English language ESSAY quotes

- LGBTQIA+ quotes, Disability quotes, Pronoun quotes

(2) Clothing the Gap - Aboriginal Acknowledgement, promotional video on Youtube

• “I’m Laura Thompson, I’m a Gunditjmara woman” → shows her identity of being Aboriginal, proudly representing her clothing brand

• “Clothing the Gap” → pun on the collocation known in Australia ‘Closing the gap’ which helps with Aboriginal inequality

Algospeak for LGBTQ - Roger J.Kruez, The conversation article

“Social media users are making use of coded language instead of the banned terms…Leg Booty” is LGBTQ” - Roger J.Kruez → on social media, the use of this colloquial term can be interpreted as using language to show LGBTQ as a forbidden term

South Australia Parliament - general neutral language, The 9 news

“ “Her Majesty” will be called “the sovereign” and “His excellency” will instead be known as “the governor”” → shows respect to using gender neutral titles

South Australia Parliament - gender neutral language, The 9 news (AGAINST)

“I don’t think gendered pronouns cause any harm or offense in our community” - Frank Pangallo → he disregards this as an issue

Australian Victorian Government - Person first and identity first language

“We also know that many people with disability prefer to use what is known as ‘identity-first’ language” → shows that it is the preferred language

NAB - gender neutral pronouns

“Mx” as an option to making an account with NAB → shows community attitudes to be as inclusive, allowing those to have privacy as well

Disability Discrimination - Parliament

“Have you got Tourette’s or something? You know you just sit there and babble, babble, babble” - Anthony Albanese → rude remark, makes fun of disability with his language

Gaming slang - How to talk like a pro gamer in 2023

“ ‘Noob’ is another very common term that is not only used in gaming but also on the internet in general”

Pauline Hanson’s One nation

“Senator Pauline Hanson has called for an end to daily “Welcome to Country” ceremonies in Parliament, labelling them as divisive tokenism that alienates millions of Australian” → discriminatory language

Language used to disrespect Sharon’s pronouns

“Although Claydon reminded him that she is “not Mr Speaker”, Mr Dutton continued referring to her in that way throughout the speech” → disrespectful