#Language

Dear @JanisIrwin:My kid had a superhero assignment this week. She had to invent a superhero. I suggested Captain Calgary. She told me to go get bent and came up with
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In Australia we know more about other cultures than our own. I wonder how many of us could name an indigenous elder or hero from the stolen land on which
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The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has issued a welcome and damning statement regarding the recent UK Tavistock judgement: https://www.wpath.org/policies  Worth adding that the boards of directors for
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So, this is awesome and I love this cover painting. BUT what I find really interesting is that the artist who did this actually seems to be using some of
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Fat person: Maybe think about how the way you talk about your body and the bodies of others can negatively impact other people around youThin person: [bursts in] WHAT ABOUT
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Q•Op Stress Capshttps://youtu.be/0P4A1K4lXDo  •bright flare/blast effect with shattering sound•guitars look like Space Force logo•covid-like visual elements•mirrored Q morphs to media•wears face shield (racquetball)•cruc
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If a haughty (i.e. arrogant w/superiority complex) person is jealous of your success or the respect you get then they are far more likely to undermine you when you're doing
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#WhyISayFuck: It is exactly because of this classist, pear-clutching, civility-as-cudgel fuckery https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-say-fuck I am from the “If they go low, I will fucking come for them” school of thought. I
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Why do migrants come here?English is the most widely spoken language on earth, and if you're a desperate migrant needing a home, a job and an application for refugee status,
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A barrier "to critical engagement with welfare economics as a framework is that it is frequently presented as rising above the very idea of a framework ... its models are
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1/12 “Fragmented languages: Reconstructing the Purisimeño fricative”Purisimeño (PUY) is a Chumash language previously spoken along the central California coast. It was documented by John Peabody Harrington (JPH) in the early
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Cats are Democrats. Dogs are Republicans.https://twitter.com/jdcmedlock/status/1323680135397040128 Dogs: Pretend to be wolves, but are actually slavishly devoted to their masters and totally dependent on handouts.Cats: Brings you food becau
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@NEJM published an article about Misrepresenting Race in Medicine and guess what? They talk about the Akimel O'odham and diabetes. The article says "U.S. Akimel O'odham (formally known as Pima)"
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1/ A powerful quote by ~ Dan L. Edmunds, Ed.D. regarding the biomedical framework of MH & why we need to #dropthedisorder, change our language & begin to develop #traumainformed
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Three points1) Becky is right about language of ‘rewilding’ alienating farmers (as I’ve been pointing out for years)2) ‘Rewilding’ is utterly meaningless & 100% interchangeable with ‘conservation’3) The RSPB asking
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TheGuardianAngelThread: I am having a conversation with a friend of mine about Guardian Angels and Idlozi. It's my 2cents but I might be wrong. The term Guardian Angel is intertwined
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