2/ What everyone needs to know is that @ISASaxonists was not “taken over” as @HFoxhallForbes publicly stated, but has in fact been run by the same person for over 2 years now: someone who until recently held a leadership position within #ISAS, but who now leads the opposition.pic.twitter.com/L13lu0Sj1A
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@ISASaxonists is thus now THE place to go if you want to keep abreast of the ways that#ISAS is censoring and suppressing early career folx from talking about the long-running history of misogyny, homophobia, and racism of#ISAS & how they shelter well-known sex predators.pic.twitter.com/F3dch7ZsGGShow this thread -
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@HFoxhallForbes has been vocal within#ISAS about her feelings re:@ISASaxonists & how she thinks its tweets constitute “bullying” even though it’s the opposite.@ISASaxonists now stands up to bullies in the field of@AngloSaxon studies & BABEL stands with them in solidarity.pic.twitter.com/1IGKXgdtcXShow this thread -
5/ While
@HFoxhallForbes is upset that her beloved (& sexist/racist)#ISAS is being “bullied,” her partner Dr. Halsall starts attacking@ISASaxonists & other ECRs online as “twats,” etc. Forbes tried to explain this as, he “didn’t know” the ISAS Twitter acct. was “taken over.”pic.twitter.com/KB0mVRe8G9Show this thread -
6/ In the meantime, the Exec. Director of
#ISAS, in response to criticisms, forms a subcommittee, including@HFoxhallForbes, to draft a harassment policy for the organization. Her partner G. Halsall, an early medievalist historian, has been a notorious cyber-bully for years. Huh?pic.twitter.com/0QaJsOPaegShow this thread -
7/ None of this makes any sense,
#ISAS. Other members of the Board (such as@irinibus) worked for approx. 2 years to draft a harassment policy that you then REJECTED IN COMMITTEE (i.e., killed it at the Board level, such that it would never go to full org. for their approval).pic.twitter.com/Kwrs4l5VWSShow this thread -
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#ISAS Board members, including@HFoxhallForbes, continue to demand “proof” of Andy Orchard’s serial sex predation even though some of their own leadership have experienced it firsthand & MANY have witnessed it. They simply care more about his reputation.#TimesUppic.twitter.com/pYmzEQtXERShow this thread -
9/ Major problems with
#ISAS leadership right now as@ISASaxonists has repeatedly shared: they don’t want to change their name (which is racist), nor to include ECRs in their governance, nor to draft a harassment policy, & won’t deal with misogynists & predators in their midst.pic.twitter.com/FrHbLaApBXShow this thread -
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@HFoxhallForbes should resign immediately from the Board of#ISAS and anyone who shares her views (that@ISASaxonists is a “rogue” “bully” account) should also resign. ISAS members who care about any of this should pressure the leadership for swift action now on all fronts.pic.twitter.com/MZIdnqIm4aShow this thread -
11/ If the Exec. Director of
#ISAS can’t get resignations from either@HFoxhallForbes or from Christine Rauer (Edinburgh), who has been circulating the most outrageous letter fallaciously defending the retention of#AngloSaxon in the society’s name), then she should also resign.pic.twitter.com/Sa5AAmdt12Show this thread -
12/ The fact that all of this is so contentious within
#ISAS leadership (name change, harassment policy, etc.) means that they are unwilling to confront the deep & abiding legacies of abuse (both bodily & psychic) &#racism of their “society” which is more like a wolf den.#ASSpic.twitter.com/kKLpj7n3FPShow this thread -
13/ To which we say, the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists is dead. Long live
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#ISAS can’t get consensus on name change within leadership. Majority want it but because of internal disagreements within Board, motion moving way too slowly. We still feel this constitutes a leadership crisis & lack of leadership.Show this thread -
Corrigenda (continued): 2. Re: harassment policy: from
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Corrigenda (continued): 3. Dr. Rauer is at St. Andrews, not Edinburgh.
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