I appreciate that we're having long-overdue convos about work-life balance in academia, but I find some of the conversations pretty alienating.

As a student, I worked... more than forty hours. A chunk of my time went into making my workplace more tolerable for Black grads. 1/3

I joked that I was an unpaid part-time admin for my dept. (It was a sad truth.)

A lot of Black grads I know have to TA more and work additional jobs to pay their bills.

We need deep structural change to undo inequities. We're not getting there by policing people's time. 2/3

I also find it sad that so much of the conversation is driven by tenure track/tenured faculty at R1s and senior research scientists rather than, say, grad students or adjuncts who have less job security and are not paid liveable wages. 3/3