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1 / THREAD / Shortly after the story of Harvard anthro dept’s 3 sexual harassers broke, we were contacted by a Black anthropologist whose experiences of bullying, harassment & abuse at a top UC anthro grad program have been routinely silenced for years.
2/ With her support, this thread & the links in it detail what happened to her, and connects the dots around the racism & silencing she has experienced in several anthro spaces a lot of us would find safe…
3/ …including us @metooanthro—she had to contact us twice; we failed to respond to her first email. After yrs of being ignored, dismissed, tone-policed, this non-response from us added to that accumulated cruelty.
1/ A few months ago, I posted about my experiences with anthropology graduate studies hoping to support #hautalk in discussing the asshole problem in anthropology.
2/ I noted in my post that, as a privileged white, cis, able-bodied male student, I "could only imagine" how much more difficult these situations could be for others.
3/ One of the responses I received was an email from a black woman who had been driven out of an anthropology department through targeted harassment and threats of violence. As suspected, things can get a lot worse. With her permission, here is her story.
1/ I’ve been going back and forth about sharing this, but with #hautalk making a return on #AnthroTwitter, I think it might be time for me to share my experiences with anthropology graduate programs. Long thread and content warnings for abuse and suicide.
2/ I’ve had four PhD supervisors so far. I’ve been afraid to tell people that for fear of seeming like a difficult or bad student, but as certain events become more distant, I’m becoming more capable of not taking these things personally.
3/ I applied for PhD programs immediately out of undergrad (a huge mistake). When I got an email from telling me that I’d been accepted to Berkeley to work with a star anthropologist, I thought that I was hallucinating (I had mono at the time).
The MeTooAnthro team are collectively shocked and disturbed by the arguments put forward in the HAU ‘Short Cuts’ section of Volume 8, Issue 3, which add little to our scholarly understanding of #MeToo, or to a feminist praxis #HauTalk
Why?
Because they wholeheartedly fail to engage with either seminal writing on the topic, or on the work that has been done internationally in the last year under #metoo and #metooanthro.
Because they wholeheartedly fail to engage with either seminal writing on the topic, or on the work that has been done internationally in the last year under #metoo and #metooanthro.
But...rather than speak further about something that is under-researched and often offensive, we'd like to take this opportunity to introduce some of the brilliant work that is being done on this issue.
1/? Okay, at the risk of igniting a firestorm, one thing has been bothering me a lot about the #hautalk discussion that I think is being left out that I want to highlight. That's the issue of shame and the con artist...
2/? Although I enjoyed the #hautalk panel yesterday tremendously and, as the editor of a AAA journal, am still contemplating how I want to respond constructively and through changed practices to some of the critiques, I think that the autopsy of what happened is incomplete.
3/? #hautalk One missing element is the real acknowledgment of the 'bad faith actor' problem and the fact that 'old white men' (and old white women and old people of other colours) were actually conned in the HAU trajectory...
