Archive - The Life and Times of a Burnt Out PhD student

Love as Praxis: Building Systems That Actually Love Us Back

bell hooks defines love as 'the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth."

Aug 19 •

Isaac Andrew Sanders

July 2025

Standardized to Death: AI, Academic Gatekeeping, and the Epistemicide of Marginalized Knowledge

How AI Peer Review Becomes a Machine of Epistemicide

Jul 16 •

Isaac Andrew Sanders

What if Systems Loved Us?

Introducing Relational Refusal as a Framework for Systems Change

Jul 2 •

Isaac Andrew Sanders

June 2025

The Dixie Cup Story: Bringing Cups into the 21st Century

From Disposable to Durable: A Metaphor for Surviving Societal Collapse

Jun 23 •

Isaac Andrew Sanders

February 2025

Overreactive Nervous System: Unorganized Longitudinal Auto ethnography

I asked ChatGPT, “How do I stop betraying myself and trying to survive after all this? How do I ever trust myself again?” It responded, “That’s such a…

Feb 23 •

Isaac Andrew Sanders

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