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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The registration fees for AILA are outrageous 🤯 the very cheapest option (AILA student member) is still US$370. The most expensive? Onsite non-members: US$945. This doesn't even include lunches, special events, etc. and participants will still have to find accommodation in Vancouver ($$$$$). WTAF!?

A screenshot of the hugely expensive registration fees for AILA 2027.

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

@theguardian.com just published an editorial in which they describe Dr Arday's death as "a tragedy that demands reflection," but absolve themselves from any wrongdoing or reponsibility. If you have a Guardian subscription, today is a great day to cancel it and let them know exactly why.

A screenshot of the email confirming that I cancelled my subscription to the Guardian.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Plagiarists are a common problem in academia. Fantasists can be found in all walks of life. They are almost never subject to the level of scrutiny and retribution that we're seeing unfold. Why?

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Tasha Austin PhD [she] @profeaustin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Familiar with overperforming for institutions whose existence require my superexploitation, I told Warda not to cast her pearls before swine Our exchanges are threads in a tapestry of triumph fueled by community, history & authenticity DM for copies!📿📿📿 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CBMWQ...

Image of first page of peer reviewed article: Pearls before swine: an Nkwaethnographic exploration of the language and labor of Black women scholars
Authors: Tasha Austin & Warda Farah
Abstract: Within the modern era, Black women have been positioned as silent laborers unworthy of just compensation for their work. This positioning reflects broader western formations that thrive on Black women depicted as takers rather than contributors to society even when they are experts and professionals in their fields. Still, the navigation and understanding of the value of Black women’s intellectual labor has yet to be explored for the way it is digitally mediated and languaged through storytelling.This nkwaethnographic study reveals how the co-authors navigate suspicions about our legitimate contributions towards co-constructed community knowledges within the white-dominated contexts in which we find ourselves. Our thematic analysis revealed that our personal, cultural and professional language expertise allowed us to leverage various linguistic modalities to bear witness to one another’s realities, invite community in lieu of isolation, and dare to emerge as authentic cultural beings across time and space.

Introductory paragraph: We, Tasha and Warda, connected over social media more than three years ago, finding value in one another’s critical language approaches within our respective academic fields of world language teacher preparation and speech and language pathology (SLP). Our posts expressed different perspectives on having an ethical commitment to Black and minoritized languagers within spaces dominated by white supremacy. We sustained our connection through a series of public and private conversations that revealed a transatlantic rhythm between the United States and the United Kingdom– one of resistance to commodification regarding the labor of Black women whose work is the pursuit of linguistic justice. We were both instructing at the higher education level, but n…

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion aren't just relevant to a certain kind of critical research; they should be guiding principles for ALL research. Great to work on this with a group of scholars working across applied linguistics: www.aaal.org/feature-arti...

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Feature Articles: June 2026 AAALetter - American Association For Applied Linguistics

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Kris Knisely @krisknisely.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Now available: Free, data-driven, community-centered resources for honoring people of all genders in Arabic, created by @maryahc.bsky.social, Lucie Knight, & Vess-Tessa as part of the Gender Just Language Education Project that I cooridinated & edited. Please share. www.krisknisely.com/arabic

Materials for teaching toward gender justice in Arabic krisknisely.com/arabic

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Earn TESL Ontario certification at the same time as an MEd in Language and Literacies Education at @oiseuoft.bsky.social! TESL ON certification is both locally and internationally recognized! More info: www.oise.utoronto.ca/ctl/masters-...

A flyer for the new combined MEd+TESL Certificate program!

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This makes no sense. If, as the President says, Boston University has "unequivocal support for our LGBTQIA plus community," flags like this don't speak for the university, but would simply be reflecting its commitments. www.wbur.org/news/2026/03...

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Following outcry, BU president defends removing pride flags

Gilliam’s remarks come days after several faculty members sent her a letter decrying the removal of pride flags from several windows, including one at the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies departmen...

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Language textbooks are loaded with troubling ideologies. This is Page 30 from the Spanish textbook Nos Vemos Hoy 1. The activity instructions: "These are some of the most valued professions in Spain. Write each one below the corresponding image."

Page 30 from the Spanish textbook Nos Vemos Hoy 1. The activity instructions: "These are some of the most valued professions in Spain. Write each one below the corresponding image." A graphic shows photos of people doing different jobs. Each photo is placed on a bar chart as if they are ranked somehow. The tallest bar is for "médico/a" (doctor) and the shortest is for "escritor/a" (writer).

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/01/2026

The kidnappings of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian US citizens are not an accident. They are the leading edge of a wide-scale ethnic cleansing campaign with centuries-old roots that is intentionally targeting not just non-citizens but all people of color. All. People. Of. Color.

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Anne H. Charity Hudley @acharityhudley.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

All righty y'all! The Journal of Black Language and Culture @jblacjournal.bsky.social is now open for submissions! See our website for information on how to submit and reach out if you have questions or ideas as we learn and grow! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Journal of Black Language and Culture | Cambridge Core

Journal of Black Language and Culture - Anne H. Charity Hudley

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Just before the end of the year 🎉 Who participates in research, and why? I argue that if we want to attract more diverse participants, we'll need to radically rethink what and how we research. Open access in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Who participates in research, and why? A response to K. M. Kim & E. Chen’s “Toward research inclusivity in applied linguistics: A reflection and methodological guideline for inclusive online experimen...

As Kim and Chen have shown, online outreach and experimentation have been somewhat effective strategies for reaching out to and recruiting populations…

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I'm giving a talk on linguistic dissociation aimed at educators this Thursday, 3:30-4:30 ET. Open to everyone and hybrid. You can register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Abstract for the talk: Linguistic dissociation is a process through which people come to distance themselves from
particular linguistic resources in their repertoire because those resources have become
entangled with significant negative interpersonal experiences. Classrooms are powerful
spaces when it comes to shaping how we feel about our languages, so what do educators need
to know about this phenomenon?
In this talk, Dr. Ashley R. Moore will explain what linguistic dissociation is and what we know
about how it is experienced. He will finish by sharing the implications of linguistic dissociation
for teaching and learning, focusing on how it complexifies various plurilingual pedagogies (Lau
& Van Viegen, 2020), including translanguaging pedagogy.

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Just saw internal policy from a US-university that, because of the government's new fees for H-1B visas, sponsoring H-1B visas for international hires will likely not be feasible. In today's US, I would never have been able to get my first faculty position.

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

A concrete example of how intersectional oppression is not simply a case of addition: This report into salary gaps between UK parliamentary officers indicates women being paid £1,000 less than men, POC £2,000 less, but Black women £6,000 less. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

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Parliamentary staff of colour earn £2,000 less than white colleagues, study suggests

Exclusive: GMB union’s report also finds pay disparity for women and disabled, trans, non-binary and gay staffers working for MPs and peers

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Excited to share my latest work on linguistic dissociation at Penn State University on Friday!

Title slide from the presentation. The title is “I didn’t see being gay as an experience that could unfold in Arabic”: Heteronormativity,
linguacultural ideologies, and coloniality in the emergence of linguistic dissociation
among some queer plurilinguals. I've used an image of people walking on rainy city streets that look almost monochrome. However, one of them is holding a vivid rainbow umbrella.

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OISEUofT @oiseuoft.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

📚 NEW: Associate Professor Cassie J. Brownell (brownellcassie.bsky.social) has been named winner of the 2025 Media Literacy Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)! Congrats, Professor! #OISECelebrates Learn more: ncte.org/awards/ncte-...

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The gradual inclusion of truth about the experience of slavery in American museums has been one of the most deeply researched and considered and consequential developments in public history over the last half century. Enraging we have to defend it in this way.

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Arabic and its various dialects are often positioned as somehow being intrinsically anti-queer but the truth is that queer language exists wherever there are queer people, which is EVERYWHERE. Just got my copy of @marwankaabour.bsky.social's beautiful Queer Arab Glossary. Can't wait to dig in!

The cover of the book, the title of the book in English and, presumably, Arabic (I'm not an Arabic user). Very cute illustrations featured, including what I can only describe as a penis bird.

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

"No concession will ever be enough." A very slow lesson for so many institutions and orgs.

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The supreme grace Coco Gauff is extending to Sabalenka is an example of the emotional labour people of colour, especially Black women, often do when responding to White mental gymnastics that ignore facts to dismiss their achievements. youtu.be/7K3Ha2VanWE?...

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Coco Gauff is giving Aryna Sabalenka "the benefit of the doubt" | GMA

YouTube video by Good Morning America

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Vijay Ramjattan @vijayramjattan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

If you want a sneak preview of my book, Workable Accents, please click this link to read a decent chunk of the introductory chapter: shorturl.at/MfGLQ Please remember to ask your university or local library to order a copy and share this post widely! Thanks in advance!

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Title: Workable Accents: How International Teaching Assistants Vocally Fashion and Contest Academic Labor

Author: Vijay A. Ramjattan

Image: A multi-coloured and patterned speech bubble being assembled by four hands of different skin tone; "Bloomsbury" is written beneath the bubble

Screenshot of one section of the book entitled, "Why Examine Workable Accents?"

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Vijay Ramjattan @vijayramjattan.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My very first book is available for pre-order! Workable Accents explores how international teaching assistants conceptualize accent in relation to academic labor. Please ask your (university) library to order a copy: shorturl.at/KUC4R @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburyling.bsky.social

This is a screenshot of the front cover of the book. The top half contains the title, "Workable Accents: How International Teaching Assistants Vocally Fashion and Contest Academic Labor," and my full name, Vijay A. Ramjattan.

The bottom half contains a multi-coloured speech bubble with multiracial hands reaching out to it from four corners.

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Hot off the press in time for the long weekend 🔥🔥🔥, my article showing the importance of generating multiscalar temporal account of linguistic dissociation (and other phenomena shaping the linguistic repertoire) is open access in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics! doi.org/10.1016/j.rm...

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Redirecting

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

it's always a little satisfying when something that is a *moral* disaster is *also* a political disaster, because it's not always the case!

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Great news! For some reason the headline here is different from the one I saw: "Gulf students ask to be taught Gangalidda instead of Japanese" I wish more educational contexts would rethink or diversify the language options available in schools amp.abc.net.au/article/1052...

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Successful Gangalidda language learning model pitched across Queensland - ABC News

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Very exciting, hybrid conference on language and literacies education! Submission deadline is June 30!

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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Ughhh. Check out my 2024 paper and learn why this is nonsense!

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Usree Bhattacharya @usreeb.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Excited to announce that ✨ A Show of Hands: Kalika and the Goddess of Learning is a #1 New Release in Children’s Holidays Around the World & Eastern Religions! #2 in Children’s Hinduism & #13 in Holidays & Celebrations📚 Out now: a.co/d/0mSNYVq #RettSyndrome #AAC #InclusiveLit #disability

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This article defends three main actors in the new HP series because they've previously taken LGBTQ+ roles. WTAF? If non-LGBTQ+ actors earn money and acclaim from LGBTQ+ roles, then they should stand in solidarity with those communities when they're persecuted. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...

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Pedro Pascal calls JK Rowling a ‘heinous loser’ in wake of supreme court gender ruling

The actor has long been an activist for LGBTQ+ rights and has a transgender sister who often accompanies him on the red carpet

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

On my way to #AERA and the US border agent told me to tell everyone the 3 things education should focus on: 1) financial literacy, 2) bodily literacy and wellbeing, 3) spiritual wellbeing, or how one might live a good life. Honestly, I'm onboard 🥰

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Never forget that many of the institutions and companies that dismantled DEI-related initiatives did so not out of anticipatory obedience but because they never really wanted diversity, equity, and inclusion in the first place. They are showing us what they have always been.

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

CW: Assisted dying. I was moved in all sorts of ways by Martin Roemers on photographing his parents shortly after they chose to die together. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

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Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic

Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

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Tasha Austin PhD [she] @profeaustin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

so proud of this collaborative work! here's @melissabaralt.bsky.social @clemonsaris.bsky.social & my study on TBLT Spanish instruction with young learners. the possibilities for WL teaching are endless when Black cultural value is assumed❤️🖤💚 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... [dm us for copies]

Title: “Black children are gifted at learning languages – that’s why I could do TBLT”: inclusive Blackness as a pathway for TBLT innovation

Abstract: This paper presents a case study of a Black Spanish-language teacher and her 4th-grade students using Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) six years after a teacher-training program. We describe the program and the teacher’s understanding of tasks and TBLT. Using a bottom-up approach, we then explore the teacher and students’ implementation of TBLT six years later in a socioeconomically resilient 4th-grade classroom in Miami, Florida, where 95 % of the students are Black. Task-as-process was assessed with classroom observations, handouts, task outcomes, and interviews. Findings revealed that the teacher continued using TBLT, highlighting both its opportunities and challenges. Opportunities were driven by her beliefs, reliance on “Black students’ linguistic gifts,” and access to sample tasks...

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Today is a great day for everyone at #UBC who's doesn't know what "unceded" means in the context of land acknowledgments to learn more. Also a good day to remember that academic freedom depends on enacting the practices that uphold scholarly integrity, like reading and, um, thinking. 👀

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I am begging folks to stop citing Braun & Clarke (2006) as their only ref for #ThematicAnalysis. It's 20 years old. They and others have pushed the methodological sophistication of TA much further. 🚩

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Do you know someone who is raising public awareness of language-related social issues? The AAAL Distinguished Public Service Award ($1,000!) recognises the often unsung and underfunded work of community leaders, educators, activists, writers, organisations, etc. www.aaal.org/distinguishe...

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Distinguished Public Service Award - American Association For Applied Linguistics

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Today in my Language Awareness class we'll analyse the recent executive order making English the official language of the US, reading it alongside statements from prominent language-related associations. Will also turn our attention to Canadian language policy, too. Curious to see how this goes.

Photo of a worksheet to be used in class. It's a table in which the statements of the order are all pasted into the left-most column, with columns to right for each association, including AAAL, ACTFL, and the Center for Applied Linguistics.

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Kris Knisely @krisknisely.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

ISO Language teachers for gender justice Are you a language teacher who wants to learn more about gender justice & collaboratively make free resources to support the teaching and learning of nonbinary ways of doing languages other than English? Interest form: bit.ly/GenderJustPL... Please share!

Language teachers: Want free materials that are trans-affirming & gender-just? Join an online professional community to learn more about gender justice & collaboratively make them! I'm looking for teachers of languages other than English who would like to participate in a online professional community April 1-May 6 focused on deepening our understandings of gender-just language pedagogies and collaboratively creating open educational resources in the languages we teach, with support from researchers in trans applied linguistics and trans/nonbinary language experts. There is no cost to participate and 20 educators who take part in the learning community, create 1 or more OER to share, and take an exit survey will receive $100. Do you qualify? 1. Do you teach a language other than English (at any level, K-16)? 2. Do you have an interest in trans-affirming, gender-just language education? 3. Would you like to make professional connections with other language teachers and community experts? 4. Would you like to co-create open educational resources (OERs) including trans and nonbinary ways of doing language? April 1-May 6, 2025. Estimated 10-15 hours. Flexible scheduling. Free/$100: 20 educators who take part in the free learning community, create 1+ OER to share, & take an exit survey will receive $100. Fill out a short interest form or ask questions: https://bit.ly/GenderJustPLONS

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

AAAL has released a statement opposing the EO designating English as the official language of the US. Statements from other orgs like LSA, ACTFL, and TESOL are also linked, and are all worth reading: www.aaal.org/aaal-ec-stat...

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AAAL EC Statement on the Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of the United States - American Association For Applied Linguistics

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Can someone write a book like Swan and Smith's Learner English: A Teacher's Guide to Interference and Other Problems but from a non-deficit perspective? Thanks!

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