{"id":67643,"date":"2020-08-20T11:49:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T15:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=67643"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:04","slug":"dwivedi-reflecting-on-my-recent-success-and-what-i-can-do-with-this-new-part-of-my-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/08\/dwivedi-reflecting-on-my-recent-success-and-what-i-can-do-with-this-new-part-of-my-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"DWIVEDI: Reflecting on my recent success, and what I can do with this new part of my identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Veena Dwivedi, Psychology Professor at Brock University, published a first-person piece in <\/span><em><span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/first-person\/article-reflecting-on-my-recent-success-and-what-i-can-do-with-this-new-part\/?utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+\/+Media&amp;utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Globe and Mail<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/em><span lang=\"EN-US\"> where she reflects on her multiple cultural identities, the societal awakening to racism and how she still remains hopeful for the future.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">She writes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cAfter years of research and hard work, this summer I was promoted to full professor by Brock University. It\u2019s ironic that this progress for a visible minority happened during the \u201cgreat pause\u201d of COVID-19, and when society was finally \u2013 remarkably \u2013 awakened to racism by the killing of George Floyd.<\/span><\/i><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">Like a lot of people in these never-before-seen times, I took a long look in the mirror. How could this be happening? I had been in academia for a quarter-century and thought I was making a difference. How to find hope now? Just because I had \u201cmade it\u201d in academia? What next?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">Incidentally, my research is on brain and language, which means I could be in either linguistics or psychology departments. Out of curiosity, I did a web search of those department types at major Canadian universities. My search revealed that just a handful of full professors at those schools are both female and non-white. That reality alone says, \u201cHouston, we have a problem.\u201d<\/span><\/i><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Continue reading the full article <\/span><span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/first-person\/article-reflecting-on-my-recent-success-and-what-i-can-do-with-this-new-part\/?utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+\/+Media&amp;utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veena Dwivedi, Psychology Professor at Brock University, published a first-person piece in The Globe and Mail where she discusses how her recent promotion to full-time professor has made her reflect on her multiple cultural identities, the societal awakening to racism, and how she still remains hopeful for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[6838,739],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67777,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67643\/revisions\/67777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}