A04
Week 8
In this week's reading named "Resistance Is Not Futile: From #adjuncthustle to Hell Yeah!" by Genevieve Erin O'Brien, it mainly discusses a movement created by O'Brien and other people to support women of color in academia by using a private social media platform. O'Brien clearly told people about the difficult situation of the financial and other realities for women who work as an adjunct lecturer. The jobs that they are being offered are unstable and unsustainable. However, they are the majority of the academic workforce. It's so cruel that women scholars can't even use the things that they love to make a living.
As O'Brien claims in the article: "Even while working as a professor, I have also worked part time as a domestic worker and in the food service industry to make ends meet." What a satire that the current situation of the woman professor is similar to these workers who are exploited. I feel so angry about the situation that the professor faces and I know there should be an action to change their financial condition. They teach the future of this country and they should get the respect that they deserved. It is impossible that women scholars work in school for the whole day and don't have money to buy the food. It shocked me that the professor in the article blew a week's wages in one day. This shows how slender the salary that they get for the job as an adjunct lecturer.
In this way, it's very important for O"Brien created this movement so that everyone can express their situation met in academia by using a social media platform. It's good to see that there are over 10,000 members for the platform.
Question: Are the situation of adjunct lecturers actually changed by the social media platform in the end?
Citation:
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.
McMahon, M., & Harris, B. (2020, May 16). What is an Adjunct Professor? Retrieved May 17, 2020, from https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-adjunct-professor.htm
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