Dr Eleanor Janega Sorry for the buzzkill after your holiday.
FYI, POC didn't get a break from racists, credential scrutiny, & the questioning of their very identity.
But go on, tell us more about your fab trip and your sads when you got back.
Selfish & we're not buying it.
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The ongoing #BrightAgesSoWhite debate leaves me speechless. The aggression and racist outbursts towards Axel Folio, PhD, Endowed Prof of Popeyes Chicken one could witness in what should‘ve been an academic discussion have been bad already, but the self-demontage in the latest act of the catastrophe is astounding.
Where are the receipts on these blood demands? Just so we know what the hell this means #BrightAgesSoWhite
Mohit Mehta મોહિત મહેતા The #BrightAgesSoWhite thing has really shown up WW who claim to be doing anti-racist & leftist work in academia, while actually doing White Supremacist, racist BS and throwing Black colleagues under the bus, to boot. Talk abt curcling their wagons. Sickening 😒😡
Ppl Dr. Dorothy Kim and Ambereen Dadabhoy 🪬 (& others I won't tag) have dealt w/ their violence for yrs. They will creep into everyone's DMs who has negative things to say abt us. And yes, they love to dox & dig up our histories to attack us. #BrightAgesSoWhite twitter.com/ISASaxonists/s…
You can always see what is important for people by the ways they choose to dig down. In other words, when people show you who they are, believe them. #BrightAgesSoWhite
Had a really wonderful conversation about Axel Folio, PhD, Endowed Prof of Popeyes Chicken's review and #BrightAgesSoWhite in the grad-level racism class I'm helping faculty here to create. It was really great to discuss it in relation to constructions and perpetuations of white supremacy in the academy.
I am advocating to my colleagues in #medievaltwitter + #academictwitter to not accept this bullying of our colleague Axel Folio, PhD, Endowed Prof of Popeyes Chicken. Be warned it is not an isolated incident, but a campaign. Fin/ #BrightAgesSoWhite
Dear Matt Gabriele, I just returned my kindle copy of #BrightAgesSoWhite due to your non-apology apology, pathetic disavowal of white supremacy below, & utter failure to stand up for & stop the racist abuse of Axel Folio, PhD, Endowed Prof of Popeyes Chicken.
Axel Folio, PhD, Endowed Prof of Popeyes Chicken Dr. Sarah Bond @analuciaraujo_ Watching the responses to this shitshow (& in some cases the aggressive lack thereof) has given me a number of new voices to follow as well as showing exactly who wants to keep #BrightAgesSoWhite
Los Angeles Review of Books I just sent an email cancelling my membership due to your abhorrent, racist treatment of Axel Folio, PhD, Endowed Prof of Popeyes Chicken. #BrightAgesSoWhite
This *matters* given that part of Dr. MRO's #BrightAgesSoWhite review was about how white male scholars do not have their authority questioned the way that Black women do.
1/2 I know this isn't the main issue, but I read the reviews in Slate and LA Review of Books &they're identical! Presumably she got paid for both (unless she waived the fee?). Meanwhile MRO wrote a longer, more complex piece for free. #BrightAgesSoWhite
important thread about misogynoir bullying in academnia and the years-long campaigns by dedicated white supremacists to harass and discredit Black and Scholars of Color. #BrightAgesSoWhite
the very loud silence by the white/centric male authors of this book continues...
#BrightAgesSoWhite #FAFO
Wonder if there is a genuine apology to Axel Folio, PhD, Endowed Prof of Popeyes Chicken
How it started. How it’s going/ending
“I have been off social media [except for popping in once to self-promote]” #BrightAgesSoWhite
One last thing. See that last Google autofill search? 'A Response to Mary Rambaran-Olm'?
I assumed it was the title of an article, but there isn't one I can see.
So lots of people are apparently googling for arguments to discredit her. #BrightAgesSoWhite
6/6🧵Only in this way, can we start and continue to fully transform our understandings of history.
end of letter.
ok, so im not the best writer/explainer 🤷♀️but wanted to take action. you can too at [email protected]
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Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro (she/zie) In my first interactions with the authors at the center of #BrightAgesSoWhite were one of them asking archaeologists for references on white supremacy in archaeology. I provided links to POC archaeologists, but they went w/ non-expert, white citations for their work on the whole.