Fucking all of this. I've been told to cover tattoos, remove piercings, COLOR MY HAIR, tone down or nix the eyeliner, skip the (black) nail polish. I've also been told to lean forward like I'm interested and enthusiastic, but not to lean forward too much because...https://twitter.com/RColesworthy/status/1127235218056863750 …
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...been popped (some of us have never had the privilege of living in a monastic bubble -- I had "colleagues" in grad school do things like scream "DON'T GET RAPED" at me at a party and then I had to see those "colleagues" on Monday in seminar and watch them receive praise for...
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...the very kinds of personality traits and contributions that coming from me were labeled "uncollegial" and "aggressive"); I could go on but I will stop because oh. my. god. am I enraged and I told myself I wouldn't do this, because dudes like this aren't ever worth it, but...
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...now I'm doing it. This is not to say the essay does not make good points or legitimate critiques. It does. But as
@michaeldango put it: "We can mourn our profession in modes other than aggrieved male." Personally, I'd like to read more shit like this:http://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2019/05/08/academy-fight-song-my-university-in-ruins/ …Näytä tämä ketju -
Let's not mourn a profession in which to assign Toni Morrison's "Beloved" is to push out Tennyson's "In Memoriam" (I'm a freaking Victorianist among other things & love IMM but, please, for the love of God, assign "Beloved"). Let's not traffic in the very same sublime despair...
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...and self-satisfied, narcissistic impotence informing white-dude hot takes on other extinction events, like, you know, the Sixth Extinction (you know, the "We're reaping what we've sewn and I'm enjoying watching the world burn" crap, as though it's bearing down upon all of us..
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...equally, when it isn't and getting to watch the world burn as it turns out is a pretty big indicator of privilege). Let's not fake post on a website that is notoriously bad for young scholars' mental health...
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...Let's pause to consider how those fake posts might have affected very real people. Let's mourn, but let's also organize and fight. Let's forge alliances. This is hard work, and I know I fuck it up all the time, but I'm going to keep trying...
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...I know lot's of y'all will keep trying. We can and we will do better. "What if we were all a little more punk about this?" A great starting point IMO.
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