Modalities

I just moved to Paris a couple months ago and can confirm: everything French people do and say is silly :)

Variety showe

see my problem is if i “listen to my body” it literally only wants to lie down and take naps, all the time

That bird is so excited to play the harp.

Oh hey it's the variety show

one of the most frustrating things about getting a job is that after you go through the absolute hellscape that is applying and interviewing and you finally prove yourself worthy of having employment, you'll end up in the workforce and realise that 90% of the people with jobs are not actually very good at them. so like why was all of that even so hard

"Racialised" is much better than PoC but I've been leaning a lot on the concept of racial markedness. Because that allows us to make statements like "the name Jamal is racially marked in USA". Rather than saying something like "Jamal is a PoC name", a nonsense statement, saying it's racially marked in USA allows us to contrast with societies like Albania or the Arab countries where the name Jamal is ordinary, thus unmarked.

It's a concept I've kind of imported from linguistic analysis; saying a speech pattern is more or less marked does not really allow us to avoid the subject of who's doing the marking. A statement like "womens' speech is more marked in Lakota" necessitates that we understand that it's the Lakota who are marking womens' speech. A foreigner can't tell the difference and probably doesn't understand why it would thus be weird to see a man using speech patterns associated with women, in the same way an Albanian wouldn't understand why USA people would think Jamal is a Black name.

Ok but also, one of the reasons I dislike the term racialised (in some contexts) is that folks will use it to describe everyone but white people and I'm like no!! They have a race, too! Thats where "race" came from!!!! It's not as though they are some invisible exception category 😤

If you think race is something that somebody, let alone everybody, "has", then you just disagree with the post entirely. Being white is absolutely freedom from racial marking. The second you're racially marked, it takes away your whiteness.

Yes, I disagree! That's what I said in my first reblog.

"Racialised" is much better than PoC but I've been leaning a lot on the concept of racial markedness. Because that allows us to make statements like "the name Jamal is racially marked in USA". Rather than saying something like "Jamal is a PoC name", a nonsense statement, saying it's racially marked in USA allows us to contrast with societies like Albania or the Arab countries where the name Jamal is ordinary, thus unmarked.

It's a concept I've kind of imported from linguistic analysis; saying a speech pattern is more or less marked does not really allow us to avoid the subject of who's doing the marking. A statement like "womens' speech is more marked in Lakota" necessitates that we understand that it's the Lakota who are marking womens' speech. A foreigner can't tell the difference and probably doesn't understand why it would thus be weird to see a man using speech patterns associated with women, in the same way an Albanian wouldn't understand why USA people would think Jamal is a Black name.

Ok but also, one of the reasons I dislike the term racialised (in some contexts) is that folks will use it to describe everyone but white people and I'm like no!! They have a race, too! Thats where "race" came from!!!! It's not as though they are some invisible exception category 😤

The title has two meanings ❤️💜😃

I went to high school with her! We sang stuff together :)

Paris ☆ France

Hon hon hon

4 November 1909: John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon (later, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, GBE, MC, PC) flew a small pig in a wicker basket tied to a strut of his Short Brothers Biplane No. 2. He flew approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometers).

and exactly 80 years later, I was born. Coincidence? I THINK NOT.

I try and avoid engagementbait when I can but look at his EYES

Maybe spread this link compassionately in online spaces where these people might see it. This is extremely important.