BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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.
Why do people ask questions when they don’t want to know the answer?
Happy #InternationalDayofSignLanguages! In this video Kristin Snoddon introduces her book "Being Understood: Deaf Interpreters, Embodied Language and Relationality". Kristin is also a co-editor of our new series Deaf Studies and Sign Linguistics. Find out more on our website ⬇️ #IDSL
"I am open for business, I want to know what you love. I want to know who you miss. I want to know your favourite sound in the world." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: My world made me the writer I am today
Everything I learned was always at my fingertips, on the blocks I grew up on
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“We have to find our places of deepest love and fight like hell.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Four years ago, the Human Rights Commission of Newfoundland and Labrador hearing in the case of Carter Churchill v. Newfoundland and Labrador English School District et. al. took place in St. John’s. However, justice has not been achieved for deaf children. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Possible beings: Deaf children and linguistic justice
This paper discusses the case of Carter Churchill v. Newfoundland and Labrador English School District and analyses legal documents as they illuminate current understanding of linguistic justice an...
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Please, I beg, no more sign language family trees.
Check out this interview with our author Kristen Snoddon on her book "Being Understood: Deaf Interpreters, Embodied Language and Relationality": buff.ly/0fa6Dde
It was my honour to interview Dr Kristin Snoddon! I recommend everyone to read Being Understood!
Kristin Snoddon (she/her)@kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt was a joy and an honour to do an author interview about my book Being Understood with Tsung-Lun Alan Wan. campanthropology.org/category/aut...
It was a joy and an honour to do an author interview about my book Being Understood with Tsung-Lun Alan Wan. campanthropology.org/category/aut...
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Delighted to be part of this important second edition, and grateful for the support of colleagues who made this possible. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics offers a comprehensive reference point and introduction to the discipline of linguistics. This wide-ranging survey of the field brings together a range of perspec...
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New paper: Deaf Academics and Structural Injustice. Not free to read, but please PM me for a PDF. www.proquest.com/scholarly-jo...
Today I commiserated with a student about reactions to their research presentation as being nothing new and only what people already know. People said the exact same thing to me when I was a Ph.D. student (and afterwards). Like, this means it is good, accurate research? This is the point!
"...“ally” is often deployed to describe a position taken by a person who is outside of the system of oppression and has no common interest with those subject to it. This positioning often serves to distance so-called allies from the system of oppression."
folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 4mo agoCan the concept of allyship help us build solidarity in difficult times? I argue the word “ally” may not be able to do the work that we are calling upon it to do. Rather than think of allyship as something we are, think of it as something we do. Ally=Growth+Action. folukeafrica.com/are-we-allie...
This month we're publishing "Power, Mobility and Voice: Jan Blommaert's Unfinished Business". We were able to make this book Open Access in collaboration with Tilburg University and The International Mother Tongue Education Network. Download it now ⬇️
My #newblogpost is a sombre reflection on the dire state of "race relations" marked as it is by enduring racial violence, falsehood, performativity, inaction, unmournable bodies, and a failure to protect all our children across time and space. folukeafrica.com/reflections-...
Reflections on the end of ‘Race Relations’ and the elusive hope for racial justice
But remember the children are always ours… every single one of them.
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1/ Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold. People are dying, systems are breaking down. This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.
Originally published in Poem-a-Day on May 27, 2026, by the Academy of American Poets. poets.org/poem/every-p...
New blog post! This Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Tommi explains what we're doing to try and make our books as accessible as possible. buff.ly/LZpkluT
Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2026
This Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Tommi explains what we’re doing to try and make our books as accessible as possible. Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications has always b…
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I am so fed up with having AI rammed down my throat. I don‘t want any of it. I don’t want your stupid machine thinking for me. I don’t want it chewing things up and spitting out idiot goo that purports to be efficient. I don’t want the theft and corrosion of everything original there is. Eff off.
"When we place ourselves (we in the university) at the centre, we are tempted to only ask, ‘have we not done enough?’ But when we place those most impacted by the legacies we explore, at the centre of our concerns, there is only one question to drive us: ‘Is the job done?’" The job is not done.
folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 5mo agoIMHO it is relevant to the current HE crisis to revisit the question of how universities address and repair the harm of the trade in kidnapped and enslaved Africans. Reducing universities to technical institutions of certification reduces their role in global repair. folukeafrica.com/universities...
"Some words can reach the soul like others are unable to."
folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 5mo ago'It is the story that owns and directs us.' Chinua Achebe says. Whose story owns us now? How can we change it? How do we write future possibilities into being? This is a blog post about the power of words and stories. A manifesto of sorts on why I write. folukeafrica.com/we-dream-we-...
Open access: Sign language ideologies in deaf education in Trinidad and Tobago @researchtmu.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl...
Sign language ideologies in deaf education in Trinidad and Tobago
Abstract. This paper, representing a multilingual Global South–Global North deaf research collaboration, reports and critically analyzes findings from inte
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