The poem, “My Kintsuki,” written by W.P. impressed me again. I admire her courage, behaviors and writing ability. In the poem, W.P. uses a lot of parallelism to express her insistence that she will never give up. She insists that no matter how difficult it may be, she would try her best to keep fighting for the fairness in academia for women in color. At the end of the poem, she writes "hold the world in the vein of gold," echoing the title, “My Kintsuki.” Kintsuki means “to repaie with gold.” She uses this sentence to emphasize that we should change the problems that existing in the academic field, instead of covering up the mistakes.
Instead of ignoring mistakes and pretending to be perfect, people will be more benefited if they recognize their problems and make changes to solve them. There is no shame in admitting mistakes, no matter in any field of daily life. For the sake of a better academic field, it is necessary for all of us to take action to address inequality and discrimination that women are experiencing. The academic field with correction will become more precious like Kintsuki.
My question is “what is the most difficult thing people will face in the process of solving the problem in academic field?”
Reference:
Valverde, K.L.C (2013). Fight The Tower: Asian American Women Scholars Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Rutgers University Press
Chernyak, P (2019). How to Not Give Up. wikiHow. Retrieved from: https://www. wikihow.com/Not-Give-Up
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