Tag: Marginalized Voices in Academia

by Editorial Board August 23, 2019 Number of comments0
August 2019

Strikes in Australian Higher Education: Stories From the Field

This article adopts critical auto-ethnography to examine how Australian university unions and unionists have developed strategies for campus activism. The enablers and restraints on union activism in Australian higher education are discussed using the device of vignettes of a unionist active in the sector from the 1980’s onwards, and an agenda for the future raised.

by Editorial Board August 20, 2018 Number of comments0
August 2018 Marginalized Voices

I’m From Around Here, Too

I’m becoming. I’m becoming authentic. I’m becoming solid in the fact that I am good at my job, that I deserve to be in front of these students each day, just as much as any white, cishet male counterparts with degrees from way up North. I’m becoming solid in the understanding that by accepting my own identities (and the privileges and oppressions that come with them) I can clear space for my students to do the same.