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Dr.MariaElena Zavala's talk at #MGM2023 was amazing. Dr. Zavala talked about research, mentors & work to increase the number of historically excluded folks in the academy. The Q&A session however had VERY disparaging comments about Indigenous peoples and I want to tell you why 🧵
For context, one individual (a white guy) who has been in the maize community for a very long time got up and gave a 4-5 minute comment on the VERY intimate life details of an Indigenous maize geneticist who worked in their lab 2/
I will spare the details here - but the more general comments painted Indigenous communities as impoverished groups who needed to be saved from substance abuse, poverty, death, and the reservation. Very much viewing Indigenous communities through a deficit narrative 3/
