Or, will old guard snob-ism maintain and continue to disenfranchise a new generation of scholars?

But given our context, it can’t be reasonable to expect everyone will succeed at maintaining employment in the coming academic year. So, who is going to be brave enough to employ those who had to find other ways to make ends meet?

There’s a lot of unknown lore in this post that has me like 👀

Too real

Even from a budgetary perspective this is just bizarre

This is very helpful 😌 thank you

That said, if you read my follow up post, it does appear that Hartman is using “sexual” in the way that I intend the word, though likely not limited to that usage either.

Hi! We don’t know each other, so I want to assume good intent. However, phrases like “101” and telling someone to look up a word can come across as condescending. Please keep this in mind if you’d like to stay in touch.

PPS let’s marvel for a moment at having a genuine academic convo online 🥹

YES. Absolutely. Her observation about there not being an autobiography of a woman who survived the Middle Passage echoes that point.

That makes sense. And then I guess I can understand its usage with “economy” as a space/system in which one fulfills their lack (desire) through a variety of exchanges.

Wait, Hartman goes on to discuss the example of James Barbot, who wrote about how it was "difficult to exercise sexual restraint on the slave ship" - so perhaps she does mean libidinal as sex drive. Still, I frequently struggle with the phrase "libidinal economy" so insights are welcome :)

1802 - 1848. Reinstatement of slavery and then its second abolition by France.

“Black is the model, white is the frame” by Françoise Vergès!