in my work, in my life..

Language is so important to many of our cultures, but many times as Indigenous people don’t have access to it.

The deadline is approaching, and we are so far from our goal, but even 1/10th of our followers giving even a dollar would put her at her goal.

This is so important to her nation: if you thought about buying us a coffee for our work and curation on here before, now is the time.

Through the rest of the month, we will be providing language learning resources free to Black and Native folks interested in their ancestral or heritage languages: just send us a message.

2. prescriptive grammarians have never once been correct about WHAT those rules are governing the languages. prescriptivism is a political project of using language hygiene to systematically exclude, silence, and oppress people they don’t like by claiming that they “talk wrong.” the varieties disliked by prescriptivists are almost always those spoken by people who are already minoritized or oppressed in some other way - the language thing is an excuse, and a shoddy one at that 

Like, the terror that drives fallout isn’t its gritty post-apocalyptic aesthetic, it’s the atrocities of the culture that led to the war in the first place. All those personal stories you find buried in the pieces of lore you stumble across. It’s the blind nationalism and xenophobia, the internment camps, the mcarthyism, the bloated military industrial complex, the systematic dismantling of corporate regulations to the point where companies could perform psychological and chemical experiments on the public consequence free, etc etc etc.