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-...

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

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.

"Some words can reach the soul like others are unable to."

Open access: Sign language ideologies in deaf education in Trinidad and Tobago @researchtmu.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl...

In this #newblogpost I extend my arguments about the (im)possibility of decolonial GenAI. I specifically focus on the points of divergence between GenAI reliance on colonial structures of flattening what makes us human and decolonisation's refusal of those structures folukeafrica.com/being-human-...

"If any other office appliance did so much harm, it would have been chucked out of the window. Yet we talk about GenAI like it is human and inevitable... But the human thinking it claims to replicate is colonial thinking – extractive, destructive, exploitative and unimaginative."

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

Yes. All of that has a purpose. And we're teaching students they don't but also that their own brains don't need to develop those skills.

One day of hearings for a major education bill tells you everything you need to know. If Bill 101 actually met the needs of our community, the Minister wouldn’t be rushing it through. He’s only giving us 1 day because he’s afraid to hear that people don’t support his power grab. #onted #onpoli

What the rest of the world reads: more than 1 in 3 USians still approve of Trump. 1 in 3.

Reminder that per capita, Ontario spends less on public schools, universities, and healthcare than most other provinces. But our Premier does have his own jet now.

Striking that the Liberals and Conservatives offer the same response to pain at the pump: siphon money out of the public purse instead of Big Oil’s profits.

50 free eprints here, or PM for a PDF. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KKHVU...

Why has there been a lack of training for deaf interpreters in Canada? What are the competencies that underlie DI work? Deaf interpreters in a dangerous time: towards a Canadian model for DI training www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Someone who succeeded for being a lovely person. A mensch. apple.news/AI-zAzlMLScq...

The Ford government can’t explain why some students are losing access to language programs while others are not. I asked the Minister of Education to clarify this inconsistency. #onted #onpoli

I love Rachel Kolb's interview with Christine Sun Kim, one of the great Deaf shit-talkers of the age. www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

“I’m just trying to move through the world with the heart that I have, and the spirit I have, and communicate in a way where I’m understood.” www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/musi...

Idea for future Deaf Academics / Dr. Deaf workshop. www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...

“Here we are, six years after every province and territory in Canada declared states of emergency because of #COVID19, and yet we have not learned basic lessons from the pandemic.” 🦠

My essay on Decolonisation and AI has been published by @biltonline.bsky.social In it I explore some of the incongruence between AI and decolonisation. Specifically, the logics of dehumanisation that decolonisation should combat underpin a lot of the push to use AI. bilt.online/decolonising...

“I really, really hate writing that pulls its punches, stalls out in exposition that we don’t need.” —Maggie Nelson

1/ A desalination plant supplying drinking water to 30 villages. A flour and starch factory. Oil depots blanketing Tehran in thick black smoke and contaminated rain. 65 schools. 13 hospitals. Centuries-old heritage sites. These are the latest targets in the illegal US-Israeli assault on Iran.

1/ I was in Toronto last night to surprise my incredible mother, Michele Landsberg, as she received the Ursula Franklin award from Canadian Voice of Women for Peace.

These most recent allegations against Trump are vile and disgusting. Nobody is above the law. Especially not the leader of the pedophile protection party.

news.unm.edu/news/unm-lin... #Deaf #Signlanguage #Deafcommunity 🤟🏾

Follow the link for the full statement: www.ontariondp.ca/news/pasma-s... #onted #onpoli

statehornet.com/2026/02/davi... #deaf #deafcommunity 🤟🏾

New article about Erin! news.unm.edu/news/unm-lin...

1/ The images coming out of Iran are already unbearable. Reports of an elementary school struck by missiles, killing dozens of people, with scores more killed around the country. Fear and chaos in the streets as families run through smoke and search for safety.

Congratulations to Judith Butler! Winner of the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award! Read more: caribbeanphilosophy.org/frantz-fanon

My Google Scholar alerts are full of notices that Diane Lillo-Martin has teamed up with none other than Pennycook, C.J. Hall and others to produce a sheaf of literary criticism. Something tells me this is an AI hallucination. 😱

Even when the arena is empty, I thank god for the shots I miss. -Andrea Gibson

"WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE? HAVE WE RUN OUT OF WORDS? IS THERE AN ONGOING WORD SHORTAGE, AND I AM YET TO HEAR OF IT? HAS THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE SUFFERED A SUDDEN AND RAPID DEPLETION?"

¡Hasta la victoria siempre!

"You are waiting for someone else to speak, but the words that don’t come out of your mouth will never come out of someone else’s." Audre Lorde (and she's right)

Bye, Canada: I’m going back to where I came from How abrupt policy shifts and anti-migrant racism are spurring a mass exodus in Canada shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

Behind the Books: Kristin Snoddon discusses her book "Being Understood: Deaf Interpreters, Embodied Language and Relationality"

I often see oralism either described in (rightfully) furious terms by Deaf authors, or treated with kid gloves in an effort to be "fair." But I wanted to capture the feeling I as a hearing parent of a #deafkid get when I encounter LSL in the wild—it's a hoax.

50 free eprints here, or PM for a PDF. Brokering understanding: Canadian deaf interpreters’ role and practice www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

On the bright side, it’s the season for chocolate-covered marshmallow hearts. 💕

What my sister Ellen taught me about dignity and the importance of being seen www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

We need to be investing in Ontario's future and that includes investing in our post-secondary sector before it's too late. Algonquin's 37 program closures and the loss of the Perth campus are a small preview of what's coming if cuts to the sector continue. #onpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is becoming an Edmonton-esque winter and it’s still early days.

Proud of Chris Dodd for being appointed to the Order of Canada. @auriclus.bsky.social www.gg.ca/en/appointme...