Why you’re a bad teacher | Tenure, She Wrote
It’s back to school time y’all and Dr. Raptor is here to tell you why you’re bad at teaching (and what you can do about it). OK so maybe you aren’t a bad teacher, but I̵…| Tenure, She Wrote
Hello, Department. I am ostensibly part of you, except you’d never know that unless I told you. I get it, though; we interact with one another so little to avoid conflict, that it’s no surprise that you don’t know that I or most of the 20+ first year graduate students exist. This lack of interaction-even […]| Tenure, She Wrote
People in higher education gatekeeping by deciding that certain groups aren’t “really” under-represented and/or under-privileged and then needing people to show their suffering before wanting to help them. Colleagues failing to properly support and mentor junior faculty of color. Did you think that hiring a non-white person into your department was going to mean that […]| Tenure, She Wrote
Intersectionality has become a hot topic in the last few years. At its core it gives life to the nuance of navigating multiple marginalized identities. As a black woman, I understand that often I will deal with the impact of both racism and sexism. I know I’m likely to in just about every aspect of […]| Tenure, She Wrote
Hi all, its me again with a fresh new beef to toss onto the grill. This one requires some context. Lately, #MeToo, the movement started over a decade ago by Tarana Burke, has been absorbed into academic discourse. In the sciences, this has manifested into #MeTooSTEM and #MeTooPhD–with very vocal femmes and men in science […]| Tenure, She Wrote
I haven’t gotten a pay check since my fellowship ran out in 2017. Funding is scarce for students in the end of their PhDs and scarcer still for international students with disabilities, so it’s not too surprising that I’ve been turned down for everything I’ve applied for. Almost 5 years ago, I wrote with regard […]| Tenure, She Wrote
It’s me again, your favorite shouty princess. Or you know, the thing that shouts back when you shout into the void on the internet. Regardless, I’m here to talk to you today about a very sore topic: how to figure out that you’ve picked the wrong place for yourself. I am going to focus on […]| Tenure, She Wrote
Hello all, I’ve been casually strolling through my first semester in grad school, and I think I’ve found a few surefire ways to survive academia. Profess no values. Obviously, I don’t mean profess NO values. I just mean that the person you are in the office with students must be someone completely different from the […]| Tenure, She Wrote
Happy belated Labor Day to our US readers. Hope everyone took (or takes) a minute to learn the history of Labor Day in the US. Today, the day after, I’m specifically thinking about the labor of “diversity work.” Who is doing it? Who ISN’T? Why does it matter? As TSW author dualitea recently wrote, there […]| Tenure, She Wrote
Hi all, your favorite sunflower is here with a quick reminder: performative allyship is not what we need from you. I am mostly directing this at white men in academia, because in my experience a lot of y’all are into allyship, just not principally because it is a good thing to do. What you want […]| Tenure, She Wrote
It’s back to school time y’all and Dr. Raptor is here to tell you why you’re bad at teaching (and what you can do about it). OK so maybe you aren’t a bad teacher, but I̵…| Tenure, She Wrote
