“Some say it is unfair to hold disadvantaged children to rigorous standards,” then-presidential candidate George W. Bush famously said in 1999. “I say it is discrimination to require anything less—the soft bigotry of low expectations.”
Newsweek reports acronym update from Canada!
MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ is an acronym used primarily in Canada. Its purpose is to name and acknowledge a broad group of people affected by systemic violence—especially within Indigenous communities.
The acronym stands for: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two‑Spirit (a term that is used by some First Nations to describe people who embody both masculine and feminine spirits), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual people.
