This week I read Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano's "Pain + Love = Growth: The Labor of Pinayist Pedagogical Praxis". It featured stories of several Pinay women and their struggles with the "tower". One thing that I thought was interesting was the author's use of "silence". It did not just mean when a superior tells someone not to speak up, but also referred to the general pressure of not speaking up as an immigrant in the U.S., or someone stuck in the bottom of the tower of academia. This pressure to be silent has consequences, as the author describes how it can kill cultures aside from the dominant one. It was a bit surprising to hear of Gayatri Spivak who is a woman of color, who also exerted this pressure to be silent because she was highly ranked in academia and contributed to the tower. As an undergrad, I felt familiar with this pressure of somehow not meeting the expectations of some of my more prestigious professors. I like how she mentions this is problematic because we are here as students. Our professor's duty is not to intimidate us, but help us grow in confidence and knowledge.
Question: I know this is very late, I still don't fully understand what tenure means.
Undergraduate Admissions, May 22, 2020, Retrieved May 24, 2020, from https://www.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/news/undergraduate-admissions/
Valverde, K.L.C (2013). Fight The Tower: Asian American Women Scholars Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Rutgers University Press
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