Loved reading this writeup of a language which uses the human body as a model of expressing concepts, but when I got to the part where they said it was "unlike that of any other language family" I paused. Author, did you at all consider signed languages?! https://t.co/ywvBQTyAkr
Today I stopped at one of two right-of-way sites in Seattle that are being resolved this month – this one at 1st & Michigan where about 35 people had been living. Thirty of those folks agreed to and have moved into supportive housing where they have access to services.
@RottenInDenmark Hearing writers have created this alternate universe of deafness that not only doesn’t have much to do with reality, it’s *harmful* to our reality.
If you don’t know much about a marginalized community you’re writing about, you’re gonna do a bad job. https://t.co/YmY5apqlcQ
The Russian missile hit our house. We could not comprehend how this place -- now littered with fragments of walls, broken trees & insulation -- was once our dear, our always clean and tidy, courtyard.
--Olena Stepanenko, a poet writing from Bucha, Ukraine
I taped my windows, criss-cross, like they do in movies. If something exploded, the blast wouldn’t leave my apartment covered in glass. I moved a dresser in front of the window for better protection. As days went by, we got used to being afraid
-Vitya Brevis, writing from Odesa
We think of high-speed internet as a necessity, yet we continue to see disparities in affordable & reliable broadband access, especially in our rural communities & tribal nations.
Over three months ago, the House chamber was the scene of a violent, Trump-inspired terror attack on our democracy.
Tonight, in that same room, we heard from @POTUS about a transformative agenda to uplift our nation.
Elections matter. #JointAddress