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ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR
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ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR

Christyl Rivers, Phd.
Christyl Rivers, Phd.

Apr 13

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Racism And Sexism Change With Language; Slowly

Language changes slowly, with our changing attitudes and values

Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash

Talking about what we talk about

There is sexism and racism in our everyday language. There are more words for a “loose” woman than there are stars in the Oscar audience. There are whispered words of abuse of BIPOC people, or we…

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