From: "Cindy Jackson" <[log in to unmask]>
>This list often sees debates the acceptability of posting carefully written
comments on research issues. A look into the archives will show several
dozen occasions in which scholarly or scientific posts have been attacked
simply because they are scientific or scholarly - someone feels intimidated,
another worries about power relations, a third seems to suggest that a
scholarly debate is somehow less democratic than a post that simply
describes feelings.<
personal feeling here: at first I was intimidated by this list because it is
"PhD-Design'. Then I thought I shouldn't. On one hand, some posts are indeed
under attack; on the other hand, there are people who are worried that they
don't fit in because they cannot produce posts that look scholarly with
quotes and references. As for comfort zone ? Yes I aggree we need to move
away from the safety and familar zone in order to mix around no matter how
queer it may be. That's how one learns and picks things up. --- not by
rejecting something that is unfamiliar to what you usually have and
accustomed to; but to have an open and receptive mind and heart to genuinely
accept them.
Thats why I'm here.
Cheerio !
Karen Fu
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