Aoran Zhao ASA 002 A02 Week 9 Blog

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ASA 002 A02

Week 9 Blog

In week 9, I read the article "Pain+ Love=Growth: The Labor of Pinayist" written by Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano and "Academic Symbiosis: A Manifesto on Tenure and Promotion in Asian" written by Wei Ming Dariotis.

According to the abstract of "Pain+ Love=Growth: The Labor of Pinayist", Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano made a study which include "conversations with six Pinay scholar actists to explore a critical looking inward of private (and often painful) formations of race, class, and gender, ultimately revealing the unstable growth of a Pinay scholar activist's personal-political identity". Based on the reading, I found that this study is super meaningful because the study shows how one's experience affect one's work. As we all know, a author's style of writing will change because of the change of their experience in their real life. Reality can be a important factor in people's life. In "Pain+ Love=Growth: The Labor of Pinayist", readers can see how these women of color "come to inhabit their paradoxical positions within empire through the experiences and practices of silence and anger" and how they fight and resist the unfairness. 

An academia system of supportive was expected for a long time. In  "Academic Symbiosis: A Manifesto on Tenure and Promotion in Asian", Wei Ming Dariotis provided an expectation at the end of the article which is "a just university system with equitable and joyful practices as the new academic norm". As I was reading about this expected system, I feels like it is an Utopia. Although it is rather idealistic, it can be a goal to fight for. I hope a just university system will appear some day. 

References:

Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2020). Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press