Some reflections on #MLA2020 and conference practices: 1. When designing a panel diversity should be a guiding principle. This means that you think of the identity categories of your speakers as well as other invisible markers of diversity like ability and 1/
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Senior scholars showing up to support junior scholars is so important. I loved seeing them in the audience and asking questions during the q&a. They modeled academic generosity. Let’s have more of this! 7/
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The panel session is an opportunity to experiments offering comments that will support the work should be the primary goal of the q&a. But also be critical of presentations that might be reproducing damaging hierarchies. 8/
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Don’t badge check. People are important not their affiliations. If we are committed to justice and diversity then fetishizing affiliations is simply reproducing exclusion. 9/
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Make access and inclusion central commitments to how you present your work. It’s the only way we will build a sustainable and humane profession.
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