PhDivas Podcast
1) S04E11 | Diversity in the Geosciences: Hard Questions for Hard Sciences ft Sara Cannon, Leonora King
Geosciences are the least diverse of all STEM fields. But is it enough to track statistics about gender and race given the discipline's colonial, masculinist history? Quantitative scientists experimen...Show More
2) S7E1 | You Are Not Alone: Race + Mental Health w Dr Samara Linton & Rianna Walcott
Good luck with the start of another academic year: you are not alone. Mental health is often falsely presented as irrelevant to people of colour. Dr. Samara Linton and Dr. Rianna Walcott's brilliant T...Show More
S7E1 | You Are Not Alone: Race + Mental Health w Dr Samara Linton & Rianna Walcott
1:02:43 | Sep 26th, 2022
3) S6E9 | Pandemic Pedagogy & Sailor Moon Solidarity w Dr. Cassie Osei
Adversity and the power of friendship! In the second half of the interview, PhDiva Xine talks with historian Cassie Osei about pedagogy during the pandemic and life lessons from Sailor Moon. Do you wa...Show More
4) S6E8 | Afro-Brazilian Women's History & Low Femme Theory with Dr. Cassie Osei
Wherever they are, Black women have always theorized about race and gender, says Dr. Cassie Osei. In the first of two eps, PhDiva Xine interviews Cassie Osei, historian of Afro-Brazilian women's histo...Show More
S6E8 | Afro-Brazilian Women's History & Low Femme Theory with Dr. Cassie Osei
1:00:00 | May 27th, 2022
5) S6E7 | PhDivas Discuss DISAFFECTED: Solidarities Outside the Master's House
Let's talk about feelings, unfeelings, boundaries, and emotional labour! How do we build solidarities beyond what Black feminist Audre Lorde calls 'the master's house'? In part 2, PhDiva Liz chats to ...Show More
S6E7 | PhDivas Discuss DISAFFECTED: Solidarities Outside the Master's House
53:59 | Mar 22nd, 2022
6) S6E6 | WOC Then, WOC Now Pt 1: Writing Books & Historical Black Women in STEM
So much and yet so little has changed for women of colour since the 19th century... PhDivas Liz and Xine discuss Xine's first book DISAFFECTED. Xine shares the challenges of writing a monograph (a fan...Show More
S6E6 | WOC Then, WOC Now Pt 1: Writing Books & Historical Black Women in STEM
1:01:02 | Feb 21st, 2022
7) S6E5 | WOC Scholars in Community: PhDiva Xine's Book Launch!
If the master's tools can never dismantle the master's house, what can we build instead? Since emotional labour is racialized and gendered, what if minoritized people say 'no'? Listen to several brill...Show More
8) S6E4 | PhDivas Watch Netflix's The Chair: WOC Safeguarding & Sabotage
Have you watched Netflix's The Chair? Join PhDivas Liz and Xine as they talk about all the uncomfortable resonances between their experiences as women of colour in academia and the short 'comedy' seri...Show More
9) S6E3 | Casteism ≠ Racism: Prof Shaista Patel on the Failures of 'Postcolonialism'
Just because they are both systems of oppression does not mean that casteism ≠ racism! Postcolonialism developed as a field of study established by predominantly Indian intellectuals -- but only under...Show More
S6E3 | Casteism ≠ Racism: Prof Shaista Patel on the Failures of 'Postcolonialism'
36:43 | Aug 24th, 2021
10) S5 Special! Liz interviews her mom
Mother's Day Special! Liz interviews her mom about what it's like to raise a PhDiva. Learn about Liz's childhood career aspirations and their intergenerational experience of education in Mississippi. ...Show More