One of the very insidious expressions of sexism in academia is when men tell women their scholarship is ‘emotional’ or frame their anger or emotions as the first framing perception of our work, and at this point in 2026, I refuse to give people who do this any benefit of the doubt
Aparna Nair
God forbid you should have FEELINGS when you’ve spent 6 years labouring over a book that documents the vile history of racism in psychiatry. God forbid I should be ANGRY about it, or expect my reader to be.
