The structure and culture protecting and celebrating the mediocrity of whiteness and/or white masculinity is upheld and maintained by white women and POC. It replicates a power structure that controls and maintains status quo. Aligning with this mediocrity does not make any one any powerful or any white, although, it incites such a feeling. Disrupt this alliance and point out this mediocrity whenever you can. The disruption will be transgressive, of course, you may be labeled a ‘trouble maker’ and miss those brownie point in evaluations and promotional matters, but your disruption will eventually foster a system of diversity of thought, competency, and efficiency. Let’s own the system instead of playing its gatekeepers. I advocate for feminist network groups of solidarity with the integrity to call out mediocrity and its allies from either side that helps sustain this system and uses diversity quotient to boost the injections of federal dollars, only.
Sara Ahmed’s “Phenomenology of Whiteness” and “Feminist Killjoy” importantly draws on the question of entitlement and whiteness and feminist disruption within academic spaces. I want to further her notion by arguing about the intersections of spaces of privilege with spaces of manipulation, strategies that uphold and sustain the system of white, patriarchal and heteromasculine mediocrity.
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