#MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race #LitPOC #BIPOC18 #POC19 #Bigger6 #ClassicsTwitter B/c people seem not to understand that the origin of RaceB4Race started with the complete lockout of MOC sessions at Kalamazoo (except the one where we did labor for white medievalists). 1/ https://twitter.com/jeffreyjcohen/status/1204221194838216704 …
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Here we are organizing these 5 years of conferences. Making sure travel funds are there for grads. & ECRs & having this convo we would not be able to discuss at mainstream Medieval+EM conferences.
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#LitPOC#POC19#BIPOC18#Bigger6#ClassicsTwitter 3/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#LitPOC#POC19#BIPOC18#Bigger6#ClassicsTwitter 4/ at the RaceB4Race 2: Periodization,@ISASaxonists announced her leaving the ISXX board b/c of structural racism, "Country Club" gatekeeping, & sexual harassment issues the org. would not deal with.4/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#LitPOC#POC19#BIPOC18#Bigger6#ClassicsTwitter What this piece discusses of the "Country Club" can be extended to Europe as the "Empire" that continues to refuse to address their complete lack of equity & justice in their spaces. 5/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#LitPOC#POC19#BIPOC18#Bigger6#ClassicsTwitter & we totally see you white scholars doing what@Elysabethgrace discussed at Premodern Race Studies (the one that's about settler colonial whiteness discovering "race" & taking over territory) 6/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#LitPOC#POC19#BIPOC18#Bigger6#ClassicsTwitter do not expect us not to comment & critique that work if it does not fulfill the rigor we expect for CRT, decolonial, postcolonial, anti colonial work. 7/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#LitPOC#POC19#BIPOC18#Bigger6#ClassicsTwitter so I have tagged Antiquity here b/c RaceB4Race 4 at Brandeis will also have this discussion with our antiquity colleagues. This means Classics BIPOC grads & ECRs you can apply for the travel fund 8/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#LitPOC#POC19#BIPOC18#Bigger6#ClassicsTwitter We look forward to expanding this convo & comparing notes about the ongoing critical politics, consistent structural racism, difficult historiographies, and needed activism in our fields. Fin.Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#LitPOC#POC19#BIPOC18#Bigger6#ClassicsTwitter Addendum: Also,#RaceB4Race are a series of conferences that are BIPOC-centered spaces. So dear white scholars, that means that we are not centering you. Also, this series is primarily org. by BIWOC.Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#LitPOC#POC19#BIPOC18#Bigger6#ClassicsTwitter Add. #2:We are not interested in whiteness; we will focus on intersectionality & BIPOC-centered convos. So white scholars, be good guests at#RaceB4Race & don't grab the mic. or take up all the air.Show this thread
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Any idea that Rb4R is exclusive is laughable. Like there's no registration fee and I basically walked in off the street (don't worry I registered) as a PhD student who had never done any substantive critical race study? It was literally the most open conference i've been to
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