Science is and has always been political. It is imperative that we point out the ways in which the world stifles and oppresses Black scientists and other Black individuals. #BlackInMicro
"Systemic inequities exist and persist even in spaces that are supposed to be the great equalizer" <--- such as academic institutions
Paraphrasing: We spend too much time focusing on *what* we do and not enough time focusing on *how* the science is being done.
One of the main ways in which disparities in STEM education are perpetuated: GATEKEEPING.
Black people in STEM fields are disproportionately expected to exhibit greater persistence.
Grit and resilience are important, BUT we cannot ignore structural systems that frequently require more resilience from some than others *cough, academia, cough*
Paraphrasing: The excessive focus on ~grit~ within individuals is often used by institutions as an excuse to not DO THE WORK necessary to address the harmful and unfair features of these systems.
"Our current diversity and inclusion frameworks are failing us."
I REALLY encourage you to tune in to this talk, it is so much better than my live tweeting can convey.
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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.