Tonight I attended the art for activism speaker series event. The event was interesting because there were a variety of speakers from different socio economic backgrounds, racial backgrounds, as well as sexual orientations. This opened my mind to a diverse set of views helping me understand the struggles and obstacles that minority groups face, which I found eye opening because as a white female It is important to understand the alternative experiences of different races and sexualities. The speakers series also helped me relate to struggles that I personally face as a female by listening to other women share their experiences in a hetero male dominated society. Listening to professor RM Kennedy discuss the struggle for more academic freedom in the work place helped me critically examine the neo-liberal university order and draw parallels between Kennedy’s experience and our assigned reading by Susan Preston. RM Kennedy as well as other professors are fighting for academic freedom, he states, “under no circumstances did they want us to speak, to teach, to think, or to dream without their approval.” In Peterson’s reading the students are consumers and the teachers are labor workers under the autocrat neo-liberal rules. With my personal experience at university I have had many non-contract professors making it harder to get a hold of them for office hours as well as having professors not be enrolled in the course until the last minute, creating confusion among students and even leading a professor to not be as prepared to teach the course as they could have been as a contract worker. Under these circumtances nobody wins, both the professor and the students are at a disadvantage. As guest speaker and professor RM Kennedy further states “globally established unions are under increasing pressure to protect existing workers at the expense of newer and unorganized workers, armed with credible threats, employers present trade offs at the bargaining table, we will protect the jobs and the benefits of the established workers, they tell us, in exchange for closing the doors and building a wall against letting the new enter.” In Ontario Contract workers make up 75 percent of all college faculties. The lack of security in the school board creates an un-healthy academic life style for a professor, which causes a domino affect among the students because the professor will not have the freedom to teach the class to the best of their ability. The strike was an example of faculty and students to resist the education audit culture. I found Kennedy’s discussion on audit culture interesting as it made me think of the structures and formats of my own university classes and neo-liberal managerialism. The bulk mass lecture sizes and the endless amounts of students is the epitome of the neoliberal culture. Further heightening the isolation of students and making them feel irrelevant and depersonalized to the education system. My overall experience with the following activism and critical thought event made me be able to further understand and distinguish between the corporate education system in contrast with intersectionality, and the importance of a intersectional university. Every guest speaker made me realize the priority of all backgrounds from, contract professors, non-contract professors, white students, black students, LGBTQ students and more. The inclusion of diverse life experiences within the system is vital to take into consideration when breaking neo-liberalism in order for the inclusion of diverse learning experiences to be achieved.