Carrying where you’re from around with you wherever you go means that accents mean a lot to many people, even if they aren’t aware of it.
Browsing: Voice
Students attended a speak-out at Fisher Library before marching to F23 to show their support for the Voice and condemn the “racist rhetoric” surrounding the referendum.
Storytelling is central to the idea of a university, in the sense that every piece of knowledge accumulated throughout history can only be expressed through storytelling.
As individual faculties and schools affirm their support for the Voice, the University continues to avoid taking an institutional stance on the upcoming referendum.
In a statement today, Vice Chancellor Mark Scott expressed his personal support for the Voice while a statement from the University Senate fell short of expressing a position.
We’re not here to make friends or win votes, we’re here to return to our radical leftist roots.
The sound of your voice is shaped by the geography of your mouth, the length of your vocal folds, the exact way you place your tongue. The way you pronounce words is a lineage of the accents and affectations you grew up hearing.
Gatekeeping which voices ought and ought not to be listened to is one of the most insidious tools of oppressive systems.
