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2020 GRATITUDE THREAD
Before I go into hibernation for a few winter weeks, I want to thank all the folks #onhere who helped get me through this year in big & small ways, especially the #healthcare professionals & folks providing imp #COVID19 information #WearAMask
So...
Starting from the top of the year: Thanks are due to @rgwakeman, & the students & colleagues who attended the 6th Annual Hudson Valley Medieval & Early Modern Undergrad Symposium at Mount Saint Mary CollegeWe need more collaborative academic events for undergrads!
I am grateful to @MichelleMDowd, @hudstrode & the grad students there, like @jesshamlet, for hosting me & other scholars at The Future of Teaching Shakespeare Symposium. It was an honor to present alongside the @respinosa1564...his new book is coming
https://www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-on-the-Shades-of-Racism/Espinosa/p/book/9780367183004
To all the colleagues #onhere, & not on here, who participated in my virtual @SAAupdates "Shakespeare's Other Race Plays" seminars, & agreed to further develop that work, thank you & h/t to the
respondents: @littleblackshak @respinosa1564 @pakhimie & Jean E. Howard
Thanking my @binghamtonu colleague Bat-Ami Bar, who directed the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, is bittersweet since she passed away last month. https://www.bupipedream.com/news/119241/auto-draft-647/Working w/her in Spring was a privilege...may she rest in peace & her legacy live on
h/t to my hard-working #RaceB4Race Executive Board colleagues, & the @acmrs_org staff & featured presenters, who are fearless in their commitment to #antiracism & #socialjustice (*Stay tuned for our essay cluster coming soon via Literature Compass") https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/its-time-to-end-the-publishing-gatekeeping-75207525f587
Thanks to @FolgerLibrary, @FolgerResearch, @owilliamsdc, @thatklynch, @amandaeherbert & all the Folger staff who had a part in helping my brilliant, gracious colleague Jennifer Stoever/ @soundingoutblog & I execute "The Sound of Whiteness" #FolgerCRC
More #thanks are due in @FolgerLibrary's direction: I spent some time getting to know & work with @obrienfolger, who's fierce passion for #education & equity is inspiring
Thank you Peggy for providing space for me to share my scholarship with the high school teachers
Similar #thanks goes to @humanitiestexas & @eric_lupfer for giving me the opportunity to discuss #antiracism, #pedagogy & #CriticalRaceTheory with high school teachers who want to change how #Shakespeare is taught in their classrooms, crucial work #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race
Thank & #thanks & ever thanks to @robmyles @bencrystal & everyone @TSMGOnlineLive for embracing me & my vision for the Introduction to their Hamlet performance...so much fun & joy at a time when I needed it more than I knew #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
I am grateful to @DrAmyKenny/ @OnlineHare for affording me the latitude to be critically creative with my untimely review of @ProfKFH's PCRS blueprint that is "Things of Darkness"
#ShakeRace #TODat25 #RaceB4Race https://thehareonline.com/article/things-darkness-%E2%80%9C-blueprint-methodology%E2%80%9D
To @TitaChico1 @UMDEnglish: I am grateful for your important #antiracism series that enabled @littleblackshak & I to reflect on #BlackLivesMatter 
in relation to #Shakespeare & being Black Shakespeareans. #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #antiracismUMD #CLCS_UMD
Many thanks to @ShakespeareinDC, Grace Ann Roberts, @DrewLichtenberg & Simon Godwin for uncovering the past & centering a necessary conversation on #Shakespeare, #racism, Black #theatre, Ira Aldridge & more #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race
It was a pleasure thinking further about Ira Aldridge, as well as #race, #Othello, (in)visibility & more during @redbulltheater's Bull Session focused on @afeliciaking's dazzling play "KEENE." Thanks to the actors, & to @annegmorgan for moderating
Again, I thank @FolgerLibrary for including me in the #Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series & highlighting my scholarship that champions #BlackLivesMatter All involved with the production of Episode 155, “Coal-Black is Better Than Another Hue,” thx https://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited/critical-race-theory-titus-andronicus
I must also extend gratitude to Stephen Clucas, & the grad students at Birkbeck, University of London, who let me take over the term's final seminar session & share work from my forthcoming monograph...it's always a pleasure connecting w/students & colleagues, near or far
To Ben Lauer of @FolgerLibrary: You are an incredibly fun & engaging interviewer, & I thank you for the stress-free bright spot that was my first visit to #Shakespeare Lightning Round
#ShakeRace #RaceB4Race #Theater https://www.folger.edu/events/lightning-round-david-sterling-brown
To all who I've collaborated with & interacted with in other ways, too many names for one tweet :), thank you for enriching my life, my scholarship & my thinking& thx to all those who I *will* collaborate with in 2021--I'm excited about what's to come...sneak peak below!
January 27, 2021: I'll be kicking off my year with a return to @ShakespeareinDC's Shakespeare Hour LIVE! show, offering more of my thoughts on #Hamlet & it's place as an "other race play" #ShaxORP #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race
And Twitter folks, remember always... #BlackLivesMatter #ProtectBlackWomen #CiteBlackWomen #SayHerName #SayHisName 
Take care of your #mentalhealth bc #MentalHealthMatters 
#ProtectYouProtectMe #WearAMask #COVID19 ...and don't forget to LOVE yourself
