2/ But such convos are still uneven in naming the harms of such framing: this kind of statement is part of a continued pattern of sidelining marginalized medievalists (esp. BIPOC) and casting such ppl/allies as “inappropriately” political or “imposing” on an innocent field.
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3/ Sadly (revealingly), the NYT article itself omits 3 WOC voices key to these issues relating to public medievalism, race, inclusion, change, and
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4/ And 2.
@Nahir_Otano https://medievalistsofcolor.com/race-in-the-profession/lost-in-our-field-racism-and-the-international-congress-on-medieval-studies/ …1 reply 12 retweets 67 likesShow this thread -
5/ And 3.
@slomuto on public medievalism and antiracist critique here http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2019/04/public-medievalism-and-rigor-of-anti.html … and here http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2016/12/white-nationalism-and-ethics-of.html …1 reply 12 retweets 70 likesShow this thread -
6/ Lastly: a VERY problematic quote by Dr. Jana Schulman speaking for
@KzooICMS at the end of the NYT piece. Schulman grants MOC critique is “important” but uses “color” (verb) to describe bias-- such rhetoric can be used to cast BIPOC folks as “biased” vs. (white) “objectivity.”2 replies 10 retweets 69 likesShow this thread -
7/ And most importantly, who is the “we” (“us”) in that Schulman quote? It’s either @ICMSKzoo and/or its *white medievalists* (with the implicit “them” being medievalists of color voicing critiques).
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8/ So yeah the NYT article names important issues—& it's also devastatingly emblematic of the state of the field/culture. It cites white voices more than anything else, platforms harassers without full context/rebuttal, and it begins & ends with quotes sidelining BIPOC scholars.
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9/ It would be nice if the “us” in public medievalism (incl. journalism) were BIPOC. “We” are hardly ever given a platform to tell our own stories, and even stories that are seemingly “about” us (like the NYT one) will literally frame the entire discourse through white voices.
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10/ I realize this thread is going to make folks at
#Kzoo2019 @ICMSKzoo uncomfortable — and it should. I wonder who will notice/feel an absence of medievalists of color this year, or even care.1 reply 14 retweets 101 likesShow this thread -
11/ I can never know what it’s like to a white person in an all-white space, and I often wonder if folks in those spaces simply forget about us, or revert to “business as usual.” I just hope that "business as usual" doesn’t happen this year.
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Many definitely don’t notice. Or there’s maybe one Academic of Colour and they think “well that’s it, we’ve got diversity!”
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