Today’s episode explores the limitations of language, particularly English, in defining complex identities. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that patriarchal and colonial frameworks embedded in language create reductive categories that fail to encompass diverse experiences, especially those of women, trans individuals, and neurodivergent people. Dr. Hoerricks emphasises that absence and negation in these linguistic structures do not signify emptiness but rather highlight the failure of existing systems to acknowledge multifaceted realities. Ultimately, she advocates for a refusal to conform to these constraining definitions, embracing multiplicity and creating new linguistic and conceptual maps that accurately reflect uncontained presences.
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/uncontainable-an-audhd-glp-responds
Let me know what you think.
NotebookLM got GLP wrong. It’s funny how it tried to predict the meaning of the term from the text. GLP = Gestalt Language Processor / Processing. Time for a new drinking game.
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