Evincing

Abstract

Witnessing some of the most horrific scenes of terror, hate, and harassment, this work is about “evincing” 1 —evincing in and with the stories, voices, screams, hurt, and pain of the victims, the racially and culturally marginalized scholars who are harassed for their research. My reflections, while they led to a poetic art piece, are about the critical “ongoingness” of continuously revealing the evidence and truth of the unsafe world of doing, being, and sitting with online research. In the evincing, we censure and condemn hate and harassment while vituperating and execrating the perpetrators, cyberspaces, systems, and institutions that target, abuse, mistreat, and malign women; Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC); queer; disabled; and other marginalized scholars. Evincing is the ways in which their research work and lives remain present and alive through this art and those to come. In this evincing, their experiences of racism, misogyny, violence, isolation, powerlessness, helplessness, frustration, and fear are not simply spectacles for awareness. Rather, they are the grounds from which our methodologies for witnessing these scenes become our vocabularies in resistance, solidarities, and solutions. Evincing, then, is how we mobilize against these encounters of hate and harassment in celebration of safe, brave, healthy, and continuous academic journeys for all scholars.