Lesson #16: We Should Just Call It D.I.E. Work
from Learning on the Job Hosted by James K. Harris and Nic Flores
Whose idea was Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, anyway? This week, we're heading into the weeds of Spring semester, with thoughts about grading, conferencing, the "lost year" of COVID times and more. We spend perhaps a bit too much time on the innovations of TikTok as an archive of student feeling, and then get appropriately incensed by academia's continued disrespect for scholars of color (your turn up, UVA). Along the way we maybe coin a new phrase (obviously you're welcome to use it) and continue to come up with really good reasons for spreading the joy/labor of diversity work around a bit. Sometimes this place is exhausting. Also somehow this keeps being a part of the conversation we have before the show and it never quite makes it to the air, but in the spirit of the necessity/value in preaching to the choir, here are some readings we've found helpful in terms of making sense of the current anti-Asian environment. Added bonus, James can confirm they're very teachable in your composition-type settings: Cathy Park Hong, "The Slur I Never Expected to Hear in 2020" John Cho, "Coronavirus Reminds Asian Americans Like Me That Our Belonging is Conditional" Further Reading: "UVA Reverses Tenure Denial", Inside Higher Ed "Two Black Scholars Say UVA Denied Them Tenure after Belittling Their Work", Inside Higher Ed On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life, Sara Ahmed What We're Reading: Kaitlyn Greenridge, Libertine Francisco J. Galarte, Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies
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