Melissa Cardenas-Dow

Contortion Is Not Burnout: Racialized Relational Starvation and Professional Death in Ethnic Studies Work

This presentation offers a term for a harm that Ethnic Studies practitioners experience constantly and lack precise language for. It argues that the imprecision is itself a barrier to defense. Burnout is a convenient diagnostic category. It implies depletion from overwork, prescr...

Contortion Is Not Burnout: Racialized Relational Starvation and Professional Death in Ethnic Studies Work

This presentation offers a term for a harm that Ethnic Studies practitioners experience constantly and lack precise language for. It argues that the imprecision is itself a barrier to defense. Burnout is a convenient diagnostic category. It implies depletion from overwork, prescr...