towards a gentle academic

gaspss-s:

1. be up front and honest about the things you do not know
2. acknowledge the intrinsic value of others’ knowledge bases, even if they do not seem important to you from your institutional context
3. do not feign mastery where you have none
4. respect the gaps in others’ knowledge bases
5. be generous, not only with others
6. but also with yourself
7. you overwork yourself at the risk of legitimizing a culture of overwork 
8. privilege voices and perspectives that have historically been left out of the academy
9. nothing is ever neutral or apolitical
10. support the progress of other scholars
11. collaboration over competition