What do you do if you are the mother of two young children, have an academic spouse, and have just been denied tenure because of what appears to be upper-level university politics?
It sounds like some sick joke, right?
Only it's not. It's the situation that MommyProf finds herself in this weekend. Give her some sympathy and outrage.
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