The Old Grey Dog Whistle Test

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Some schools do do this, and it's a good thing. She's specifically talking about pronoun usage. Now, a lot of people, like the president, will take that out of context and conflate it with medical transitions to fear monger. But I think it's important to be clear that those are different issues.

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"...allows kids to change their gender at school and not tell parents," means "...allows kids to be able to use their preferred pronouns." Not physical change. They leave out that context so that people will assume they're talking about medical/surgical transitioning without their having said so.

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Certain numbers accompany us through our lives, connected to our memories of people and places, of significant events. What numbers remain with you decades later? And why? This poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...

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It is racism. That's just what it is. People "feeling this" might not like the term, but they're still being racist. Oh and btw, they did not fight for anything. Their parents may have. You know, that whole big thing of fighting those whose whole ideology was based on white supremacy and nationalism

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