hello! proof of life! i just really don't like social media much anymore! 🥳

someone just came into the shop and said her friend "needs sized" and i almost vibrated out of my skin 😂

!!! yes!!

i only used direct quotes if it was relevant OR talked more generally about agab and race (and the surrounding social assumptions??) being a possible motivation for using "black woman" but not "woman". also the fact it was a dissertation interview was really salient for ppl.

follow-up caveat is that it was a conversation between two Black queer nb people so like.... i think the vibe is a little different.

I will add a small caveat for if they make it important themselves in discussion, like some of my nb participants who specified identifying as Black women in some contexts bc of complicated reasons (which was both relatable and very neat!!)

i will say. due to 3 nonbinary talks in a row. i think we gotta theorize nonbinary better in sociolinguistics. nonbinary is not "a" "gender" #nwav53

dont tell me your nonbinary participant's agab

reasons for me to consider staying in academia 😭

This person took this when they called the race

sociolinguistics

accidentally had too much caffeine 😔 maybe it's time to take a walk

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it might start as sound assimilation but not correcting it, especially if you're presenting the news???? is pretty malicious imo

when my husband asks what the people in my phone are up to

this is fantastic!

UM Regents Paul Brown and Jordan Acker are trying to get on ballot for re-election. They refused to hear reports from Faculty. Dismantled DEI at UM. Stopped gender-affirming care at UM Medicine. Expelled students who criticized Israeli actions in Gaza
And yet, aft.org is considering endorsing them

this is my teaching technique ngl 😔

good! don't apologize for being rad!!!

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one of my friends the other day referred to my dark brown hair as my "government hair color" and i'm still so amused by that

wait that's so cute tho 😭

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i made a helpful reference

read this as "came out in peanut butter" which tells me i should probably have lunch soon 😂

anxiety is wild like why am i worried i left a stove on at work?? i work at a boutique??? we literally do not have a stove or anything similar????

wearing a headwrap always feels like a great idea until mid-afternoon when my ears decide they're done with having my glasses arms press into them 😔

!!!! yes!!!!

donna can do no wrong!!!

this was also something that people would say up in traverse city 😭 like bruh you're in the northern part of a northern state what are you doing!!