There are a lot of rly brilliant, dedicated, outstanding ppl saying all the important things about ISXX right now—like Dr @ISASaxonists, Dr @dorothyk98, Dr @adam_miya—I want to signal boost and remind us all to take notes, but honestly I’m just too fucking tired 1/
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As someone who only really got started in early medieval studies a couple years ago, the last couple months have been revealing and disheartening in ways I cannot describe. Without the support of the MoC I’m sure that I would have dropped out of my grad program entirely 2/
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I have a thousand things to say to follow up on that comment and absolutely no energy to say them. Mostly, I’m just left wondering... 3/
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How do you cultivate kinship with people who are more concerned with whether or not a name shouts patrimony loud enough than they are about the actual safety of people who can’t/don’t want to share that genealogy? 4/
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Of course, the answer is that we just don’t, but that is a shitty feeling—one that is disproportionately felt by people who have turned themselves inside out trying to get everyone to see how much damage has been done AND ways that we can be/do better. 5/
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5a/ I’m not one of those people, but I have been shielded and protected by them. I owe them a great deal more than a melancholic Twitter thread, but it’s the best I’ve got at the moment.
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I am so very grateful for the kin I do have within the academy, especially within this field, but I am equally dismayed at the impossibility of relationality 6/
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Like, fuck this thing that has made me feel like I’m failing to live up to the ways that my family taught me to be in a community. That is a downer sentiment to end on, but this is a downer of a day so, whatever. 7/7pic.twitter.com/u6Jfxf5twF
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I am sending you pikachu cuteness.pic.twitter.com/YtYXJ3Bffx
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Replying to @dorothyk98
I need Steven Paul Judd to make Mindian gifs, but until then, imagine this photo as a gif.pic.twitter.com/sJBSX0mOh5
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