ASA2 A03
Week8 Blog
May 17, 2020
In this week's reading, I found that the author cannot find a proper balance between being a professor and a mother. She talks about her anxious and guilty feeling toward being a "motherscholar" and explains how these feelings derived from other people's biased opinions. People doubt her ability to be a mother, a professor, and taking part in community at the same time, and use the most careless tone to deny the effort she made to get the current social status. These kinds of stereotype are common to find in women than males question their working ability. However, people of color, especially, feminists of color are often burdened to participate. What people with biased opinions do not know is that each of the activities shown above represents the author's significant shift in her life:
1. At Home: Mothering as Liberation
2. At School/In Academia: Mothering as Education
3. In a Critical Community: Mothering as a Collective
If a woman can bear the pain of giving birth to another human being, teach what she learned to other humans and provide students with the opportunities to become agents of social justice and change, and take care of the community, we should all show respect to her. She has such great powers to educate and "mothering" people around her.
Stereotypes are fixed and biased ideas that can harm people easily. These narrow perspectives over-generalized a particular group of people and ignore the efforts they make to eliminate the stereotypes. Being an open-minded person and get more educated is so urgent and necessary that we cannot expect everyone to pay attention to understand another race's culture, but at least treat everyone fairly.
https://fairygodboss.com/career-topics/stay-at-home-mom-memeReference:
Valverde, K. L. C. (2019, October 11). Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books/
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