language

is living

and noticing_sharing

acting, again – anew and again – differently and again

 

language is

hegemonic and violent

injuring me

forcing people into discriminatory self-categorizations and denaming their privileges

(for me: forcing me into binary genderings and denaming my white and ableist privileges)

again and again

 

language is

at the same time also

a possibility

finding expressions

trying to mediate, to connect

contact

communication

 

language is always acting

if i speak or dont speak

if i remain silent and turn around

if i join the laughter or nod my head

when i drown others with my words

when privileged people assign discriminated people aggressions and thus distract from their own discriminatory and yet denamed aggressions

and continue not listening when discriminated people ask and demand that certain expressions are not being used

when privileged people do not want to listen when discriminated people speak

when i do not interrupt or disturb when discriminatory things are being said

when i interrupt when hearing things confusing me, being unfamiliar to me

 

all these are linguistic actions

trying to speak, listen and write and read less discriminatory

again and again

through new words like x-forms, trans_x_ing styles: expressing actings and not identities

through asterisks, @-forms, new namings, careful and caring addressings of me and others

all attempts to dissolute universalizing „we’s“

everything not yet said or written which is challenging binary genderings and which is explicitly expressing interdependent localizations and critical positionings

every decision of listening to, citing or authorizing discriminated voices

and all open questions

 

language is living

acting

possibility

always in motion

always challenging and

possible

to challenge

is living

and noticing_sharing

acting, again – anew and again – differently and again

 

language is

hegemonic and violent

injuring me

forcing people into discriminatory self-categorizations and denaming their privileges

(for me: forcing me into binary genderings and denaming my white and ableist privileges)

again and again

 

language is

at the same time also

a possibility

finding expressions

trying to mediate, to connect

contact

communication

 

language is always acting

if i speak or dont speak

if i remain silent and turn around

if i join the laughter or nod my head

when i drown others with my words

when privileged people assign discriminated people aggressions and thus distract from their own discriminatory and yet denamed aggressions

and continue not listening when discriminated people ask and demand that certain expressions are not being used

when privileged people do not want to listen when discriminated people speak

when i do not interrupt or disturb when discriminatory things are being said

when i interrupt when hearing things confusing me, being unfamiliar to me

 

all these are linguistic actions

trying to speak, listen and write and read less discriminatory

again and again

through new words like x-forms, trans_x_ing styles: expressing actings and not identities

through asterisks, @-forms, new namings, careful and caring addressings of me and others

all attempts to dissolute universalizing „we’s“

everything not yet said or written which is challenging binary genderings and which is explicitly expressing interdependent localizations and critical positionings

every decision of listening to, citing or authorizing discriminated voices

and all open questions

 

language is living

acting

possibility

always in motion

always challenging and

possible

to challenge

is living

and noticing_sharing

acting, again – anew and again – differently and again

 

language is

hegemonic and violent

injuring me

forcing people into discriminatory self-categorizations and denaming their privileges

(for me: forcing me into binary genderings and denaming my white and ableist privileges)

again and again

 

language is

at the same time also

a possibility

finding expressions

trying to mediate, to connect

contact

communication

 

language is always acting

if i speak or dont speak

if i remain silent and turn around

if i join the laughter or nod my head

when i drown others with my words

when privileged people assign discriminated people aggressions and thus distract from their own discriminatory and yet denamed aggressions

and continue not listening when discriminated people ask and demand that certain expressions are not being used

when privileged people do not want to listen when discriminated people speak

when i do not interrupt or disturb when discriminatory things are being said

when i interrupt when hearing things confusing me, being unfamiliar to me

 

all these are linguistic actions

trying to speak, listen and write and read less discriminatory

again and again

through new words like x-forms, trans_x_ing styles: expressing actings and not identities

through asterisks, @-forms, new namings, careful and caring addressings of me and others

all attempts to dissolute universalizing „we’s“

everything not yet said or written which is challenging binary genderings and which is explicitly expressing interdependent localizations and critical positionings

every decision of listening to, citing or authorizing discriminated voices

and all open questions

 

language is living

acting

possibility

always in motion

always challenging and

possible

to challenge