Writer, Publisher, Believer. Pronouns: She/her or they/them. Founding Director of open access press punctum_books & a recovering medievalist.
Sep 27, 2022 • 18 tweets • 10 min read
🧵Fellow humanists: do you care that the largest academic publishers in the world are suing the government of India for allowing their people to access free online libraries? Do you care that Harvard & Oxford UPs have “taken down” online libraries? tinyurl.com/4krbkubu#crimes
Fellow humanists: do you care that one of the richest unis in the US stood by & said nothing after one of the fiercest advocates for free information was prosecuted for wire fraud for daring to make knowledge open & that they, @MIT, called the police & that he committed suicide?
Sep 18, 2022 • 24 tweets • 6 min read
1/ READ THIS THREAD. I'm going to tell a story that breaks all the ethics of being an editor. I am going to take you behind the curtain to see how editing can also perform the violence of erasure. I promised I would never tell this story. I no longer want to keep it to myself.
2/ I know Mary that this critique will sting & I can tell from your article you believe you went above & beyond to do all of the right things, but you haven't. Consider how often you have been erased/dissed, something I wanted to correct in "The Postmodern Beowulf."
Sep 11, 2019 • 21 tweets • 14 min read
THREAD: It’s true. I’ve been running the @GroupBABEL Twitter account for way too long & no one gives a damn. Not to mention that I no longer want to be associated with this group since they attended @KzooICMS 2019 even though Medievalists of Color were iced out. #MedievalTwitter
To be super-frank, I’ve been (heart)sick because of @GroupBABEL’s inattention to divisive issues in the field ever since 2016 when I urged boycotting the Kalamazoo Congress after Allen Frantzen’s misogynist & racist writings came to light, to no avail. I haven’t been back since.
