Language∙n∙Justice
Language is a social justice issue.
Podcasting since 2021 • 6 episodes
Language∙n∙Justice
Latest Episodes
06: Weed and Words — A Language•n•Justice Conversation with Symone Varnado
In this Language•n•Justice conversation, I chat with Symone Varnado, founder and CEO of Merp, a cannabis company with a social justice mission. We talk about the framing of cannabis over its history in the U.S., the significant and lastin...
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Episode 6
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05: Endangered, But Not Extinct
In this episode, we talk about Indigenous languages, language endangerment and extinction, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has made a precarious situation even worse.REFERENCESArchambault, J. (2021, Jan. 24). How Covid-19 threatens...
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Episode 5
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23:07
04: The Great Equalizer — Not So Equal, Not So Great
This is an episode about the education system, and the many linguistic injustices that exist within it. We talk about how students are often at a disadvantage if they don't come into the classroom with a pre-existing fluency in the dominant lan...
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Episode 4
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25:32
03: Hippocratic Hypocrisy
This is an episode about linguistic injustice in the healthcare industry. We talk about how hard it can be for people to listen when they don't understand and how this can create urgent oversights, and we list some (disturbing) cases of intercu...
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Episode 3
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21:17
02: Injustice in Justice
This is an episode about linguistic injustice in the legal system. We talk about the many ways that language intersects with the law, cases where linguists have helped justice be served, and cases where the lack of linguistic intervention cause...
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Episode 2
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23:27