On the Art and Politics of Chairing Panels
I have considered chairing panels at academic conferences for a while as a topic for a potential blog post. This aspect of academic life isn’t self-evident and there are only a few guides on...
How to Academia - A blog on academic selfhelp
Feminisim is a topic which doesn’t require much of an introduction. It’s the thing you don’t want to be associated with so people don’t dislike you, right? Wrong! We fight for more gender equality and less sexism in Academia. We’re proud feminists – and we really don’t care if you think that’s aggressive or crazy of us. We will claim our stage.
I have considered chairing panels at academic conferences for a while as a topic for a potential blog post. This aspect of academic life isn’t self-evident and there are only a few guides on...
Today I’d like to share a book review of Rebecca Solnit’s Men explain things to me (2,5h audiobook). I expected to hear about mansplaining for 2.5 hours from the person after whose text the...
Today I wanted to tackle a common fear, i.e. that you will be disadvantaged and disliked once you let your inner feminist out. While I can’t speak for everybody and my environment certainly isn’t...
In the last post, I gave some thoughts on sexism in Academia which I have come up with during the last few years experiencing Academia. My conclusions were that only breaking the silence will...
This was supposed to be a blog post recounting our experiences at the “Sexism in Academia” workshop we initiated and that finally took place around two weeks ago. But since it got really long,...