Shop Talk with Mattie Wechsler, TikTok Linguist
"We learn from a young age to identify binary gender constantly because it's so essential to our culture and, as we've been discussing, our language."
Welcome to Shop Talk! A new segment where I ask gay people specific questions.
For today’s edition of Shop Talk, I emailed with Mattie Wechsler. Mattie is a professional linguist, meaning she spends all day thinking about LANGUAGE—specifically, how and why language changes and acquires meaning. Mattie runs a TikTok channel, @mattiewex, where she answers…