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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to share my latest work on linguistic dissociation at Penn State University on Friday!

Title slide from the presentation. The title is “I didn’t see being gay as an experience that could unfold in Arabic”: Heteronormativity,
linguacultural ideologies, and coloniality in the emergence of linguistic dissociation
among some queer plurilinguals. I've used an image of people walking on rainy city streets that look almost monochrome. However, one of them is holding a vivid rainbow umbrella.

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OISEUofT @oiseuoft.bsky.social · 14d

📚 NEW: Associate Professor Cassie J. Brownell (brownellcassie.bsky.social) has been named winner of the 2025 Media Literacy Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)! Congrats, Professor! #OISECelebrates

Learn more: ncte.org/awards/ncte-...

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · Sep 6

Oh good, they got my note.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Aug 20

The gradual inclusion of truth about the experience of slavery in American museums has been one of the most deeply researched and considered and consequential developments in public history over the last half century. Enraging we have to defend it in this way.

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · Aug 19

Arabic and its various dialects are often positioned as somehow being intrinsically anti-queer but the truth is that queer language exists wherever there are queer people, which is EVERYWHERE. Just got my copy of @marwankaabour.bsky.social's beautiful Queer Arab Glossary. Can't wait to dig in!

The cover of the book, the title of the book in English and, presumably, Arabic (I'm not an Arabic user). Very cute illustrations featured, including what I can only describe as a penis bird.

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · Jul 31

"No concession will ever be enough." A very slow lesson for so many institutions and orgs.

Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · Jul 31

Universities are rushing to eliminate the terms diversity, equity and inclusion from all programming while forcing students to sit through pro-Israel propaganda and are still being attacked by the Trump administration. No concession will ever be enough.

Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · Jul 30

"Introducing the (antisemitism) training has not helped Northwestern’s relationship with the Trump administration. Even after implementing it, the administration cut $790m in research funding. Trump is now trying to extract further concessions."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · Jun 24

We had an argument in the queue for ours 😅

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · Jun 9

Not to mention the fact that Gauff now has to spend so much time and energy responding when she should be basking in the glow of her incredible achievement.

Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · Jun 9

The supreme grace Coco Gauff is extending to Sabalenka is an example of the emotional labour people of colour, especially Black women, often do when responding to White mental gymnastics that ignore facts to dismiss their achievements. youtu.be/7K3Ha2VanWE?...

Coco Gauff is giving Aryna Sabalenka "the benefit of the doubt" | GMA

YouTube video by Good Morning America

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · May 30

Guu on Davie?

Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · May 26

Something tells me they won't be testing for White fragility and other kinds of privilege-related brittleness...

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Vijay Ramjattan @vijayramjattan.bsky.social · May 26

If you want a sneak preview of my book, Workable Accents, please click this link to read a decent chunk of the introductory chapter:

shorturl.at/MfGLQ

Please remember to ask your university or local library to order a copy and share this post widely! Thanks in advance!

Screenshot of book cover

Title: Workable Accents: How International Teaching Assistants Vocally Fashion and Contest Academic Labor

Author: Vijay A. Ramjattan

Image: A multi-coloured and patterned speech bubble being assembled by four hands of different skin tone; "Bloomsbury" is written beneath the bubble

Screenshot of one section of the book entitled, "Why Examine Workable Accents?"

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Vijay Ramjattan @vijayramjattan.bsky.social · May 3

My very first book is available for pre-order!

Workable Accents explores how international teaching assistants conceptualize accent in relation to academic labor.

Please ask your (university) library to order a copy: shorturl.at/KUC4R

@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
@bloomsburyling.bsky.social

This is a screenshot of the front cover of the book. The top half contains the title, "Workable Accents: How International Teaching Assistants Vocally Fashion and Contest Academic Labor," and my full name, Vijay A. Ramjattan.

The bottom half contains a multi-coloured speech bubble with multiracial hands reaching out to it from four corners.

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · May 24

Amazing!!! 🤩

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · May 16

Hot off the press in time for the long weekend 🔥🔥🔥, my article showing the importance of generating multiscalar temporal account of linguistic dissociation (and other phenomena shaping the linguistic repertoire) is open access in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics! doi.org/10.1016/j.rm...

Redirecting

doi.org

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · May 16

it's always a little satisfying when something that is a *moral* disaster is *also* a political disaster, because it's not always the case!

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · May 16

What an insane position to have gotten himself into www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Senior faith leaders urge Starmer to tone down migration rhetoric

Exclusive: Christian, Muslim and Jewish representatives write to prime minister after ‘island of strangers’ speech

www.theguardian.com

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · May 13

Great news! For some reason the headline here is different from the one I saw: "Gulf students ask to be taught Gangalidda instead of Japanese" I wish more educational contexts would rethink or diversify the language options available in schools amp.abc.net.au/article/1052...

Successful Gangalidda language learning model pitched across Queensland - ABC News

amp.abc.net.au

Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · May 13

Very exciting, hybrid conference on language and literacies education! Submission deadline is June 30!

Sarah Mercer @smercergraz.bsky.social · May 11

Sharing a call for papers for a hybrid conference that I am excited to be speaking at. Rethinking Languages and Literacies Education will be held in a hybrid mode at Niagara College and online on October 24-25, 2025. Registration will be free for all. www.oise.utoronto.ca/cerll/sympos...

Symposium 2025 | Centre for Educational Research on Languages and Literacies | Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Sixth Symposium of Southern Ontario Universities on “Reimagining Languages and Literacies in Education”

www.oise.utoronto.ca

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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · May 8

Ughhh. Check out my 2024 paper and learn why this is nonsense!

Dorie @doriec.bsky.social · May 7

Not me over here citing Language development, linguistic input, and linguistic racism (Figueroa, 2024) on these word gap posts that keep coming across my Instagram feed 🤮

@meganfigueroa.bsky.social

Screenshot of an Instagram post of a pile of books with the message “there’s a million word gap before kids even start kindergarten” superimposed

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Usree Bhattacharya @usreeb.bsky.social · May 1

Excited to announce that ✨ A Show of Hands: Kalika and the Goddess of Learning is a #1 New Release in Children’s Holidays Around the World & Eastern Religions!
#2 in Children’s Hinduism & #13 in Holidays & Celebrations📚 Out now: a.co/d/0mSNYVq
#RettSyndrome #AAC #InclusiveLit #disability

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · Apr 25

"Some of the cast of the new HBO Harry Potter series have experienced online abuse in response to their involvement. However, all three of the key actors so far revealed have also played landmark LGBTQ+ roles." Abuse is not OK, critique is.

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · Apr 25

This article defends three main actors in the new HP series because they've previously taken LGBTQ+ roles. WTAF? If non-LGBTQ+ actors earn money and acclaim from LGBTQ+ roles, then they should stand in solidarity with those communities when they're persecuted. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...

Pedro Pascal calls JK Rowling a ‘heinous loser’ in wake of supreme court gender ruling

The actor has long been an activist for LGBTQ+ rights and has a transgender sister who often accompanies him on the red carpet

www.theguardian.com

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · Apr 22

On my way to #AERA and the US border agent told me to tell everyone the 3 things education should focus on: 1) financial literacy, 2) bodily literacy and wellbeing, 3) spiritual wellbeing, or how one might live a good life. Honestly, I'm onboard 🥰

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · Apr 16

Never forget that many of the institutions and companies that dismantled DEI-related initiatives did so not out of anticipatory obedience but because they never really wanted diversity, equity, and inclusion in the first place. They are showing us what they have always been.

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · Apr 16

It always helps me to remember that the interviewers are probably nervous, too. They want desperately to find a good and capable colleague, so I try my best to help them relax. And that helps me relax.

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