Thinking about @DrSubini's thread about competition instead of community in academia...
Academia at its best is a scholarly community. We all like citations, awards, and positions, but at the end of the day, it's about the pursuit of knowledge.
It's not about us as individuals.
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I remember the first time I was called by a national outlet for interviews - was that 2014 or 2015? My mentor at my institution told me to enjoy the moment, but also, to be true to my work and my program of research when no one besides me & 10 other people cared about it at all.
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And then, I think about how few academics from 100 years ago's work we know. Even those in my own field. In TDF, I didn't focus on the century of BW scholars/teachers/librarians' work on equity in children's media before me. My next book will 100% center that. But...
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In 2, 5, 15, 20 or more years, my work will be superseded by a new generation of academics with new knowledge. In fact (and this is unpopular), if you're doing your job, you should be like the best of my mentors -- nurture/shape this supersession *while you're still working.*
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It's a baton. It's not a darn trophy. Pass. It. On. (And by God, you'd better not let me pay my debt off early & get enough to retire, because a sista WILL sit down, fangirl professionally & hand my position to someone else. It's just y'all who wanna work forever! LOL.)
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"Eb, what's your retirement plan?" "To walk my path til I can't no more. And then, when I can no longer travel, I hope I can find a corner of the sky to look at the clouds by day & the stars by night... being thankful that I got to live and witness the splendor of the universe."
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I think academics who aren't happy for peers doing good work are weird as hell. Like, part of fangirling the thing you profess is fangirling good work in it. Some of my colleagues are doing extraordinary things -- I be like WHOA THAT NEVER OCCURED TO ME YOUR BRAIN IT'S! WOW!!!
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