For several years I've watched several BIPOC medievalists/premodern scholars face not just overt racism but open hostile racism. @ISASaxonists and @dorothyk98 have borne the brunt of the attacks for their refusal to accept "their place." 
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It is not easy working in an academic field were your non-whiteness, non cis-hetness, and anti-misogyny are view as aberrant even before you set foot in a field of study glorified by white supremacists. Where the last vestiges of an old guard
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seeks to protect the fragile state of "rigor"-a rigor built on ideologies of settler colonialism, racism, misogny, and genocide. A rigor that insists on European whiteness (sorry folks, your whiteness is a lie) tied texts that came their way...
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by means of non-white peoples ("The Church" did not have Europeans' intellectual well-being as its core). Yet, white supremacy will have many of you, white/non-white, defending an indefensible ideology. And for what? And for whomst?
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Are your lives any better for the viciousness of your "intellectual rigor"? Have your putative "enemies" (BIPOC pre/early modern academics) been vanquished? Have the institutions who rejected you for a variety of reasons (sexual harrassment,
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failure to "publish"; easier to eliminate funding/positions from the humanities than corporate-sanctioned sciences, etc) seen the wisdom of your defense of the past and swept you up into a sweet embrace? Supported your support of academic fields
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being removed or slashed? Wherein cometh your vitrol? Is it because you are no longer relevant to people who refuses to sanction white supremacist thinking in their teaching, research, and publications? Is it because, after all your hubris,
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you still cannot effect a return to a glorious past: one that sanctioned enslavement, the slaughter of millions for racial capitalism, tand he role the academy/k-12 education systems have played in all of this. That BIPOC academic voices refuse to
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sit silently on the margins. To see a presence and watch you attempt to erase it. The medieval cabal (yes, that is what you are, including a so-called anti-racist, feminist 19th cent person) has been persistent, and failed. Why?
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Because we've been at resistance in ways you'll never fully grasp, and survived. So let me reiterate: 1)We're not going away 2) We won't be silent 3) We will continue to fight white supremacist ideologies and its place in academia
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#PCRS#ShakeRace#BIPOCPremoderns While we can't stop these widgets, we can support/stand behind the BIPOC pre/early modern ECRs (especially medievalists) seeking to change their fields for the better. Our fields have been changed forever as a
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result of what we do, and that just pisses off white supremacists/their acolytes. This thread is in support of
@ISASaxonists and the medievalists who are appalled by the viciousness of their so-called peers:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdpLKRRxrzq6LPpb5qgtrCW_QbMyd1Vj5hRZywS2ESOoSfew/viewform …Näytä tämä ketju
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