Songmin Li ASA002 A04 Week8

According to the poem, "She Shall Not Be Moved" written by W.P., I have read her emotions of helplessness and sadness. She stated that "Poetry was the medicine soothing wounds from invisible knives. (Pg 274)" In her narrative, it is shown her experience after she returned to college that the department coordinator suppressed her, destroy her job, told her that "Organization is not your expertise." and reported to her superior, the dean, that she is an incompetent person. Besides, all her funding was rejected, not only that, her students were scorned and punished. 
Everything around her made her "grow up" and taught her "to behave like an adult", but I don't think this should have happened. These painful experiences gave her negative physical feedback. She was tortured in the whole university environment. I think all her motivation for perseverance is her self-pursuit of academics and her expectations of students since she claimed that "My comfort was teaching and watching my students grow as warriors." Her strength, tenacity, and courage have touched me.
Besides, through the "Mothering is Liberation: Giving Birth to Alagaan Pedagogy" by professor Allyson Titiangco-Cubales, I understand that women in academia is hard to find balance between the roles of a professor and a mother since the characteristics needed for these two roles are different. In this case, she have created a personal Alagaan pedagogy, which is a kind of care that "humanizes self, family, community, teachers, and students in the pro-cess toward liberation. (354)" The author points out that being a mother does not negatively affect your academic career, but instead promotes the spirit and emotion of a mother as a mother. I think this has greatly promoted the status of women in academia. After all, discrimination against gender and people of color in academia is still an issue that we need to discuss.

My question is: Is it necessary to change the existence of discrimination to include part of the prescribed norms into the law to constrain people?


References:
pictures retrieved from: https://www.theigc.org/blog/5-facts-about-women-in-academia-is-gender-parity-really-around-the-corner/

Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M., (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars 
resistance and renewal in the academy. Rutgers University Press.