Gerald Roche
@geraldroche.bsky.social
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/
ORCiD: 0000-0002-2410-351X
New book: The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777783/the-politics-of-language-oppression-in-tibet/
ORCiD: 0000-0002-2410-351X
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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...
Use 09BCARD for a 30% discount from @cornellupress.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Reposted by Gerald Roche
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"
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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"
Reposted by Gerald Roche
🚨 #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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❗️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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November 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
🚨 #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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❗️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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Reposted by Gerald Roche
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...
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...
www.zeffy.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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...
www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
Reposted by Gerald Roche
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...
mailchi.mp/linguisticju...
What is linguistic justice worth to you?
mailchi.mp
November 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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...
mailchi.mp/linguisticju...
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/...
ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...
A Descriptive Grammar of Eastern Minyag: An Undescribed Tibeto- Burman Language
ses.library.usyd.edu.au
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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/...
ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...
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...
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...
www.zeffy.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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...
www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
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...
mailchi.mp/linguisticju...
What is linguistic justice worth to you?
mailchi.mp
November 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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...
mailchi.mp/linguisticju...
probably others but that'll do for now
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
probably others but that'll do for now
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.
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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.
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.
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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.
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).
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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).
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."
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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."
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.
November 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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.
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.
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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.
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.
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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.
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.
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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.
Reposted by Gerald Roche
@geraldroche.bsky.social
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...
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...
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
@geraldroche.bsky.social
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...
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...
Reposted by Gerald Roche
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
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
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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
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
Reposted by Gerald Roche
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.
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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.
Happens every time.
November 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Happens every time.
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.
November 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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.
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
November 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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
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.
November 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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.
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.
November 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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.