My literal, physical body is implicated in the work I do, both b/c I do practice-as-research and because sexual violence is an embodied reality in my life and the lives of many of the people I work with for the project 2/
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I can’t approach that ‘objectively’. I don’t want to. It would be a lie. How can I read Isabella’s soliloquy in M4M 2.4—‘To whom should I complain? Did I tell this / Who would believe me?’—without *feeling* the weight of 400 years of people asking the exact same question? 3/
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History isn’t some cold, inert thing that’s separate from us. It’s how we were built; and how we write about it shapes the future. So let’s not pretend that we have no affective stake in it. 4/
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The work that I do is possible because I can stand on the shoulders of those who have blazed a path and shown the way. Recently, I’ve been reading Sara Ahmed’s The Cultural Politics of Emotion—it’s a great starting point if you’re just beginning to think about emotionality 5/
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For those in Shax/early modern spaces, I cannot recommend
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I’ll stop now, but please just take a beat before you tweet excitedly about, say, a database of enslaved people. Think: who cannot approach that work as merely an academic achievement? Who must confront trauma to engage? & who has the privilege to just be excited? /end
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Thank you for reading, Mira

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