Dr. Erika Alpert @ErikaAlpert@scholar.social
- PhD in:
- Linguistic Anthropology
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Linguist, anthropologist, disoriented newly independent academic 
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Joined Dec 2018
Dr. Erika Alpert
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sexism, racism in medicine
@amphetamine@social.wxcafe.net I know, right? Also, would it kill people to not assume (a) people with uteruses are all women and (b) women are pregnant by default?
I will rot in semiotics hell for letting autocorrect mangle Peirce's name 🤦🏻♀️
@error_1202@mspsocial.net it's SO COOL. H/t to Susan Blum, who sent it through the Society for Linguistic Anthropology Language and Social Justice list.
sexism, racism in medicine
@amphetamine@social.wxcafe.net source: have uterus, have been to doctors, am university IRB member.
sexism, racism in medicine
@amphetamine@social.wxcafe.net It ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY is.
I can also imagine people are trying like hell to avoid IRB headaches. The second your study might include pregnant people it is SO MUCH MORE of a thing and as anyone with a uterus has gone to a doctor knows, the assumption that one is pregnant or that any complaints might be due to pregnancy is constant.
Which is ALSO a huge gender problem.
"Loose" Cantonese romanisation and the formation of a Cantonese-speaking Hong-Kong-centric sociolinguistic space (news link)
I wrote a thing and you can finally finally read it! It’s about how “bad,” edited profile pictures in matchmaking + online dating turn out to be “good,” meaningful, and useful. Featuring my silly face, Japanese and Pan-Asian photographic practices, CS Pierce, and musings on Chinese selfie apps + makeup. Open access!
https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/37
@VyrCossont Sue Perkins is... I just love her a lot.
My intro linganth students watched Darmok on Friday (ST: TNG S5E2), and I'm loving the responses that are coming in, including, "Malinowski would have definitely loved the episode!"
@anarchiv Well that sounds grim.
Today I learned there's a journal called "THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN" and if that's not just scaremongering about societal collapse, I don't know what is.
There are some actually good articles in it though, so now I'm just confused?
Uyghur/Han politics; marriage as colonization
@Sharzie Yeah it's... wow. My blood is all but vapor now.
Uyghur/Han politics; marriage as colonization
https://supchina.com/2019/08/07/uyghur-love-in-a-time-of-interethnic-marriage/
In case you feel like getting really mad about how Uyghur women are being portrayed as ideal brides, with Uyghur men "safely" locked away in concentration camps.
So proud to know @nick_kapur@twitter.com
https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/1164233656799506433 < thread deconstructing Monopology: Socialism
And then Ted Cruz got mad at him 
https://www.mediaite.com/news/ted-cruz-got-mad-at-guy-who-said-monopoly-socialism-edition-board-game-was-stupid/
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Study concludes that the best way to disrupt hate groups online is to fucking ban them:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/tracking-online-hate-groups-reveals-why-theyre-resilient-to-bans/
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complaining about cis queer bullshit
@velexiraptor women and femmes is a cursed linguistic construct that doesnt describe or elucidate anything whatsoever imo
@bgcarlisle I would absolutely buy these.
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Posts to this profile are also my employers opinions because I'm self employed, now excuse me while I leave this meeting on my skateboard and kickflip occasionally into the sunset with a bundle of opinions under my arm x
Capitalism
@RecursiveRabbit Doesn't Star Trek already answer that a billion times over in every episode?
- PhD in:
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Pronouns
- they/she/dr
- Please
- Tell me what your pronouns are!
Linguist, anthropologist, disoriented newly independent academic ✡️
Joined Dec 2018
