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Glass

Glass is a research poem, drawing on qualitative data collected for the research project Gender(s) at Work.  I performed Glass for the first time in September 2018, at the AoMO Conference at the University of Brighton.  The original 170 line poem subsequently became part of a multi-modal research dissemination programme in the UK and Republic of Ireland (the g word tour) and was performed on ten separate occasions to audiences of between 15 and over 100 people.  Performance venues included an airport hotel conference hall, a steeply raked lecture theatre, a boardroom and a crowded art studio.  Each performance was accompanied by a visual backdrop of cartoon representations of the glass ceiling, glass escalator, glass closet and glass cliff.  I held a Q&A with the audience following each performance.

The first edition of Glass was published in the Sociological Fiction Zine #5 in 2019 (pp16-24) .  Since then, I've added a fifth narrative Glace (ice), to address the widespread experience of precarious academic employment. 
Let me offer you some clarity
about academic precarity -
it’s a lack of job security.
A calamity.
Universities indulge in mendacity
when proclaiming their love of equality
while creating employment polarity.
​It’s audacity.

The first performance of the extended version of Glass was at the (online) Gender, Work and Organisation Conference, July 2021.
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  • About
  • BUY FIVE SURVIVE LOCKDOWN
  • research
    • Dear Diary
    • Space to Write
    • Living and Working in Lockdown.
    • Gender(s) at Work
    • the g word tour
    • selected publications
  • graphics
    • 5 Survive Lockdown >
      • gallery
      • under review
    • HE and Working-Class Academics
    • being between binary
    • HESI durham
    • I've seen you
    • my brilliant career?
  • writing
    • WRITESPACE
    • poetry
    • Glass
    • Navigation
  • cabinet of curiosities
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