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Kris Aric Knisely

13 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read

Important Twitter poll for NB Twitter: Would you agree? "Binary grammatical gender (e.g., how grammatical gender works in languages like French/Spanish/etc.) can feel kinda like this for non-binary people, except WAY less funny."

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*I should have said "how grammatical gender PRESCRIPTIVELY tends to work in languages like French/Spanish/etc." 🤦🤦🤦

Thanks, y'all! 🙏 Based on these results it looks like I was right to ask myself "Is this good, or is this meh." (And it seems that 60% of you so far also just wanted to know whether other people thought it was good or meh/nah.

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Kris Aric Knisely

@krisknisely

13 Nov

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Listening to Julia Spiegelman call out the way that French language textbooks present French colonization as justifiable (it is not), Francophone places as places to leave (they are not), and as the Francophonie as a product to consume (it is not). #ddfc @DdfcTweets 1/4

https://twitter.com/juliaspiegelman/status/1326139573882261504

She notes the essentializing discourses that occur in our textbooks that --if not laid bare, questioned, and upended-- leave our students with MISrepresentations. This plays out through: 2/4

Power & domination, reduction and devaluation of francophone cultures, misalignment with intercultural understanding, justification of colonization as an endorsement of (White) French supremacy, & a strategic alignment of an American tourist role w/ a French tourist role 3/4

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Kris Aric Knisely

@krisknisely

12 Nov

https://twitter.com/ButNotTheCity/status/1326936204147875844

Reading, learning, & thinking more about the past of where I am today, before Cass & Erique's panel in ~1 hour. Thankful that Florence started talking about this article today: Stryker, S. (2020). Institutionalizing Trans* Studies at the University of Arizona. TSQ, 7(3), 354-366.

https://twitter.com/ButNotTheCity/status/1326936204147875844

https://twitter.com/er_ique/status/1324361278442360832?s=20

Here's a link to the aforementioned panel info, if you haven't seen it yet! (I'm really looking forward to this one!)

https://twitter.com/er_ique/status/1324361278442360832?s=20

I am no media scholar. I have nothing insightful to add to all of the beautiful things that are happening in this panel r.n., but I am grateful to be here for this. [Image below is a clip from Julian Kevon Glover's work, which I am feeling fortunately to see for the first time.]