All posts tagged "Academia"
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Conversation Piece: Queer Fashion on Campus
During the 2012 presidential election, there was much conversation among journalists, bloggers, and activists about the innovative ways students were using social media to mobilize...
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TFW: The Year in Review
With the intertwined mission of fostering feminist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist perspectives, 2012 gave our contributors no shortage of topics about which to write. We saw...
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Elite Women Won’t Help Us All Have it All
By Nikol Alexander-Floyd, Michele Tracy Berger, and Julia Jordan-Zachery Anne-Marie Slaughter is right! Women can’t have it all, particularly not if our hope for having...
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Blessing Racism
By Valorie Thomas A professor-friend of mine once said, “You can’t shine dirt.” Her words replay nonstop as I consider several convergences: two days after...
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Take Care: Notes on the Black (Academic) Women’s Health Forum
By Aimee Meredith Cox, Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Tamura A. Lomax With every piece I read, I felt like a layer of my skin was...
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Subversive Self-Care: Centering Black Women’s Wellness
By Shanesha Brooks-Tatum Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. —Audre Lorde, A Burst of...
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I Ain't Your Girl: Controlling Identities and Acts of Isolation in the Academy
By Shannon Gibney & Anonymous Throughout this essay, the pronoun “we” is used, in order to mark experiences shared by both authors. When the narrative...
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The Frenemy Project
By Catherine Packer-Williams and Wendi Williams Sister-Colleagues Black/African descent women professors face several challenges to health and wellness in their attempts to successfully navigate the academy. ...
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Black (Academic) Women’s Health – A Graduate Student’s Perspective
By Anonymous* I was so excited when I started receiving acceptance letters to pursue a graduate degree in Sociology. I knew that picking a graduate...
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On My Terms: A Personal Reflection and Declaration for Being Well
By Khahlia Sanders Is it possible to be a Black woman academic and live? I find myself asking this question every time I visit the university...
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A Black Academic Woman's Self-Care Manifesto
By Erica Lorraine Williams In response to Toni Cade Bambara’s classic question in The Salt Eaters, I am absolutely sure that I want to be...
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Ballet Macabre
By Traci-Ann Wint Forgive me. She fell into an abyss that had nothing to do with me – an unabashed misery paralleled by none but...
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Black Women, Black Criticism, and the Unremovable Veil of Jezebel
In her groundbreaking text, Hine Sight: Black Women and the Reconstruction of American History, black feminist scholar Darlene Clark Hine makes a distinction between black...
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Dead Center
By LeConté J. Dill The subject of Black Academic Women’s Health beckons an autoethnographic approach: October 2006. Excited to get new specs. “E D F C...
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Black, Female and Buddhist in Academia: Threats to Wellness and Opportunities for Healing
By Kamilah Majied Renown educator and Buddhist leader, Dr. Daisaku Ikeda offers a vision for academia when he states, Education makes us free. It is...
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It is not worth the grief: A recovering work addict tries to model self-care
By J. Victoria Sanders I first dreamed of being a professor and writer in seventh grade after reading Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life by...
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Occupying Myself: Resisting the Colonial Voices Within and Accepting My Heaviness
By Erin “Mari” Morales-Williams Right now I am depressed. My aunt’s husband sexually violated me when I was a teenager, and since she is still...
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Good Night Women
"ripping hot and fierce down the night sky till they are out of our pining sight, too quickly, more frequently than we can bear, their incandescent metal, incinerating,...