4.19.2020
For this week, we have been assigned to read a poem “Who
Killed Soek-Fang Sim?”. Sim is a Singapore Chinese immigrant who taught
International Studies at a Midwest liberal art college. The rumor had it that
she was a poor teacher and scholar. She didn’t pass her third-year review and
soon died of breast cancer at 35.
Wang Ping once sued Macalester College for employment discrimination.
At the conference Ping read "Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim," shared at the
conference's Facebook event page.
Reading at Split This Rock,
2014
"Dumb teacher, dumb scholar,
dumb woman" -- this is one of the saddest verses in the poem. This shows
the psychological torture, self-suppression and pain of living in this world
for her. Women, like Soek-Fang, are often easily forgotten and threw into the trash
can of history. They are collateral damage.
References:
Wikipidea. Retrieved from:
Harriet Staff. March, 11th, 2013. Wang Ping Sues Macalester College For Employment Discrimination. Retrieved from:
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