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What Kind of Doctor Do I Want to Be?
We can resist the violences we know firsthand, to truly equate teaching and learning with openheartedness, with survival, even with nurture.
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May This Pandemic Help Us Abandon Ableist Language
Disability justices can be, and are, plural.
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Autocorrect Is Not Your Mother
Though tech assists so much of our daily communication, it’s not omniscient. Nor is it any kind of authority in our lives.
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The Case Against Italicizing “Foreign” Words
Italicization too often bolsters a sense of superiority when it comes to the unitalicized, reinforcing a thick patina of whiteness or other cultural dominance.
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The Grammar of Time Travel
There is a comfort in believing that all our ancestors’ understandings of time and space, however met with destruction, live on.
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Sans Surname
Linguistic diversity is under threat around the world. Each challenge to a patriarchal binary system marks a step away from extinction of this richness.