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Ashley R Moore

@ashleyrmoore.bsky.social
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Critical applied linguist at OISE, University of Toronto, researching inclusive language education, multilingualism, and linguistic dissociation. he/him

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Woohoo 🎉 The conceptual paper I wrote with @albobert.bsky.social, "Untangling and intertwining queer pedagogy and queer inclusion in language education," just got accepted by The Modern Language Journal. We're very grateful to the editors and reviewers who helped us improve our ideas!
Screenshot of the acceptance email, text reads: Thank you for carefully revising in response to the reviewers’ feedback over the previous round of review. We are delighted to accept your manuscript "Untangling and intertwining queer pedagogy and queer inclusion in language education" for publication in The Modern Language Journal.
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Right? Absolutely wild. I can bring down the cost by staying with friends, but very unlikely I will ever participate again.
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The registration fees for AILA are outrageous 🤯 the very cheapest option (AILA student member) is still US$370. The most expensive? Onsite non-members: US$945. This doesn't even include lunches, special events, etc. and participants will still have to find accommodation in Vancouver ($$$$$). WTAF!?
A screenshot of the hugely expensive registration fees for AILA 2027.
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
@theguardian.com just published an editorial in which they describe Dr Arday's death as "a tragedy that demands reflection," but absolve themselves from any wrongdoing or reponsibility. If you have a Guardian subscription, today is a great day to cancel it and let them know exactly why.
A screenshot of the email confirming that I cancelled my subscription to the Guardian.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Plagiarists are a common problem in academia. Fantasists can be found in all walks of life. They are almost never subject to the level of scrutiny and retribution that we're seeing unfold. Why?
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Tasha Austin PhD [she] @profeaustin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Familiar with overperforming for institutions whose existence require my superexploitation, I told Warda not to cast her pearls before swine Our exchanges are threads in a tapestry of triumph fueled by community, history & authenticity DM for copies!📿📿📿 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CBMWQ...
Image of first page of peer reviewed article: Pearls before swine: an Nkwaethnographic exploration of the language and labor of Black women scholars
Authors: Tasha Austin & Warda Farah
Abstract: Within the modern era, Black women have been positioned as silent laborers unworthy of just compensation for their work. This positioning reflects broader western formations that thrive on Black women depicted as takers rather than contributors to society even when they are experts and professionals in their fields. Still, the navigation and understanding of the value of Black women’s intellectual labor has yet to be explored for the way it is digitally mediated and languaged through storytelling.This nkwaethnographic study reveals how the co-authors navigate suspicions about our legitimate contributions towards co-constructed community knowledges within the white-dominated contexts in which we find ourselves. Our thematic analysis revealed that our personal, cultural and professional language expertise allowed us to leverage various linguistic modalities to bear witness to one another’s realities, invite community in lieu of isolation, and dare to emerge as authentic cultural beings across time and space.

Introductory paragraph: We, Tasha and Warda, connected over social media more than three years ago, finding value in one another’s critical language approaches within our respective academic fields of world language teacher preparation and speech and language pathology (SLP). Our posts expressed different perspectives on having an ethical commitment to Black and minoritized languagers within spaces dominated by white supremacy. We sustained our connection through a series of public and private conversations that revealed a transatlantic rhythm between the United States and the United Kingdom– one of resistance to commodification regarding the labor of Black women whose work is the pursuit of linguistic justice. We were both instructing at the higher education level, but n…
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion aren't just relevant to a certain kind of critical research; they should be guiding principles for ALL research. Great to work on this with a group of scholars working across applied linguistics: www.aaal.org/feature-arti...
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Feature Articles: June 2026 AAALetter - American Association For Applied Linguistics
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Kris Knisely @krisknisely.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Now available: Free, data-driven, community-centered resources for honoring people of all genders in Arabic, created by @maryahc.bsky.social, Lucie Knight, & Vess-Tessa as part of the Gender Just Language Education Project that I cooridinated & edited. Please share. www.krisknisely.com/arabic
Materials for teaching toward gender justice in Arabic krisknisely.com/arabic
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Earn TESL Ontario certification at the same time as an MEd in Language and Literacies Education at @oiseuoft.bsky.social! TESL ON certification is both locally and internationally recognized! More info: www.oise.utoronto.ca/ctl/masters-...
A flyer for the new combined MEd+TESL Certificate program!
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
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‘It’s broken English’: MP’s attempt to speak Jamaican in parliament sparks language row
Parliamentary rule that only English is allowed has reignited debate about language, legitimacy and postcolonial identity
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Taking a beginner Spanish class has been an important reminder of how political ideologies are present right from the very first class, whether we recognise them or not.
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Thanks, Chris!
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
New pub with Ava Becker: Whole-language approaches like translanguaging pedagogies are vital, but what happens if linguistic resources are entangled with trauma? 50 free copies www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SKYGM...
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Undesired language: towards trauma-informed plurilingual pedagogies
While translanguaging and other plurilingual pedagogies have gained popularity for their potential to validate students’ linguistic repertoires as they strengthen them, such approaches have general...
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Protest works: dailyfreepress.com/04/06/16/219...
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BREAKING: BU temporarily halts enforcement of outward-facing signage policy
Boston University President Melissa Gilliam announced in an email Monday that she is “temporarily pausing” a University policy enforcing the removal of outward-facing signs. The decision comes weeks a...
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Love to see this 😍
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This makes no sense. If, as the President says, Boston University has "unequivocal support for our LGBTQIA plus community," flags like this don't speak for the university, but would simply be reflecting its commitments. www.wbur.org/news/2026/03...
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Following outcry, BU president defends removing pride flags
Gilliam’s remarks come days after several faculty members sent her a letter decrying the removal of pride flags from several windows, including one at the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies departmen...
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Language textbooks are loaded with troubling ideologies. This is Page 30 from the Spanish textbook Nos Vemos Hoy 1. The activity instructions: "These are some of the most valued professions in Spain. Write each one below the corresponding image."
Page 30 from the Spanish textbook Nos Vemos Hoy 1. The activity instructions: "These are some of the most valued professions in Spain. Write each one below the corresponding image." A graphic shows photos of people doing different jobs. Each photo is placed on a bar chart as if they are ranked somehow. The tallest bar is for "médico/a" (doctor) and the shortest is for "escritor/a" (writer).
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Many of us are torn about going to the US for #AAAL2026. Here's a list 7 things we can do in Chicago to support affected communities, including a list of neighbourhoods that would appreciate those per diem $$$: littlevillagechamber.org/chicagos-imm...
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Chicago’s Immigrants Are Being Targeted By ICE. Here’s What You Can Do To Help - Little Village Chamber of Commerce
Chicago’s Immigrants Are Being Targeted By ICE. Here’s What You Can Do To Help From sharing information and shopping immigrant-owned businesses to donating to nonprofits, here are seven ways Chicagoan...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/01/2026
The kidnappings of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian US citizens are not an accident. They are the leading edge of a wide-scale ethnic cleansing campaign with centuries-old roots that is intentionally targeting not just non-citizens but all people of color. All. People. Of. Color.
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
www.routledge.com/White-System...
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White System, Black Therapist: Racism, Resistance and Reimagining Speech and Language Therapy
In this book, Warda Farah brings a fresh perspective to the field of Speech and Language Therapy, challenging traditional approaches and opening crucial conversations about race, culture, and neurodiv...
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Anne H. Charity Hudley @acharityhudley.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
All righty y'all! The Journal of Black Language and Culture @jblacjournal.bsky.social is now open for submissions! See our website for information on how to submit and reach out if you have questions or ideas as we learn and grow! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Journal of Black Language and Culture | Cambridge Core
Journal of Black Language and Culture - Anne H. Charity Hudley
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Just before the end of the year 🎉 Who participates in research, and why? I argue that if we want to attract more diverse participants, we'll need to radically rethink what and how we research. Open access in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Who participates in research, and why? A response to K. M. Kim & E. Chen’s “Toward research inclusivity in applied linguistics: A reflection and methodological guideline for inclusive online experimen...
As Kim and Chen have shown, online outreach and experimentation have been somewhat effective strategies for reaching out to and recruiting populations…
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Oh great! I haven't encountered that term before so am excited to learn more. Thank you 😊
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I'm giving a talk on linguistic dissociation aimed at educators this Thursday, 3:30-4:30 ET. Open to everyone and hybrid. You can register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Abstract for the talk: Linguistic dissociation is a process through which people come to distance themselves from
particular linguistic resources in their repertoire because those resources have become
entangled with significant negative interpersonal experiences. Classrooms are powerful
spaces when it comes to shaping how we feel about our languages, so what do educators need
to know about this phenomenon?
In this talk, Dr. Ashley R. Moore will explain what linguistic dissociation is and what we know
about how it is experienced. He will finish by sharing the implications of linguistic dissociation
for teaching and learning, focusing on how it complexifies various plurilingual pedagogies (Lau
& Van Viegen, 2020), including translanguaging pedagogy.
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
That must be so stressful 😬 and one thing I learned is that departments doing that work sometimes don't know the answers, so you might need to advocate for yourself (highlighting in cover letters, etc.)
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Just saw internal policy from a US-university that, because of the government's new fees for H-1B visas, sponsoring H-1B visas for international hires will likely not be feasible. In today's US, I would never have been able to get my first faculty position.
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
A concrete example of how intersectional oppression is not simply a case of addition: This report into salary gaps between UK parliamentary officers indicates women being paid £1,000 less than men, POC £2,000 less, but Black women £6,000 less. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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Parliamentary staff of colour earn £2,000 less than white colleagues, study suggests
Exclusive: GMB union’s report also finds pay disparity for women and disabled, trans, non-binary and gay staffers working for MPs and peers
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Excited to share my latest work on linguistic dissociation at Penn State University on Friday!
Title slide from the presentation. The title is “I didn’t see being gay as an experience that could unfold in Arabic”: Heteronormativity, 
linguacultural ideologies, and coloniality in the emergence of linguistic dissociation 
among some queer plurilinguals. I've used an image of people walking on rainy city streets that look almost monochrome. However, one of them is holding a vivid rainbow umbrella.
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OISEUofT @oiseuoft.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
📚 NEW: Associate Professor Cassie J. Brownell (brownellcassie.bsky.social) has been named winner of the 2025 Media Literacy Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)! Congrats, Professor! #OISECelebrates Learn more: ncte.org/awards/ncte-...
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Oh good, they got my note.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The gradual inclusion of truth about the experience of slavery in American museums has been one of the most deeply researched and considered and consequential developments in public history over the last half century. Enraging we have to defend it in this way.
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Arabic and its various dialects are often positioned as somehow being intrinsically anti-queer but the truth is that queer language exists wherever there are queer people, which is EVERYWHERE. Just got my copy of @marwankaabour.bsky.social's beautiful Queer Arab Glossary. Can't wait to dig in!
The cover of the book, the title of the book in English and, presumably, Arabic (I'm not an Arabic user). Very cute illustrations featured, including what I can only describe as a penis bird.
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
"No concession will ever be enough." A very slow lesson for so many institutions and orgs.
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
We had an argument in the queue for ours 😅
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Not to mention the fact that Gauff now has to spend so much time and energy responding when she should be basking in the glow of her incredible achievement.
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The supreme grace Coco Gauff is extending to Sabalenka is an example of the emotional labour people of colour, especially Black women, often do when responding to White mental gymnastics that ignore facts to dismiss their achievements. youtu.be/7K3Ha2VanWE?...
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Coco Gauff is giving Aryna Sabalenka "the benefit of the doubt" | GMA
YouTube video by Good Morning America
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Guu on Davie?
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Something tells me they won't be testing for White fragility and other kinds of privilege-related brittleness...
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Vijay Ramjattan @vijayramjattan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
If you want a sneak preview of my book, Workable Accents, please click this link to read a decent chunk of the introductory chapter: shorturl.at/MfGLQ Please remember to ask your university or local library to order a copy and share this post widely! Thanks in advance!
Screenshot of book cover

Title: Workable Accents: How International Teaching Assistants Vocally Fashion and Contest Academic Labor

Author: Vijay A. Ramjattan

Image: A multi-coloured and patterned speech bubble being assembled by four hands of different skin tone; "Bloomsbury" is written beneath the bubbleScreenshot of one section of the book entitled, "Why Examine Workable Accents?"
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Vijay Ramjattan @vijayramjattan.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
My very first book is available for pre-order! Workable Accents explores how international teaching assistants conceptualize accent in relation to academic labor. Please ask your (university) library to order a copy: shorturl.at/KUC4R @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburyling.bsky.social
This is a screenshot of the front cover of the book. The top half contains the title, "Workable Accents: How International Teaching Assistants Vocally Fashion and Contest Academic Labor," and my full name, Vijay A. Ramjattan.

The bottom half contains a multi-coloured speech bubble with multiracial hands reaching out to it from four corners.
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Amazing!!! 🤩
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Hot off the press in time for the long weekend 🔥🔥🔥, my article showing the importance of generating multiscalar temporal account of linguistic dissociation (and other phenomena shaping the linguistic repertoire) is open access in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics! doi.org/10.1016/j.rm...
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Redirecting
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
it's always a little satisfying when something that is a *moral* disaster is *also* a political disaster, because it's not always the case!
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Great news! For some reason the headline here is different from the one I saw: "Gulf students ask to be taught Gangalidda instead of Japanese" I wish more educational contexts would rethink or diversify the language options available in schools amp.abc.net.au/article/1052...
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Successful Gangalidda language learning model pitched across Queensland - ABC News
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Very exciting, hybrid conference on language and literacies education! Submission deadline is June 30!
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Ughhh. Check out my 2024 paper and learn why this is nonsense!
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Usree Bhattacharya @usreeb.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Excited to announce that ✨ A Show of Hands: Kalika and the Goddess of Learning is a #1 New Release in Children’s Holidays Around the World & Eastern Religions! #2 in Children’s Hinduism & #13 in Holidays & Celebrations📚 Out now: a.co/d/0mSNYVq #RettSyndrome #AAC #InclusiveLit #disability
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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"Some of the cast of the new HBO Harry Potter series have experienced online abuse in response to their involvement. However, all three of the key actors so far revealed have also played landmark LGBTQ+ roles." Abuse is not OK, critique is.
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