coldhearted scientist وداد

Maybe I need to storyboard this piece. I am casting about because I am not sure what these people really want. They say academia and activism. My story might be:

1. I did these things.
2. It led to a certain intellectual, and also political development, that I would not have gotten to if I had not started with praxis.
3. It does not, however, have to do with my academic work–it’s not in field for that, and my work would be what it is without it. So for me it is a parallel life and like all activism, takes time from other work. (To develop further in both directions, one would have to go professional in the activism and be in an academic field that supported this.)
4. On the question of academia and activism, my comment for others would be that: you can’t always do all of both (cf. Bethany’s comment).
5. But my more interesting comments have to do with prison activism itself: what are we really doing, what is charity, what is solidarity, what is mutual aid, when are we actually helping to support the PIC with what we do?
6. And the answer it actually gives me is about the relationship to academia (viz. Moten)

This is a weak storyboard.

Axé.