Week 10- Iris Wu

Iris Wu
Section A01
Week 10

In “’The Time to Fight is Now’: When Asian American Women in Academia Go Rogue”, Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis focused on Asian American women in academia, who have risen against the higher education system. They pointed out that Asian American women, as model minorities, are often afraid to speak up, and how they suffered from the academia stress.  This reading reminds me of the stories we heard from classes, including professor Valverde’s tenure battle and professor Amy Block Joy’s “Whistle Blower” story against institution injustice. Though suffered from intense health problems and being treated unfairly by the academia, they were still willing to speak up against the current false academia domination. In the last section of the reading, “The Academia Awakens: ‘We Are One with the Force and the Force is One with Us,’” Valverde and Dariotis mentioned the point of improving current situation is not to recreate the education system, but to re-envision. They pointed out the essentiality of empowering ourselves. I think this well relates to the topics we talked about for the past few weeks, the student activism and solidarity movements. By taking these actions, we are able to strengthen our voice against the injustice situation.

Question: What do you think is the next step for the Fight the Tower Movement? What are some exact ways of expressions that model minorities can do to “voice out” against the injustice?

Reference:

1.    Valverde, C., & Dariotis, W. (2017). "The Time to Fight is Now": When Asian American Women in Academia Go Rogue. Retrieved June 4, 2017

2.    Read These Blogs. (n.d.). Retrieved June 04, 2017, from http://blog.angryasianman.com/2017/05/read-these-blogs_28.html