Azhir Mahmood  🚀 🤖 🧬 🧠 🪐

OK, I shall defo read, but possibly not til after I've recovered from the latest bout of late night lecture recording as it sounds like I will need my brain functional and a little strength available. Currently I am a blithering pile of melted jelly.

I feel for you! I'll be honest I do a lot less actual 'reading' these days since discovering audiobooks

Unless I'm doing something else, like cooking or sewing, I have a terrible tendency to nod off whilst listening to audio books! I end up listening to things I've already read so that it doesn't matter so much if I snooze through important bits!

Same here, I usually listen when walking/running or pottering on my allotment. I can't listen at home as there are too many distraction/interruptions, or just a preference for sleeping!

Academics circles aren’t at the forefront’s of EDI convos — makes sense, they’re not activists. (Tbh; I’ve assumed intersectional feminism was mainstream since 2012 — roughly when I first got involved). We’re almost a decade into fourth wave feminism.

I agree, I just feel that those of us actively engaged in EDI work in academic spaces need to keep listening, & put in the time/effort to learn & to educate ourselves. There can often be a misconception that all that is needed to do this work is good intentions.

True. Although having good intentions is at least better than not having them. Or having actively exclusionary very bad intentions. And there's plenty of the latter left in academia, sadly.