Thread by @elissawashuta, I didn’t interact with this account, but recognized the handle when I [...]

Elissa Washuta

elissawashuta

I didn’t interact with this account, but recognized the handle when I saw this yesterday, and almost all her twitter friends now say they believe she and her death were a hoax. Anyone who would catfish with the make-believe life & death of a Native professor is cruel.

Pretendians wanting to be us is bad but nothing new—but the idea of creating a Native woman and killing her by way of her imagined academic working conditions is just—I can’t

Relevant:
https://twitter.com/isabelott/status/1290063963078529024?s=21">https://twitter.com/isabelott... https://twitter.com/isabelott/status/1290063963078529024">https://twitter.com/isabelott...

https://twitter.com/isabelott/status/1290063963078529024?s=21

Also:
https://twitter.com/endlesswario/status/1290063843033378816?s=21">https://twitter.com/endlesswa... https://twitter.com/endlesswario/status/1290063843033378816">https://twitter.com/endlesswa...

https://twitter.com/endlesswario/status/1290063843033378816?s=21

If @Sciencing_Bi is a white woman’s hoax, it’s (at a time when our relatives are left to die without even being counted) yet another instance of us being valued only as ideas detached from humanity and meant only to evoke something. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/24/us-native-americans-left-out-coronavirus-data">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...

Native Americans being left out of US coronavirus data and labelled as 'other'

Misclassification raises fears of hidden health emergencies in one of the country’s most vulnerable populations

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/24/us-native-americans-left-out-coronavirus-data

The college campus has always been a scary place to be a Native woman and it hurt to hear about this death, especially as I think about the Native friends & relatives & colleagues going back to campus—I’m not this fall, because of a heightened risk that did not come from nowhere.

Underlining the last sentence of this tweet over and over
https://twitter.com/cricketcrocker/status/1290105491981348866?s=21">https://twitter.com/cricketcr... https://twitter.com/cricketcrocker/status/1290105491981348866">https://twitter.com/cricketcr...