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28 Aug, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Super excited to see "Beautiful Bodies, Beautiful Minds: Some Applications of Disability Studies to Homer" come out in the most recent Classical World
Thanks to @RMitchellBoyask CW's editor and audiences at @BrandeisU @UTClassics and @HellenicStudies who responded to earlier versions of the work
The article arose from research that didn't fit into my book from @CornellPress cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150175…
Here's the abstract:
Email if you don't have access and would like to read
here's the acknowledgements

h/t @Lollardfish for getting me started with a disability studies bibliography many years ago now.
Section titles
1. Disability in Ancient Studies and Disability Theory
2. Thersites and Iliadic Physiognomy
3. Odysseus and Heroic Prostheses
4. The Scar: Disability and Fame

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29 Aug
Joining @FlintDibble and @rogueclassicist and others in a call for @AntigoneJournal to drop their problematic platforming of eugenicist.

Antigone can do great work and the journal is doing a disservice to its other authors by standing behind a bad decision
All of us who move into this new, fast digital space make mistakes trying to respond and adapt. I have have RT'd some bad stuff, said stupid things, and thought better of earlier stances.
A good journal should have a public editorial board and a clear statement on where their funding comes from.

They should also consider their constituents.
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29 Aug
#AcademicTwitter #ClassicsTwitter

Let's normalize sharing our work when people ask for it and asking scholars for their work.

Friends, if there's an article out there you want to read and you don't have access, just reach out!
1. Academic publishing is a cartel. Sometimes it is benevolent and helpful, but mostly it gatekeeps

2. Most academics are FLOORED when people ask because that means that 11 people will now have read articles we spent years on
3. Many of us can't post all our work publicly without getting in trouble, but we can share if someone sends an email

4. Not all academics are free to publish open access: some departments and institutions still expect certain journals for tenure and promotion
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13 Aug
I was super excited to get this article published with @LAReviewofBooks written with @SarahEBond to launch our new #PastsImperfect initiative. The feedback has been great, and it hasn't all been positive

lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-ma…
we've received a couple of questions/points that I'd like to mention because they point to some of the challenges of (1) taking academic discussions public and (2) dealing with dearly held topics
1. A few people complained the essay was superficial. They're not wrong! You can't cover nearly 3 generations of scholarship and hundreds of books in a short column
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10 Jul
#MemePolice

A reminder thread of things #Aristotle did NOT say

1. “It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it”

nope.

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2. “A Whole is greater than the sum of its parts”

This really popular misattribution may be a poor translation of the Metaphysics
3. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” [and many variations thereof]

This one has absolutely no basis. Aristotle says many things about education, this just ain’t one of them.

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4 May
Following up on @SarahEBond's tweet: a list of reasons why Campbell's monomyth is problematic

7 themes.

1. The monomyth presents simplified descriptive narrative pattern as a prescriptive tool, overlooking that most myths that have monomythic patterns can be analyzed in different ways for many different functions. Campbell reduces myth to what is useful for Campbell
2. The monomyth oversimplifies a 'hero', ignoring different distinctions: ancient heroes were not about virtue and sacrifice. They were about a. cosmic eras (an age of man, or generation of hemitheoi; b. a heros is a person in their full strength, full "bloom" riffing on "hera"
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3 May
#ClassicsTwitter #medievaltwitter and Friends

Politics a #RaceB4Race Symposium starts this week

Sponsored by @BrandeisU @BrandeisCLAS @acmrs_org

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Tuesday

Shelley P. Haley - "Re-imagining Classics: Audre Lorde Was Right"

Scott Manning Stevens - "Early Modern Indigenous Chronologies"

Jared Rodriguez - “Anti-Blackness, Medieval Studies, and Other Religions of Latin Christian Coloniality”

Q&A with Dan-El Padilla Peralta
Wednesday 1

Lubaaba Al-Azami - "Remembering Hans Sloane: Decolonial Disruptions to Archival Violence"

Lyra D. Monteiro - "What’s in a Column? Liberation Archaeology and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy"
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