If I'm understanding your response, I think you are raising REALLY important questions about our obligations about how we use this space and what we're able to amplify because people who might ignore their colleagues of color IRL pay attention to people of color here.
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Replying to @triciamatthew
I totally agree with you about community and I think that part is great. Similarly, I have no obligation to be on here from the institution as well, so it is more about community. I think it's still like that public square, where you find your community & just connect.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @triciamatthew
And it is lovely to find out about what other people are doing in lots of places particularly Black women in and out of academia. I think it's a form of dissonance for me b/c literally sometime this digital public street can just have people hanging out & discussing things in
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @triciamatthew
different groups, but then the public street really becomes saturated w/ certain protests that get amplified that take over the TL. So I think I find it strange when that is happening, when the street is loud with protest noise, that particularly academics are still doing
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @triciamatthew
what they were doing when the digital street was its normal day with many different nodes of discussion. I think for me it's about the disconnect from what that public ecosystem looks like, its shifts, changes.This does not mean people have to come out on the street (b/c reasons)
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @triciamatthew
and that's fine. But I often think if folks are here for specific communities, the communities still talk to each other in these major moments @ what's going on. It just feels like a major disconnect when ppl are doing things (while during major events) that imagine that
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @triciamatthew
stuff is not happening at all. Like why would people want to put up signs promoting themselves in the midst of a major protest? They would be drowned out anyhow, but it just is discombobulating.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @triciamatthew
It's sort of like having an advertisement sign posted or one you carry around just as literally terrible horrible is happening directly on the digital street. Everyone just would look at that as totally not reading the room but also a dystopic disconnect.
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Replying to @dorothyk98
So the question you're getting me to (& there may not be an answer) is what does ethical digital engagement look like in these moments? I have a hard time pivoting from horror to "look at my flowers!" So sometimes I feel like it's either all flowers or all horror.
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Replying to @triciamatthew
That is a hard one.I think maybe it's more about what does your communities on here need. If they need flowers and baked goods they should get that, if they need people to communally process the horror, they should get that, if they need aid, sympathy, just mutual being together
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they should get that. But the world is in disaster & I think it just seems dissonant & surreal if that is not acknowledged. For ex. I think of the librarians/archivists on here, who will still post things related to the library but pivot it specifically to what's happening.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @triciamatthew
Like that makes sense, & its a public engagement from an academic institution that reads the public street & shifts accordingly. So I expect lots of digital library things about Crispus Attucks today along with MLK speech documents.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @triciamatthew
I think what this means is that these librarians understand that their engagement w/ the public is about supporting those in the public & they will shift their content to help in the conflagration happening to people. That info. (ex. Crispus Attucks info. sources, images, etc.)
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