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Some are suggesting that humanistic research should be “fact checked” by science departments before publication. The people making this suggestion believe themselves to be feminists. It is... not a good idea, and it isn’t consistent with the principle of academic freedom.

Here’s the Eliot essay that so upsets people: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/709221?journalCode=ci …

Oh, and here is a thread explaining the difference between “academic freedom” and “free speech”: fundamentally different kinds of rights-claim that anti-trans bigots have sought to collapse into each other, with some success:https://twitter.com/graceelavery/status/1141733087719460865 …

Thanks to all my colleagues and friends who have written to share that my work has been useful to them, or to their students. It has been disturbing and painful—though of course by this point also unsurprising—to find my scholarship at the centre of a massive online dogpile.