A major area of research for health sociology is medicalization
https://twitter.com/lab_shenanigans/status/1339270325821911043
Medicalization is where human conditions are treated and defined as medical conditions
Is it imposter “syndrome” or are you literally an imposter because academia was built for and by wealthy, cishet, white men. Many of whom were agents of slavery and genocide
Non-white bodies in academia will automatically be imposters because academia has the legacy of exclusion and terror
This is not a “syndrome” but rather you feeling the impact of the presence of simply your body in these spaces as a radical act, constantly.
How does this impact your stress levels over time? Your ability to function?
How do you combat imposter syndrome without having a reckoning with the remnants of academia’s past (and present)?
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