I just have a couple of last thoughts before signing out friends!
#BlackinMH Week has been an incredible outpouring of love, community, solidarity, and idea-sharing. And I am sad to see it end, however, it has really lifted my spirits.
I hope that this community will take time to engage with this incredible community of mental health professionals. We had social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, OTs, therapists, and more joined us this week! I learned so much about all the #BiMHFields#BIMHRollCall
There is some incredible research coming from this group focused on the well-being and care of Black people. For so long we have been overlooked in research and it is so amazing to see ourselves being represented! (i'm a research nerd). #BiMHResearch
I hope that you will follow all of the co-organizers from this week! They have done an AWESOME job curating and organizing. I am so honored to know each of them.
2/Our findings suggest that student evaluations of teaching seem to measure *conformity with gendered expectations* rather than teaching quality
A cause for concern given the integration of SET data into performance profiles, and management and organisation of teaching practice
3/Before I go on, in terms of the necessarily binary reporting, it is very important to say here that we recognise the ‘pluralities inherent in gender(s)’ that complicate simple binary approaches to gender (Weerawardhana, 2018, p.189), and we do discuss this in the paper
On important background, in March 2020 the IOC recognised harassment and abuse as a current human rights challenge, and in particular recognised that LGBTQI+ athletes are at “particular risk of harm and structural discrimination”
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The IOC now recognise female eligibility regulation *as an organisational violence issue* and as systemic discrimination
[I'll do another tweet thread on this later, drawing on my own research on this]
I want to address a narrative that we see around women’s sport and inclusion (particularly from those who seek to exclude trans women & women with sex variations from women’s sport), and how this narrative is part of a bigger pattern that functions to keep women small
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I have been hearing more frequently the narrative that women's sport apparently exists as a 'protected category' so that women can win (because, on this account, without it no woman will ever win again)
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This is:
a) *not* the reason why women's sport exists as a category,
and b) it is *not* true that no woman will ever win again.
This narrative is profoundly paternalistic and keeps women small.