“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”

So happy to say our book is now published! Working with the amazing editorial team has been a privilege, including @abihackett.bsky.social, @davidbenshannon.bsky.social, Vishnu Kkn, Christina MacRae, Rachel Holmes, @khawlabadwan.bsky.social, Rosie Flewitt and @wardasworld.bsky.social. Thanks all! 🌸

Many describe Trump as acting like a child. This assume children are inherently less developed than adults. But children often have a much more developed sense of empathy & justice than adults. Trump is not acting like a child. He is acting like an imperialist. US leaders have always acted this way.

📝 NEW BLOG POST

One million suspensions: How English school policy is failing our most vulnerable children
By Sade Ajose, Swansea University

Read here: www.bera.ac.uk/blog/one-million-suspens...

Gorton and Denton by-election result:

GRN: 40.7% (+27.5)
REF: 28.7% (+14.7)
LAB: 25.4% (-25.3)
CON: 1.9% (-6.0)
LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1)

Green GAIN from Labour.

Horsemen carrying items looted from a village raid, including chalices, briefcases, crosses and a woman, riding across a plain at dawn with a storm brewing in the background.

The Trust’s February Newsletter is out now! Read about the hidden value of bat guano, linguistic justice efforts in secondary schools, professional mobility at the time of the Crusades,1099–1291, and much more: leverhulme.ac.uk/newsletter

Donate to Stop the cuts at the University of Essex, organized by Billy Woods The University of Essex senior management team have announced their plans to make… Billy Woods needs your support for Stop the cuts at the University of Essex

good morning, it’s day 4 of strikes at the University of Essex to save 400 jobs across all departments, the Southend campus and our Foundation programme — many members are worried about making ends meet. if you can, please donate to our strike fund: gofund.me/059af6be8

solidarity with Jairo and all colleagues who use their voice to challenge colonial logics and legacies in the very universities that we work and teach in. Jairo's case reminds us that job offers and tenure decisions are not objective assessments but political decisions.

How I worked as a foreign accent coach Human voice – between sound and identity I have always been fascinated by the human voice. When you speak on the phone with a stranger, it can reveal so much about them. You can often tell whether …

For most second language speakers, their foreign accent is a source of anxiety. Some turn to accent modification training.

In the latest Language-on-the-Move post, Andrea Pešková provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of accent coaching.

languageonthemove.com/how-i-worked...

A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.

Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.

in this blog i outline the theory of change for linguistic justice in schools that i am working with and hoping to develop as part of my Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk project, beginning in the autumn 💜

Calling all researchers and practitioners in multilingual education. RJME would love to see your work! Check out Rjme.org to see the range of pieces we're interested in (we accept a variety of formats). Feel free to reach out to me or the other co-editors with questions! @rjme-journal.bsky.social

i was one of the linguists who wrote an expert report for this case. it is another example - and it will not be the last - of how anti-Black linguistic racism is an institutional design feature of the police, and how some language practices get persistently framed as signs of criminality.

i am pleased to add my voice to this article which calls out the disappointing but not at all surprising lack of diversity in the people who are designing the new national curriculum content.

Concerns over make-up of curriculum drafters group Leaders criticise 'lack of diversity and representation' among experts helping to write new curriculum

Sector leaders have criticised the 'limited breadth and diversity' of experts recruited to help write the new national curriculum

schoolsweek.co.uk/concerns-over-make-up-of...

#parentalengagement Stop it with the 'word gap' argument and ideology. Yes, I've used it in the past - I was wrong.
Don't judge parents on the basis of heavily critiqued research. Instead, read this...
ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Thanks to @iancushing.bsky.social

White System, Black Therapist: Racism, Resistance and Reimagining Speech and Language Therapy In this book, Warda Farah brings a fresh perspective to the field of Speech and Language Therapy, challenging traditional approaches and opening crucial conversations about race, culture, and neurodiv...

www.routledge.com/White-System...

The Palestinianisation of American civil society is now well underway

Without justice for Palestine and an end to Apartheid there is no hope for an end to the imprisonment without trial of 5 year olds in the US. The apparatus is the same - tested in Gaza and The illegally occupied West Bank

Debbie was an inspiration to me. Just this morning I was reading a new chapter of hers. She was supportive on so many levels. She wrote an endorsement for my book. Her work on verbal hygiene was one of the reasons I decided to study linguistics at university. She will be massively missed ❤️

New publication alert! Out article 'Big Impact or No Advantage? Raciolinguistic Framings in Australian Media Coverage of Young People's Multilingualism' is now available in early online view in the Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social 🧵

Frey: I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis

Although a white woman was killed, remember that ICE was in Minneapolis because a MAGA agitator stirred up racist myths about Black immigrants committing fraud and Trump latched on to it to appease his base and distract from his failures as president. Structural racism means violence for everyone.

NEW: ‘These reforms have teeth’: The affective dimensions of teacher education policy enactment - British Educational Research Journal bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

new article in British Educational Research Journal: bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... we ran focus groups with 42 teacher educators in England, showing how recent teacher education policy reforms are a system of administrative compliance which governs through fear and control.

Teaching Liz Berry's 'Homing' in the Black Country Reflections on the impact of letting students hear themselves in literature

I've done a blog on some work we've been doing with year 11s in the Black Country about the poem 'Homing' and the dialect of the area.
englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/teachin...

lectureship in applied linguistics in my department. lovely city, lovely department, lovely colleagues 🌸 manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

@joannagavins.bsky.social ! 🌸

And many congratulations to all, with a special shout out to @iancushing.bsky.social @callanjd.bsky.social and @noreenmasud.bsky.social #LanguagesandLiteratures 💫🎉👏🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

it is a basic fact that all children have remarkable linguistic heterogeneity, but not all children are granted the space to use this heterogeneity in schools. so the problem is clearly not in how children use language, but in how schools are often set up to deny children those opportunities.

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Staggering harm is being done to #language learning in Higher Ed. No oversight or strategic thinking, with cold spots now present. Petitions alone this week in response to closures:

Nottingham · Change.org
Leicester · Change.org

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