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Kristin Snoddon (she/her)
@kristinsnoddon.bsky.social
Applied sign language linguistics, sign language ideologies, critical ethnography. Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University; student of Caribbean studies.
Happy World Linguistics Day! Every deaf signer is the last signer of their own sign language variety.
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Why did the male feminist walk into a bar? Because it was set extremely low.
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
So often there is an easy and a hard way to do things, and people choose the hard way!
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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A blog post by Parmeet Singh, the founder of Deaf Bookwave (an inclusive book club in Bengaluru, India), who we recently sent a copy of "Understanding Deaf Culture" by Paddy Ladd to be used by the group.
Deaf Bookwave: A Book Club Created By and For Deaf People
Last month we received an email from Parmeet Singh, the founder of Deaf Bookwave, an inclusive book club in Bengaluru, India created by and for the Deaf community. Parmeet was writing to request a …
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November 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
A vote for @avilewis.ca is a vote for everyone
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Should we worry that hearing people don’t care what deaf people think?
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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This government claims to be concerned about wasteful spending and bureaucracy, but at the same time they're forcing school boards to divert money meant for our kids into government advertising, while also requiring the minister's office to personally approve every single school name.

#onpoli
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
It’s been a week of saying, “Thank goodness that’s over.”
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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@melwoods.me: We must not overcomplicate what’s going on here.

This is the Alberta government saying the rights of trans kids to receive life-saving health care, go by their own pronouns at school or play on sport teams don’t matter as much as the Smith government’s right to dictate their lives.
Danielle Smith Goes Nuclear on Trans Rights | The Tyee
Alberta’s premier is overriding Charter protections. Here’s a fact check on her claims.
thetyee.ca
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Names can be changed! TMU once again shows the world how it’s done. nowtoronto.com/news/new-tmu...
New TMU Station signs go up as TTC formalizes renaming of former Dundas Station - NOW Toronto
New TMU Station signage is rolling out across the former Dundas Station as the transit hub undergoes its official rebranding.
nowtoronto.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Onudeah Nicolarakis, JDSDE Advisory Board Member & Kristin Snoddon, Associate Editor, are keynote presenters at the Caribbean Deaf Education Conference. JDSDE is pleased to support registration costs for select doctoral students/early career scholars. To apply visit forms.gle/NTkwFf29jWcs...
November 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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New book outlines theoretical and methodological approaches to analyzing deaf people's experiences of understanding and being understood. buff.ly/zoyy9jt
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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“I am living proof of what happens when parents ensure their Deaf child is offered full language access and genuine choice from the very beginning of life.”

B.C. government decisions are making that kind of access and choice harder to find. Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli
How BC Killed the ‘Last Hope’ for the Deaf Community | The Tyee
A Tyee Q&A with Deaf advocate Sarah-Anne Hrycenko after an NDP retreat on a plan for change.
thetyee.ca
November 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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After 46 years of providing services, the Deaf Children’s Society of BC is closing. Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli
BC Government Blamed as Deaf Kids Lose Key Support | The Tyee
A society that’s supported families for 46 years says a provincial decision forced it to shut down.
thetyee.ca
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
New vlog and blog post about my book that was published yesterday! @researchtmu.bsky.social @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social @channel-view.bsky.social acadeafic.org/2025/11/12/d...
Deaf Interpreters and Being Understood
by Kristin Snoddon
acadeafic.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Difficult to decide whether it's the incompetence or the depravity that bothers me more.
November 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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It's publication day for these exciting new titles!

📖 "Fictional Linguistic Landscapes" by Osman Solmaz
📖 "Being Understood" by Kristin Snoddon
📖 "Radical Inclusivity" edited by Gloria Park, Quanisha Charles, Shannon Tanghe and Marie Webb

All available now on our website: buff.ly/Lx0Cy9y
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Thank you to the person who observed that it’s weird for a hearing white non-American man (and sign language linguist) to announce to me that he hates Marlee Matlin. People like this are dangerous.
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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‘The US military is now carrying out extrajudicial executions on the high seas of people who in the past would have been put on trial and, if found guilty, given a federal prison sentence. Gone is any semblance of due process.’

A.S. Dillingham on the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
A.S. Dillingham | Murder at Sea
Since President Nixon declared war on drugs in 1971, US policies of mass incarceration at home and interdiction and...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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‘While the relief efforts are heartening, the devastation is overwhelming. The road to recovery in western Jamaica looks tremendously long.’

Luke de Noronha on the aftermath of Hurriance Melissa, from the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Luke de Noronha | After the Hurricane
I got a text from Denico last Wednesday afternoon: ‘I’m okay bro it’s a disaster.’ Power remained down across 75...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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My full statement on Zohran Mamdani's historic win.
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM