The labelled and the unlabelled are people who are marginalized, usually by virtue of their perceptions of their race, sex, gender, sexuality or class. The book came out of an analogy about a "museum of language," where you can spend your entire life in this museum of language without ever leaving it. So am the museum of language is an invitation to imagine language like a physical space,. Like a huge space where you can find all the things you know from the outside world - different plants, insects, water mountains, thoughts and ideasedeologies.
Language is expressive, a way of opening doors or a tool for creating new dialogue. But a tool so powerful can also take us to unforeseen or unintended places. It can create narratives that become fixed, unhelpful, or exclusionary. Kübra Gümüsay is a writer and activist focusing on social justice and public discourse. Her new book is Speaking and Being, which looks at the power of words, asking whether language creates freeing new spaces or plays a part in walling them off. Our host for the discussion is Danielle Sands, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway University in London, where she works across disciplines bridging philosophy, literary studies and critical theory.
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