Tag: Women of color

Scholars: Let’s Focus on Women and Caregiving in the Economy

There is a need for more support and investment in childcare and care work as the U.S. opens its economy back up, according to scholars who participated in a virtual panel titled “The Economics of Care: What’s at Stake for Women in the Workforce,” hosted by the Center for American Progress on Tuesday.

June 22, 2021

The Center for American Progress

Bellarmine University Business School Partners With Business Incubator to Support Women of Color Entrepreneurs

Bellarmine University’s Rubel School of Business is partnering with a Louisville business incubator to support women of color entrepreneurs. Rubel will give priority registration to its Women of Color Entrepreneurs—Leadership Certificate program to two members of the AMPED Russell Technology Business Incubator. The incubator will guarantee spots in its one-year program for the winner and […]

May 11, 2021

Bellarmine University

African-American

Webinar Focuses on Mental Health Impact of Gendered Racism

The Steve Fund webinar, “Healing for Young Women of Color: How to Survive and Thrive in the Face of Gendered Racism,” highlighted the intersections of race and gender through the exploration of COVID-19, stereotypes and media perceptions.

March 23, 2021

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With the Fire on High: The Writing Process in COVID-19

For me to be productive as a woman of color in academia, my writing needs to be driven by a connection to what is real, lived, and urgent. COVID-19 is not normal, and I argue should not be considered the “new” norm. Academia was already difficult and combined with COVID-19 will have lasting effects on the “productivity” of women of color for years to come.

May 2, 2020

“Spirit-Murdering in Academia”

Let me be clear. There is a long history of the ideas by women of color scholars being co-opted and reproduced by others. Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, citing is a political act.

February 26, 2020

2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Nichole Margarita Garcia

Garcia has found a way to do what so many scholars find difficult: to combine the personal with the theoretical, bringing her lived experiences to her scholarship, and, in doing so, inspiring a generation of younger scholars to do the same.

January 27, 2020

Faculty & Staff

Can I Meet With You? Yet, Never Give You Credit for Your Labor

A couple months ago a woman of color colleague posted a pro tip on social media stating that if you want labor from women of color be sure to give credit where credit is due. I had a gut reaction as years of my own pathway through higher education ignited in my brain.

October 16, 2019

African-American

Dear Academia. . .

This is year-two on tenure track. I am already behind in meeting writing goals, lesson plans for my courses, professional applications, and getting that next grant out. You reminded me earlier this week that you have very high expectations and with those expectations come yearly cycles of rejection.

September 16, 2019

Effectively Mentoring Women of Color on the College Campus: A Holistic and Intersectional Ecology (HIE) Model

Many women of color (WOC) students have been silently suffering at Predominantly White Institutions (PWI’s) across the country. A deeper examination suggests these students are doing well academically, but struggling to maintain positive wellbeing in campus environments that may feel unwelcoming and at times hostile.

September 10, 2019

‘We Didn’t Cross The Border, The Border Crossed Us:’ The Importance Of Ethnic Studies

I once heard a story about a man that needed to go North from Mexico to the United States in the 1940s. At the time, Guerrero, Mexico was depleted of resources and there were no jobs for the people. It spread throughout the city that there was work in the United States through a temporary workers program. The man knew this was his chance to go North so he went to where all the laborers were gathering to leave.

July 16, 2019

Tearing at my Heart: The First Year on Tenure Track

I reached for the tissue box and it was empty. The tears trickled down my face at a faster pace than usual. I rushed to the bathroom to replenish my tissue box. I slowly slipped into an uncontrollable sob. I felt like I was an infant again overwhelmed with emotions but left without the words to explain the depth of what I was feeling. Were these tears of joy, happiness, sadness, restlessness, exhaustion or hurt?

July 1, 2019

‘I Just Said That!’

Have you ever had that moment when you were in a meeting and proposed an idea for consideration to solve a problem? In an instance, you are abruptly interrupted. Your colleague regurgitated your idea as if it was their own. As you look around the table for a connection of affirmation, in your head you are thinking, “I just said that!”

April 15, 2019

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