We Do Not Need To Explain or Justify Language Difference

Jae Nichelle
5 min readNov 21, 2020

This article is a response to the question “Numerous activist collectives and authors have put forth maintenance and care as the only viable alternatives to both exploitation and boundlessly wasteful consumerism. What would maintenance and care look like for antifascist language(s)? What forms of sociality and human contact, what institutions, and what technologies (if any) would they require?”

I wrote this in tandem with my presentation for Dartmouth’s Antifascist Language in Multilingual Societies: A Virtual Symposium held by

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Jae Nichelle

Poet, writer, lover of sweet potatoes. Here are my questions for the world. More at jaenichelle.com.