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ashkittyTwo things, mostly unrelated.
This campaign is to keep a married couple together in the face of increased hostility to immigration here in the UK. Kate Ellen and I were postgrads together (she was doing an MA when I was in the first year of my PhD) and both fell in love with the community and the country. She also fell in love with a person, and they got married. Unfortunately, the rules even for spouses of UK citizens are ever more stringent and the atmosphere more toxic, and they don't know how they're going to afford the visa fees. We live in a depressed rural area where jobs are few and badly-paid, and Bread hasn't been able to work for a while. (The changes in visa laws are disproportionately tough on women, lesbians, and people with disabilities...what a surprise.) Anyway, K.E. really is a genuinely good person and has worked hard all her life, and deserves the occasional break frmo the universe. I'm about to be in the same position myself (only with a different kind of visa) so am not in a position to give her any, but wanted to boost it a bit.
Then there's my own, which is quite a bit less life-or-death. There are two big conferences this summer that will be really helpful for a newly-minted PhD in a pretty desperate job market. I've managed to find a grant for one, and reduce costs as much as I can for the other, but am just a little short still of a train ticket and some bread and peanut butter or something while I am there. If anyone feels like being a patron of scholarship, now is your time.
Obviously, KE's visa is a bigger deal. Plus helping her out is kind of like saying F*** YOU AND YOUR POLICIES to a certain nameless political party who are just about to make things even worse. So that's a good thing, right?
This campaign is to keep a married couple together in the face of increased hostility to immigration here in the UK. Kate Ellen and I were postgrads together (she was doing an MA when I was in the first year of my PhD) and both fell in love with the community and the country. She also fell in love with a person, and they got married. Unfortunately, the rules even for spouses of UK citizens are ever more stringent and the atmosphere more toxic, and they don't know how they're going to afford the visa fees. We live in a depressed rural area where jobs are few and badly-paid, and Bread hasn't been able to work for a while. (The changes in visa laws are disproportionately tough on women, lesbians, and people with disabilities...what a surprise.) Anyway, K.E. really is a genuinely good person and has worked hard all her life, and deserves the occasional break frmo the universe. I'm about to be in the same position myself (only with a different kind of visa) so am not in a position to give her any, but wanted to boost it a bit.
Then there's my own, which is quite a bit less life-or-death. There are two big conferences this summer that will be really helpful for a newly-minted PhD in a pretty desperate job market. I've managed to find a grant for one, and reduce costs as much as I can for the other, but am just a little short still of a train ticket and some bread and peanut butter or something while I am there. If anyone feels like being a patron of scholarship, now is your time.
Obviously, KE's visa is a bigger deal. Plus helping her out is kind of like saying F*** YOU AND YOUR POLICIES to a certain nameless political party who are just about to make things even worse. So that's a good thing, right?
