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just-barely-awake-thoughts · 1 year

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u do not need dysphoria to be trans because...

being trans isn't about suffering and pain it's abt joy. sometimes that comes from alleviating suffering and pain, but sometimes it comes from being something you never realized u could be. it's abt being who you really are. sometimes, not doing that rly hurts. sometimes it doesn't hurt, but it's still not wonderful like living life as urself, yknow?

anyways.

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just-barely-awake-thoughts · 1 year

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on aave (disclaimer i am not black so. y'know)

so are we (as non-black people) just not supposed to use aave at all, are there certain things that are acceptable and others that aren't (outside of the obvious like slur[s] and whatnot), or is the important part that we credit African American people and their culture for generating the vernacular we lift from the dialect for use?

If it's the third option, may I propose /aave as a text tag? i'd also like to propose that, when using aave or other frequently-wrongly-attributed vernacular/dialects, a notation symbol could be made similar to the trademark symbol (as silly as that sounds) to be sort of a nod to whoever it's borrowing from?

something that could be a special character that would be accessible with the rest of the special characters like accented letters and currency symbols and whatnot, and it would be formatted like the growth factor in an exponential equation (i think the proper term is supertext?).

because it might be a little ridiculous to go and put in every post with aave - or other dialects with similar tendencies to be misused - a big disclaimer that reads 'hey this is aave not whatever the fuck y'all appropriated it to be' or whatever like waving a big old banner around (though i'm not against that if that's what's appropriate), and this would, I feel, serve the same purpose much more concisely.

massive fucking disclaimer! I am not black! I just had an idea that I thought could be beneficial to the discourse, but my intentions are by no means to speak on behalf of or god forbid over people of a demographic im not a part of (and even have privilege over)! if you are part of the demographic that this applies to, feel free to tell me to fuck all the way off!

also feel free to repost this in your own words, take this idea and run with it, whatever, especially since my following isn't that large and I don't get the feeling that my primary demographic contains many of the people that this applies to (could be wrong. again feel free to tell me to shut up at any time).

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