The Mythology of Writing || Episode 4 || Investigating White Language Supremacy - a podcast by Justin

Language is complicated.  The way humans communicate using that language is even more complicated.  And it is in this complexity that the beauty and the infinite depth of human communication is revealed.  It is also in this complexity that systems arise and are built which cater to certain ways of speaking and harm others.  Turning to the field of writing studies, a very White academic voice is valued above most others.  Think about the last time you were given a bad grade on a piece of writing because it had grammatical errors, or it didn’t ‘sound’ academic enough?  What does this mean?  What is ‘academic writing’ and how did this standard become the norm?  As writers, what might we do to challenge these systems that privilege certain kinds of writing over others?

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