Intellectual Inquiry Otherwise: An Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Mattilda: I use the phrase trickle-down academia to describe the process by which academics often appropriate anything they can get their hands on- especially people's lived struggles, identities, methods of activism, and other challenges to the status quo-and then, claim to have invented the whole package. Mattilda: I grew up in a status-driven upper-middle-class assimilated Jewish family where academic attainment was seen as the most important thing-my parents' upward mobility was also a fantastic tool to camouflage their abuse.