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Si de por si, la academia ya pide mucho de nosotros: resisting the productivity syndrome using [chis]temonios

Perez Duarte, Maria Dolores
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2023-11-30
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This study illustrates how six BIPOC students practice self-care in their graduate programs at a PWI. Findings—reported as [chis]temonios, testimonios written in gossiping style—suggest that the participants practice self-care by attending to their bodies, immersing in their cultures via food & music, actively pursuing their communities, loved ones, & mentors, and staying true to themselves as their definition of success, a definition oftentimes not endorsed in academia. Overall, the findings suggest that the participants practice self-care by prioritizing themselves strategically and creatively within the academy. The major themes include: reclaiming time, rhetorical herencia, ancestral remembering, self-care in the academy, authenticity, capitalism in graduate school, productivity syndrome/the grinding, and platica as an alternative qualitative methodology.
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Higher education
BIPOC students
Self-care
[Chis]temonios
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English