All posts by Anne-Elizabeth Brodsky

Student Government Association visit

Institutional Climate

On Tuesdhopkins sgaay evening I had the opportunity, at the invitation of long-time Where We Stand participant and Executive VP AJ Tsang, to talk to the SGA about the 2017 Report Card on Vision 2020. What a fabulous group of people, with excellent questions.

After my part of the agenda, things got really interesting.  Moses Davis, Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, came to discuss the Guidelines for Students in Support of Free Expression through Protests and Demonstrations at the Homewood Campus. I really encourage you to take a look at the guidelines. You can read about the SGA’s concerns about them here.

 

Gender, Labor, #MeToo

equitable policies & practices, Institutional Climate

This is Sam. Sam is the dog who saved the day, in 1995, when Franco Moretti tried to assault a grad student. Read more about Sam in The New Republic here.

Sam in hallway (1995)

Speaking of the systemic:

Karen Kelsky from The Chronicle asks, “When we will stop elevating predators?” and writes: “Part of being socialized in a patriarchal society is a mechanism of internalized gaslighting in which women are conditioned to second-guess themselves, to doubt, to minimize, to do the emotional labor of both defusing situations and reinterpreting them in such a way as to exculpate their harassers — by squinting in just the right way to make plausible deniability, well, plausible.”

In her article “This Moment Isn’t (Just) About Sex. It’s Really About Work.,” Rebecca Traister writes: “. . . it’s possible that we’re missing the bigger picture altogether: that this is not, at its heart, about sex at all — or at least not wholly. What it’s really about is work, and women’s equality in the workplace, and more broadly, about the rot at the core of our power structures that makes it harder for women to do work because the whole thing is tipped toward men.”

Sam Sam enjoying retirement (c. 2001)