Abstract
Given the current unprecedented multiple pandemics of COVID-19, anti-Black and anti-Asian violence, and white supremacy, we—a group of graduate students and a faculty member who hold diverse identities across disciplines, race, gender, nationality, and additional categories—came together to focus on qualitative research as an ontological, epistemological, and axiological space toward community and culture change. Specifically, we took up scholarly personal narrative, which centers postmodernism and focuses on the reality that “we see what we believe; we observe what we narrate; we transform what we reframe.” What emerged were radical interrelated understandings of privilege, guilt, and the importance of kinship. As such, this vulnerable group reflected on graduate student experiences with multiple pandemics and how the academy may enact transformative change, reframing our own understandings of qualitative space.
Highlights
Given the current unprecedented multiple pandemics of COVID-19, anti-Black and anti-Asian violence, and white supremacy, we—a group of graduate students and a faculty member who hold diverse identities across disciplines, race, gender, nationality, and additional categories—came together to focus on qualitative research as an ontological, epistemological, and axiological space toward community and culture change
U.S higher education likewise has begun to reckon with the rampant injustices faced by low-income students, students of color, LGBTQ+ students, and other minoritized communities as a result of these multiple pandemics (Gonzales et al, 2020; Harper, 2020; Lederer et al, 2020), these injustices have a long history of being interwoven into the very fabric of hegemonic colleges and universities (Stewart, 2020; Wilder, 2013)
We demonstrate how thinking through these pandemics together made us contend with different levels of privilege, including the privilege of being a graduate student in the midst of tragic violence
Summary
Given the current unprecedented multiple pandemics of COVID-19, anti-Black and anti-Asian violence, and white supremacy, we—a group of graduate students and a faculty member who hold diverse identities across disciplines, race, gender, nationality, and additional categories—came together to focus on qualitative research as an ontological, epistemological, and axiological space toward community and culture change. A research team comprised of graduate students and a faculty member with multiple minoritized and privileged identities, were compelled to interrogate this historical present as related to our interconnected personal experiences because, as qualitative scholars, we cannot ontologically, epistemologically, and/or axiologically separate ourselves from the current moment.
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