As part of a new social media campaign to celebrate linguistic diversity online throughout Asia, Mingma Phuti and I will be hosting AsiaLangsOnline Twitter account August 20-26. rising.globalvoices.org/blog/2019/08/1…

“When I sing Sherpa songs, it brings back memories of my childhood. It takes me back to my home” Mingma P Sherpa “Omo Sungla maneso…” by Dendi Sherpa and Mingma P Sherpa #Sherpa #Songs #LanguageMatters youtu.be/QfLuXldPAg8

Really honored to be a part if this amazing special issue with the brilliant Pasang Y Sherpa ❤️ Thank you Prof Saffron O'Neill and Roz Pidcock for the opportunity and hopefully this will support initiatives to democratize the production of climate knowledges #COP26Glasgow #justice

That's what my grandparents and their parents practiced until colonialism destroyed it and took over our land. We cannot "reconnect with nature" without engaging with colonialism and the extractive economic logic.

When Joe Biden The White House taps former Senator Doug Jones as "sherpa" to guide Supreme Court pick, A REAL LIFE SHERPA wonders what that even means and LIVES WITH THE CONSEQUENCES of such misappropriation. cbsnews.com/news/biden-sup… via CBS News Politics

Today, I am thinking about 'Sherpa' misappropriation. And I discovered: *Sherpa: experts battling economic crime [asso-sherpa.org/organization] Jason, "your friendly founder of Global Sherpa (“GS”) since September, 2010." [globalsherpa.org/about-global-s…]

I wrote about the sacred Teesta River in Sikkim for this month's Loka Initiative newsletter and how convoluted and opaque the business of dams building is here. For eg, I only learned recently that Morgan Stanley & Goldman Sachs were investors of the Teesta dam. Happy #EarthDay!

'Deaths on Everest Put Spotlight on Sherpa Labor' newsweek.com/deaths-everest… by Rob Verger with important voices: Pasang Y Sherpa Reclaiming Sherpa