The tenure track in higher education represents a path shrouded in a fair degree of mystery. This essay provides the perspective of a middle‐aged, second‐career tenure track faculty member on the vagaries of progressing down the track as an out lesbian. Three dialectics that build tension into the process — covering‐creating, evaluation‐liberation, and alienation‐authenticity — are discussed.
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