If I were to tell you that I have a doctor’s appointment next week, how do you visualize my doctor? Are they male or female? How old are they? What’s their ethnicity? Chances are that in our society that is dominated by White Supremacy, you visualized a white male doctor. Even if you didn’t, you
It strikes me as both fascinating and sad that although words exist in other languages from other cultures to describe this concept of mutuality and interconnectedness, there is no such word in English. I’m not an etymologist and I do know that English is an amalgam of many different languages from both Germanic and Latin