Ok, #VetMedEd...I want to talk about flipping mental frameworks for a minute.
As groups are developing recommendations for DEI in vet school, please spend some time thinking about the framework you're starting from.
As groups are developing recommendations for DEI in vet school, please spend some time thinking about the framework you're starting from.
I'm seeing a lot of, "We need to *teach/prep* BIPOC & marginalized identities to survive here, etc."
BAD TAKE. If I need to learn how to survive here, that is a a bad environment for everyone. Stop thinking that the CVM/Org doesn't need to change when it does.
BAD TAKE. If I need to learn how to survive here, that is a a bad environment for everyone. Stop thinking that the CVM/Org doesn't need to change when it does.
In fact, I'll go so far as to say this framework is offensive.
It puts *all* responsibility for change on the marginalized. It's basically an announcement that you expect marginalized folks to assimilate. #hardpass
It puts *all* responsibility for change on the marginalized. It's basically an announcement that you expect marginalized folks to assimilate. #hardpass
And if this ain't a colonizing framework I don't know what is!
It feels like: "Hey, you are coming to a PWI, let's make a training module to teach you to use a fork properly so you can fit in here."
That's enormous privilege right there.
It feels like: "Hey, you are coming to a PWI, let's make a training module to teach you to use a fork properly so you can fit in here."
That's enormous privilege right there.
Further it presumes that White, cis, straight students have nothing to learn or that the "other" will also take on the responsibility of teaching them about the rest of the world.
Really?
Really?
Seriously, the assumption in this framework is that URVM students enroll, take on goo gobs of debt, strive to thrive in the formal curriculum, while also educating their peers about being "other" all while hoping they show a passing interest in them.
Make it make sense!
Make it make sense!
Surely, we are better than this, because this stinks.
So, recognize that *all* students & *all* faculty need to become skilled in DEI content in order to be successful.
Stop sending around recs that emphasize assimilation for URVM folks when White folks also need to gain competencies & take responsibility for learning.
Stop sending around recs that emphasize assimilation for URVM folks when White folks also need to gain competencies & take responsibility for learning.
As a reminder: Fixing oppression & marginalization is actually not the responsibility of the oppressed or marginalized.
It's the job of the dominant groups upholding oppression & marginalization.
It's the job of the dominant groups upholding oppression & marginalization.
Students from marginalized backgrounds are picking up what you're putting down in the hidden curriculum: their survival depends on clearly reading the cues.
It's our white students & faculty who need to understand the cues they take for granted in the learning space.
It's our white students & faculty who need to understand the cues they take for granted in the learning space.
Do better, flip your mental model framework & think about the changes necessary to help *all* students become competent enough to serve *all* of society.
The current framework will only make #vetmed a less attractive profession.
The current framework will only make #vetmed a less attractive profession.
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