• 195: Trained to believe it

  • Aug 28 2024
  • Length: 22 mins
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195: Trained to believe it

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    Simon and Lee share a tricky conversation about the politics of representation.

    Things they discuss: finding the note about the tricky subject, Lee extemporising, representation and optics, box ticking, Bayo Akomolafe and representation on slave ships, Simon's confusion about representation, the end game of the politics of representation, Guild HE report on "Understanding the lived experience of ethnic minority students in postgraduate research", the vitality of role models that we see ourselves in, visible markers of identity, female vice-chancellors and a patriarchal narrative, Lee goes all Derridean on us and getting to the point where the binary has been dismantled, gender-based violence in the UK and positioning women as chattle.

    Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net.

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