I have an excellent therapist, but it's still trauma work. I discuss this in this podcast which dropped this month. So this entire alt-medieval group have their own medieval, white supremacist 4chan space called Medieval Studies: State of the Field. 2/ podcast.digitalmedievalist.org/episode-5-glob…
Paul Halsall started it b/c he couldn't stop himself from saying racist things @ me & other BIPOC medievalists in medieval FB groups. He got kicked out. The group includes Rachel Fulton Brown. Academic medievalists have been talking & liking her comments there for years. 3/
If you need a primer of RFB & her best buddy Milo, you can start with Joseph Bernstein's piece from 2017 which is a base primer & based on email correspondence. 4/ buzzfeednews.com/article/joseph…
This was identified in 2017, so do not tell MRO or myself that the academics in Medieval 4chan "did not know" etc. But 2017 is important b/c it's where much of this harassment began. It started b/c some "A-S" scholars decided that me posting in a "A-S" group @ CRT but also 5/
Things like the announcement for the Trans Travel Fund & statements about solidarity from SMFS to our transgender colleagues after the NC bathroom bill in a medieval studies group (since I was secretary of SMFS & in charge of communication). A moderator erased those posts. 6/
Two of the moderators were "A-S" grad. students at ASNC in Cambridge. They decided that this was not enough & started to send poison pen letters to medieval scholars internationally about me. You can read up about that here. 7/: inthemedievalmiddle.com/2017/08/mediev…
As she also decided to lock replies so one cannot actually respond. How is this an apology if you do not actually apologize specifically to MRO. #BrightAgesSoWhite The actual violent harm has not been named specifically or directed to the person who was targeted. #SlaveryArchive
Because really folks. MRO already had fascist sock puppet accounts coming to harass her by pulling pictures from the internet. Discussing more conspiracy theories about how she is not Black etc. How is this reparative if you are not addressing her? #SlaveryArchive
More ppl liked the above non-apology for actually attacking MRO w/ a fascist conspiracy theory vs. all the callouts to the white Bright Ages authors for their non-apology. They didn't actually spew that conspiracy theory, they just were white, silent, & deflected. #SlaveryArchive
Who medieval studies, and I specifically have discussed, as part of the alt-medieval (in long twitter threads), in this IHE article: 2/ insidehighered.com/views/2018/08/…
3/ I really want people to understand 2 things. How white supremacy is structural, STRUCTURAL & the WTGF WS, fascist ecosystem of medieval studies. Every white decision (including the BPOC supporting whiteness decisions) just further cements the structure of white supremacy.
The conference happened in January 2019 because of Academic REJECTION. Specifically Rejected from the @KzooICMS in 2019 of all the Medievalists of Color sessions (except the one where we basically do diversity labor for white people). 2/
@acmrs_asu & @jeffreyjcohen (Dean at Humanities) invited all those rejected to present instead at a symposium at ASU that @acmrs_asu would organize. Since Ayanna Thompson had just taken over as head of @acmrs_asu, she also thought it would be a good time for coalition building 3/
#AcademicTwitter#MLA2022 PSA and CW for English Department job seekers. This is a story in which I have gotten permission from the PH.D. student to share, though I am not going to mention specific names. It involves an English Dept. search for an ethnic studies candidate at 1/
a PWI and R1 institution in the Pacific Northwest. This Ph.D. candidate got an interview with the school and received an email on Dec. 7th from the department's admin. assistant to set up this interview and then a direct email on Dec. 10th from the chair of the search. 2/
Both these emails never reached the candidate because they were marked as spam. Now, this is the content warning for academic job seekers, because I am sorry that this will make you feel anxious to probably obsessively check your spam folder. The candidate did not see this 3/
Part II. Thread. Medieval White Rage & the Alt-Medieval. #MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race#LitPOC I reference Carol Anderson's work b/c she points to how far white grievance will go into violent white rage during Jim Crow & school desegregation. What will white ppl do 27/
if their white privilege & place in their world is seen as "threatened" by BIPOC ppl. They will push back but they also will go to white rage violence to stop it & the change for equity & justice. Medieval Studies has an entire alt-medieval group entirely based on white rage 28/
This next example shows how white "leftists" become radicalized into the far-right universe. Tom McMaster, a.k.a. Gay Girl in Damascus. "Amina" was seen by online activists as queer Islamic feminist activist. Of course it was a racist catfish 29/ theguardian.com/world/2011/jun…
So ppl still friends w/ this alt-medieval lot & supporting them digitally & F2F & ppl who call out trying to out pseudonymous accts as VIOLENCE, Halsall was fine violently outing MRO's previous account even though he knew about her violent stalkers. 9/
I believe PH taped me at @IMC_Leeds in 2018 since he was at both my advertised sessions. Milo wrote a 13,000 hit piece on me (a bad diss. chapter on mysticism) & released the illegal tape of me & @prof_gabriele 10/
I wrote about all of that here in 2018. One of the points I made was how this WS medieval 4chan group basically uses the tactics of the far right--11/ insidehighered.com/views/2018/08/…