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Gerald Roche
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AuDHD & PhD. anthropology, language, power. he/him
New book: The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777783/the-politics-of-language-oppression-in-tibet/

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · Nov 15
It's publication day! The Politics of Language Oppression sheds light on a global crisis of linguistic diversity that will see at least half of the world's languages disappear this century.

Use 09BCARD for a 30% discount from @cornellupress.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
A book cover. The top half of the cover is sky blue, with black text on bright yellow high-lighting. The text reads "The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet". The lower half shows a photograph of a tiled public square with a brightly lit building at the back of the square. People are walking on the square, and a child is sitting in a large model car. In the bottom right hand corner is the author's name, Gerald Roche, in bright yellow.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 1h
My book on language oppression is currently on sale for folks in the USA. If you use the code 09WINTER at Cornell's website, you'll get a 44% discount, which should bring the cost down to about 20 bucks.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet by Gerald Roche | Paperback | Cornell University Press
In The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet, Gerald Roche sheds light on a global crisis of linguistic diversity that will see at least half of the world's languages disappear this century. Roche....
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15h
Every minute, one centrist man does a post saying "I reckon the environmental impact of AI is bad, but NOT THAT BAD, and a lot of people are overstating it"

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 23h
🚨 #DECRA #DE26 announcement:

❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026❗️

See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/285

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 1d
Always good to see a new bit of descriptive linguistic work on one of the minoritized languages of Tibet - this time on Easter Minyag.
ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...
A Descriptive Grammar of Eastern Minyag: An Undescribed Tibeto- Burman Language
ses.library.usyd.edu.au

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 2d
The Linguistic Justice Foundation is looking for 60 people to make a $5 monthly donation to help support our work pursuing linguistic justice for everyone. Please donate if you can, shar eif you can't.
www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
Donate to make a difference for people's right to use, maintain and transmit their languages
Your contribution is helping us drive systemic change for linguistic justice. It helps us to advance public awareness and mass education on language rights and linguistic justice, conduct research, an...
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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 2d
Last year, I co-founded a non-profit organization in the US: the Linguistic Justice Foundation. Although I'm really proud of what we've been able to do in the last year, Trump has not made things easy for us. Please read below for more details, and lend a hand if you can.
mailchi.mp/linguisticju...
What is linguistic justice worth to you?
mailchi.mp

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 3d
probably others but that'll do for now

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 3d
Another time, standing at the reception of a private hospital, blood running down my face from a gash on my head. Receptionist explains they can't treat me me without payment so I apologize and ask to use a bathroom to wash my face.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 3d
On a night out I fell back heavily on my wrist. When I got home I could tell something was wrong so I tied a sock around it and went to sleep. Next morning I drove to the doctor, changing gears with my sock-tied wrist, which turned out to be broken.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 3d
I was using a lino cutting tool & my hand slipped. I ended up thrusting the blade right up my nostril, leaving a long gash. I had a shift coming up at work and I didn't want to miss it, so I just got in the car and drove to work (had to pull over before I got there due to dizziness from blood loss).

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 4d
An optometrist told me she had never seen eyes as dry as mine. "How can you not feel that?" she said. She waved her fingers towards her eyes, "This is pain. You should think of this feeling as pain."

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 4d
When I was maybe 9 or 10 I couldn't feel the heat from the clothes iron and I couldn't tell if it was on so I pressed it against my thigh. It was on and left a burn in the shape of a clothes iron on my skin, right down to the holes where the steam comes out.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 4d
At a rehearsal for a performance at school when I was 11, I fell & hurt my ankle. I told my very busy teacher, who told me to "stand over there and wait." I did and they forgot to follow up, so I just kept standing on my torn ligaments and went home with my ankle swollen up like some sort of melon.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 4d
My first job as a teenager was in a bakery. I put my hand too far into the bread slicer, and cut up my fingers. Because I wanted to 'do a good job' I just kept working until my manager noticed the blood running down my hand.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 4d
Yesterday I gave a talk about autism, pain, and testimonial injustice, so here's a quick thread on barely believable pain experiences I've had.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 4d
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Because Language (becauselangpod) @becauselanguage.com · 4d
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I still watch this video every so often.

"History is full of depressing things that were defeated by people who did something."

Full episode: becauselanguage.com/109-language...

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aslynn is grateful to be autistic @audhd-psychnp.com · 4d
It’s not vaccines
It’s not Tylenol
It’s not circumcisions
It’s not Tylenol
It’s not vaccines

& it’s also not a fucking problem to be eradicated!

Autism is a natural way of being

We don’t need a cure
The only “cure” is love

Unconditional Accommodation

Acceptance

Autism is not a problem to solve

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5d
If anyone works at CDC and wants to talk about the CDC now promoting the idea that vaccines might cause autism, my signal is emgarcia.85. I will protect your identity.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 6d
Happens every time.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 6d
I am writing up the description of a research project for a funding application, and I've just crossed the important threshold of thinking I don't have enough to say to fill up the required space, to having too much to say to fit in the required space.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 8d
If we view the world's languages in crisis through these lenses, we get a very different picture from Krauss's, and most importantly, we get a very different sense of what we should do to intervene in the world in support of those languages. /end

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 8d
The world isn't just a container for languages, it is a political field, animated by structures and systems that drive the fate of languages and the people who use them. Nationalism, colonialism, racism and capitalism are four key structures in today's world system.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 8d
My revision here is to talk about the world as a world system: a political and economical system integrated through hierarchies and horizontal exchanges, which takes various forms in different historical periods.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 8d
The second revision I make to Krauss's article focuses on 'the world'. Krauss talks about the world, basically, as a container for all languages. When he says 'the world's languages' he just means all the languages.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 8d
In this sense, the 'crisis' of the world's languages is seen in the tensions between ongoing language oppression & loss, and language revitalization. The old (a world system that produces language oppression) is dying, but the new (a world of multilingualism & revitalization) cannot be born.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 8d
One way I update Krauss's article is to rethink the word 'crisis'. Krauss meant something like 'emergency', but I argue that it is helpful to think of crisis in the way that Antonio Gramsci did (he was a linguist!).
black and white graphic with text and image. Image is a black and white photo of a man wearing glasses. The text on the right says "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 8d
This article (that I wrote) is good & I hope some linguists will read it. It's a reinterpretation of Krauss's influential 1992 paper 'The World's Languages in Crisis.' Here's a short quick thread with two key insights from the paper.

scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipation...
The World’s Languages in Crisis (Redux): Toward a Radical Reimagining for Global Linguistic Justice
The world’s languages are in crisis: intergenerational transmission of around half the world’s languages is collapsing. I argue that to understand and intervene in this situation, we need to radically...
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 8d
“Anarchist militants have waged terror campaigns in the United States and Europe, conspiring to undermine the foundations of Western Civilization through their brutal attacks,” the [US State] department said.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 9d
apparently "choose your battles" doesn't mean choose all of them