This week we interviewed Kotryna (Kots) all the way from London (thank you zoom!) Our language extraordinaire told us all about why slurs matter and the impact translation has on changing meanings of words. Who thought you could study the philosophy of swear words, with a thesis titled "C U Next Tuesday"! Met and Til muse on the emerging use of pronouns in our own lives and work, as a real-life example of the power of language, and how it can influence our reality. Of course, a little crumbs podcast wouldn't be complete without mention of our texts with our parents .... we hope they learn that 'LOL' doesn't mean 'Lots of Love' sometime soon. P.S. well done Melbourne, proud of all you vaccine legends x

LINKS

• Map of gender diverse cultures https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/content/two-spirits_map-html/
• Grice, Paul. [1989] 1991. ‘Logic and Conversation’, Study in the Way of Words, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press) (the og on implicature esp section 3 on speech acts ) 
• Whiting, Daniel. 2013. “It’s Not What You Said, It’s the Way You Said It: Slurs and Conventional Implicatures”, Analytic Philosophy, 54.3: 364-377, <https://doi.org/10.1111/phib.12024>  ( my diss guy)
• Kaplan, David. 2004. ‘The Meaning of ‘Ouch’ and ‘Oops’’, Howison Lecture in Philosophy, (UC Berkeley) (you can watch this and read the transcript online - super accessible and interesting)
• Anderson, Luvell and Ernie Lepore. 2013. ‘What Did You Call Me? Slurs as Prohibited Words’, Analytic Philosophy, 
• Camp, Elisabeth. 2013. ‘Slurring Perspectives’, Analytic Philosophy.
• Hornsby, Jennifer. 2001. ‘Meaning and Uselessness: How to Think about Derogatory Words’, Midwest studies in Philosophy.
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CREDITS

Artwork and design by Lulu Nicholls @by_lulu_nicholls insta

Exquisite intro/outro song by Max Arnold @maxarnold insta