Microaggressions and what your university’s home page says about gender and...
This is the page I see when I open a new browser window. It’s the University of Waterloo home page. I open a lot of browser windows, owing to I fart around on the Internet for a living, so I see this...
View ArticleOn Inconvenience
I was in Kingston for the day yesterday, giving a talk to grad students, staff, and faculty about how grad students can be strategic in the choices they make during grad school to optimize their...
View ArticleConquering Fear, Risking Failure
I’m writing my dissertation on a disparate group of women writers in the late-19th century who were not just writers but also speakers, thinkers, and activists, and involved in a number of different...
View ArticleAnger: We Need It
There is a place for anger in feminism.This statement seems incontrovertible. But what about this one?There is a place for anger in academia.It seems like this should be an incontrovertible statement,...
View ArticleA little spring "sunshine list"
If you live in Ontario, you know that the so-called “Sunshine List” is out. An innovation from the Mike Harris Progressive Conservative government in 1996, the list, featuring all public sector workers...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Challenging Unconscious Bias
I talk more about the professional and career development parts of my job here than I do the research funding part, mostly because the PD and careers stuff seems like it would be more useful to more...
View ArticleWhat can I ask for? A modest proposal
Academic women are often confounded when presented with the opportunity, obligation, or occasion to ask someone for something: money, teaching release, academic accommodation, etc. This confounding...
View ArticleGuest post – Have they thought about what they’re asking?: the inequity of...
By Alana Cattapan Dalhousie University The highly saturated, incredibly challenging world of the academic job market is made easier, just a little bit, by the standardization of the documents requested...
View ArticleWhose free speech are we talking about?
Today we have a guest post, from Eileen Mary Holowka, who also finds that she has to say something about the Lindsay Shepherd rolling nightmare. It just keeps going: the Chronicle of Higher Education...
View ArticleWoman, interrupted: a guide for men
image via It’s a new school year and, if you work in a college or university, that means another year of meetings. Woohoo! I’m in a lot of meetings and I think a lot about how to have a better meeting....
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