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Language and identity

Language shapes how you think and what you can think, encoding assumptions about which relationships, identities, and possibilities are normal or real. Reclaiming language—creating new words, returning to ancestral languages, or refusing colonial terms—is not mere symbolism but a way of insisting on different ways of being and belonging.

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