Talking about talking about privilege

[serene]

[posted to serene and 42magazine]

There's some really wonderful stuff being posted now (and recently) about the stigmatizing language based on disability and gender that people (English-speaking people, that is, unless I've missed some discussion of other languages) often use in everyday speech.

(This is nowhere NEAR an exhaustive list. It's just the tabs I have open right now; I closed a few before I thought to make this post.)

bcholmes talks about how she felt when vito_excalibur used the word "tranny" in a panel, and Vito responds (note that there are lots more comments at their LJs, same handles)

sasha_feather talks about the Rethinking Disability Metaphors panel at Wiscon; so does sophy.

vito_excalibur talks some more (again, even more conversation at the LJ equivalent of the post) about ablist language and lots of people make smart points

My friends and friends-of-friends are such smart, thoughtful, loving, awesome people! I love it.

Comments

[aquaeri]

Yes, I'm loving all this awesome thoughtful stuff. I feel like I need to apologise personally to all the not-white people I've failed at over the years, but I suspect that would be over-doing it, and it's probably enough that I've learnt enough so that I'm less likely to commit a variety of fails again, and can maybe delicately point it out to others sometimes.