This voice - which people are saying sounds “sweet” on TT - is the voice of elite, white Georgians from my grandmother’s era. My grandmother (b. 1921) sounds very similar to this. In the South, this speech style indexes upper-class whiteness, & for many, sustained racial terror

The extensive metalinguistic analysis in the replies of a ling anthro’s framing of themselves being “lured” into “going native” is just *chef’s kiss*

Read it. Then read it again.

“[A]n anti-fat world is one without fat experts. Not because fat people do not amass expertise, but because our fatness means we’re not worth learning from.” Mikey🔪 is here to change that. Spring 2022’s feature story, with art by raccacoonie abellar: pipewrenchmag.com/dismantling-me…

For the last 12 days this clan of Gujjars have been walking with their 100 butffaloes. They are from Mukerian in Punjab and will trek up to the upper reaches of Chamba to Dhar Malmunda in Teesa. Endangered Himalaya #Gujjar #pastoralists #Himachal #Chamba

*screams in sociolinguistics*

Glorious return.

"we will adopt your child" is colonizer energy

Can confirm 🙃

That’s exactly what it is

My political belief is fuck Ron Desantis

UCLA’s academic drama is a gift that keeps on giving but no one actually wants

“As you won’t be surprised to hear, Jeff is not a racist, but a standard-issue liberal Democrat.” And that structuring of defense, my friends, sums up the case for letting anthropology burn.

Every single time. And then 3 months later they’re surprised to hear from me.

I am doing a fourth iteration of the workshop Ethnographic Research Methods for Activists at the Sambhaavnaa Institute in Palampur, HP (Oct. 19-22). Come hang with me in the hills! Details here bit.ly/3Q6SWix