Why Academic Mentoring Costs Money

Why Academic Mentoring Costs Money

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…

Welcome to Disorient

Welcome to Disorient

Disorient is a living and growing resource for intersectional feminist thought, education, and activism created by Dr Helena Liu. It’s born out of a charge to bear witness to these times of explicit violence, following Beth Kamunge, Remi Joseph-Salisbury, and Azeezat Johnson’s call to “work towards changing our fates” in the face of systemic oppression. As the blog progresses,…

Blog Launch Goals Report

Blog Launch Goals Report

The idea for Disorient as a definitive resource for intersectional feminist thought, education, and activism came to me on a cold night in June 2020. Over the next four months, I completed courses on blogging and developed the vision and framework for this site. To document my journey through inspiration, bewilderment, and learning, I’ve decided…

Acknowledgment of Country

Acknowledgment of Country

This blog is written in Australia — a settler-colonial state founded on stolen land with the false and racist assertion that it was terra nullius (“no one’s land”). Sovereignty was never ceded. I acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the land on which I write, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation….