This is a really important thread by a scholar I really like. When I read it earlier I felt better about the whole whore thing but a few hours later and I’m actually even angrier than I was. I felt better bc this thread is about 20 times what one usually gets re: abusive faculty https://twitter.com/suboticjelena/status/1380937044298436610">https://twitter.com/suboticje...

I’m legit really grateful for this thread, and of Chris Jackson’s blog post.

But I also feel angry bc this is one of these insane things that everyone knows and yet nothing ever happened. Official channels be damned. When someone has such an obvious history of abuse and official channels don’t work I just can’t accept the only option is to do nothing.

I certainly don’t mean to point a finger at Dr Subotic. Bloom isn’t in her dept and also this happens everywhere. But from the sounds of things every single person every single time decided nothing was the best option - publicly, at least.

Tenure does not exist so you can abuse your underlings and ruin academic and actual lives. Deliberately exacting revenge on someone with your institutional power, for example, should get you fucking sacked.

I’m not talking about her calling people she disagrees with whores and cunts (of which there is evidence), but of screwing with people’s funding and trying to harm careers. The fact that this is protected behavior by GA State and wherever she was before is BANANAS.

I’m also glad Dr Subotic pointed out that this is rare, because there is nothing turning me off the academy more at the moment than the people who currently exist in it.