@lauravarnam: Importance of speaking from who and where you are: how to navigate the gap between exceptional and everyday humans? It depends on triggering feeling, connection, empathy #gms2018
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I am saying that I respect my students who feel equally marginalised by all of us 'grown up' academics. A student of mine who is wondering if she's a lesbian may need to know that that's a question I thought about too, and it's part of my academic work.
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Such a student needs to see me be uncertain and anxious - a 'work in progress'. She needs to realise *on a personal level* that my work is shaped by my own emerging sense of identity - and so can hers be.
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I completely agree with this. In my own experience as a non able-bodied student without various class/cash privileges, I had *no idea* it was even a system to begin with. Finding that out & discovering the extremely problematic rules of the game was devastating AND empowering
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Eg I had no idea you could apply for £££ support if you were on a full student loan until my 2nd year of UG as nobody told me, it was just assumed you didn't need the info or you'd "know". Figuring out the rules let me eventually find my voice to subvert them as much as I can
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