Stacy Liu, A01, Week8

Stacy Liu, A01, Week 8

A woman who has a child and works in Academia has a hard life. That is my first impression after reading the article “Mothering Is Liberation: Giving Birth to Alagaan Pedagogy (Pedagogy of Care)”, which written by ALLYSON TINTIANGCO CUBALES. The article talks about professor Tintiangco – Cubales first questions herself every day and all of the questions are about asking herself whether or not she did a great job in raising her child and caring for her students. Then, she illustrates three doubts that people have on her. At last, she concludes the influence of this situation on herself.

After thinking about the experience of professor Tintiangco – Cubales, I feel the shift of women – being a mother – gives so much stress and burden on motherscholars. Thus, I really admire the professor Tintiangco – Cubales that she said: “Although some would imagine that my work with PEP is this overwhelming role that takes over my life and sucks all my energy away from being with my family and maybe even pulls me away from my scholarship, I see my work with PEP as a means for my survival.” She not only did not give up her work which I think I might give up but also, she considered them as a means for her survival. I think the reason that professor Tintiangco – Cubales choose this action is she understand “A central act of mothering as a collective must be to engage in acts of hope.” So, she always has hopes. From this article, I realize that run away from the dilemmas cannot solve anything and I need to try to insist on my road with hope and try to connect the difficulties to find a balance.

Question: How this reading related to our course – Asian American Study? Because I think this problem is the problem for all the motherscholars, not only the problem of Asian American motherscholars. I want to know does local mother scholars also have the same problem.

References

Valverde, K.L.C. (2019). Fight the Tower: “Do. Or Do Not. There Is No Try”: Radical Love as Pedagogy and Practice Part II Rutgers University Press.

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https://www.bibliovault.org/cgi-bin/DeliverADE.epl?transid=kWi4K6WgHL2SFWjl

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Galuska K. (2018). Social Worker, Hostage Negotiator, Monster Slayer… Mom Family Radio.

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https://www.familyradio.org/hey-brother/social-worker-hostage-negotiator-monster-slayer-mom/