by Agatha (and an anonymous academic wanker)

 (Spoken)

I identify myself as a White male university professor living and working in the relative ease and comfort of a G8 country. As an anarchist raised in a working-class family I have encountered a certain amount of disrespect and rejection by my intellectual 'superiors', but I know that my own socialization and the racist and patriarchal norms that permeate the academic world make it relatively easy for me to stay in the game.

 

(chorus - Sung)

I’m an Academic Wanker (D)

Living in a Wanker World (G)

I’m teaching your children. (A)

How to stay in the game.

I’m an Academic Wanker

Living in a Wanker World

I’m screwing your children

and feeling no shame.

The same goes for my sexuality. Although I find that my desire exceeds the boundaries of mainstream heterosexual practices, I have a long-term female partner and two children -- so again, I mostly pass.

I’m an Academic Wanker

Living in a Wanker World

I’m teaching your children

How to stay in the game.

I’m an Academic Wanker

Living in a Wanker World

I’m screwing your children

while dodging all blame.

All this to say: my struggles with oppression arise mostly from ….well, my own struggles: the need to challenge my own racism, heterosexism and classism, and to find more effective ways to be in solidarity with those who experience the debilitating effects of these apparatuses of division every day and night throughout their lives.

 

I’m an Academic Wanker

Living in a Wanker World

I’m teaching your children

How to stay in the game.

I’m an Academic Wanker

I’m screwing your children

and feeling no shame.