Symposium video archives

This session stems from my research exploring the ways science education has accustomed womxn of color to the isolating, competitive, and exclusive culture of the professional STEMM disciplines. After sharing the many ways we have been broken down by this oppressive culture, I asked a simple question: Why? Why do we continue to do it? What's the reward that we get at the end of the day? At the end of a career? In this interactive session, I offer the same question to you and an opportunity to press pause. Come prepared to be in community with other womxn of color in STEM disciplines to explore the following questions:

• How might I have internalized a "you have to work twice as hard to get just as far" mentality?
• How might I be perpetuating an isolating, competitive, and exclusive culture in my area?
• What cool, amazing, refreshing ideas could come from your discipline if we had the liberty to be creative in our disciplines?