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I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦/紀平梨花 fan account. Bad with directions. She/her.

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    Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 5 Jan 2020

    Courtney Milan  🦖 Retweeted Courtney Milan  🦖

    Every time someone says “but she did research and it’s historically accurate” I want to point out that just because a source is historical, it doesn’t mean it’s accurate. For example:https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1128005043255296000 …

    Courtney Milan  🦖 added,

    Courtney Milan  🦖 @courtneymilan
    One thing that sucks about doing historical research for books is all the very casual, very virulent racism. pic.twitter.com/mutVEYJOeg
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    7:59 AM - 5 Jan 2020
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    24 replies 451 retweets 2,067 likes
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      2. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 5 Jan 2020

        I say this as someone who is doing research: if you do not have a lens in place to evaluate your research, you will replicate horrific racism in your work. It wasn’t accurate then, and aging hasn’t made it more accurate.

        3 replies 98 retweets 702 likes
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      3. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 5 Jan 2020

        Your research has to include research into the prejudices of the time so that you can untangle what you’re reading. And even then, if you’re stuck with English language sources, there are still things you will miss.

        4 replies 63 retweets 515 likes
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      4. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 5 Jan 2020

        Even *with* English language sources for England, you have to be careful. There are English language sources who genuinely cautioned that women’s brains could not handle higher mathematics.

        2 replies 27 retweets 406 likes
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      5. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 5 Jan 2020

        Most of us, I think, can conclude that IN FACT, women did not have different brains back then and this was irrational prejudice.

        2 replies 19 retweets 361 likes
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      6. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 5 Jan 2020

        But there are hundreds of ways that prejudice seeps in, and we have to interpolate properly.

        1 reply 16 retweets 288 likes
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      7. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 5 Jan 2020

        Courtney Milan  🦖 Retweeted Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)

        This thread from @debreese very clearly gets into these same details. https://twitter.com/debreese/status/1213110470892294147?s=21 …https://twitter.com/debreese/status/1213110470892294147 …

        Courtney Milan  🦖 added,

        Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo) @debreese
        The first week of January 2020: White people insisting that Salish people went barefoot. Their evidence: old anthro/ethno docs. And as they assert their evidence, they bash actual Native people.
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        2 replies 44 retweets 282 likes
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      8. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 5 Jan 2020

        She is much better at outlining exactly the issues at play here than I am—unsurprising, since she has a PhD and many years of experience—and if you aren’t following her already, I suggest you do so.

        2 replies 7 retweets 232 likes
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      9. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 5 Jan 2020

        She is one of the calmest, most courageous voices I follow, and she gets endless waves of BS for it. So support her in the important work she does.

        4 replies 8 retweets 227 likes
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      2. Fade‏ @fadeaccompli 5 Jan 2020
        Replying to @courtneymilan

        Oh god yes this. (...I say this as a classicist more than a historian, but it makes me want to scream when people point to some excerpt from Cicero or Seneca as proof of historical fact, with no further examination.)

        2 replies 4 retweets 61 likes
      3. Fade‏ @fadeaccompli 5 Jan 2020
        Replying to @fadeaccompli @courtneymilan

        It sometimes helps if I compare using Cicero to prove a point as "What if the majority of our knowledge of the 1990s came from transcripts of 2% of Rush Limbaugh's shows?"

        4 replies 19 retweets 139 likes
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