¡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...

Puerto Rican musical sensation Bad Bunny will headline the Super Bowl halftime show in February, and as contributor Eugene Holley Jr. reports, the roots of Afro-Puerto Rican music run deep. bit.ly/4azaDVu

When times are hard, elites reach for the same trick. They use racism and fear to divide us — keeping us punching down so we don’t look up. But we know our fates are intertwined, and that’s where our power lies. Join us in building a government for the many: lewisforleader.ca

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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

"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

“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