All posts by Guest Contributor
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Hanging up the Cape: Practicing the Ethic of Self Care
By Natalie T. J. Tindall and Markesha S. McWilliams Research in Brief Tindall, N.T.J. & McWilliams, M.S. (2011). The myth and mismatch of balance: Black...
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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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“Is That Healthy?” Experiences of Microagressions by Black Women at Historically Black Institutions
By Marcia Allen Owens “Is that healthy?” the administrator asks, as we discuss a female student’s concerns. Meanwhile, she watches me, an untenured Black woman professor,...
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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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Sojourner Truth Meets Medusa: Toward a Fulbright Revisioning of the Black Woman Academic’s Inheritance of “Doin Too Much”
By Teresa Gilliams, Ph.D. Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves –John Ashberry, “Illustration” “If...
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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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Ten to Twelve Days
By Liz A. As soon as I arrived, I was pissed that there were people standing in line outside. As I walked to my spot,...
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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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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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Should-ing All Over Ourselves
By Koritha Mitchell In November 2001, right before I began writing my dissertation, I experienced one of the defining moments of my life. I had...
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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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It's Not The Load That Breaks You Down; It's The Way You Carry It
By Kamilah Aisha Moon Five strong, consistent years as an adjunct professor. So what? So what you spend extra, unpaid hours assisting students who arrive needing...
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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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With Audre as My Guide: Teaching and Surviving in Post Katrina New Orleans
By Sandra E. Weissinger I started my career as a sociologist in New Orleans five years after Hurricane Katrina. The school I worked at still...
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I’m Exhausted but I Do Want to Be Well: Raising Womanish Girls, the Performance of Mothering and Wading in Murky Waters
By Melva L. Sampson I am exhausted! It is exhaustion that overwhelms and overruns me because of its deep-seated roots. Roots that make one question...