On linguistics, Creole studies, Critical Race Theory, language, education and social justice... #BlackLivesMatter #LanguageMatters

a healthy dose of challenging assumptions 🤔

Of course #LSRL50 will share research on varieties of #Spanish , #French , #Italian , #Portuguese & #Latin ,but did you know we'll also be talking about #Gascon , #Catalan , #Picard , #OldOccitan , #Creoles & #IndigenousLanguages ? Choose your player👯at: sites.utexas.edu/lsrl50/?page_i…

Thank you Jonathan Rosa—and I would add that this so called "implicit racism" is acted out by those who often claim, EXPLICITLY, that they are "anti-racist" while in reality being "implicitly" racist (i.e., they are EXPLICITLY racist under the veil of being progressive allies).

#BlackLivesMatter #HistoryMatters. Silencing Haitian history is part of anti-Blackness hegemony. That's why Louverture & Dessalines are absent in many history textbooks which include Washington & Napoleon. Even Chirac "forgot" Haiti was a French colony 😱 ocw.mit.edu/courses/lingui…

Buildings renamed, statues coming down, symbols removed...it’s almost like white supremacy & colonialism are everywhere!

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my experience with twitter so far: "huh, this isn't so ba-

1/This is Jacob Blake's sister Letetra Widman. Here is her powerful statement. "I am my brother's keeper."

NEW VIDEO UP! Translanguaging and code switching are not the same. Learn why in 15 MINUTES! Thank you to the dozen new patrons for supporting me! 🥰🥰 watch video: youtu.be/Xv6cXSna4RY

Thanks so much NWAV 49 for the Student Abstract Award !! Creole languages are changing in cool and insightful ways, and I look forward to talking more about this with you all. Cheers!

That's a wrap for the 2022 Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL) virtual conference. Shoutout to my first-year PhD advisor Michel DeGraff for coming out to support your boy 💪🏿 Now finished with this project and looking forward to what's next!

Thanasis Kinias @[email protected] Dr Alyssa #MovingWhereTheSkyIsBlue Sepinwall Yes, the la/lan-vs.-a/an pattern in Kreyòl articles is the *opposite* of what one might expect from off-the-shelf linguistic theories of markedness, and here goes flying through the window the hard-to-kill racist myth that "the world's simplest grammars are creole grammars"!!! 😅

What a delight to end our Fall 2022 colloquium series @ MIT Linguistics MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences with the weeklong visit of Pwòf Nicole Holliday @MixedLinguist teaching us about sociophonetics and how it can help improve linguistics, education and make the world better nicolerholliday.wordpress.com

I've finally discovered pasta and now I am sad