Bri Taormina-Barrientos

English lecturer, sports fan, reader, linguistic diversity researcher, PhD student. Opinions are mine (she/her)

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Alabama: Embryos are babies.
Me: Oh, so we can't deport mothers carrying American citizens.
Alabama: Wait.
Me: Also dudes are on the hook for child support nine months earlier.
Alabama: No. Not like that!

[Matt C @MattfromKC]

Anyway here’s an accurate Kansas City meme:

[Bri Taormina-Barrientos @Britaormina13]

I was fine yesterday. I dealt with a mass shooting 2 months ago at my school. Today, after the 10th person asked me what’s wrong, I broke down. I’m fucking tired of this. #KansasCity #ChiefKingdom

[Matt C @MattfromKC]

Fuck your guns. Fuck your assault weapons. Fuck your “gun rights”. Fuck your stupid partisan politics. Fuck the NRA. Fuck you if you care more about being able to easily buy a gun than keeping kids safe.

[Las Vegas Locally 🌴 @LasVegasLocally]

The Chiefs have been the best team in the NFL since this guy buried the flag under Allegiant Stadium

[Vegas Golden Knights @GoldenKnights]

Marchy is #VegasStrong 💛

[UNLV @unlv]

UPDSouth - UNLV
UPD Alert - UNLV
University Police responding to report of shots fire in BEH evacuate to a safe area, RUN-HIDE-FIGHT.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Folks— the very idea that Jews are a distinct “race” is a white supremacist idea that developed in Europe.

If you went back 2000 years nobody would know what the hell you were talking about b/c they weren’t operating with Euro notions of “race”

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

A century ago every Engl dept in the nation could have chosen to make *their* required introductory class a super rich literacy and language course but they chose deficiency, grammar, error, correction, and language policing instead bc obviously they did.

True story.

[Saeed Jones @theferocity]

Before we had the term “situationship,” Toni Morrison gave us two of the most brutal paragraphs ever written in the English language about the subject:

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

I do want to point out, actors and student filmmakers, that per @sagaftra, actors CAN work on student films.

So student filmmakers working under the student film agreement, there may not be a better time to shoot your shot.

[KingMediocrity92🩷💜💙 @Curtis_R92]

A rainbow shirt in target won't turn your kids gay but the entire cast of The Mummy certainly will.

[Hockey Indigenous @HKYIndigenous]

Congratulations to Sioux Valley Dakota Nation ZACH WHITECLOUD and the VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS, your 2023 STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS!!

[Sam @samanthacp_]

just a friendly reminder to all sportswriters that the las vegas aces are the first professional team in las vegas to win a championship

[Vegas Golden Knights @GoldenKnights]

HOME MEANS NEVADA FOR LORD STANLEY’S CUP!!!! #UKnightTheRealm

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

"IRREGARDLESS" HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE 1795. ITS INCLUSION IN THE DICTIONARY IS NOT A SIGN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FALLING TO PIECES, OR PROOF OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FAILING, NOR IS IT THE WORK OF CURSED MILLENNIALS. IT JUST MEANS A LOT OF PEOPLE USE IT TO MEAN "REGARDLESS."

[Bri Taormina-Barrientos @Britaormina13]

@Marian_Azab Complete whirlwind 😂

[Bri Taormina-Barrientos @Britaormina13]

Submitted grades and finished my first year of PhD coursework. I can sleep now, right? 😴

[Vijay Ramjattan @Vijay_Ramjattan]

Unlearning linguistic racism (and related types of oppression) entails critically questioning descriptors such as

- appropriate
- standard
- intelligible
- correct
- professional
- academic
- proper