Undoing the tough stomach: Feminist countercultures and rest as reorientations in Academia

To those who make Academia otherwise possible.This piece is personal as much as it is theoretical-as long as theory remains close to the skin (Ahmed, 2017).I am referring here to the skin we bring with us, through our bodies, into Academia.A type of skin that radically resists and stands in opposition to the academic skin-the skin that Academia requires us to have: the thick skin.In this piece, I attempt to articulate and theorize the practices, cultures, and stakes attached to these two different skins in order to discuss burnout, rest, and resistance from the standpoint of a feminist academic.