Fighting against accentism requires moving away from statements like "Everyone has an accent" to declarations such as "Not all accents are created equal."

I thought you would be the first to get them! 😲

I have my copies of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Prejudice!

I would like to thank @janesetter.bsky.social and @sdovchin.bsky.social as well as our contributors for rearticulating the relationship between language and prejudice.

Ask your library to order a copy:

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From a white supremacist perspective:

Being professional = quietly accepting racism at work
Being unprofessional = calling out this racism

I will be giving a hybrid talk at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Linguistics Department about my recent book, Workable Accents.

What does academic labour sound like?

Using the case of international teaching assistants, my talk attempts to answer this question!

Pronunciation is not a technical action.

Pronunciation is a political act.

"Native" and "nonnative English speaker" are products of racism, colonialism, and nationalism.

They are not objective linguistic descriptors.

Do you work in #education? This post is for you. It centres #Gaza at the heart of everything we do and say in education.

Living with Wounds in Education

www.repair-ed.uk/reparative-p...

Read it. Share it. Act on it

#GazaMatters

You do not assess the pedagogical competence of an immigrant teacher through their accent.

You assess the pedagogical competence of an immigrant teacher through their actual pedagogy.

Nice!

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Check out my interview with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online on the Disability Visibility Project blog! @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social

All the best!

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Thanks very much!

I finally have physical copies of my book!

If you are interested in how accent acts as a type of work in higher education, then you should read Workable Accents.

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You should not have to standardize your speech in order to be heard.

Open Access for this new exited collection Beyond Sanctuary. Please read and circulate.

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Please contribute to help Hammam's family. They are in absolutely desperate circumstances. Anything helps.

“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.”

- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist

Once again, language teaching is inherently political because languages are political inventions in the first place.

White supremacy is the problem, not those who point out this fact.

It takes a certain kind of ignorance and arrogance to believe that if marginalized people change the way they sound, they will automatically get people to listen to them in a more ethical manner.

Ep. 163: Gaza and Global Sport

We return from our too-long hiatus to discuss athletic boycott in the context of genocide with former Ireland basketball captain Rebecca O'Keeffe, as well as our views on some of the atrocities over the last seven months.

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"Professionalism" is typically used to police marginalized workers, not uplift them.