Why I Blog: Historical Erasure Still Happens
The views expressed below are the opinions and inferences of the author alone. I know that this is a difficult, controversial topic. I bring it up because I have some personal experience in being erased, and I can speak for myself that my experience enables me to see it happening to others. First of all, I will be the first to say that erasure often occurs without clear premeditation. That is, it seems to arise more from acts of omission than through overt acts. Let me give you an example. I am a brown woman with a PhD from Harvard University and once had theRead More →