Let’s pause here. “Activist” has been a charge leveled at any field that decenters majority interests including gender studies, Asian studies, queer studies, and disability studies, and this isn’t a problem unique to the right.
Kyla Wazana TompkinsLike a conversation that doesn’t use X (formerly twitter) as evidence but cites the actual work of minoritarian and other kinds of criticism as they really exist. Imagine calling Black studies and African American literary studies “an activist sub field.” (Gutkin) 3/5