but they should stay in their lane & learn to listen to BIPOC scholars. Anti-racist praxis seems to be on their own terms. These ppl are Robin DiAngelos of medieval studies. I'm fucking disgusted & tired. 16/
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While ppl like myself drive the difficult conversations & are at the forefront which bear the biggest burden for attacks, harm & pushback, white ppl continue to stay away from these conversations & issues. Being at the forefront of movements means I & others like me have less 17/
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time to publish. This allows wyte ppl to benefit from our activism & create publications & projects on our backs which they can add to their CVs. Wyte medievalists cloister themselves away to the rest of the world & when they appear they burst on the scene ready to solve 18/
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problems that they have no idea are present. Our work & activism is diminished & erased, while they come out w/ “groundbreaking” or “leading” research on race. This is columbusing. If you want to “reinvent” or “disinvent” Old English studies or any other studies, you have to 19/
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know what the core issues are. This project is littered w/ bothsideism, propping up white scholars, gatekeeping, erasure of BIPOC, elitism, etc. As my email says it’s moving towards wyteness again b/c these ppl have no idea what’s going on & what it takes to fix these issues. 20/
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How do you “fix” white supremacy if you don’t even know what that is and you operate within that system and begin your project following the same narratives as before? 21/
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Wyte ppl with institutional privilege who are cloistered away & come out of their dwellings when BIPOC are being ground down they do so to “fix” problems and "save the field." You cannot continue to get away with this. 22/
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You can stop reading here if you’ve got the gist of things but here’s the receipts below. The first correspondence is posted above. Email convo w/ names redacted of the two wyte women, but this project states on its website that it wants to be transparent. It is not, 23/pic.twitter.com/oRiRWhHD5S
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& this hiding behind emails is a way to keep me & other BIPOC (and other marginalized scholars) silent so that the project can go on w/o interference. This is disrespectful & careless. These ppl don’t see me as an equal. I am so sick of this disrespect & erasure. 24/pic.twitter.com/WgDb2fFZNc
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While the biblio on early English studies
@erik_kaars & I wrote/posted on Medium was not referenced, collaborators had info on there w/o credit. If these collaborators have ‘read widely’ how did they not know abt the biblio created? Biblio stats since posting aftr our#DWH talk:pic.twitter.com/5gPav0zH2c
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This is terrible and frustrating, and the avoidance of any responsibility here and refusing to answer your questions is infuriating.
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