Why do they always look like this?!
Posted on 01/27/2025 3:00:00 PM PST by Morgana
A Washington State teacher ranting about Donald Trump's rollbacks on transgender and DEI programs during a local committee hearing sounded so much like a parody of the woke point she was struggling to make that even the Democratic chairperson of the panel had to warn her to stay on topic.
Tracy Castro-Gill, 49, the former leader of the Seattle Public School District's Ethnic Studies program, took the podium at a state House of Representatives Committee on Education public hearing on Thursday to complain about Trump's measures.
'My name is Dr. Tracy Castro-Gill, my pronouns are they/them. I am a disabled queer Chicanx educator and scholar in Washington state with my expertise on curriculum and instruction,' Castro-Gill said in her long-winded tirade.
Chicanx - which is among phrases banned by the Trump administration - has been used in some circles to refer to people of Mexican descent.
Castro-Gill said getting rid of it, and the other terms that apply, denies their 'very presence and humanity.'
'I want to remind us that George Orwell, in his novel 1984, warned us about limiting how we are allowed to define ourselves and our experiences and how that allows fascism to take root.'
On his first day back in office, Trump signed executive orders repealing protections for transgender people and terminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the federal government.
The president made the issue of gender part of his campaign, arguing that it fell into the realm of common sense.
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Must have missed the part where you’re only allowed one last name too.
“SCHOLAR”? ok...I’m back now with hurting sides after 10 minutes of laughing so hard I dropped my cell and has to find the battery and reboot. scholars are smart but this trainwreak, not so much.
Anytime you see a hyphenated sir name it just screams “Stay Away.”
Sez who????
“My name is Dr. Tracy Castro-Gill, my pronouns are they/them...”
“My name is Legion, for we are many...”
don’t forget that she also married a convicted child molester who she met online
DEIs pronouns are was, were and has been.
Oh,
“it’s” a SCHOLAR, too, huh? Certainly thinks well of itself. Makes up for the fact that I don’t think much of it.
“DEIs pronouns are was, were and has been.”
Lovin’ it 🤣
It misread Orwell.
"...intersections with race, ethnicity, coloniality, class and ability, the sex/gender system of oppression has long served as a taxonomizing apparatus. And yet, the literary, in league with anticolonial, civil rights and LGBTQ social movements,...animates the liberatory potential of imagining embodied relations otherwise... representations of gender and sexuality can leverage critiques against normativity...Taking our transnational cue from subjugated knowledges and intersectional epistemologies, we’ll constellate the diverging genealogies and methodologies...
Against the traffic of binary opposition, we’ll index the possibilities of intimacy and performativity... As a class collective, our aim is to read and reread as well as write and rewrite texts that interrogate and complicate how gender and sexuality, as contested sites of pleasure and pain, are embodied and experienced."
This counts toward the methods requirement for the major. Prerequisite: ENGL 103 or 104. Open only to first-year and sophomore students.
Author is Brianna Thompson, who teaches courses in American women’s literature, queer theory and utopias/Afrofuturism at Kenyon college (founded by Episcopal Bishop in 1824). Course is Reading and Writing Gender and Sexuality ENGL 214, https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/departments-and-majors/english/academic-program-requirements/courses-in-english/
The grasp of Newspeak by they/them is clearly lacking.
surname.
Autocorrect is not a feature, it’s a bug.
Donald
Eliminating
Inclusivity
Why do they always look like this?!
Must have missed the part where you’re only allowed one last name too.
“This is Miranda Veracruz de la Jolla Cardinal.”
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