Notes to self on anti-oppressive academic activity

Notes to Self on Anti-oppressive Academic Activity

1. Consider what you put in your bio, and how you use it / allow it to be used

2. Consider how you relate to paywalls

3. Consider how you create job adverts, run calls for papers & manage recruitment processes

4. Remember that the MT academy is part of a bigger set of systems

5. Question your relationship with knowledge: remember certainty is a delusion. Or is it?

6. Manage your relationship with pedestals

7. Examine your sense of academic territoriality: be mindful of phrase-coining, acknowledging lineages, flag-planting & land-grabbing

8. Examine whether you collude with the inherent Tone Policing of the academic system

9. Name-dropping, tokenism and scatter-gun citation are unscholarly. 

10. Examine the capitalist roots of converting human registers of experience into a publication.

11. There is more than one tone of voice available.