PhD wisdom says don't change your dissertation committee. Shruti from Stony Brook's Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies has changed hers. Twice. Join us in the Ivory Tower Boiler Room to hear her story and learn how frustrating it is for an international student in an American PhD program. For more information about the following authors referenced please check out these links: bell hooks: http://www.bellhooksinstitute.com/ Jasbir Puar: https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/faculty/core-faculty/143-jasbir-puar Jennifer Nash: https://scholars.duke.edu/person/Jennifer.Nash