If there were enough of them on the Board, they would be a force. I am not suggesting a token. Having said that, their views and opinions are vital and they are instrumental in the direction the field is going. They also give a perspective of the field that /cont
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is necessary and often forgotten by more senior members. This is also about something they can add to their CV. It's experience. It's hard work and they are doing the work already. Several ECR have researched things in one morning that the board hadn't done in nearly a year.
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They are invested and should have a seat at the table. It's about representation. We need wide representation.
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And may I say as someone finishing her PhD soon: yes, ECRs are vulnerable because we fear that our potential careers will be tanked for speaking out against not just academic things but sexual harassment, racism, etc. We need support from later-stage academics but 1/
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I am not a child, I wish to speak for myself and have a voice and have someone in a similar career position to rep me. I would not personally like to be on the board but this attitude that we are vulnerable therefore we shouldn’t be on the board reads more like we are naive 2/
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It was not at all my intention to imply naivete & am sorry it came across that way. My point is that ECR people, BIPOC or not, are already faced with being torn in all directions; the system is rigged to undermine the things that actually help us get/keep jobs (unless we are 1/
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graced with lots of research time/support & low teaching loads in our specific specialties). Women especially are expected to do more unpaid/uncredited labor. Being on the board of an academic society, unless you have patronage there, ESPECIALLY one that is emotionally and 2/
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spiritually draining, is almost never worth as much as more and better scholarship production, or at smaller unis in the US, building relationships across campus. I’m not talking about committees in the same orgs —they give valuable experience and networking opps. But if one 3/
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The arguably main advantages of being senior faculty are that we have both more experience and can take bigger hits. We have IMO a responsibility to help keep ECRs from burning out. It’s not that ECRs can’t — it’s that they shouldn’t have to. /4
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We’re doing the work as is. What’s emotionally draining is having to contend with established white scholars defending racism and white feelings and sexism. This concern for our well-being is appreciated, but the fact is that senior faculty cannot be unilaterally trusted.
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And what happens is that it is ECRs who commit to the unpaid emotional labour on Twitter and other social media to call this out are frequently put down because we are ECRs. Yeah we are worried about jobs in the field, getting published. Decisions overseen by senior members.
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Having senior academics in charge but then having ones who seem to have our best interests in mind on the surface seems to be a good idea. But I’ve seen senior academics lately who talk to the talk but don’t walk the walk, so to speak.
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It’s clear from seeing how graduate students unions operate, how faculty operate, that no one will advocate for us without us actually being there. Not in any meaningful way. And I say this as a white woman who has a lot of privilege and have not experienced nearly as many probs
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