An academic at Mount Royal University in Calgary has joined the “lowercase movement.”.associate vice president of indigenization and decolonization at mru, dr. linda manyguns, says she will reject the symbols of hierarchy, and will not use capital letters except to “acknowledge the indigenous struggle for recognition.”.On the university’s website, manyguns writes “we resist acknowledging the power structures that oppress and join the movement that does not capitalize.”. Gad-SaadTwitter .“They are expecting me to make some pretty fundamental changes to the system,” Manyguns told Postmedia..The systemic changes she speaks of begins with… the “lowercase movement.”.Reid Small is a BC correspondent for the Western Standard.,rsmall@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/reidsmall
An academic at Mount Royal University in Calgary has joined the “lowercase movement.”.associate vice president of indigenization and decolonization at mru, dr. linda manyguns, says she will reject the symbols of hierarchy, and will not use capital letters except to “acknowledge the indigenous struggle for recognition.”.On the university’s website, manyguns writes “we resist acknowledging the power structures that oppress and join the movement that does not capitalize.”. Gad-SaadTwitter .“They are expecting me to make some pretty fundamental changes to the system,” Manyguns told Postmedia..The systemic changes she speaks of begins with… the “lowercase movement.”.Reid Small is a BC correspondent for the Western Standard.,rsmall@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/reidsmall