Called to speak up: BIPOC women academics’ sense of power, calling and constructive voice
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) women academics face a paradox in higher education – tasked with championing diversity and critical inquiry, yet their voices are often silenced and their labour undervalued. This Interchanges piece examines how intersecting oppressions shape BIPOC women's sense of power, calling and capacity for constructive voice. Drawing from empirical and theoretical scholarship, we illustrate that despite systemic barriers, BIPOC women's calling motivates their intellectual activism to resist their collective marginalisation. However, this calling is frequently instrumentalised by institutions, where their services, particularly in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, mentorship and care work, are undervalued or unrecognised. We call for institutional reforms to acknowledge and redistribute this labour, ensuring that calling is sustained as empowerment rather than exploitation.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it