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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 17h

Delighted to announce that my book is now available! Order before November 30 to receive a 50% discount with code SNBEUN50. @channel-view.bsky.social @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social @researchtmu.bsky.social
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Being Understood

Through a series of linked applied linguistics studies regarding the primacy of text, signing songs, the mediation practices of deaf interpreters and Caribbean deaf epistemologies of language and unde...

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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 1d

In the record of extraordinary human accomplishments against all odds, I place the chapter on Sign Languages in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Linguistics, 2nd ed.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 5d

‘Like James Baldwin, she thought social revolution required a reckoning of all relationships, including the individual’s relationship to herself.’

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy

Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 6d

It is out! Special Carnival issue of Tout Moun Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies including my film Deaf People at Trinidad Carnival. journals.sta.uwi.edu/ojs/index.ph...

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 6d

A thought-provoking discussion of Audre Lorde and of Alexis's wonderful book. @keeanga.bsky.social makes an interesting case that Lorde's politics of coalition and difference departed from the identity politics of CRC, and she's right on about Lorde's focus on the personal dimension of revolution 1/

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 7d

‘Lorde offered a politics that dealt in the realities of survival as well as the necessity of defiance: she refused to give ground to white feminists or to a Black nationalism that assumed women’s subservience.’

@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy

Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

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Yasmin G @anilsghost.bsky.social · 8d

Meeting Stuart Hall, I love these tributes, "Stuart Hall was a welcome reminder of the possibility of academia’s better self, the one where we remember to be kind and welcoming and to nurture new ideas and people" @writersofcolour.bsky.social mediadiversified.org/2014/02/14/m...

Meeting Stuart Hall

We have come together as black feminists to commemorate Stuart Hall who died on 10 February, 2014. ~ Sara Ahmed, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Yasmin Gunaratnam,Vera Jocelyn, Patricia Noxolo, Pratibha Parma…

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 10d

This is very useful (also for improving my own writing)

Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 10d

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 14d

“I am a ‘say the real say’ kind of person. I have a pretty good radar for experimentation with language versus obfuscation.” —Maggie Nelson buff.ly/NbEpI7X

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 14d

This short review of Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth", speaks to me today.

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The Wretched Of The Earth by Frantz Fanon #bookrecommendations #booktubereview #booktube #book

YouTube video by Leslie Smith

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Multilingual Matters @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social · 15d

This #InternationalDayofSignLanguages we're delighted to announce a brand new Multilingual Matters series - Deaf Studies and Sign Linguistics.

Read more about the series and find out how to submit a proposal for it here:

New Series: Deaf Studies and Sign Linguistics

We are excited to be launching a brand new series: Deaf Studies and Sign Linguistics! In this post commissioning editor, Rosie, explains the series’ beginnings and what sort of research she&#…

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Nora Duggan @noraduggan.bsky.social · 20d

Application for a PhD position at our department is now open! We are looking for applicants that are interested in areas of sign language linguistics, general sign language studies, or deaf bilingualism/multilingualism. Deadline is 15th Oct. Please share away! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD student in Linguistics, sign language

The Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University conducts research and offers education in a number of areas such as child language development, computational linguistics, general linguistics, ph

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20d

“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”

In Defense Of Mass Censorship

When The Onion’s editorial board convened to discuss the tumultuous events of the previous month, one conclusion became evident: The world stands at a crossroads. Two visions of our collective future ...

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 20d

The first time Trump declared “antifa” a terrorist organization, in 2020, the Justice Department failed to find or charge any such organization despite arresting 14,000 people for protesting. This vagueness makes his crackdown much more terrifying

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Opinion: Antifa hasn’t existed since 1933. That makes Trump’s attack on it even more menacing

The definition of ‘antifa’ is so loose that virtually anyone who has spoken out against right-wing authoritarianism could be criminally charged

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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 19d

Avi Lewis to launch federal NDP leadership bid

Lewis, son of former federal leader David Lewis, is expected to make the announcement Friday, his campaign manager says

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 20d

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Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat

The Normal People author can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest, according to a statement read out by her publisher at the prize ceremony

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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 20d

My book is 50% off with code SNBEUN50. Offer ends Nov. 30! @channel-view.bsky.social @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...

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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 20d

"In becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my own mortality, and of what I wished and wanted for in my life, however short it might be, priorities and omissions became strongly etched in a merciless light, and what I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?" -Audre Lorde

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 21d

“As a writer you have to be willing to say, Yeah, that’s not good enough, over and over and over again.”

From our Art of Nonfiction interview with Maggie Nelson in our new Fall issue.

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Multilingual Matters @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social · 21d

"Autoethnographers...foreground emotion, memory, and embodied knowledge as legitimate and necessary forms of inquiry. Their research is not a departure from rigor but a redefinition of what rigor entails when investigating culture through the lens of the self."

Read more here:

Why Choose Autoethnography as a Research Method?

This month we published Untold Autoethnographic Stories of (In)Justice, Teaching and Scholarship edited by Ari Sherris and Joy Kreeft Peyton. In this post the editors explain how autoethnography di…

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Janelle Brady (she/her) @janellebrady.bsky.social · 22d

I’m looking forward to running for re-election this weekend at the Ontario NDP convention! I’ve worked on anti-racist and outreach initiatives in the party. I have lots of lessons learned and high hopes for what can be accomplished by the ONDP during these difficult times faced by people across ON.

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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 24d

“Finding the “I” beneath the floorboards is often a question of revision: Bearing down hard on language that wants to generalize, moralize, valorize, villainize or otherwise evade the contradictory resonances of experience. “ www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: The importance of navel gazing

The forms of rigour and tenderness that personal narrative demands are tendencies we can bring back to daily living

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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 25d

Happy that my review essay was published in an issue, with date in the first sentence corrected! Being and Understanding - Snoddon - 2025 - Journal of Sociolinguistics - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Being and Understanding

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Sep 5

📖 New in Journal of Sociolinguistics!
@kristinsnoddon.bsky.social’s “Being and Understanding” reviews two recent works in Crip linguistics, highlighting how communication barriers shape participation and intelligibility.

👉 Read the Early View piece here:

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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Linda McQuaig: Canada can do more to help starving children in Gaza — but it would require some real leadership

Despite the U.S. using its veto to block intervention by the United Nations Security Council, there’s something that the world’s nations can do and Canada being an influential middle power

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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · Aug 27

If it’s any consolation, there seem to be a lot of good books coming out this fall.