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Leslie Ing Fearing

Leslie Ing Fearing

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Oct 23, 2024
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I recently watched a troubling online interaction go down in real time. An orchestra musician page posted a nice and innocuous post welcoming a new musician to the orchestra. The new musician uses they/them pronouns, and so the post from the musicians of course reflected that.

Someone named Leslie Ing Fearing quite disingenuously asked why the page was u…

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