How #CiteASista Leveraged Online Platforms to Center Black Womxn

Finding their way: Exploring the experiences of tenured Black women faculty.

“…Institutional leaders and academic leaders concerned with the success of Black women faculty should do more to invest in the resources proven to contribute to their success. However, we cannot assume that Black women will not continue to find each other and form their own mentoring networks and support groups (Allen & Joseph, 2018; Gray-Nicolas & Nash, 2021; Johnson et al, 2018; Porter et al, 2022; Robinson et al, 2022; Williams & Collier, 2022). These home-grown connections can be encouraged and invested in through professional development funds that facilitate contact with their mentors of choice.…”

“…They found that this private social media page served as a space for encouragement, support, and resistance to racist institutional norms. Similarly, Williams and Collier (2022) document how #CiteASista—a digital counterspace developed to center and uplift current and aspiring Black women scholars that began on Twitter—leverages technology to resist the erasure of Black women’s contributions in the academy and beyond. Pushing against isolationism, Black women also draw strength from supportive and communal spaces created through relationships with other Black women faculty, faculty of color, family, and meaningful involvement in nonacademic spaces (e.g., church, service organizations; Johnson et al, 2018; Sulé, 2014; Zambrana, 2018).…”

A content analysis of qualitative research on college student food insecurity in the United States

“…We opted to exclude any publications perceived as predatory (e.g., pay‐for‐publication journals); however, we do not view our role as critical researchers as arbiters of research quality. Conceptions of quality and rigour in academic research are often racially, gendered and class‐coded in the United States (King et al., 2017; Williams & Collier, 2022). Instead, we sought to review the state of the literature as it currently exists and to allow our critical perspectives to illuminate future research possibilities for improving what we know and understand about food insecurity.…”

“Whenever I see those little rainbow stickers, I know that there is a place you can go”: Visibility and sense of belonging for queer and/or trans community college students.

“…During data collection, prior to the scheduled interviews, I reviewed the interview protocol and reflected on my own identities and social location. This meant engaging in the reflexive process (Charmaz, 2020) of understanding my standpoint (Collins, 1990; Williams & Collier, 2022) in this work, my relation to understandings of queerness and trans experiences, and how these interact with my other salient identities of being a nonbinary Latinx queer person. After each interview, reflexive memos were written out that helped me take note of initial emergent themes of how images relate to the cocreators’ sense of belonging and their queer or trans identity in opposition to cisheterosexist structures.…”

“…I first conceptualized this study given my positionality as a community college leader who is queer, a Latinx, a joto, and doing work with and for queer and trans communities (Delgado Bernal et al, 2012). My current standpoint emerged from my time as a practitioner where I wore multiple hats, one very sparkly one as the person who oversaw QT initiatives (Collins, 1990; Williams & Collier, 2022). In my time in this role, there was no formalized ally training or official services beyond those put on by my students, the PRIDE student organization, and myself.…”