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Editor’s Note: From “Surviving PWIs” to “Conflicting Emotions”
Sentiments of a Black Scientist: Letter to My White Colleagues
“You have the privilege to choose when you want to listen, reflect, and act on diversity in STEM. Because you have chosen, for now, to listen, can I make a suggestion? Rather than replying with sympathy, stories, and silver linings, develop a plan for what you’re going to do to change.” In his contribution to our Surviving PWIs for POC series, Charles Scaife writes a letter to white scientists.
How Was Your Weekend?
To break the awkwardness of a group discussion, a student asks, “how was your weekend?” For Namarig Kram, the question from a white classmate was a window into the dynamics of racism on and around her university campus in northern NY. Read her story in the latest installment of our Surviving PWIs for POC series.
Straddling Gratitude and Resentment
In the latest installment of our Surviving PWIs for POC series, Karen Chalamilla reflects on her postgrad education at SOAS (University of London). “Simply being critical of Euro-patriarchal thinking will never be enough,” writes Chalamilla. “Its dominance runs too deep. If this is what academic institutions consider to be decolonization, then we ought to question whether the project is worth our energy at all.”
Surviving PWIs for POCs: Two Too Many
By Jarrodd Davis
Jarrodd Davis on the Mayweather vs. McGregor fight: "What had I gotten myself into? We gathered in a white space to watch America’s race relations play out on a literal stage and in real time."
Surviving PWIs for POC: Keeping Up Appearances
By Cordenne Brewster
"I still felt skepticism when someone told me there was no racism in Massachusetts, even after they had told me the white supremacists I had heard about '[weren’t] a big deal,'” Cordenne Brewster writes in the first entry of Surviving PWIs for POC, a new series from Weave News.
Call for Submissions: Surviving PWIs for POC
By Weave News Editors
Weave News is starting a new series documenting the experiences of students of color at predominantly white institutions (PWIs), and we want your submissions.