#Discourse

Gifted child discourse is so fucking tiring because it just cycles round the same two positions of "gifted child burnout is real" and "gifted child burnout is real but developmentally
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Not sure how I feel about the latest example of "cancel culture." A children's author added "I stand with JK Rowling" to her twitter bio and her publisher dropped her.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8490821/
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I've been asked by @roobine1 &a few others if I can explain the ongoing situation regarding #ResistingHate.There's several angles all pouring into one conflagration, & ill try to put down
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It’s so fascinating to see (ostensibly) white people use “white” as a slur against other whites. We are witnessing an evolution of racial identity politics. Here are my thoughts on
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Non-Black or Indigenous people of color and/or people who are otherwise marginalized, *students* through faculty, staff, parents and friends: please question your investment in building on the labor of Black
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1. We really do have to have our heads deep in the sand if we think voting for one of the two main parties (both with strong ties to Moscow
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One of Foucault's sharpest points is that premises of Marxist, Schmittian etc discourse of politics as "struggle" was invented by reactionary nobles... Maybe this is why current political climate in
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After all the #pubgate talk I think we all need to realize that # of pubs isn’t the heart of the problem. There are many more aspects to it. I
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Real question: what is our responsibility to accommodate others’ trauma? Conversely, what is our responsibility to manage our own trauma so that others can enjoy their lives freely?FI, seeing people
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Today, there is an unfortunate fashion in public discourse that makes leaders in politics, religion, and civil society liable in the present for every statement they have ever made in
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Right, fuck it, I've been trying to stay out of it all, but I have to say something about it. I don't care what 'side' (ick) you take on the
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One concept that exists in translation studies is the idea of domesticating versus foreignizing translation strategies, or in other words, the extent to which you want to adapt the translation
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pansexuality: a thread ✰ frequently asked questions - what is pansexuality?pansexuality is attraction regardless of gender! that means that we are attracted to all genders, because gender simply doesn’t play
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I know I've told this story before, but I feel like I should continue to repeat it, because it's something that needs to be drummed on until people get it,
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Always interested in re-upping older but great reads. There was some discourse yesterday and today on this but this Peter Beinart piece is always good.https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/07/debunking-myth-that-anti-zionism-is-antisemi
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Some of y'all have hard me talk about how Whiteness as a culture resists examination. I'm glad to see that is changing.https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/whiteness The infographic from this page is interesting. Th
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