Morning ISAS,
Since I was asked about points I want addressed in an email from someone representing you I will list them here:
1) Write and include a policy on harassment. Be firm with it and quit protecting predators. You owe victims an apology. 1/10 #MedievalTwitterpic.twitter.com/shePMG9HH9
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2) Strip lifetime membership from Sexual Predator. Do not give him more spaces to abuse people. 3) You are finally considering a name-change. It's about time. /2
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4) Include ECR on your Board. They have demonstrated time and time again that they are more invested in saving this field than most everyone on that board. Do not dare approach vulnerable MoC/PoC because they do not need the hassle of working with that current board. /3
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Replying to @ISASaxonists
Again, not a member, but can you please explain why you think ECR should be on the Board? Their voices are vital, but they are also more vulnerable. IMO, it’s the responsibility of ppl with more job security, solid CVs to step up & protect/mentor ECRs.
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If there were enough of them on the Board, they would be a force. I am not suggesting a token. Having said that, their views and opinions are vital and they are instrumental in the direction the field is going. They also give a perspective of the field that /cont
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Replying to @ISASaxonists @ADMedievalist
is necessary and often forgotten by more senior members. This is also about something they can add to their CV. It's experience. It's hard work and they are doing the work already. Several ECR have researched things in one morning that the board hadn't done in nearly a year.
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They are invested and should have a seat at the table. It's about representation. We need wide representation.
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And may I say as someone finishing her PhD soon: yes, ECRs are vulnerable because we fear that our potential careers will be tanked for speaking out against not just academic things but sexual harassment, racism, etc. We need support from later-stage academics but 1/
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I am not a child, I wish to speak for myself and have a voice and have someone in a similar career position to rep me. I would not personally like to be on the board but this attitude that we are vulnerable therefore we shouldn’t be on the board reads more like we are naive 2/
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We plan conferences and present at them, do extensive research, contribute to volumes and journals, all the while trying to survive in precarity with debt and visas and whatever else. We want to be represented in things such as these.
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And tbqh from the nonsense over the past few days, it is clear that the established powers that be are incapable of properly addressing serious issues in the field until held accountable by MOC and ECR accomplices/allies.
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