Subversives in the Academy

For many women of colour, life in academia feels like a constant fight. As Dr. Rita Dhamoon writes, racism is a workload issue. So, when do we sit down and when do we fight back? And how do we keep fighting in the face of such intractible systemic hostility? In this episode of Academic Aunties, we talk to Dr. Debra Thompson (Associate Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies at McGill University) about the necessity of the fight, the value of stealing your time back, how creating subversives can drive change, and the importance of armour to survive the neoliberal academy. Follow us on Twitter at @AcademicAuntie.Mentioned in this Episode and Related Resources:The Abolition of White Democracy by Joel OlsonThe Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Fred Moten and Stefano HarneyRacism as a Workload and Bargaining Issue by Rita Dhamoon articleSocioeconomic Roots of Academic Faculty by Allison Morgan, Aaron Clauset, Daniel Larremore, Nicholas LaBerge and Mirta Galesic"CPSA" = Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference"REP" = Race, Ethnicity and Politics

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