Like many in #MedievalTwitter and #EarlyModern #Renaissnce, I'm delighted by the energy, insight, and pathmaking work of #RaceB4Race. I note that many involved are also #digitalhumanities folks, which is also great. 1/n
-
Show this thread
-
I'm following the work and the conversations, and will be into the future. There's a lot to be excited about. At the same time, it was just five years ago that I was
@FolgerResearch in a room of all white-presenting scholars 2/n1 reply 2 retweets 15 likesShow this thread -
asking that we consider the labor and race context in which we were working - white institutional staff, white scholars, and conversations about dead white people and digital tools. The only people of color there were there as security or maintenance 3/n
1 reply 2 retweets 21 likesShow this thread -
I was a thorn in a least a few sides that week, consistently asking how we were (or were not) engaging with issues of race and gender in particular. That produced a lot of exasperation on the part of some 4/n
1 reply 2 retweets 21 likesShow this thread -
It was just 2017 that the really powerful piece by Celia Calballero "Mothering While Brown" pointed out the racial logics of another fav research institution -
@TheHuntington https://www.chicanamotherwork.com/single-post/2017/08/23/Mothering-While-Brown-in-White-Spaces-Or-When-I-Took-My-Son-to-Octavia-Butler%E2%80%99s-Exhibit … 5/n1 reply 3 retweets 21 likesShow this thread -
The work of scholars like
@ProfKFH, Ayanna Thompson,@dorothyk98@JonathanHsy and more have been ongoing for a LONG time and in the context of institutions and communities that haven't always listened 6/n2 replies 3 retweets 24 likesShow this thread -
Well we are definitely going to have to discuss the whiteness of DHSI and all that white feminism/fragility when my students asked them could you tell us how your class addresses the DHSI inclusivity statement.
3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
Just more white women feelings....I do always wonder why they imagine that I would somehow center white feminist fragility in DH when the clear public examples of me never doing this in medieval is something you can google.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.