Even with amazing speeches on inclusion (I'm going to use that word rather than diversity), I left Denver w/a sense of deja vu. I'd been there done that w/Shakespeare. Don't get me wrong, 16th & 17th century studies & Shakespeare studies will never be 3/
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the same, folks.
#ShakeRace &#LITPOC have made sure of that. Doesn't mean that "whiteness" isn't an ever present tension, asserting its "business as usual" after each slap. It is. The difference:#ShakeRace#LITPOC#MedievalPOC 4/2 vastausta 2 uudelleentwiittausta 3 tykkäystäNäytä tämä ketju -
We're as vigilante now as we were at the beginning of my academic career. We do the political work when necessary, be the voice when necessary, & refuse to be used. Most of all, refuse to be silenced. Fast forward
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I saw the same strengths, the same exhaustion, the same dedication, & at times the same battles. What the two moments also appear to share: white allies willing to listen, to sit quietly on their "privilege" and listen. To challenge their peers. 6/
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Like Shakespeare Studies, there will be attempts to retreat to a non-existent past (hey folks, the world has never ever been solely by and for white people). The RWA Board (some who are "exiting stage left") have offered a template. 7/
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Inclusivity = rethinking how RWA & publishers' policies, beliefs & decisions impact marginalized writers of romance; that RWA & publishers NEED TO DO MORE, not marginalized writers. These are my takeaways from the RWA2018 Diversity Summit. 8/
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Romance writers (if you so choose) there are things you can do: mentor unpublished marginalized writers co-write a romance, use your power to step in your publisher/agent's *shit* & to contract marginalized writers Check your friends/colleagues on their BS 9/
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#MarginalizedAcademics: we all know romance is one of the oldest genres in literature. Let's check the elitist BS that contemporary romance is somehow not literature. All you novel folks out there, the first ones were "romance". As academics we 10/1 vastaus 3 uudelleentwiittausta 3 tykkäystäNäytä tämä ketju -
can support present-day romance writers from marginalized groups by tying their writings to the ones we study. FYI in my forthcoming book, Heliodorus' "An Ethiopian Romance" & Aphra Behn's "Oroonoko" will play with Chanta Rand's "Rise of a Queen"; 11/12
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Beverly Jenkins' "Indigo"; and Alyssa Cole's "Agnes the Moor" & "An Extraordinary Union".
#LITPOC Let's be allies to an extraordinary group of literary writers whose experiences mirrors ours w/the added stigma of subgenre elitism.#RomanceAcademia fini1 vastaus 4 uudelleentwiittausta 5 tykkäystäNäytä tämä ketju
Have read and loves both of those authors’ work.
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