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#POC in science cannot ignore race dynamics in their work. That a Black *student* willfully goes into an all-White, remote community and stays after witnessing intra-group violence is what happens when 'I don't see colour' logic leads to further racism. #BadSciFilmpic.twitter.com/CpN1CL4vFw
Films often attempt to consult with natural scientists or at least to inject some semblance of authenticity. When films depict social scientists, there's zero attempt at approximating reality. Eg. The students don't have ethics clearance to do this ethnographic study. #BadSciFilmpic.twitter.com/658e1C5ZFl
#POC aren't exempt from doing unethical research, but having Josh avoid the basics justifies his fate. E.g. he does not seek informed consent. He asks multiple times to take photos, even after the community react in anger. He sneaks off to photograph a sacred book. #BadSciFilmpic.twitter.com/rt8k5Pf26x
Early in their stay, the outsiders witness a horrific act of violence. Josh is initially coy as to whether or not he understood the content of the festival ritual. But he is visibly shocked as it unfolds. Then he's more motivated to document the customs. This is bad. #BadSciFilmpic.twitter.com/MkkKwv41mC
In the field, #POC social scientists are *acutely* aware of safety. Josh is able to recognise (but not read) some of the ancient writings. He's surrounded by violent artwork, he ignores. The White people carry weapons. Yet he plummets further into a violent society. #BadSciFilmpic.twitter.com/sbc2ZPXb8X
Josh relies on a White male friend as his guide in an all-White cult. He doesn't fear for his safety when the only other 2 #POC go missing. The early deaths of the only Black & Brown characters speaks to the film's whiteness, especially with the iconography it uses. #BadSciFilmpic.twitter.com/cenKMdM5pZ
Many cultures burn ritualistic effigies (including mine), but 'sacrificing' disposable #POC in this context has deeper & more troubling meaning, even when filmmakers aren't conscious. The point is they should be, as POC academics have written about this for decades. #BadSciFilmpic.twitter.com/isKEmLiqbA
Josh comes into conflict with Christian, a White male anthropologist who has yet to pick a thesis topic. Setting aside that it's inconceivable, as he wouldn't be accepted into a PhD program without a topic - a White man stealing a Black man's research is infuriating & probable!pic.twitter.com/nmuhf2IbAZ
These social scientists are competitive, without any cultural respect for their potential participants. Christian has read no literature. No one checks the ableism of using a 'disfigured' boy as an 'oracle,' or repeating descriptions of him as a product of incest. #BadSciFilmpic.twitter.com/2ncbZzQOAf
TW suicide, DFV. Catalyst for the story is a murder-suicide by a mentally ill woman. Social science shows murder-suicides are gendered: women who die this way are the minority; overwhelmingly due to prolonged DFV. Still we repeatedly see violent images of these deaths #BadSciFilm
TW suicide: Dani is a White woman who also has a mental illness. The film has some interesting commentary about women having to sublimate grief for the sake of selfish partners. Nevertheless, Dani witnesses ritual suicides & remains at the commune. Awful plotting. #BadSciFilmpic.twitter.com/P9yTEil12j
The filmmaker, who is highly skilled, clever & a striking storyteller, has said the story operates as a break up film. Some viewers see it as fairytale (the origins of these are highly violent). None of this excuses the logic of whiteness & ableism used in the plot. #BadSciFilmpic.twitter.com/c9E28JKpib
Aster's portrayal of White women's grief in his films is highly effective. Midsommar is also very precise in its depiction of the social experience of hallucinogenic drug use (norms about sharing the timing & policing their space 'Everybody lie down!' 'I don't like new people!').pic.twitter.com/k4BqqtpO7X
Christian's cowardice (can't break up with Dani, but is planning to go overseas). Dani's obervations of her relationship (Christian doesn't remember her birthday, but 'it's my fault, I forgot to remind him' 
). All smartly done.
Race & ableism are also choices. #BadSciFilmpic.twitter.com/sOhaKaGhqj
White male filmmakers can imagine all sorts of worlds. They read widely to flesh out ideas. They inject realistic details because it helps audiences suspend disbelief. But they fail to do diligence on race & disability. Social science is also shabbily treated. Why? #BadSciFilmpic.twitter.com/4XURGV5mZf
In short, White men imagine that Black anthropologists would risk their lives, because White men don't have to think about race as they move through the world. They think women's experience of suicide is genderless, because men don't see how their gender shapes them. #BadSciFilmpic.twitter.com/nBvsX7jCKq
White abled men think that creating a White disabled character who never speaks is a minor detail, even when condescending (he has 'pure' insight due to 'different cognition') and whose origins are socially engineered ('inbred' specifically to play this function). #BadSciFilmpic.twitter.com/540vlYvgS3
The film is conscious enough of disability to include Auslan clapping as the primary way to show public appreciation, but disinterested in the lives of disabled people. They are just an oddity who exist to pass divination - that's then 'interpreted' by abled people 
#BadSciFilmpic.twitter.com/vcXXjyUiB5
In the end, social sciences provide plot fodder (Vikings were violent!), but the film sees no responsibility in depicting anything near actual social science, ethics of fieldwork, safety of #POC researchers. Other sciences are poorly represented, but far worse for us. #BadSciFilmpic.twitter.com/ArehClMLkU
I WAS SCREAMING ABOUT THE IRB THE WHOLE TIME LIKE YOU CAN TAKE NOTES BUT THEY AREN’T GONNA LET YOU PUBLISH!
YES!!! Also: *as if* you can go overseas on a holiday with your mates and use this as research? 
Witnessing crimes and thinking you can publish this has already burned unethical White researchers with bigger clout. A Black postgrad knows better
Where are their supervisors?! 
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