So in honor of #Juneteenth how about #ClassicsTwitter drops the white morality act and actually listens to and learns from the #BlackInClassics voices already making waves in the field:
Over in ancient Africa we’ve got @BumbaughSolange and @RomanAegyptiaca - two female scholars doing wondrous work in a field usually secluded to the interests of stuffy old white men.
I first came to the words of @PriaJackson and @aimee_hinds through their work on @eidolon_journal and they are two of the main reasons that I’ve stayed interested in that journal.
The brilliant scholars @platanoclassics and @_pragmasyne often get me fired up as fellow Afropessimist interlocutors (there needs to be a phrase for this) in our philological pursuits (though they could both lean into the poetics of Jordan Peele a bit more).
Can’t forget the Latin darlings! The online resources of @MagisterBracey speak for themselves and I regularly get laughs from the student commentary of @SKEEerra’s Latin classes.
Can’t wind up without giving the shoutouts towards abolition and intersectional feminism—@reginalatinae you paved the way for so many of us, thank you. And @DouglasWynter you are someone I regularly feel called to be a better colleague towards. You two truly inspire me. 🖤
These are only just a few of the great #BlackInClassics voices. This time last year, I could count the amount of black ancientists I knew on one hand.

I’m gonna keep adding to this throughout the weekend, but I highly encourage others to highlight other voices as well.

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