So grateful for the opportunity to spend time thinking and working and striving for compassion (even though I’m not always great at it!) with the scholars at #IONAVancouver. My biggest take aways from the conference have been...
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How do we make sure that in our work, classrooms, and lives we aren’t just using (aka appropriating) Indigenous thought and theory to ‘decolonize’ medieval studies because we are uncomfortable with how shitty things have been...
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Indigenous studies and critical race theory aren’t like structuralism or psychoanalysis because these 19th cent. inventions don’t require accountability or reciprocity. We can “use” them as needed without there being much at stake for the theorists and their communities
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Alternatively, IS and CRT fundamentally require, not just reciprocity, but earning the privilege of sharing knowledges collected by generations of resilient grandmothers and their epistemologies...
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We cannot, in any ethically way, “use” IS or CRT to ‘decolonize’ medieval studies without thinking very seriously about how our work as medievalists can **first** contribute to the decolonial efforts undertaken by these communities in the here and now...
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That’s not to say that our medievalist communities don’t matter, or that we can’t or shouldn’t, look to all kinds of places for examples of righting our wrongs...
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But we cannot prioritize the decolonize of medieval studies over the decolonization, land repatriation, legal frameworks, and identities of BIPOC communities for whom this work is often a matter of life and death...
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I am looking forward to continuing to think about how medieval studies can begin to contribute to decolonization, so that we might earn the privilege of being able to ask for help when we are deemed ready to decolonize our academic field...
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These questions are urgent for *everyone* and it was an honor to begin such important conversations with brilliant and generous scholars.
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Thanks for all the work and labor.
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