I’ve spent a significant percentage of my life in school, eventually earning a Ph.D and then moving to the other side of the desk as a professor. In the entirety of my studies—literally decades of coursework—I had no exposure to race-critical studies and almost no exposure to gender-critical studies.

Looking back now, this lack is certainly what I regret most about my time in school. A lot of the blame is on me, because those courses were available and I could have enrolled but chose not to. I had no real understanding of what they were, how they pertained to my life, or why I should take them, so I didn't. That choice is telling on me.