In the previous weeks, I wrote some discriminations that women in color met in academy. For example, the successful rate of awarding a tenure for women faculties in color in USC was much lower than the rate of white male. However, the bias is not only towards faculties, but also towards graduate students. Many students in color struggled in the graduate school. Huynh’s experience is a typical example. She also had struggle experience and was in a difficult academic environment when she was in the graduate school. However, she kept her mindbodyspirit intact. In a short sentence, “the wounds and ruptures of graduate school through five stages called Wreckage, Bleeding Out, Cleaning the Wound, (AD)dressing the Wound, and Scar Tissue” (Huynh, 2020). I know women of color graduate students face many inequalities and discriminations, like women of color met them in other fields. I plan to go to the graduate school too and according to the count, women of color occupy a large percentage in graduate students.
How to deal with the long-time inequalities and discrimination? A very easy and useful way is: more women of color graduate students “disclose and critique their academic experience as an audacious act of healing” (Huynh, 2020). After more and more people standing out, this society will hear the voices, and more people will pay attention and try to solve this issue.
Huynh C. (2020). An Offering: Healing the Wounds and Ruptures of Graduate School. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
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