#afrodemeia

[notasnormalasicouldbe]

Ebonics/AAVE is truly an undervalued language, the idioms, patois and social dialects are so deep and historical but also creative and incredibly adaptable! Code Switching back and forth between Standard English and AAVE in the middle of my predominantly white English classroom and watching white students get whiplash from how sudden the changes are is exhilarating. Meeting with a group of my fellow students of color in between our classes and immediately dripping back into comfortable AAVE from the rigidity of Standard English is so refreshing and relaxing. 

[notasnormalasicouldbe]

A Telescope is a Time Machine

If you ever want to time travel, simply look up at the stars. The stars are so astronomically far away from us, it takes millions of years for their light to reach our eyes. So, we see the Andromeda Galaxy not as it is now, but as it was ~ 2.5 million years ago. The entire galaxy could have disappeared while the ancients were studying it and we would have no idea.

That’s mind-blowing.