After many years, revisions, headaches, and rejections, and headaches with deaf historian the original paper that started the Crip lx movement is finally published. …ticalstudycommunicationdisability.org/index.php/jcsc…

This true story came from this article from Book Riot bookriot.com/sex-ed-books-p…

"NGOs have tamed a generation of activists. They’ve given up grand visions of social change & mass recruitment in favor of writing grants & wooing foundations; ceded control of the movement to executives in boardrooms..." INCITE! What is the "NGO-isation" of resistance?

“Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value.” ~ Ama Ata Aidoo (March 23, 1942 – May 31, 2023) Thank you carrying sweet water to our thirsty, parched lips. We drank deep from you. #AmaAtaAidoo

We need to recognise communities as sources of knowledge production, not spaces of data extraction.

YES.

If you ain’t ready you betta get ready!

Aight y’all. We said it. instagram.com/tv/CuBEE_LgvX-…

It’s official! As of today, I am an Assistant Professor at UT Austin. 🤘🏾

In rejecting standardized testing, speech and language therapists would transform their role as an expert to a co-learner which in turn would lead to collaboration with children and their families.

Well, we are in the 2nd week of classes and my students are healthily unsettled & asking good Qs. We talked about language ideologies today. A student asked me to clarify accent & dialect because she learned something different in other classes. The undoing is working 😏

Brandon Chelsea Privette Míriam Rodríguez-Guerra

Super ironic that Black English speech is dismissed and devalued as being linguistically broken, and at the same time is one of the richest sources of lexical innovation in English