LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
These links provide insight into the ways that people communicate and how we can do it in more meaningful ways. These resources are helpful if you are feeling like people aren't understanding you or your ideas. Analysing our communication and language helps us to better communicate across difference.
How to argue better - YouTube series
Arguing on the internet, everyone's favorite pastime! But unfortunately, some people don't do it very well - or at least they could do it better. You owe it to them (and yourself!) to help them out and make their claims and/or arguments less fallacious. In doing so, you'll increase the quality of discourse between the both of you How to argue better - a YouTube series
Vocal Fry - podcast
Grose and Eckert join speech pathologist Susan Sankin for a conversation about upspeak, vocal fry and how women's voices are changing — and whether that's a problem.
Getting Called Out: How to Apologize - video
This video is about learning how to cope with being called out, and then how you can apologise. It touches on how to apologise meaningfully and sincerely no matter what you are apologising for.
CW: discussions of transphobic language
How to deal with being called out - blog post
“Calling out is a way for people to educate others on how systems of oppression operate on a day to day, individual level” - this list details many of the key considerations for dealing with being called out, for example: “Don’t assume the person calling you out is just “looking to get offended”. Nobody enjoys calling other people out. To call someone out, people often have to mentally prepare for serious repercussions. Calling someone out might mean starting an argument, during which many people will side with the oppressor by default (especially if you’re privileged over the person calling you out)”.
15 Common Phrases That Are Way More Ableist Than You May Realize - article
“You see, the people who say these things (which you may well be, without knowing it) don’t mean to be hurtful. In fact, they tend to be those most trying to be helpful. Which means that if we can just spread the message of what sorts of things not to say, there’s a fair chance they might actually change. So here are the sorts of things that I, and other disabled people, are often told that are quite ableist and hurtful”…