Mahiira
trying to make you care about equal rights for all.
work always in progress
MY STORY
A Note on Language & Writing Styles
Passionate about language and communication in general as much as about learning (and) languages in a wider sense, I strongly believe in their transformative power — of both language & communication and (the willingness to) learning (languages).
If you write inclusive of everyone, more of us might also think inclusive of everyone, one day.
This is why I am using certain styles of writing that some readers may find disruptive — and this is exactly the goal.
Because it does make a difference if you include everyone. Thus, I try to write inclusive of everyone, trying to un-gender traditionally and inherently gendered words, pointing at exclusive terms and thinking on different levels. For instance, writing hxman instead of human is meant to hint to the fact that the term ‘human’ was never inclusive of everyone, as much as it still not yet is today — always depending on the speaker and their perspective. Furthermore, writing optionally s*sters and brxthers or sxsters and br*thers or s*blings is meant to hint to the still binary conception of gender that haunts our minds, due to the patriarchal socialisation we all were subject to. Writing dis*abled or dis/abled is meant to hint to the ableist norms that still are very much engrained in our brains…, thinking of our ‘handicapped’ sxblings as excatly that — ‘handicapped’, ‘unhealthy’, ‘unnormal’ —
So, I hope, readers will bear with my at times experimental styles of writing