Womxn Navigating Academic Exclusion

Academia tests one’s resolve, forcing steadfast commitment to maintain integrity and ethical values. Womxn affirming honesty, integrity and moral practice, while in pursuit of National and International Research Foundations rating, visiting professorships, presidential appointments, chairs, research-collaborations, grants, publications, key note addresses, critical engagements, community service, and professional and teaching awards. Womxn are forced to multiply efforts, in systemic patriarchal institutions, demanding personal sacrifices. Academic accolades for womxn are founded on generations of exemplary womxn who came before. Academic journeys interspersed with bullying, exclusion, mental and physical health, failure, rejection is confronted with determination and limited narratives of success. We invite papers on challenges and solutions experienced and applied by womxn in the Academy