View from Venus

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Opportunities and challenges of working on a PhD during the COVID-19 pandemic
• University of York's annual Sisterhood in Action Conference
• Gender equality and right-wing women
• Women members of right-wing parties in Germany and Austria
• Right-wing women and why they support right-wing politics
• The advantages of using zoom to tackle challenging subjects

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Nicole Roy at University of York
• Centre for Women's Studies at University of York
• “Women Are Women”: Right-Wing Women’s (Essentialist) Conceptualisation of Sex/Gender in Germany and Austria

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Our dream vacations
• Equity and graduate education
• Mentoring, wellbeing, and professional development of faculty
• Dynamics of power in our everyday work
• Cultural humility, feminist mentoring, and mutuality
• Gender and racial inequalities in the STEM disciplines
• Institutionalized silence

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Julie Posselt at University of Southern California
• Equity in Graduate Education initiative
• Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education
• Higher Education Administration for Social Justice and Equity: Critical Perspectives for Leadership

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• The strangest gifts we've ever received
• The biggest challenges facing women leaders in higher ed today
• Opportunities with the great resignation
• Changing from one sector to another during this moment of opportunity
• Rewriting the narrative of forward momentum in your career

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Yves Salomon-Fernández on LinkedIn
• Yves Salomon-Fernández on Twitter
• University of Venus blog at Inside Higher Ed
• Southern New Hampshire University

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Leadership at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Challenges facing women leaders in higher ed, especially women of color
• Boards of Trustees and equity, diversity, and inclusion goals

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Felecia Commodore at Old Dominion University
• Preparing to Fill the Leadership Gap: The Challenges Facing Women Leaders in Mid-Level Positions at Urban Community Colleges
• Controlling images, comments, and online communities: A critical discourse analysis of conversations about Black Women HBCU presidents
• Toward Culturally Sustaining Governance in Higher Education: Best Practices of Theory, Research, and Practice

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Paths to leadership in higher ed
• Changes to the way institutions approach EDI work
• Challenges facing women leaders in higher ed, especially women of color
• The importance of networks for women leaders

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Becky Petitt at University of California, San Diego
• UC San Diego Principles of Community
• HERS Leadership Institute 

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Intentionally creating spaces for flourishing in the academy
• Creating a feminist design lab across higher ed institutions
• Pandemic memes, gender, and digital activism
• The limits and possibilities of the #MeToo movement

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Shana MacDonald at University of Waterloo
• qLab Collaborative Feminist Design Lab
• Feminist futures: #MeToo’s possibilities as poiesis, techné, and pharmakon
• What Do You (Really) Meme? Pandemic Memes as Social Political Repositories

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Moving from a traditional faculty role to advocacy and policy work.  
• The challenges of leadership during COVID-19 and lessons learned.
• Non-traditional opportunities for PhD trained academics. 

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Jacqueline Rodriguez at AACTE
• Jacqueline on Twitter
• Special Education Law and Policy: From Foundation to Application

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• The current state of feminism on campus.
• The challenges of intersectional work.
• The problem of just adding women to the mix without making systemic changes.

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Anna Sampaio at Santa Clara University
• Anna on Twitter
• Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants: Race, Gender, and Immigration Politics in the Age of Security

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Leadership challenges during the COVID-19 global pandemic, economic downturn, and racial and social unrest. 
• Supporting students, faculty, and staff during this time.
• Balancing safety and wellness on campus. 
• President Jackson's evolving leadership style.
• Having the right people in the room and the importance of equity of voice.
• Strategies for achieving equity of voice and getting  more people to speak up.
• Advice for those interested in a college presidency.
• The importance of sponsors and mentors. 

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Shanna Jackson
• Nashville State Community College

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• How we learn to become literate citizens through reading.
• The representation of Black women across the Canadian cultural landscape.
• Chantal's collection of poetry, How She Read.
• How the lives and stories of our students impact our research and writing. 
• Prescriptive vs. descriptive grammar. 
• How Chantal's creative work influences the way she teaches research methods. 
• The interrelatedness of Identity and Research and research as a method of identity formation. 
• Students and discourse communities.
• Chantal's work in the current Canadian Senate show. 

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Chantal Gibson
• Chantal on Instagram
• Simon Fraser
• How She Read
• Chantal reading her poetry on YouTube. 
• A Grammar of Loss: Studies in Erasure
• bell hooks' Teaching to Transgress
• Canadian Senate show

Photo Credit: Marianne Meadahl

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Social media, political campaigns, and authenticity
• Gender, authenticity, and the American presidency
• How digital media interferes with our daily lives and makes it harder to concentrate. 
• Smartphone addiction. 
• Employee surveillance and the gig economy

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Gunn Enli at University of Oslo 
• Gunn at Academia.edu
• Digital Detox project

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

•  Ways to build community during remote learning and work from home
• The importance of bearing witness with our students
• Creating spaces for people to tell their stories.

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Nicola Blake
• Gutmann Community College

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Embodied Pedagogy
• Exhaustion during COVID
• Faculty Developers 
• Zoom fatigue 
• Cameras, trauma, and PTSD
• Marking the space of learning on the body

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Ann Gagné
• All Things Pedagogical blog
• Touching the Untouchable: Connecting, Ethical Caring, and Teaching During COVID-19
• Ann on Twitter

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• The importance of volunteer work in the life of an academic
• Finding time for creative work as a faculty member
• Sources of creative inspiration for academics
• Women and the media in Turkey

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Selcen Öner
• Selcen on YouTube
• Bahçeşehir University 
• LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Transitioning staff, faculty, and students during COVID-19
• Developing and implementing the inaugural Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Equity at Albany State
• Hosting the television show, Realizing Potential
• What it means to be your holistic self while working in higher ed
• The importance of community engagement in higher ed

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Wendy Wilson
• Albany State University
• Realizing Potential television program

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Tips and advice for preventing burnout.
• Ways to support faculty well-being. 
• Rebecca's forthcoming book,  Professor Burnout: Identifying, Addressing, and Destigmatizing Faculty Burnout in Higher Education. 
• The relationship between burnout and productivity.
• Lessons for creating boundaries and doing good boundary maintenance.
• The relationship between coaching and well-being and how this fits into Rebecca's career trajectory. 

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Rebecca Pope-Ruark
• Georgia Tech Center for Teaching and Learning
• Agile Faculty: Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching
• Slow Hustle Mastermind with Katie Linder

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Differences between feminist mentoring and traditional mentoring. 
• Hierarchical vs. relational mentoring and the importance of mutuality in mentoring.
• Defining mutuality and the factors that help increase mutuality. 
• Top challenges minoritized women leaders face and recommended strategies for institutions and individuals.
• Approaching mentoring as a space for activism and transforming systems.

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Ague Mae Manongsong
• Feminist Mentoring Workshop
• Mutuality and mentoring schemas

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• What are you hoarding while you stay at home during COVID-19?
• Ways to help women reach their full potential.
• Barriers to women's success.
• Staying active and connecting with others while practicing physical distancing. 
• How to have brave and difficult conversations. 

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Judy Neufeld
• Spark Sisterhood
• Emerge America

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• What is your favorite breakfast food?
• Reasons for leaving academia and founding the feminist collective, Design Beku, doing work in public humanities.
• How Padmini is able to reach more audiences by working outside of academia. 
• Feminist spaces within Digital Humanities and the need for improvement. 
• The importance of intersectionality for the work of dominant caste feminists in India. 
• The harnessing of Twitter, blogs, Facebook, and Instagram as activist spaces and spaces for feminist solidarity. 
• Digital spaces as spaces for testimony and counterpoints to national narratives. 
• Gendering the Smart City, a project focused on demonstrating the ways in which gender characterizes our relationship to the city. 
• Her work with a group of young women living in a resettlement colony in Delhi through Jagori, a locally embedded NGO. 
• The use of WhatsApp Diaries to document gendered experiences in the  Madanpur Khadar neighborhood in Delhi. 
• When it comes to designing space, the default is to design spaces for men.  

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Padmini Ray Murray
• Design Beku
• Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology
• Gendering the Smart City
• Wikimedia UK
• Cretons
• Ayona Dotta
• Khadar ki Ladkiyan [Khadar Girls] video
• Jagori nonprofit
• #AanaJaana ESRI Storymap 
• #AANAJAANA [#COMINGGOING] EXHIBITION
• Wikipedia page for Madanpur Khadar JJ Colony

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Warm up question: are you a listener or a talker?
• Sherri's background in physical education and how that informs her teaching and coaching practice. 
• Creeping imposter syndrome and how it can cause you to second guess yourself, slow you down, or soften your voice. 
• The importance of listening and creating space for listening as a form of resistance. 
• Listening as challenging but important work. 
• Podcasts as a space for listening.
• Creating communal writing spaces as a form of listening. 
• Pushing yourself to listen to voices that make you uncomfortable. 
• Listening as a 21st century skill. 

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Sherri Spelic at Edified Listener blog
• Sherri on LinkedIn
• Sherri on Twitter
• Identity, Education and Power on Medium

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia