#LivingLanguage

The Lifeboat Academy

@lifeboatacademy.bsky.social

4 months ago

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.” — N. Scott Momaday

Words as medicine.
Healing as conversation.
Listening as an act of restoration.
#WordsAsMedicine #Reciprocity #HealingTheLand #Resilience #Interdependence #Listening #Restoration #LivingLanguage #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

6 months ago

minorities forbidden word project image: ghost love © Holly Troy 8.2025 “I knew that, in the past, seats had often been drawn to exclude representation for racial minorities, which was one of the motive…

Minorities are / demographically not; / their oppressors are

which is just what their / oppressors fear: becoming / the minority

#minorities #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

7 months ago

marginalized forbidden word project image: ganesh © Holly Troy 8.2025 “He accused the current administration of undermining judicial independence, dismantling safeguards for marginalized communities, and …

Marginalized groups / need to be empowered and / also centralized
#marginalized #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

7 months ago

key populations forbidden word project image: cliff hanger © Holly Troy 8.2025 “These groups are considered ‘key’ because interventions targeting them can have a significant impact on controlling…

Key populations : must be included and seen / when we practice care

#keypopulations #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

7 months ago

key groups forbidden word project image: viva la resistence © Holly Troy 8.2025 “Her message appears to be resonating with a key group of swing voters who play a pivotal role in general elections.&#8221…

It is important / to identify key groups / and give them their due

#keygroups #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

7 months ago

intersectional forbidden word project image: radiate © Holly Troy 2025 “With their uniquely intersectional identities and deep understanding of inequality, queer people also have for generations been at the…

What affect us all / are the things we choose to call / “intersectional”

#intersectional #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

7 months ago

injustice forbidden word project image: bells © Holly Troy 2025 “‘We cannot accept these injustices and neither should you,’ it adds.” From BBC

Corrupt Supreme Court / Justices are unjust; call / them Injustices

#injustice #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

7 months ago

inequity forbidden word project image: cascade © Holly Troy 7.2025 “Researchers say these patterns reflect how broader urban inequities are written directly into the movements of and risks faced by wi…

Inequity in / the twenty first century / is pure cruelty

#inequity #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

7 months ago

inequities forbidden word project image: light in the night © Holly Troy 2025 “Additionally, due to historic inequities in access to swimming pools and swim instruction, Black children are significantly…

Inequities damn / Our land as: home of the slave / land of the unfree

#inequities #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

7 months ago

inequitable forbidden word project image: night wire © Holly Troy 2025 “So my biggest fear is my children are going to be significantly disadvantaged to everyone else in Scotland. It just seems very inequitabl…

Inequitable / forces oppose liberty / and justice for all

#inequitable #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

7 months ago

inequality forbidden word project image: choice © Holly Troy 2025 “Growth galloped, but the rich became the biggest beneficiaries, growing even richer as inequality reached gaping proportions.” Fr…

Inequality / must be acknowledged as an / American truth

#inequality #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

7 months ago

inequalities forbidden word project image: thinking numbers © Holly Troy 2025 “The numeric values cannot be disputed, while the social values can be censored, weighted with double-speak, not seen, or outr…

Logic value tests / equivalence, consistence, / and validity

#inequaities #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

7 months ago

indigenous community forbidden word project image: waiting © holly troy 7.2025 “Indigenous communities play a significant role in environmental stewardship, often utilizing traditional ecological knowledge that c…

People who predate / colonization challenge / colonizer’s claims

#indigenouscommunity #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

7 months ago

increase diversity forbidden word project image: yellow and orange and purple and green and blue © holly troy 7.2025 “The school’s academics became stronger in a climate of increased diversity.” Fro…

To increase is to / make the thing increased greater / than it was before

#increasediversity #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

7 months ago

inclusivity forbidden word project image: garden growing © Holly Troy 2025 “The organization said ‘the current U.S. administration’s abusive immigration policies, including enforced disappearances …

Inclusivity / is the foundation of a / free society
#inclusivity #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

7 months ago

inclusiveness forbidden word project image: king of the parking angels – oil on cardboard © Holly Troy 2025 “Pride is always an amazing weekend of celebration and inclusiveness of our city, and this …

Inclusiveness is / literally welcoming / and the heart of love

#inclusiveness #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

7 months ago

inclusive leadership forbidden word project image: midsummer melancholy – oil on cardboard© Holly Troy 2023 “Great inclusive leadership follows four behavioral principles: (1) affirming differences – assumi…

Leaders that include / are the ones that truly lead, / exclusive of none

#inclusiveleadership #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

8 months ago

inclusive forbidden word project image: forest oysters © Holly Troy 7.2025 “Garcia has the same kind of energy and confidence that his version of America — one that is unabashedly inclusive, affordable…

This , my preference / over its cruel antonym, / makes all feel welcome

#inclusive #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

8 months ago

Without inclusion, / everyone’s included in / being excluded

#inclusion #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

8 months ago

implicit biases forbidden word project image: Superman says, “Lend a friendly hand.” Originally published as a Public Service Announcement with the National Social Welfare Assembly, coordinating organi…

It’s good to question / our own basic assumptions / for the greater good

#implicitbiases #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure #superman #superfriends @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

8 months ago

implicit bias forbidden word project image: posted © Holly Troy 2025 “Gunn courted conservative controversy earlier this week, when he pointed out the comic book hero’s inherent friendliness toward immigra…

Deep reflection is / key to dredge up implicit / biases to light

#implicitbias #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

8 months ago

immigrants forbidden word project image: let’s do this © Holly Troy 2025 “Gunn courted conservative controversy earlier this week, when he pointed out the comic book hero’s inherent friendliness t…

I must wonder “What / will they do with the Statue / of Liberty now?”

#immigrants #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

8 months ago

identity forbidden word project image: a very hot wednesday afternoon © Holly Troy 2025 – the condition of being oneself or itself, and not another.

With self-reflection, / the first question is “Who’s There?” / The answer evolves.

#identity #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

8 months ago

historically forbidden word project image: magic message © Holly Troy 7.2025 Other Word Forms antihistorically adverb nonhistorically adverb pseudohistorically adverb quasi-historically adverb semihistorically …

Memory outlives / the forbidding of what lives / historically

#historically #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

8 months ago

hispanic minority forbidden word project image: flow of flowers © Holly Troy 7.2025

Majority of / Hispanic Americans / victimized by Trump

#hispanicminority #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

8 months ago

health equity forbidden word project image: seed © Holly Troy 7.2025

Health equity too / echoes wealth equity’s sad / reverberations

#healthequity #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

8 months ago

Gulf of Mexico forbidden word project “On February 14, the White House deputy chief of staff, Taylor Budowich, announced that Associated Press journalists were banned indefinitely from the Oval Office and A…

Not the first time that / a megalomaniac / tried to change the world

#gulfpfmexico #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

8 months ago

genders forbidden word project image: june altar © Holly Troy 6.2025 “Gender expression is the way someone expresses gender through behavior, mannerisms, interests, physical characteristics, or appea…

Knowledge is power / and your “Forbidden Words” work / empowers. Thank you

#genders #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

8 months ago

gender-affirming care forbidden word project “Gender-affirming care can positively impact the mental health of adolescents and young adults (AYA), reducing the risk of depression and suicidality​. Yet it remains a…

A loving Yes is / deserving of its very / own affirming care

#genderaffirmingcare #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social

Timothy McCown Reynolds

@timothymagick.bsky.social

8 months ago

gender ideology forbidden word project “(e)  Agencies shall remove all statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications, or other internal and external messages that promote or otherwise inculcate ge…

Intrinsic traits are / not ideologies but / rather natural

#genderideologies #forbiddenwords #forbiddenwordsproject #hollytroy #livinglanguage #againstcensorship #againstculturalerasure @hollytroy.bsky.social