Thanks, Chris!

New pub with Ava Becker: Whole-language approaches like translanguaging pedagogies are vital, but what happens if linguistic resources are entangled with trauma? 50 free copies www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SKYGM...

Protest works: dailyfreepress.com/04/06/16/219...

Love to see this 😍

Following outcry, BU president defends removing pride flags Gilliam’s remarks come days after several faculty members sent her a letter decrying the removal of pride flags from several windows, including one at the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies departmen...

This makes no sense. If, as the President says, Boston University has "unequivocal support for our LGBTQIA plus community," flags like this don't speak for the university, but would simply be reflecting its commitments. www.wbur.org/news/2026/03...

Page 30 from the Spanish textbook Nos Vemos Hoy 1. The activity instructions: "These are some of the most valued professions in Spain. Write each one below the corresponding image." A graphic shows photos of people doing different jobs. Each photo is placed on a bar chart as if they are ranked somehow. The tallest bar is for "médico/a" (doctor) and the shortest is for "escritor/a" (writer).

Language textbooks are loaded with troubling ideologies. This is Page 30 from the Spanish textbook Nos Vemos Hoy 1. The activity instructions: "These are some of the most valued professions in Spain. Write each one below the corresponding image."

Chicago’s Immigrants Are Being Targeted By ICE. Here’s What You Can Do To Help - Little Village Chamber of Commerce Chicago’s Immigrants Are Being Targeted By ICE. Here’s What You Can Do To Help From sharing information and shopping immigrant-owned businesses to donating to nonprofits, here are seven ways Chicagoan...

Many of us are torn about going to the US for #AAAL2026. Here's a list 7 things we can do in Chicago to support affected communities, including a list of neighbourhoods that would appreciate those per diem $$$: littlevillagechamber.org/chicagos-imm...

The kidnappings of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian US citizens are not an accident. They are the leading edge of a wide-scale ethnic cleansing campaign with centuries-old roots that is intentionally targeting not just non-citizens but all people of color.

All. People. Of. Color.

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...

All righty y'all! The Journal of Black Language and Culture @jblacjournal.bsky.social is now open for submissions! See our website for information on how to submit and reach out if you have questions or ideas as we learn and grow!

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Who participates in research, and why? A response to K. M. Kim & E. Chen’s “Toward research inclusivity in applied linguistics: A reflection and methodological guideline for inclusive online experimen... As Kim and Chen have shown, online outreach and experimentation have been somewhat effective strategies for reaching out to and recruiting populations…

Just before the end of the year 🎉 Who participates in research, and why? I argue that if we want to attract more diverse participants, we'll need to radically rethink what and how we research. Open access in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Oh great! I haven't encountered that term before so am excited to learn more. Thank you 😊

Abstract for the talk: Linguistic dissociation is a process through which people come to distance themselves from particular linguistic resources in their repertoire because those resources have become entangled with significant negative interpersonal experiences. Classrooms are powerful spaces when it comes to shaping how we feel about our languages, so what do educators need to know about this phenomenon? In this talk, Dr. Ashley R. Moore will explain what linguistic dissociation is and what we know about how it is experienced. He will finish by sharing the implications of linguistic dissociation for teaching and learning, focusing on how it complexifies various plurilingual pedagogies (Lau & Van Viegen, 2020), including translanguaging pedagogy.

I'm giving a talk on linguistic dissociation aimed at educators this Thursday, 3:30-4:30 ET. Open to everyone and hybrid. You can register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

That must be so stressful 😬 and one thing I learned is that departments doing that work sometimes don't know the answers, so you might need to advocate for yourself (highlighting in cover letters, etc.)

Just saw internal policy from a US-university that, because of the government's new fees for H-1B visas, sponsoring H-1B visas for international hires will likely not be feasible. In today's US, I would never have been able to get my first faculty position.

Parliamentary staff of colour earn £2,000 less than white colleagues, study suggests Exclusive: GMB union’s report also finds pay disparity for women and disabled, trans, non-binary and gay staffers working for MPs and peers

A concrete example of how intersectional oppression is not simply a case of addition: This report into salary gaps between UK parliamentary officers indicates women being paid £1,000 less than men, POC £2,000 less, but Black women £6,000 less. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Title slide from the presentation. The title is “I didn’t see being gay as an experience that could unfold in Arabic”: Heteronormativity, linguacultural ideologies, and coloniality in the emergence of linguistic dissociation among some queer plurilinguals. I've used an image of people walking on rainy city streets that look almost monochrome. However, one of them is holding a vivid rainbow umbrella.

Excited to share my latest work on linguistic dissociation at Penn State University on Friday!

📚 NEW: Associate Professor Cassie J. Brownell (brownellcassie.bsky.social) has been named winner of the 2025 Media Literacy Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)! Congrats, Professor! #OISECelebrates

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Oh good, they got my note.

The gradual inclusion of truth about the experience of slavery in American museums has been one of the most deeply researched and considered and consequential developments in public history over the last half century. Enraging we have to defend it in this way.

The cover of the book, the title of the book in English and, presumably, Arabic (I'm not an Arabic user). Very cute illustrations featured, including what I can only describe as a penis bird.

Arabic and its various dialects are often positioned as somehow being intrinsically anti-queer but the truth is that queer language exists wherever there are queer people, which is EVERYWHERE. Just got my copy of @marwankaabour.bsky.social's beautiful Queer Arab Glossary. Can't wait to dig in!

"No concession will ever be enough." A very slow lesson for so many institutions and orgs.

We had an argument in the queue for ours 😅

Not to mention the fact that Gauff now has to spend so much time and energy responding when she should be basking in the glow of her incredible achievement.

Coco Gauff is giving Aryna Sabalenka "the benefit of the doubt" | GMA YouTube video by Good Morning America

The supreme grace Coco Gauff is extending to Sabalenka is an example of the emotional labour people of colour, especially Black women, often do when responding to White mental gymnastics that ignore facts to dismiss their achievements. youtu.be/7K3Ha2VanWE?...

Guu on Davie?

Something tells me they won't be testing for White fragility and other kinds of privilege-related brittleness...

Screenshot of book cover Title: Workable Accents: How International Teaching Assistants Vocally Fashion and Contest Academic Labor Author: Vijay A. Ramjattan Image: A multi-coloured and patterned speech bubble being assembled by four hands of different skin tone; "Bloomsbury" is written beneath the bubble

Screenshot of one section of the book entitled, "Why Examine Workable Accents?"

If you want a sneak preview of my book, Workable Accents, please click this link to read a decent chunk of the introductory chapter:

shorturl.at/MfGLQ

Please remember to ask your university or local library to order a copy and share this post widely! Thanks in advance!

This is a screenshot of the front cover of the book. The top half contains the title, "Workable Accents: How International Teaching Assistants Vocally Fashion and Contest Academic Labor," and my full name, Vijay A. Ramjattan. The bottom half contains a multi-coloured speech bubble with multiracial hands reaching out to it from four corners.

My very first book is available for pre-order!

Workable Accents explores how international teaching assistants conceptualize accent in relation to academic labor.

Please ask your (university) library to order a copy: shorturl.at/KUC4R

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