How We Survive By Xicana Ph.D. I am here. This is a meditation and prayer. This was the first sentence of my dissertation. It is an affirmation that as long as I am still breathing there is work to be done. This is how I not only “made it” through my Ph.D., but how I […]
The Time was Yesterday: Activism in Urgent Times By: Irene Sanchez Xicana Ph.D. The time was yesterday that something needed to be done about the U.S. government holding children in cages and separating them from their parents. The time was yesterday that something needed to be done to support the lives, health, and well being […]
Welcome to What Has No End By Irene Sanchez (Xicana Ph.D.) In 2015, two months before graduation, the caravan for the missing 43 students from Ayotzinapa came to Seattle. Memories from years before I was in graduate school came back. Now three years after the caravan and four years to the day after the 43 […]
Protests, Movement, and Memory: The Chicano Moratorium By Irene Sanchez Xicana Ph.D Originally published on The Southwest Political Report August 29, 2018 Protests have been used to challenge injustice in society. The freedom to peacefully assemble is part of the first amendment rights of the U.S. constitution. Time and time again these so-called guaranteed rights […]
I have a Ph.D. and I’m a “Failure”. By Irene Sanchez Xicana Ph.D. I have a Ph.D. and I’m a “Failure”. At least this is how it feels for the moment until it didn’t. I remember when I decided to get a Ph.D. I was on academic probation coming off of academic dismissal (being kicked […]
Stop reinforcing the status quo inside or outside academia By Xicana Ph.D. The ivory tower as a whole doesn’t uplift anything, but those who reinforce it. It reinforces existing power. The status quo. A lot of folks within it do too. A lot of people who preach social justice do it every single day. Let’s […]
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I thought the real challenge would be finishing the Ph.D. as a single mother who overcome so many obstacles to be where I was walking across a stage with my son in my arms to have a doctoral hood placed over my head was one of my proudest moments.…
