Since releasing my year-long mentoring program, Wayfinders, one question that people have broached with me — usually with a little embarrassment and trepidation — is why I am charging for academic mentorship. In this post, I’ll share some of the reflections this question has elicited about my own assumptions and expectations as an academic and…
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In the middle of my lecture on the gender pay gap in organizations, a student interrupts me to proclaim how the gender pay gap “can’t possibly exist” because his mother is a senior manager in her company and gets paid “more than the men she works with”. Other students visibly bristle around him. I’m teaching…
Yeah okay, racism is bad, but what about classism? That’s bad too.Or are you saying that gender inequality doesn’t matter?And what about colorism? Isn’t that a thing?!And how come nobody is talking about the oppressions faced by Asian women academics?! So has gone the way of some conversations with attendees when I speak at seminars…
I may not find joy every day. Some days will just be hard, and I will simply exist, and that’s okay, too. No one should have to be happy all the time — no one can be, with the ways in which life throws curveballs at us. On those days, it’s important not to mourn…
Journaling is a practical and effective tool to practice self-care in your life. As intersectional feminist activists, self-care can become radical when caring for ourselves subverts systems of oppression and sustains our struggles towards social justice. If you think journaling can help you rest and restore, I show six different ways to use self-care journaling…
Please note that this post contains references to domestic violence and bullying. Many of us would now be familiar with ‘gaslighting’ — a form of emotional abuse where perpetrators convince a target that they’re crazy. Without leaving a visible scar, gaslighters gradually erode their target’s sense of self and reality, keeping them under their control….
Of the 184,074 people who received a doctoral degree in the United States in 2018, only 17 percent were women of color. With 57,766 graduates, there were almost twice as many white women who were awarded a doctorate than the 31,465 women of color graduates that included women who identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific…
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