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c. senior faculty beyond dissertation advisor who helps advance your work & career.
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7/ Ideally conferences create the conditions for this, but as
#MedievalTwitter &#ShakeRace show, they can do the opposite for POC#Bigger61 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
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8/ But, as
@triciamatthew points out, changing the orgs means often doing white ppls institutional work for them#Bigger61 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
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9/ Some baby steps: make the conference work 4 u by organizing yourselves.
#ShakeRace's roots are in POC dinners/lunches yrs ago#Bigger61 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
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10/ This perhaps means coordinating attendance so that you attend conference as a group
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11/ Share information--what senior faculty are potential allies? Who has interest in yr subfield politically/intellectually
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12/But don't 4get that some allies won't click w/everyone--doesn't mean they can't be helpful
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13/ Share yr work--even if it means taking couple of hours in conference to discuss pre-circulated work (altho that's really hard)
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14/ But perhaps u need
#Bigger6 & something else--a group for POC working in "canonical" lit fields? An Unwhitening group?2 replies 2 retweets 6 likes -
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15/ Sorry for the crazy thread. my computer is going crazy & I'm bad at threads. Also thing this transcends individual orgs.
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urgency. The field has responded a lot (both good and bad) b/c of this alt-right urgency. So we've had to speed up a bit in the last 6 mos.
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