Books: Being Understood: Snoddon (2025)

After 46 years of providing services, the Deaf Children’s Society of BC is closing. Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli

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...

Difficult to decide whether it's the incompetence or the depravity that bothers me more.

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

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.

‘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...

‘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...

My full statement on Zohran Mamdani's historic win.

Let’s go Blue Jays.

If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.

Wrote a bit about the history of deaf people in film for @pbs.org American Masters in honor of the new documentary about @marleematlin.bsky.social "Not Alone Anymore". Brava to Marlee and director Shoshannah Stern on a beautiful film. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

If men were normal about women disagreeing with them the world would be entirely different.

What about those Jays eh.

❤️🤟🏻

Honoured to co-author this piece on how early childhood systems shape the lives of families with disabled children — and the gendered, racialized, and classed labour placed on mothers and caregivers.

'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'

1/ Is $10/day child care even happening if there aren't workers to do it? I sat down for tea with Amanda Quance, an early childhood educator in Ottawa, on ECE Appreciation Day. The answer is no –– and we're about to find out the hard way.

"Love has never been a popular movement. And no one's ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together – really, it is held together – by the love and the passion of a very few people." James Baldwin

Okay (Blue Jays), this is great.

“And then it came, the realization that—at least in my mind—79 years old was so young for a famous rich white woman in America like Diane Keaton and that 78 years old was practically a miracle for a black trans woman like Miss Major.”

Yesterday we received word that the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) within Dept of Ed (DoEd) was gutted--right now we believe there is no one or nearly no one left. But what does it mean? 1/11

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 www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...

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.

‘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...

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...

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/

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...

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

“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

This short review of Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth", speaks to me today. www.youtube.com/shorts/XRPUB...

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:

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/...

“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”

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 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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/...

"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

“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.

"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:

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.

“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...

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/...

📖 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:

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

Stocking up on masks for school. Kids have grown, so we're having to check out new sizes and models. Sample packs, like this one, are really handy for this. canadastrong.ca/products/hea...

My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from! The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI