One of the discourse community that I’m in is the fashion community, that is mostly active on tikotk and instagram. In this community we take inspiration from people like celebrities, influencers and within each other. Some of the problems that this discourse community is the shaming of ones who don’t shop ethical brands or ethically. Many of these ethical brands are of a higher price tag and aren’t accessible to many, they may also not come in size inclusive styles. Leading to the other problem of certain brands not being size inclusive. Giving the typical excuse of not having enough space on their shelves to produce these clothes. 

Another discourse community that I’m in is a reading community, the books spoken about that range from horror manga to romance books. We again connect mostly on tiktok and sometimes on instagram. An issue that this community faces is the lack of POC authors spoken about. A lot of popular books that get highlighted are from white authors, some with problematic behaviors. Another dilemma witnessed is the sexualazation of underage characters, this issue is more seen in the manga reader community and is so normalized that it’s weirder to call out such behavior than to do it.

Lastly the last discourse community would be at work in a kitchen environment. We communicate on site and through messenger. While mostly a friendly and it being an organized chaos environment we experience several issues. One of them being the lack of communication from the morning crew to night crew. These cause tension and an imbalance in the work place.