Annalee Newitz 🍜 on Nostr: Whoa. TIL that "Spivak pronouns" doesn't refer to critical theorist Gayatri ...
Whoa. TIL that "Spivak pronouns" doesn't refer to critical theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, but instead to some mathematician named Michael? Mind blown. I was on LambdaMOO using those pronouns back in the day, and always thought they were a reference to Gayatri Spivak!!
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