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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This is an episode about language and the judgments about it we all make. We talk about fundamental concepts in sociolinguistics and intercultural communication, and ask how on earth people get through an interaction without misunderstanding on...