👇🏻Please read these words. Please hear them. Please sit with them. Please invite others to do the same. Trans Studies, Trans Linguistics, ALx, Trans [Insert your field name here] may not pin itself down by design, but these are our very specialized fields. [1/4]
We have been here, doing this work for a very long time. Many since before trans studies was a readable name. I (dare I say like most in trans studies) want to see our field(s) grow. We want to be welcoming spaces to people who are joining us in this work in earnest. [2/4]
We also need you to do the homework before you come to class. Our bibliographies, websites, & lists are our study guides. You can make mistakes, we all make mistakes. The best of our field is the loving critiques that many of us very intentionally engage in. [3/4]
As I watch the number of my mutuals re-tweeting and liking Kirby's post continue to climb, with the same energy that I felt in reading the OP I can only think: Perhaps this is our first loving critique for you. 🙏🏻 [4/4]

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8 Dec
So glad to be here this morning. And, if you know me, you know that setting my alarm for 7am is in itself an illustrative underlining of that statement. Grateful to listen and learn from @alwaystheself today.
"She is also a bold influential voice on twitter" - Andrea Kelton-Harris speaking about @alwaystheself [2/]
As she opens @alwaystheself self-positions as someone who has both benefitted from being educated at Harvard & as an avid critic of Harvard. There are already >200+ people on this talk, who Dr. Crystal Fleming notes are likely people who are already (on the path to) taking action Image
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6 Dec
I do not know this paper. I do not know it's author. But I know this practice like the back of my hand. There's this pernicious tendency for people to not act in actual solidarity w/ the communities in which they research. This is not an exception, nor exceptional. [1/5]
I often see this type of problematic self-positioning, as hierarchies of power work to keep silent those most affected; It is often those who most bear the weight of these troublesome research practices who are in the most precarious situations for calling them out. [2/5]
That I had to sit with these tweets for a day before deciding to send them out feels illustrative, but pales in comparison to the potential consequences weighed by many. That I even have a future tenure review to worry about speaks to my own privilege. [3/5]
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6 Dec
🚨 Very happy to share this *new* pub, which began as a collection of sketches & questions in my notebook more than 5 yrs ago now! I hope this will be helpful as we continue to work together to articulate what Trans French Studies & what trans-affirming ALx can look like [1/6] Subverting the Culturally U...
I also hope this work will be helpful in (re)centering the voices of non-binary people as we think about & write through the ways that we position ourselves within and against myriad culturally and linguistically situated understandings of gender, particularly in French. [2/6]
Full citation: Knisely, K. (2020). Subverting the culturally unreadable: Understanding the self-positioning of non-binary speakers of French. The French Review. 94(2), 149-168.

For those w/out institutional access, I have also written an OASIS summary: Knisely, K. (2020). [3/6]
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5 Dec
I share in this refusal, personally. I find it antithetical to my pedagogy. How can I have a pedagogy that claims to de-center power in the classroom while engaging in invasive surveillance, leveraging that power I claim to aim to give up as much as I am able to do so? [1/3]
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3 Dec
It's about to start! 👇🏻 So glad to get to be here for this launch!
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So excited to be at this event! (Happening NOW!)
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(before a few obligatory words about the newest Elliot in a long line of Elliots and the shared joy that evoked among panelists and by audience members [in the chat] alike)
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