About how indexing QPOC as an “of course” in these arguments does not do enough work to extend the analysis. AND ALSO /9
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@swarthmoreburke’s serious point that all of it is bad, really really bad, for the humanities. /101 reply 3 retweets 39 likesShow this thread -
I just cannot totally stomach the idea that queer sociality has somehow outpaced the norms of the institution but I get the point that is being made here at the same time. It’s just that it’s excusing too much here, as far as I can tell. /12
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and also, I’ll tell you what I really care about. I care that amid the defense of white female queer theorists, I spend half my life talking to women of color academics who are f*cking exhausted and stuck in jobs or situations that are abusive /13
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and they are trying to manage their rage, and stay productive and intact, and deal with health issues and family and the everyday psychic violence of it all and in the midst of it, this dynastic drama, of friends defending friends is hard to see. /14
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somehow in the middle of all of this, women of color and queers of color just keep getting the mental, physical and psychic hell beaten out of them, and their abuse never makes the front page of the chronicle. /15
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I’m not aiming this at anyone so much as just saying AND ALSO that’s what I really care about these days. /16
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Also I guess, I’m just noticing the question of scale here; I’ve been trying to think and write about care as something that happens repetitively across scales: the local, the community, the institution. /18
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whoops that was /17
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This year I became interested in rebuilding intellectual worlds more full of people that actually demonstrate they know what politics, as it is interpreted in the smallest scales as *care,* actually looks like. /18
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just muddling through, you know? spent a lot of time this year asking myself what a good academic life looks like. not sure i know the answers yet.
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I hope you figure it out. I'm white but also disabled, and I had to leave the academy because the abuse built into the system was (literally) killing me. I don't know how BIPOC women do it. I just feel like the whole system is toxic, and everyone is eventually poisoned by it.
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