2. As a minoritized woman graduate student, I never would have dreamed DREAMED of calling a prof, in my discipline no less, “unhinged,” much less in public. The entitlement in believing it is okay to do so, and that there will be no consequence, speaks to a deep-seated privilege.
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When I was a graduate student, I once *looked* angry when a postdoc made a “you Black people” comment to me, and I had to change research groups because people thought I had overreacted. I can’t even make facial expressions at real fuckshit without serious consequences.
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3. The power dynamics of being a Black woman professor in particle physics are such that some random male grad student can come along and confidently call me unhinged in public as a response to my commentary about white supremacy in science, without any worry about his future.
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The power dynamics are also such that despite the fact that he was brazenly disrespectful to me in public, people are going to say I “punched down” by writing this thread. And that’s part of patriarchy: men get to treat women any old way and women get judged for their response.
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5. “I understood your post to be kind of a provocative faux anecdote that was supposed to represent the actual dynamics of white women/men in science.Admittedly, I don’t have data on this, but it did seem to fly in the face of what I myself have observed in my years in academia.”
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That’s from his email to me. He says he has no data, but he was still calling my analysis “provocative” and “unhinged” because it didn’t match with his experience as a man who has only been in the field for a few years.
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I started grad school 16 years ago. I graduated w/ a PhD 8 years ago. I have since held a $100K grant to specifically study the impact of racism/sexism on physics. I currently hold a faculty appointment in both physics & women’s studies.He has no data.But I’m the provocative one.
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6. “I missed your talk at SUNY Albany, which I was told was very good, hence why I followed you on Twitter.” The talk I gave was a seminar to SUNY Albany’s women’s studies. Im other words, he knows I am a recognized expert and still feels his lack of data exceeds my expertise.
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The talk I gave was on a concept I call “white empiricism” — a phenomenon where white, male- dominated science trusts white men’s rationalism based on their sense of aesthetics more than Black women’s self-reported data.
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The paper, to be published in Signs Journal in 2020, was a finalist for the 2019 Catharine Stimpson Prize. I wrote it to describe things like what happened today: a white man n physics telling me, based on his gut feeling, that his lack of data was better than all of my data.
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I am so excited about this publication.
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