We knew texts could be disrupted — there’s a whole pedagogical initiative built around doing just that. But here’s the story of the fallout that ensued when someone tried to disrupt #DisruptTexts.
Late last year, Jessica Cluess, an author in the young adult fiction genre, was unceremoniously dropped by her literary agent and viciously mobbed online over the perceived racism in the barrage of aggressive tweets she directed at Lorena Germán, an antiracist educator and co-founder of #DisruptTexts.
Cluess was enraged by a tweet Germán wrote which called into question the importance of reading the classics. The backlash to her response-thread was intense, culminating in Cluess offering an apology and then going inactive on Twitter.
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