Pausing to Identify the "Shiftings" of MotherScholars From Survival To...??

• In Event: Motherscholars Juggling Their Work in the Academy

Abstract

This study continues the ongoing arts-based, collaborative autoethnographic scholarship of five Women in higher education as we document and analyze the ongoing shifts we must make in order to navigate inequities and experiences unique to our shared identities as MotherScholars (Authors, 2020). By adding this paper to the publishings and presentations that come before it, we add yet another example of a truth woven throughout our scholarship series -- namely that MotherScholars need support systems in which they can find cooperative strength to undergo individual self-interrogations necessary to help them shift from the mere survival of a global pandemic to the next stage of uncertainty in an intersecting world of professional and personal responsibilities and realities.

Authors

• Lauren E. Burrow, Stephen F. Austin State University

• Heather K. Olson Beal, Stephen F. Austin State University

• Chrissy J Cross, Stephen F. Austin State University

• Sarah Leblanc, Purdue University - Fort Wayne

• Elizabeth Spradley, Stephen F. Austin State University