At the LCD Center, we teach more than media skills—we teach discernment. We help people, especially those from historically excluded communities, learn to read the world critically, not just scroll through it. Because when power cloaks itself in jokes, we need cultural literacy to unmask the violence beneath the laugh.

We are living through a linguistic revolution shaped by migration, the blending of languages and cultures, and digital media’s new frontier, as we blend all of this into our everyday lives.  Communication now includes visual memes, fake this 'n that, emojis, voice notes, and hybrid dialects of the very young and the not-so-young that cross national boundaries. ... All of it requires us to rethink what it means to be fully literate.

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