Category: Academic Whispers
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Keep using me!
The thing I love most are words. I am learning that now. The idea of looking through the day and finding words to keep in a way that lifts my spirits, your own, is a gift. Sometimes these words come to me like a prayer. Strings of words form in my mind and out to…
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Keep positions that matter!
Today, I stepped into my essence. God, my Zobam, family and friends were with me. No one told me it would be like this. That I would be in positions that matter. Positions in which I get to decide the nature and quality of other people’s lives. I see the world must be the way…
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Keep knowing we are living in an age of spectacle!
We are living in an age of spectacle within some spaces, one where the goals are no longer formalized curiosity but a desire to inflict pain and shame where necessary. Not only are we not engaged as humans, some of us are profoundly evil, unable to discriminate between shock or empathy. The danger of a…
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Keep the litany for survival!
I keep Audre Lorde’s litany for survival very close to me. It has become a reminder for the times we face. We are not afraid too. Just glad that we know where we stand and how far we have come. See where you think you laugh last, we laugh long, remembering always that we were…
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Keep dreaming!
I have been reading dreams of a common language by Adrienne Rich and these words, below reflected my way with a dash of Toni Morrison, are what I will keep as i close a chapter of my life, one where I finally learned to fly, though as a new chapter begins… She was not a…
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Keep knowing they will never take your power!
How do you find voice in a space that would rather stifle it? How to you even confront the fear of expression knowing that what you say or do can be used against you? They say often that there is a bad side to life in academia. I saw it with my two eyes this…
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Keep fighting for God’s glory.
The past couple of days have been trying. I expected this. But living through it has been something else. But here is what I’ll keep. Know your worth. I came for a higher glory. I lived for a greater good. None of that changes even if my decisions with life seems unsettling. I am still…
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Keep being stars!
Tell them we stood like stars and dazzled and dazzled like stars within. But we never forget, and we keep the memories of a time something tried to dim our light. Yet still like stars, we dazzled. Right at the beginning of setting up one of my most significant research programs, an individual I entrusted…
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Keep firefly innovations!
The best practices for engaging the public in public health are grounded in entrepreneurship. There is a reason the public clings to products outside of health than those health-related. I came across firefly innovations the other day out of curiosity from what I saw a colleague doing. Honestly, their work is great and I applaud…
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Keep radical wellness for public health!
Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well? This question has always haunted my spirit. It’s from Toni Cade Bambara’s novel, The Salteaters. It is also apt for today. That and what does being well mean for the public’s health, from a social justice lens, radical wellness too and not from experts alone,…
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Keep your failures!
There was a time, all I did was fail with every grant I wrote. Welcome to a new month. I woke up to an email sent to the entire university celebrating a recent success today. I am honored and grateful but I can’t help but remember the times of failure. Yes, failure. Sure the messages…
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Keep time!
I’m not a poet. But I am mesmerized with how words come together to evoke meaning. Those that dimple everyday. Those that promise things simple, golden and gay. The lines, the forms, all the meters, and style are appealing as they are intriguing. Those who specialize in poetry have my deepest respect with the magic…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 