THE OF GENDER

SHIFTING SYMBOLS: THE GENDER STAR

BY MEG MILLER
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY SOURCE TYPE

How do you pronounce an asterisk? Not the word but the symbol, the actual typographic mark. That five-sided star that’s tacked onto words, floats above letters; the smattering of hatch marks written quickly by hand, a neat little tick typed on the computer, or with ends as swollen as the petals of a cartoon flower. Some symbols aren’t meant to be spoken, and the asterisk seems to be one of them ...

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SECTE: A NEW VOWEL FOR SPANISH

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN SPANISH BY EL HERALDO DE MÉXICO

Heteronormative times call for deconstructive measures. One of these measures has been the use of inclusive language, which has been the source of great controversy with even the Royal Spanish Academy refusing to acknowledge the evolution of language—an evolution required in these times that necessitate more and more openness for all genders ...

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HYPOTHETICAL HACK


BY SARAH GEPHART
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY MGMT DESIGN

In the fall of 2016, Apple released the iOS10 update, which introduced—among other necessary things like invisible ink—the emoji replacement and emoji prediction functions. So that as you type along in your message window, emojis are automatically suggested to finish your sentence. In March of 2017, the website Mashable noted that even if the text clearly used a female pronoun ...

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