Please be reassured that the Congress is working very hard to be a safe space for all scholars and wants to encourage participation from underrepresented groups. That’s all I can say on this topic.
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Replying to @DollyJorgensen @skatemaxwell and
I highly doubt this since they have done nothing to communicate that they have addressed serious security issues. Saying we welcome diversity does none of the work that shows that is happening. So I really do not see anything to indicate that the conference is safe.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @skatemaxwell and
You are of course free to disregard what I’ve said. Or you could take it seriously as confirmation that positive things are happening which you do not see. It’s clear that you’re bitter about your experience (understandable but unfortunate) so perhaps nothing will change that.
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Replying to @DollyJorgensen @skatemaxwell and
This is basically a form of victim-blaming.
@IMC_Leeds has not communicated or shown anything that indicates to me personally or anyone else broadly that they have done anything to address these issues. So where is the evidence?1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @dorothyk98 @DollyJorgensen and
People have written research about this. It's called when you name a problem, you are the problem.
@SaraNAhmed has written about it in her books & here: https://feministkilljoys.com/2014/02/17/the-problem-of-perception/ …2 replies 3 retweets 18 likes -
Replying to @dorothyk98 @DollyJorgensen and
What this shows me from your comment is that you have decided that the safety & security of vulnerable scholars, is not something you or your organizers are willing to substantially tackle w/out defaulting to classic
#RapeCulture#MeToo
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @DollyJorgensen and
As what happened at
#IMC2018 meant I received violent threats against my life including rape threats, deciding that it's "my bitterness" when I have seen no evidence other than you saying, not the director or the organizing committee, that somehow things are happening is1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @dorothyk98 @DollyJorgensen and
classic victim-blaming, it's "my fault" for expecting actual safety & security, let alone organizers who communicate clearly. No.
@SaraNAhmed wrote an entire book about this: https://www.dukeupress.edu/on-being-included …1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @dorothyk98 @DollyJorgensen and
You can educate yourself and read. And if this is how the members of the organizing committee plan to deal with this, then it further shows that
#IMC2019 and all IMCs in the future are not safe for any marginal scholar. Statements do nothing and clearly you have now decided the1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @dorothyk98 @DollyJorgensen and
way to go is to victim blame me for basically going to fulfill my professional duties, in which I paid the conference to attend, to give talks and moderate sessions, but somehow that should put me in further violent danger and it's "my fault."
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If this is the tactic that @IMC_Leeds plans to take in order to address their safety, security, and inclusion problems. Then basically, they are continuing to support white supremacy, rape culture. What your comment shows me is that it's clear they do not even plan to have the
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @DollyJorgensen and
professional ethics to even contact me & apologize for what they refused to do to make sure I would be safe at the conference last year. Instead, you would rather blame the WOC for apparently not making sure your conference was a safe and non-violent space for her to do her job.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @DollyJorgensen and
So explain to me exactly how I shouldn't, or anyone else who is a medievalist, should not be angry and better that somehow violent threats is what happens when one attends a professional medieval conference? Are you really trying to diminish what is going on or defend that
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