!! Subscribe here: shinekim.substack.com

That's amazing. When I try to draw anatomically correct hearts they look like Slimer from Ghostbusters

Wait those hearts are so good omg did you freehand them??

During my PhD I thought I was a bad writer, but turns out I just needed a nap.

10/10 recommend

I think I've reached alignment in my life. All the notebooks I've been saving for a special purpose have now found their calling and I'm using all of them.

I did my @5calls.org today and someone from Rep Young Kim's office answered again. She thanked me for being nice.

Are y'all not being nice as you communicate your demands???

Ppl in power are fine w/ you getting your PhD until you start asking questions. Questions that disrupt the current system.

Yes, education can be a threat bc it encourages us to imagine a better society.

And as we're witnessing today, some ppl don't want improvement, they want power.

If you're my pelvic floor therapist reading this, I'm totally taking breaks and getting up from the computer, yup uh huh

The only consistent habit I've held as a writer is making the background of my word document a muted pink. It makes it more tolerable to sit in front of the computer for hours and not exhaust your eyes as quickly

Our husbands are just happy golden retrievers who have no idea how much chaos our minds can conjure up 😂

Progressing through my PhD program was difficult as I dealt with an abusive advisor and the start of the pandemic. I can only imagine how hard it is for current PhD students during these unprecedented times 🥲

We're witnessing the entire country getting spiritually abused and people are still whining, "BuT mY eGgS."

I hope you smell like rotten eggs for the rest of your life.

If you are
1) a federal civil servant/contractor ordered not to release scheduled data or reports, or
2) an academic who has lost access to government data in the past week
...please get in touch. I'm happy to keep our conversations confidential.
crampell[@]washpost[dot]com

If empathy's a sin, then send me to hell bc at least I'll be in good company.

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YouTube video by Eori Tokunaga Day In the Life of a Library Assistant at a Historical Building

In an effort to slowly move away from TikTok, I uploaded a new video on YouTube about my day as a library assistant! Check it out here: youtu.be/yEkowEOJnyE?...

#library #librarian #historical #building

If you’re a federal govt employee targeted for leave or termination on the basis of your DEI work, please file an EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) complaint & retain legal counsel.

I’m a former NIH PI. Happy to refer you to a law firm that has successfully sued the govt many times!

Pls repost 🙏❤️

Honestly all I can imagine rn is Clue and your variation of turtle soup and monkey brains

😭 true

I don't appreciate that the year I'm finally taking intentional time to rest and find happiness is the same year America shits the bed

Non-Fiction book proposal building workshop thank you for your interest in attending our zoom workshop on how to build a nonfiction book proposal. please fill out the form to register for the event. we'll send the zoom log in details to you one...

Find your people and dig into mutuality.

On January 31st, the BIPOC Writers Collective will host, "How to Build a Non-fiction Book Proposal" open to all BIPOC writers seeking to build their writing toolkit.

90 mins and free, hosted by me and @writercamille.bsky.social

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a man in a suit is carrying three boxes of pizza into a doorway . Alt: a man in a suit is carrying three boxes of pizza into a doorway .

Coming into the new year be like

Hate 'em. Unless they're barely used and still retain the new book smell

The biggest thing I learned since 2016 is just bc you're skin folk doesn't mean you're kin folk (Zora Neale Hurston).

You don't have to be yt to perpetuate yt supremacy. So it's not a surprise to me that some orgs are dropping DEI like hot potatoes.

Let them show their cards. We'll fight back.

It's petty season.

Finish your PhD out of spite.
Conduct your research with pettiness.
Call out injustice with a grudge.

They never played nice and we need to stop catering to them to "be the bigger person."

If we put our country in rice, will it fix it?

I researched power dynamics in PhD advisor-advisee relationships. Despite the dozens of stories I've heard about academic abuse, my heart still breaks when a student tells me their story and thanks me for my research.

Students deserve to thrive in their PhD journeys.

My PhD left me so tired and burnout, I wasn't sure if I liked to write.

Well I spent this entire morning writing and researching how to write a certain section, and I loved every minute of it. So there's my proof that I do like to write.

Check in with me tomorrow to see if I sing the same time 🤣