ABSTRACT
Our experiences and perspectives as academic women who want to ‘do academia differently’ inform our writing. A triad of trust, we use our chapter to explore features of our (co)mentoring and career narratives, to listen and speak to our individual and collective stories, and to bear witness to the impact of the academy's highly regulated and corporatized messages and expectations for academic careers. Inspired by Loleen Berdahl's post How to create a plan for success that allows flexibility, we employ creative and autoethnographic methodologies to examine academic workloads and womanhood, and reflect on our lived realities. We experiment with an approach to authoring and measuring our lives/work in ways that matter to us and seek to remember the truth too often diminished by the patriarchal evaluations imposed on us.
