Today I chopped it up with the first academic blogger I followed ever--Joy Woods Bennett of Without A Space. She is a first-year Ph.D. student at the University of Texas Austin, studying communications.

Joy is well-known in the #AcademicTwitter community with her kick-it-to-you straight homegirl vibe and witty tweets and all around authenticity about her journey. We talk about balancing blogging and grad school and she shares her take on keeping it 100% real in the digital academic streets instead of succumbing to playing it "safe".

Follow Joy on Twitter and Instagram and visit her blog, Without A Space

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