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How does the cultural and economic capital granted by academic institutions entrench senses of belonging and unbelonging along class lines? How can academics bear to study in the same buildings where administrators work to protect our harassers and abusers? And why do we stay inside the buildings we long to burn down? Liz Bowen's NO HEROES takes the form of a heroic crown of sonnets and subverts it, setting set fire to the oppressive structures that keep us in servitude to the academy. More molotov cocktail than signal flare, this chapbook rages against the state-funded loves-of acquisition, of mastery, of gatekeeping-that institutions so often & universally weaponize.