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On Feeling Depleted: Naming, Confronting, and Surviving Oppression in the Academy – The Feminist Wire | The Feminist Wire

Posted by melissaicd on August 5, 2014
Posted in: advocacy, culture, education, social justice. Tagged: academia, activism.

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On Feeling Depleted: Naming, Confronting, and Surviving Oppression in the Academy – The Feminist Wire | The Feminist Wire.

We seek to radically reshape and remake the institution in more equitable ways. True solidarity cannot pay lip service to feminist, de-colonial, anti-racist projects while maintaining individual investments in a system that works for only the most privileged bodies. Marginalized individuals cannot but participate in the oppression of other marginalized people if they are invested in academia’s current structure. Increased “representation” merely reifies the system rather than expands the possibilities for solidarity, for change.

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