texts with Oxford is a current project exploring our immediate limitations and realities of the English language, as officiated through word definitions in the Oxford Dictionary and the current suite of emojis. This serves to document both the current vocabulary of 2017 and question its relation to the lived experience and intentions of its references.
![Texts with Oxford (race and sexual orientation) [Black], 2017](https://www.lindsaycatherine.com/wp-content/gallery/texts-with-oxford-2017-1/texts-with-oxford-race-and-sexual-orientation_Black.png "Texts with Oxford (race and sexual orientation) [Black], 2017")
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