BINGO. Let’s please stop doing this. I 100% admit I’ve done this myself as a white ally, claiming my “rightful” victim points as a #GenderQueer #nonbinary who is also a “woman.” & feeling hurt when POCs don’t give me extra points for that & justneed my help in #antiracist work.https://twitter.com/ISASaxonists/status/1199743076123721728 …
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More pointedly,
#intersectionality (rooted in Critical Race Theory+Legal Philosophy: start with K. Crenshaw) looks at what happens when the forces of racism & sexism (etc.) intersect in ways that bring double- & triple- (etc.) legal/penal threats to POC.#AbolitionDemocracyShow this thread -
So if you really want to work on behalf of an
#antiracist Academy & you’re white, park your pain & grudges at the door and commit yourself to dismantling#WhiteSupremacy & the#racist institutions it has founded, from the prison to the classroom to the statehouse and White House.pic.twitter.com/Iluu3JvlqHShow this thread -
We live in a world built on the foundations of
#racial#state#capitalism and there is practically no corner of our world untouched by#racist ideologies & sorting practices, including our academic “fields,” including medieval studies, esp.#AngloSaxon studies.#MedievalTwitterpic.twitter.com/a1KfWDl6MJShow this thread -
What this means is the work at hand is about truth & reconciliation. As whites we must acknowledge our & our ancestors’ part in building this
#racist world that bequeaths to us immense privilege. We must desire to know our own part in it & to tear that out by the root.#Whitenesspic.twitter.com/VRp2Vf7123Show this thread -
Turns out F. Jameson was right that we should “always historicize!” The next step is to work through the trauma of historical & ongoing forms of racism with our POC colleagues while always acknowledging our part in that, asking for forgiveness & working to repair the damage.pic.twitter.com/ZDZC7BRIF3
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The final step is to dream & rebuild. To repair relations. To imagine another, better Academy & to build it from scratch & somewhere else if necessary. No one said we had to stay here. No one said we had to worship the past, or tradition, or your version of any of that.
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& most importantly: read through all of
@ISASaxonists’s thread linked to in my first tweet here as she does an even better job than me of explaining what#intersectionality really means & why we white persons need to stop deflecting blame from ourselves in discussions of racism.Show this thread
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