Week 6_
In this week’s readings, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez's Epilogue’s Upward and Onward by explains how women of color should not give up despite all the challenges and discrimnation. She mentioned the importance and benefits of having women of color in universities. Meanwhile, Magalit mentioned that universities and women of color can form small communities and create a support system to keep each other accountable. I truly echoes with this advice from her since throughout this course, we learned that descmination is occurring all the time but many faculty and women do not know how to deal with these problems, leaving them feeling helpless; therefore, I believe support groups are great communities to “share the burden”. Rodriguez mentioned how she is now more “kintsuki” after experiencing all the challenges, which means stronger. Even though stepping out the first step can be the most difficult at first, but the outcomes can a “tenure” position and will definitely make one a stonger person.
In addition, going off from Ping Wang’s poem, she explained the type of person she was back then and how she transformed into such a strong and strong willed activist. There are unknowns regarding some of the analogies she made, but nevertheless it is obvious that she experienced a lot of ups and downs in order to grow as a person. Even right now, she is still fighting for her rights and what she thinks she deserves.
Bernal, D. D., & Villalpando, O. (2002). An apartheid of knowledge in academia: The struggle over the" legitimate" knowledge of faculty of color. Equity & Excellence in Education, 35(2), 169-180.
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