I've been thinking about ways to make this a productive & generative conversation w/folks including @profchander, @JonathanHsy, @zugenia, @BadRomanticist, @NikkiHessell, @PaulaKrebs and have HIGH hopes for what's possible +
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I don't want to tag folks and clutter their notifications, but I hope this conversation will be of particular use to those of you doing the hard & thankless work of confronting organizations and conferences clinging to exclusionary practices +
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The inequities of the academy mean that a lot of people who are doing this work won't be able to make it to MLA, may not feel safe sharing their ideas and strategies online, or just might be morally opposed to participating in this conversation at this particular conference +
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I am thinking with folks a/b how to address this so that the conversation isn't just for the few of us who can be in the room +
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Reminder. The goal of the session is to “create an opportunity for those committed to bridging scholarly work and antiracist, anticolonial activism to share strategies.” For those who won't be there, we have four Twitter folks/accounts with DMs for you to write to +
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Please DM me if you have strategies and ideas about how tenured faculty can support contingent* faculty taking on this work. + *For the purposes of this conversation, I'm thinking of grad students/adjunct faculty/tenure-track but untenured faculty
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If you know how institutions (universities/colleges/grad programs, professional organizations) are protecting and supporting faculty facing the challenges of this work, please DM
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For ideas about what can/should happen at academic conferences when this work can be especially hard, you can DM
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If you have other concerns and ideas about how to make the session as helpful as possible but don't feel comfortable tweeting about it, you can DM
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I’ll post another thread with stuff to read. I hope folks will add to it. Many, many thanks to
@PaulaKrebs for coming up with this idea and making space to think & plan about this work in these times. See you in Seattle!Näytä tämä ketju
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