#Placé

“Normalization.”What does that term actually mean? I think it depends whom you ask.In some quarters it means “make aberrant thing X acceptable and standard”. But the trouble with that take
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non scottish moots quote-tweet with your answers. (don’t use google) whats the difference between these two treats? what is this? and where in Scotland is it located? can you guess
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It’s crazy to think i would’ve been getting married to the wrong person right about now... i would have been stuck in a loveless, one sided marriage with a man
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My question the other day about movies taking you back to a better place reminded me of an episode from my life, so I thought I'd share it. 21 years
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I honestly don't know how to feel about Christianity anymore. I'm always gonna believe but there are so many parts that just don't resonate with me. The concept of heaven
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.@CNN has a story on the first death in the D.C. Jail. And it includes a claim that while other jurisdictions have tried to release prisoners during the pandemic, the
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A friend of mine was fired from her adjunct position because she made a spelling mistake during class. Students complained. She taught for many years at the freaking Sorbonne. But,
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[THREAD]Since the pandemic started, I felt I really needed a vice to get through my week. I noticed I was drinking and/or smoking pot more regularly and I had the
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Scaffolding over Frameworks.There's too many frameworks and too little thinking about appropriate use of scaffolding, and I don't think we even discuss the differences or deliberately chose between them. Let
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I am thinking of and studying June Jordan this week, who teaches me again and again that desire and rage can be, are, both vectors toward a better world. Who
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when a trans person says a character is trans they are simply correct They are transgender im muting this post now but these characters are from lobotomy corporation/library of ruina
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Orientalism is about subjective othering of what's colloquially called "the East." Both negative conceptions with authoritarianism, poverty & constant war as well as festishism with utopia, egalitarianism, paradise. The 2n
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Today marks five years since Springfield voters chose to repeal LGBT equality protections. Once again, Missouri made national news that day. Here’s our April 7, 2015 report from ⁦@sherzogNL⁩, then
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I’m gonna make a thread about my relationship with religion so here it goes: I didn’t grow up in a religious family at all. We were never really forced to
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So up until 2014, there were a number of videos shown in the news and online of western (mainly US and UK) people being beheaded by the Taliban (as they
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The world is a scary place right now. Still to this day, black people are dying because of the colour of their skin. This isn't right. We are taught to
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