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No Quarter Will Be Given
@chaedria
I have a thread to share about unethical journalism and the bias and racism that has obfuscated the story of my scholarship and its political legacy. It is the larger story of how
@TheAtlantic
& other publications have failed the American public then & continue to do so. Pls RT.
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@chaedria
It's hard to explain how a recorded account of events w/one of the world's leading experts of Basquiat, arguably the most popular artist on the planet, that has been seen by a quarter of a million people does not make news -- unless you're protecting the offending institution.
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@chaedria
Recently, Helen Lewis from The Atlantic reached out to me for a story that she was working on, literally demanding that I speak to her. You don't have to take my word for it -- below is a screenshot of her initial DM to me. I w/o question declined this -- and here are my messages
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enzo
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@chaedria
It’s worse cause teasing it out, What message *could* have been received positively, even friendly and polite? Fawning? Self-Flagellating? Begging for the honor of reaching out? idk. strange, revealing, but mostly sad
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Gilly_suess
@GillySuess
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@chaedria
If you want to know, I believe this is the context (she provided it in one of the first tweets, claiming this went viral):
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It went down at the Guggenheim! @chaedria is the first Black curator to exhibit with the institution with her show Basquiat: Defacement The Untold Story. They left her off the panel and.....
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@BoobPunchTina
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@chaedria
Same, in entirety. In terms of professional ethics, she’s not obliged to give a heads-up, so that was thoughtful of her. And of course if Helen’s going to talk about [whatever occurred], it’s smart to want to get a personal perspective directly. Which she requested politely.
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