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Anne Dalke's picture

Not overboard, but right on target!

What interests me here, Karina, is your very striking notion that--since each of us is multiple, chock full of what our interdisciplinary faculty group on evolving systems has taken to calling "internal againstnesses"--the gender-neutral default "one" becomes homogenizing and normalizing. Whether "a corporeal singularity should be what is reflected in our linguistic choices when **one’s** identity may not reflect that at all" is a GREAT question. It seems the pronounial compliment to e-prime's attempt to get rid of the verb "to be," as a means of accentuating the ever-ongoing-ness of our formation...

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