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IGALA</span> Members,<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span> </div>
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<div style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0"><span data-markjs="true" class="markm6iwtjy26 ContentPasted0 ContentPasted1" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Due to a minor technicality with IGALA memberships, the 2023
IGALA voting has been extended for one additional week, beginning today, August 7th, and ending Monday, August 14th. </span></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0"><span data-markjs="true" class="markm6iwtjy26 ContentPasted0 ContentPasted1" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Please check your membership to be sure that it is active/paid
up at the Gender and language website: <a href="https://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/about/subscriptions" id="LPlnk791895" class="OWAAutoLink">
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/about/subscriptions</a>. Here's a snippet of information from that website:<br>
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<div style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0"><span data-markjs="true" class="markm6iwtjy26 ContentPasted0 ContentPasted1 ContentPasted2" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Society membership runs on a calendar year
from January to December. IGALA membership is included as part of your journal subscription and you will receive online access/print copies (depending on the sub type you choose) to all issues of the one volume which is active during your membership year,
even if it is published after 31st December.<br>
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<div style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0"><span data-markjs="true" class="markm6iwtjy26 ContentPasted0" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">The voting procedure remains the same.
</span>Please navigate to <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.genderandlanguage.com/elections-2023__;!!HXCxUKc!xQSszwsk6eAe3JnLKiseukmHVjPy78WyeM42PQk5v6YTQSyxMiqRTbIGyab6Vn8f28M4_AXBhsUm3Q$" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px" id="OWAfb399b69-1181-a669-8d8d-6a9b1b728364" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0">
https://www.genderandlanguage.com/elections-2023</a> to see the candidates and the available positions.</div>
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<div style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">After you have read their bios and statements, please scroll to the bottom of the page, where you will find the link that will take you to the election ballot.</div>
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<div style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Thank you for your time and active participation!
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<span style="margin:0px">517-355-2400 (Office)</span><br>
<span style="margin:0px">517-353-5250 (Fax)</span><br>
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Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of YAHWEH ELOHIM, and JESUS our LORD. 2 Peter 1:2 This is my perspective. Hope you share yours.</font></div>
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am not always immediately able or available to respond to emails; thus, my responses, at times, will be delayed. Additionally, I am typically away from my email </span><span style="margin:0px;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">after</span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0px"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">9
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Friday and on weekends</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> P</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">leas</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">e
note that emails sent outside of these times may </span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0px"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">not
be </span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0px"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">immediately addressed.</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px"><o:p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0px"></span></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; color: black; background-color: white;"><u style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Land Acknowledgment:</u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; color: black;">Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples.
In particular, the University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; color: black;"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: start;">The United States resides on Native Land and was built on the backs of kidnapped and enslaved Africans.</span></div>
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