Katharina Tian ASA002 A01 Week8

Katharina Tian
ASA002 A01 Week8

Caroline Valverde

Why I can’t get what I deserved?

Being a professor is one of the best jobs that everyone likes and wants. When I was a kid, I was dreaming to become a teacher because I thought the teacher is a great and admired job. However, in a recent reading, I found that academics is not a place that is full of fairness and justice. In this week, we read an article called “Resistance Is Not Futile: From #adjuncthustle to Hell Yeah!”. The author, O’Brien talked about her own experience as an adjunct professor at the university. She said that “although my life in no way compares to that of low-wage immigrant workers who work in garment factories, I face conditions that could be described as exploitative in my occupation as an academic laborer.” She mentioned that she worked very hard and spent a lot of time, but she still worried about the job and salaries. This means she as a professor did not get what she should get. That’s unbelievable. The academics should not treat her like that just because of her identities.

Even facing this kind of situation, she is still fighting not for herself but for the other colored women. She organized a group that is specific to colored women through Facebook. Everything was done secretly but it still works. My question is that how to keep insist when facing those unfair treatments for many years.

https://aabeyondbelief.org/2019/10/24/join-the-aa-beyond-belief-private-facebook-group/

Reference 

1. Valverde, K.-L. C., & O’Brien, G. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

2.“AA beyond Belief .” AA beyond Belief , 24 Oct. 2019, aabeyondbelief.org/2019/10/24/join-the-aa-beyond-belief-private-facebook-group/.