Women With Opinions: You're Prettier When Your Quiet and Other Lies By Irene Sanchez Actually you are NOT prettier when you're quiet. That's just something certain folks would like you to believe when it's convenient for them. What shocked me this year (the year I had more published opinions) was the ways in which other … Continue reading Women With Opinions: You’re Prettier When You’re Quiet and Other Lies
Connecting Wilson and Trump: How anti-immigrant hate has spread since Prop 187
Connecting Wilson and Trump: How anti-immigrant hate has spread since Prop 187By: Irene Sanchez It has almost been a year since Trump released a political ad on Twitter that demonizes Mexican/Latina/o/x people, yet we must remember he is not the first to use political ads to invoke fear of these particular groups. While many news … Continue reading Connecting Wilson and Trump: How anti-immigrant hate has spread since Prop 187
Why We Still Need Chicano/Latino Studies
Why we still need Chicanx/Latinx Studies By Irene Sanchez A student last year in my Latinx Studies class wrote, "If I am not myself, who will I be?" I asked myself when I read it: Who would I be? Would I be bowed head, eyes lowered, and ashamed? Would I be neither here nor there? … Continue reading Why We Still Need Chicano/Latino Studies
Don’t Be Afraid of Your Own Voice
Don't Be Afraid of Your Own Voice By Irene Sanchez Don't be afraid of your own voice. If you are like me, as a woman, you too have been silenced. You too have spoken up knowing there would be consequences, some predictable and others more severe than you could've imagined all for using your voice … Continue reading Don’t Be Afraid of Your Own Voice
How We Survive
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 … Continue reading How We Survive
I have a Ph.D. and I’m a “Failure”.
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 … Continue reading I have a Ph.D. and I’m a “Failure”.
Stop reinforcing the status quo inside or outside academia
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 … Continue reading Stop reinforcing the status quo inside or outside academia
