Was invited to contribute to the Quarter Mark on significant moments of the first 25 years of this century. With thanks to DB and Rinaldo Walcott for reading and thinking with me. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Arrived in my inbox on Christmas morning! @wyattehall.bsky.social Peeling back the layers: contextualising the oralist narratives of listening and spoken language in deaf education and early intervention: Oxford Review of Education: Vol 0, No 0 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

‘Excluding us makes it feels like being deaf doesn’t count’ observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Western right-wing movements are gaining traction in Africa to undermine sexual and reproductive health rights and LGBTQIA+ rights. Africa does not need "an irresponsible espousing of harmful, patriarchal values."

I'm so lucky to work with and learn all the time from Erin. news.unm.edu/news/erin-wi...

Taylor Swift has a song (and a video) for everything!

New blog post! "Deaf interpreters are often highly visible during high-stakes events [...] For signing deaf communities, these events are critical moments which highlight and foreground the importance of understanding and being understood." Read more here:

Gracias to Yarett Piñeiro Rodriguez for helping me with the details of this blog post. @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social @channel-view.bsky.social @researchtmu.bsky.social channelviewpublications.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/d...

Academia wasn’t built for deaf scholars—but what if it was? Our new paper uses #DrDeaf as an example of alignment in action: how deaf ways of knowing and teaching reconfigure academic space and becoming. With tensions, yes—but also with a distinct deaf rhythm. academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...

"What does it mean to be understood as a deaf person? [...] By illuminating deaf worlds of (not) understanding and (not) being understood, layers of alienation and shame are reshaped into sites of linguistic flourishing." buff.ly/zoyy9jt

It’s important to celebrate the wins, be they big or small. Also the misses.

Free tuition and abolishing student debt aren’t new ideas. They’re long-standing demands of the student movement. Education is a public good, and a more educated society benefits everyone. Join the movement to make post-secondary education free: lewisforleader.ca

Happy that my first-ever book talk will take place at a Protactile gathering! As Derrida said: "I will never stop beginning or beginning anew to think with them on the basis of the new beginning they give me."

The president’s obsession with the Somali community and me is really unhealthy and creepy. He is trying to deflect from his failures and sinking approval ratings. Sorry, Trump, we all see through your attempts to hide from your broken promises.

The Sign for Home by Blair Fell: a reminder that great literature must be an axe for the frozen sea within us.

Delighted to highlight a newly published scoping review in JDSDE authored by Associate Editor Ingela Holmström & long-time reviewer Krister Schönström. Their work provides a comprehensive & insightful overview of the role of fingerspelling in literacy development. academic.oup.com/.../10.1093/...

I wish someone would take over the dysfunctional Ontario ministry of education

What are the words for this evil?

"A masterfully rich meditation on the diversity of the linguistic human experience and expression, which skillfully explores the ethics, politics and policy of language and linguistic alterity in a grounded and deeply humane manner." buff.ly/zoyy9jt

Happy World Linguistics Day! Every deaf signer is the last signer of their own sign language variety.

Why did the male feminist walk into a bar? Because it was set extremely low.

So often there is an easy and a hard way to do things, and people choose the hard way!

A blog post by Parmeet Singh, the founder of Deaf Bookwave (an inclusive book club in Bengaluru, India), who we recently sent a copy of "Understanding Deaf Culture" by Paddy Ladd to be used by the group.

A vote for @avilewis.ca is a vote for everyone

Should we worry that hearing people don’t care what deaf people think?

This government claims to be concerned about wasteful spending and bureaucracy, but at the same time they're forcing school boards to divert money meant for our kids into government advertising, while also requiring the minister's office to personally approve every single school name. #onpoli

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

It’s been a week of saying, “Thank goodness that’s over.”

@melwoods.me: We must not overcomplicate what’s going on here. This is the Alberta government saying the rights of trans kids to receive life-saving health care, go by their own pronouns at school or play on sport teams don’t matter as much as the Smith government’s right to dictate their lives.

Names can be changed! TMU once again shows the world how it’s done. nowtoronto.com/news/new-tmu...

Onudeah Nicolarakis, JDSDE Advisory Board Member & Kristin Snoddon, Associate Editor, are keynote presenters at the Caribbean Deaf Education Conference. JDSDE is pleased to support registration costs for select doctoral students/early career scholars. To apply visit forms.gle/NTkwFf29jWcs...

New book outlines theoretical and methodological approaches to analyzing deaf people's experiences of understanding and being understood. buff.ly/zoyy9jt

Rest in power, Alice Wong.

“I am living proof of what happens when parents ensure their Deaf child is offered full language access and genuine choice from the very beginning of life.” B.C. government decisions are making that kind of access and choice harder to find. Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli

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...