"Fighting Mr. Sleepy": A Metaphor for Black Graduate Student Experiences. Issue 14 (6th December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Austin, Jasmine T.
• Is Part Of: Health communication. Volume 36:Issue 14(2021)
• Page Start: 2039
• Page End: 2041
• Publication Date: 2021-12-06
• Subjects: Communication in medicine -- Periodicals; Health in mass media -- Periodicals; 362.1014
• DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2020.1813951
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1041-0236

Abstract

ABSTRACT: While reflecting on early morning conversations with my dad, I became aware of how he influences my ontoepistemological approach to studying the Black graduate student experience. In this essay, I narrate my defining moment as I began asking my research participants modified versions of the questions my dad asks me. It is through these reflections that I realize, my dad may not have been asking me questions, instead, making observations. Powerful ones of perseverance. Subsequently, I encourage health communication scholars, practitioners, faculty, staff, and peers to embrace an active role as counter agents to the psychological stress and fatigue of Mr. Sleepy.