Thread by @dorothyk98

Just to further clarify folks. #BrightAgesSoWhite #MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race #SlaveryArchive #TwitterHistorians This is the issue if you have NO CLUE about the alt-medieval academic ecosystem. Please look at the first two on the right. They are historians (D & S) .1/

https://twitter.com/Jairo_I_Funez/status/1520461398798708739

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.

4/ ppl keep couching this as individual, interpersonal things, even as various editors, writers etc. deflect on their white decisions in cementing that white supremacist structure at every turn. Understand that your white decisions (which you may have thought was just one thing)

COMPOUNDS the WHITE SUPREMACY of this whole thing. It's not just about your interpersonal intentions. It's about how your decisions have constructed a white supremacist wall, it cascades, it compounds, & the only way to undo it is to fight like HELL to structurally undo it 5/

w/ Every Decision, Every Structure, Every Process in this entire white, white supremacist structural disaster. This is by the way HOW WHITE SUPREMACY STRUCTURAL WTF works in all other fields, disciplines, institutions as well. However, Medieval Studies has this & then fascists.6/

The alt-medieval hang together in a medieval open FB group called Medieval Studies: State of the Field where they hang with Milo Y. best buddy amongst a host of alt-medieval characters (look up Gay Girl in Damascus-there is even a documentary movie) & where you will find years 7/

of full-blown racist, sexist, comments (both misogynoir & super hyper Asian woman WTF) and far right conspiracy theories about MRO & myself. Sure, other people have gotten their attention (incl. white men & BIPOC men) but they do not obsessively stalk them & continue to make 8/

racist, sexist, horrific WTF about them for years. Yes you can find an archive of years. These are academics. MRO has been stalked by violent WS (on Hope not Hate as violent WS fascist S*rv*ve the J*ve). I have had Milo Y. write a book @ me & the Middle Ages. And this is 9/

just the primarily history end of the WS alt-medieval issues. Then there is the fact that MRO is in early medieval w/ the MRA (androphilic anarcho-fascist spectrum) w/ A. Frantzen. And this was in 2016. 10/ chronicle.com/article/promin…

You understand that ppl are trying to dox, find, locate MRO & myself. I have to have long-ass convos about safety & security at academic F2F conferences b/c of this BS & b/c I have been stalked at several medieval academic conferences internationally by alt-medieval types. 11/

So when the alt-medieval crawl into your mentions, into your DMs & they start spouting conspiracy theories about me & MRO, & you then turn around & put that on blast, all you are doing is creating a far-right white medieval feeding frenzy of terrible. It jumps to something 12/

deep in far right country incredibly quickly. As Digital Scholars who work on the far-right have written, THIS ACCELERATES like a conflagration b/c of Social Media. If they slide in your DMs (I've even had people send actual poison pen letters to rando scholars) to spout 13/

conspiracy theories about me & MRO, DO NOT TRUST THEM since they may also be the ones who have or are all supporting the folks who have recorded closed talks (& let Milo Y. release them), doxxed family members, & tried to get us fired at our institutions. 14/

This was supposed to be an academic discussion about a trade book. Ppl can disagree and discuss different points w/ MRO about her evidence-based views. But character assassination, conspiracy theory, full blown violent stalking, doxxing, recording, swarming, etc. 15

is basically U following the alt-medieval playbook. You can disagree, debate, discuss w/us without actually supporting violent white supremacist fascists. But you all seem unable to not go there & let the white supremacist WTF jump the shark into far right stochastic terrorism.16

These alt-medieval academics are the ppl who create multiple, creepy (MAGA hat, P*pe, etc.) sock puppet accounts to stalk us, harass us, try to find info. etc. DO NOT AMPLIFY THEIR FAR RIGHT CONSPIRACY THEORIES. 17/

And some of this becomes both-sides BS that decides MRO & I are doing this for "clout" for "fame." WTGF ppl. Have you ever read anything about BIWOC, digital visibility, & VIOLENCE ever. Digital Intersectionality doesn't work that way. also "mob" the coded racist language. 18/

Look at every BIWOC who is public who literally is saying things like, "let's not be racist," "let's think about justice," in every arena--journalism, politics, game industry, movies & TV, etc., look what BIWOC digital visibility means. Basically violence ALL THE TIME. 19/

The horrible DARVO move of deciding that the violence is somehow the BIWOC's/marginalized "mob's" fault, when in medieval studies, who is getting the stochastic terrorism, death & rape threats, doxxing, harassment. Don't be fooled by the "white respectability" wrapping. FIN.