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Journal Article
Not Another Essay on Care Work in Academia!
2023
Overview
A tenured position within an academic institution was supposed to be my happy ending.1 Instead, I've spent copious amounts of time and energy healing from pervasive institutional violence and trying to plan an escape.21 no longer wish to escape, but I also do not care for these institutions as I once did. Here, I use the example of a community of academic care workers that I built at the State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY New Paltz) to consider how our collective capacity to care is appropriated and (ab)used under the neoliberal university's newfound commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in a (not quite) \"postpandemic\" world. Perhaps this is because our care work with one another is exchanged in what disability justice activist Leah Lakshmi PiepznaSamarasinha calls a \"fair trade emotional labor economy\"-our care for one another is reciprocal, consensual, acknowledged, and appreciated.8 We practice care abundance, engaging in what The Care Collective refers to as \"promiscuous care\"-the kind of care rooted in alternative kinship structures that \"enable us to multiply the number of people we can care for, about and with\" within a systematically uncaring university system.9 I have always understood the POCN to be a labor of love, but because it was something I made without institutional input or support, I never considered how that labor was work, specifically diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work for the neoliberal university. A-dare I say-\"safe\" (-ish) place to work and learn.101 considered myself lucky that I was able to \"choose\" university service I was passionate about and proud of, but I understand now that our caring community is tolerated by the institution because our external interventions are appropriated by the university as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work/or the university.
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The University of Alabama Press,University of Alabama Press
