#MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race #LitPOC This is a PSA for an incident that happened earlier that smacked of some overt misogynoir. A bunch of those tweets have been erased but I am tweeting now to discuss some things related to ideas of BIPOC scholars & "rigor." 1/
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#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race you are literally imagining that someone (who is a Black woman) should not be a premodern scholar b/c someone decided to write a scholarly article in Klingon (Latin) and so they can't really be a "fan/scholar" of Star Trek (premodern) .9/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race I use Klingon b/c it too is a "dead", non-speaking contemporary language w/ a very intense fandom surrounding it. Scholarship is not fandom. Who exactly did this journal or author think this article was for? 10/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race shame on this journal, and I speak as a journal editor, for literally accepting & publishing a piece as a form of fan gatekeeping rather than to "communicate & share knowledge." This is so different from say publishing in languages away 11/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race from the scholarly global lingua francas (usually colonial European languages). Scholarship should be more multilingual for access and equity. Scholarship written in Latin is not about that, it's about white gatekeeping. 12/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race so in relation to the use of the term philology vs. linguistics, the former has a lot of baggage in relation to white supremacy, origins/history of language as a form of white eugenics supremacy, and the latter actually a field of study 13/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race in which sociolinguistics is a thing, people do statistical & computational linguistics, where people also talk @ raciolinguistics. So when you say "philology" unless you are critiquing the very long white supremacist history of this 14/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race I think people who wave that term around are stuck in racist 19th c. methods of scholarship. So, in this premodern scholarly world, seeing Latin as the entry test into scholarly circles is an example of white raciolinguistics. 15/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race please come & discuss when you've hung out & done the work of historical linguistics & want to talk @ metrical modeling, syllable weight, conjunctional @ prepositional patterns & forms. Or want to do visual mappings of dialects. 16/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race Finally, this idea that somehow if you are a BIPOC person must mean your lack of access to "old languages" is so laughable. I begin by pointing out how often BIPOC folks are functionally bilingual or multilingual 17/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race but apparently that linguistic skill cannot funnel into language proficiency in Old Dead languages, like Latin. So let me finish w/ the example of my mother. My mother finished high school but never went to college. 18/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race she was not allowed b/c that meant she had to live away from the family alone in the big city. Mom speaks and reads several languages w/ different script. Her first is Korean; she reads Chinese (b/c the Asian lingua franca) 19/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race she reads & understands Latin, her first Roman alphabet, & then English. She reads & understands Latin b/c Mom's family has been Catholic since the 18th c. & she is pre-Vatican II. 20/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race she missed Japanese b/c born after WWII, grandparents are fluent but never spoke (b/c violent colonialism). Her first exposure to the Roman alphabet was w/ Latin. She has great liturgical Latin. But never been formally school trained. 21/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race for reasons including the devotional Catholic one, Mom's better w/ Latin than w/ English. She hates English. I am sure her Latin is better than quite a few white premodern gatekeepers. But she would never get past the "rigor" gates. 22/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race so don't imagine these moves about "Latin rigor" are ever about actual skills. They are always about white gatekeeping. Feel free to read some sociolinguists or about raciolinguistics to understand how that works. 23/Fin.Show this thread
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