During my Fly Lady Writers retreat, we talked about writing practices. I shared that A, I don't have a writing practice, B, writing is my biggest fear and the thing I believe shows I am all smoke and no fire (no substance), and C, is the thing I am most ashamed about academically
I should be a good writer and I am not. I can give a talk but I can't write. Writing scares me. I struggle getting my words and thoughts on paper. I have projects that have languished in my head/file drawer because I can't get them out in a form I can share with the world.
Sharing my fear of writing in my writing group was hard. I felt myself getting choked up thinking of how hard it is for me to do the one thing I need to get tenure. Now my specific tenure milestone is in front of me, I need to figure out my relationship with writing.
I am sharing this publicly bc people think I have it together. I don't, and that is most apparent with my writing.
If anyone has had crippling writing fear and have gotten past it, please share your wisdom. I'm just trying to stay employed 😭😭😭
There will be students for whom something always comes up. Their research will get disrupted due to constant family and/or personal crises.
If you are a PI and you get exasperated with your student when chronic disruptions happens, you don't truly value diversity and inclusion.
The very same life backgrounds and experiences that are involved in diversifying the academy and widening the pipeline are the same backgrounds heavily associated w/ chronic disruptions. To not be accommodating to those needs is anti-inclusion, anti-diversity, and anti-belonging.
And in most cases, the science can wait. People can actually afford to give a student an extra week, month, semester, and/or year to focus on balancing the extra burdens their identities places upon them. Folks don't even need to help. Just acknowledge/accept these burdens exist.
This project started with Dylan's honor thesis. He ran Studies 1, 2A, and 3A as an undergrad, and Studies 2B and 3B were added when we decided to publish this. Folks thought he was wild to do a *five* study thesis but it has certainly paid off! 2/n
In 5 studies, we investigated the content of sexual health-related stereotypes of gay men, lesbian women, and straight women and men and the impact of these beliefs on discriminatory behaviors towards gay men and lesbian women. 3/n