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3517 - Sociologists' LGBTQ Caucus Workshop: Dealing with the Service Trap
Mon, August 12, 4:30 to 6:10pm, New York Hilton, Floor: Second Floor, Murray Hill EastSession Submission Type: Workshop
Description
In this workshop, LGBTQ scholars will discuss ways to navigate the service trap, or the ways their home institutions rely on them to provide a lot of service, which often looks like scholars spread thin and scholars being tokenized for their marginalized identity. Some topics that panelists might address include: how to form one’s ‘no committee,’ how to balance work-life, how to navigate the academy as graduate students and junior scholars; how to be scholar-activists; how to be publicly engaged and address being harassed on social media when trying to translate research to the public and so on.
Our panel consists of scholars at various stages of their careers who will speak to a variety of strategies for navigating academia at different career milestones, ensuring that the workshop is useful to a variety of sociologists. The panel is be racially/ethnically diverse to ensure that our workshop is not only relevant to LGBTQ sociologists who study LGBTQ issues, but also LGBTQ (and non-LGBTQ) scholars whose research interests go beyond the scope of LGBTQ studies. We also want to account for the ways that trans and nonbinary sociologists of color navigate academia differently. No affiliation with the Caucus will be required to attend this workshop in the spirit of building bridges with other sections and increasing Caucus visibility within ASA.
This workshop is ideal for the 2019 Annual Meeting because it is important to consider the challenges that trans and nonbinary scholars may face in academic spaces under the Trump Administration, at both the federal and state-level. Our panelists will reflect upon strategies to be utilized and potential departmental or disciplinary practices to be implemented that will provide more inclusive and equitable graduate school, job market, and career experiences for trans and nonbinary scholars.