Alternative Definitions

is a space where Rachelle defines and takes accountability for words she uses in her storytelling.

Alternative Definitions offers the reader insight into Rachelle’s s awareness, ignorance, and understanding of the words she uses.

Rachelle is a hetero normative, straight, white woman who is college educated and grew up in a middle class white christian family in East Tennessee. Rachelle recognizes that her formal education was developed to stratify and perpetuate a narrative that supports the whitewashing of the histories of this World, Northern America, and all Peoples living within it, as well as center an allegiance and legitimacy of knowledge to experts, leaving individuals feeling disempowered and dependent.

 
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BEST (superlative of good):

Offering or producing the greatest advantage, utility, or satisfaction. The greatest degree of good or excellence.

USE (transitive verb, noun):

To put into service especially to attain an end. To carry out a purpose or action by means of . The quality of being suitable for employment.

BEST USE- ALTERNATIVE DEFINITION

To carry out a purpose/action for the greatest advantage, utility, or satisfaction. To put into service especially to attain the greatest degree of good.

 
 
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Normative (adjective):

of, relating to, or determining norms or standards. Conforming to or based on norms (normative behavior, normative judgments, normative rules of ethics, normative grammar). -Merriam-Webster.

Normative- Alternative Definition

Conforming to the norms of the dominate culture of North America: whiteness, capitalism, exponential growth, violence, theft, oppression, subjugation, free labor, racism, misogyny, patriarchy, greed, brute and underdeveloped emotional intelligence, force over feeling, and a disregard for and abuse of the proletariat class as a means to get ahead.

 
 
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We (pronoun):

I and the rest of a group that includes me : I and another or others not including you —used as pronoun of the first person plural

We- Alternative Definition

When I say we, I mean, myself, and anyone else who feels connected to what I share.

The models that resonate with me are centered around cultivating, demanding, and getting in touch with more resiliency, courage, audacity, and dedication towards supporting change and less aversion to being uncomfortable, being wrong and taking a back seat.