It really is this bad. Getting a #visa for international travel to conferences, meetings, even friends' weddings is a real ordeal for many of us with less 'powerful' passports.
We're missing out on important conversations in our fields because of this; but these events are poorer for our absence too.
#InternationalTravel #AcademicConference #Peripheries

https://www.science.org/content/article/visa-bureaucracy-makes-scientific-conferences-inaccessible-many-researchers

#Introduction
I teach architectural and urban history, and am editor of Aggregate: https://we-aggregate.org

Write, teach, think about #theory, #politics, #food, #infrastructure, #bodies, #justtransitions, #environmentaljustice, #peripheries, in the NYC area, France, Algeria, Congo

Currently working on an intellectual biography of the architect Nicole Sonolet, who designed spaces for mental health, and an edited volume about #Toxics in architectural history, https://we-aggregate.org/project/toxics.