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For me, the disinventing of named languages parallels the deconstruction of gender binaries. Both political projects seek to challenge the seeming objectivity of bounded categories by revealing the colonial logics

I was in a debate the other day about whether POC have to learn to speak like white people to succeed. I asked what it even means to speak like

The gay trolling of the Proud Boys hashtag reinforces the idea that white supremacy is an ideology of "bad" [poor] people allowing the primarily white gay men posting pictures to

I often observe academics, marginalized scholars, apologize for "self-promotion” of work focused on community empowerment. In contrast, straight white male able-bodied academics only interested in self-promotion as a way of

When many people hear the term "English learner" they think of somebody who recently arrived to the US who speaks little English. But the reality is that most of these

Saying POC can be prejudiced but not racist is not precise enough and risks being miscontrued. It is more accurate to say white people cannot be victims of racism while

Over the years I have confronted a great deal of academic gaslighting from scholars in the field who constantly tried to get me to second guess myself. Some examples of

It is impossible to affirm BIPOC language practices within a white supremacist society. Conservatives condemn racialized language practices in overtly racist ways. Liberals claim to affirm racialized language practices but

Some people treat translanguaging as an empirical phenomenon and want to understand its linguistic featuresFor me, translanguaging is an orientation that calls into question socially constructed linguistic boundaries in ways

It is interesting to see how comfortable many white liberals have become with Lisa Delpit's work since the 1990s when it caused many white tears. They often cite her in

A common rallying cry for progressive supporters of public education is the need to “save public schools” or to “keep public schools, public.” Yet, this begs the question what does

I have gotten some new followers since my last thread about BICS and CALP so I am going to do one again. Apologies to those who have heard it before