Educators Combating Midwestern "Slow-Drip Racism": Spirit Healing Narratives of Women of Color in Academia

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The purpose of this session is to reimagine how women of color (WOC) educators can share their narratives as a process of recognizing “spirit injury” and discovering profound spirit healing and sense of community in academia. Our interwoven voices of intersectionality, shared together, showcase Midwest marginalized experiences of WOC in academia. We purpose new visions and new possibilities and draw on our individual experiences and collective voices as WOC in academia that is crucial to our development, humanity and brilliance as educators. We use an interactive panel format as a way of sharing and encouraging audience involvement to ask questions, connect to our voices, and Dr. Adrien Wing’s concepts of spirit injury and spirit healing.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 1: Education and Place, Space, Time

Chair

• Saba Khan Vlach, University of Iowa

Papers

• Discovering Community as a PhD Student: Affinity Spaces in Graduate School - Tasha Adrienne Lindo, University of Iowa

• Finding Authentic Voice When "Niceness" Is a Barrier in Conversations on Racism - Raquel Wood, University of Iowa

• Combating the Native-Like English Norm as an International Student - GoMee Park, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley

• Threats to Identities - Sungeun Kang, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

• Shaping Identities: Ongoing Process Between Self-Doubt and Resilience - EunJung Kim, University of Iowa