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 co...
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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 duri...
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 inter...
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...
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 DISAFFECT...
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,...
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 experience...
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 establi...
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 thei...
S6E2 | Springtime Rejections: PhDivas Talk About Academic Failure
Springtime is the season of success for a few... and rejection for the majority. PhDivas Liz and Xine revisit the perennial topic of the man...
S6E1 | New Year, New Faculty Struggles: 2021 Inspirations & Insurrection
2021 has been a rough start for the PhDivas. Liz and Xine recorded this in the week after the white supremacist insurrection at the US Capit...
S5E18 | The Good, the Bad, the COVID-19: Winding Down and Burning Out
PhDivas Dr. Xine Yao and Dr. Liz Wayne get together over American Thanksgiving to talk about the challenges of working during COVID19. Suppo...
S5E17 | The Anti-Indiana Jones Approach: Decolonizing Zoo Archaeology w Alex Fitzpatrick
"This belongs in a museum!" Indiana Jones's catchphrase inspired generations of young archaeologists like Alex Fitzpatrick who are now criti...
S3E16 | Phinishing Your PhD During a Pandemic ft. Archaeologist Alex Fitzpatrick
Handing in your PhD dissertation and disrupting the field of archaeology is exhausting enough... but during a global pandemic? Archaeologist...
S5E15 | Degrees of Difference: WOC Graduate Experiences with Denise Delgado & Kim McKee
Imagine an interdisciplinary volume collecting advice and experiences of women of colour in graduate school. PhDiva Xine discusses Degrees o...
S5E14 | Disability Activism & Access in Academia: Divya Persaud & Ellie Armstrong
COVID-19 presents new challenges and possibilities for disabled students. Thousands signed an open letter asking grant agencies to automatic...
S5E13 | Space Science, Space Colonialism: Ellie Armstrong & Divya Persaud on #SSiC2020
"To boldly go to where no man has gone before" -- the classic Star Trek slogan reflects how colonialism informs space exploration. NASA's te...
S5E12 | COVID-19 Care-Work for Academic Families & Singles with Professor Charissa Cheah
Some of us have additional care responsibilities at home. Some of us are all alone at home. How do we care for ourselves and each other duri...
S5E11 | Cells and Society at Work: Biomedical & Biopolitical Takes on Immunity
Why do we talk about our immune systems using the language of warfare? Let's discuss immunity from two perspectives that may seem very diffe...
S5E10 | COVID-19 Anti-Asian & Anti-Black Racism with Professor Charissa Cheah
Who is seen as the disease or the diseased? Psychologist Charissa Cheah received RAPID grant funding from the National Science Foundation to...