Picture of the day:

I love this picture of bees and their hives from the Aberdeen Bestiary, c. 1200

Ursula K. Le Guin discussing her regrets about not using more gender-neutral language in her book 'The Left Hand of Darkness', the significance of pronouns, and the grammatical accuracy of the singular 'they':

"English has a truly ungendered pronoun only in the plural. He, she, and it are gendered, they is not. [...] Historically, and colloquially, they has been regularly used as an ungendered or bisexual singular."

🔗: http://theliterarylink.com/afterword.html

#UrsulaKLeguin #gender #diversity #pronouns

A comic that brilliantly illustrates the Double Empathy problem.

image: @tzippele
https://linktr.ee/tzipporahjohnston

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD @actuallyautistic