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Kristin Snoddon (she/her)

@kristinsnoddon.bsky.social
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Applied sign language linguistics, sign language ideologies, critical ethnography. Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University; student of Caribbean studies.

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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why do people ask questions when they don’t want to know the answer?
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
1/2 Dead right www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Can teaching schoolchildren about Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade remain optional? | Morgan Ofori
Mounting evidence about how slavery shaped Britain shows that teaching about its history cannot be a matter of choice
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Multilingual Matters @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Multilingual Matters @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy #InternationalDayofSignLanguages! In this video Kristin Snoddon introduces her book "Being Understood: Deaf Interpreters, Embodied Language and Relationality". Kristin is also a co-editor of our new series Deaf Studies and Sign Linguistics. Find out more on our website ⬇️ #IDSL
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"I am open for business, I want to know what you love. I want to know who you miss. I want to know your favourite sound in the world." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: My world made me the writer I am today
Everything I learned was always at my fingertips, on the blocks I grew up on
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“We have to find our places of deepest love and fight like hell.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Four years ago, the Human Rights Commission of Newfoundland and Labrador hearing in the case of Carter Churchill v. Newfoundland and Labrador English School District et. al. took place in St. John’s. However, justice has not been achieved for deaf children. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Possible beings: Deaf children and linguistic justice
This paper discusses the case of Carter Churchill v. Newfoundland and Labrador English School District and analyses legal documents as they illuminate current understanding of linguistic justice an...
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wait til you hear what the CIA was up to in Jamaica. unitedpantherparty.substack.com/p/gloria-ste...
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Gloria Steinem: The CIA, White Feminism, Intersectionality & COINTELPRO
The Footnote and the Ledger
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Please, I beg, no more sign language family trees.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
An important read by Rinaldo Walcott.
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Multilingual Matters @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Check out this interview with our author Kristen Snoddon on her book "Being Understood: Deaf Interpreters, Embodied Language and Relationality": buff.ly/0fa6Dde
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Tsung-Lun Alan Wan @tsunglunone.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It was my honour to interview Dr Kristin Snoddon! I recommend everyone to read Being Understood!
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It was a joy and an honour to do an author interview about my book Being Understood with Tsung-Lun Alan Wan. campanthropology.org/category/aut...
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Author Interviews – CaMP Anthropology
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Delighted to be part of this important second edition, and grateful for the support of colleagues who made this possible. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
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The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics offers a comprehensive reference point and introduction to the discipline of linguistics. This wide-ranging survey of the field brings together a range of perspec...
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
New paper: Deaf Academics and Structural Injustice. Not free to read, but please PM me for a PDF. www.proquest.com/scholarly-jo...
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Today I commiserated with a student about reactions to their research presentation as being nothing new and only what people already know. People said the exact same thing to me when I was a Ph.D. student (and afterwards). Like, this means it is good, accurate research? This is the point!
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Deaf Research in Barbados Community Update! Register here: bit.ly/deafresearchbim
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"...“ally” is often deployed to describe a position taken by a person who is outside of the system of oppression and has no common interest with those subject to it. This positioning often serves to distance so-called allies from the system of oppression."
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Famous authors asking you out
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Multilingual Matters @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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 ⬇️
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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-...
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Reflections on the end of ‘Race Relations’ and the elusive hope for racial justice
But remember the children are always ours… every single one of them.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 29/05/2026
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.
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Originally published in Poem-a-Day on May 27, 2026, by the Academy of American Poets. poets.org/poem/every-p...
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Channel View Publications @channel-view.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2026
This Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Tommi explains what we’re doing to try and make our books as accessible as possible. Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications has always b…
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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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.
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"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.
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"Some words can reach the soul like others are unable to."
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Open access: Sign language ideologies in deaf education in Trinidad and Tobago @researchtmu.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl...
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Sign language ideologies in deaf education in Trinidad and Tobago
Abstract. This paper, representing a multilingual Global South–Global North deaf research collaboration, reports and critically analyzes findings from inte
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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-...
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Being Human Once More: Some reflections on decolonisation and GenAI
Is GenAI’s future humanity inevitable, or is ours in jeopardy?
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"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."
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witchy raerae 👍🧙🏻‍♀️ ❌👑 @rachaelnevins.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“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.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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.
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Chandra Pasma @chandrapasma.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
What the rest of the world reads: more than 1 in 3 USians still approve of Trump. 1 in 3.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 14/04/2026
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.
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
50 free eprints here, or PM for a PDF. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KKHVU...
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Deaf interpreters in a dangerous time: towards a Canadian model for DI training
This article reports findings from semi-structured and focus group interviews regarding deaf interpreter (DI) developmental experiences and perceived training and professional development needs. Th...
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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....
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Deaf interpreters in a dangerous time: towards a Canadian model for DI training
This article reports findings from semi-structured and focus group interviews regarding deaf interpreter (DI) developmental experiences and perceived training and professional development needs. Th...
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Someone who succeeded for being a lovely person. A mensch. apple.news/AI-zAzlMLScq...
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Stephen Lewis, longtime Ontario NDP politician and diplomat, dies at 88 — Toronto Star
The New Democratic stalwart's death was announced on Tuesday, just days after Lewis's son Avi was elected leader of the federal NDP.
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Chandra Pasma @chandrapasma.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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
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Will Fertman @willfertman.com · 29/03/2026
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...
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An Interview with Christine Sun Kim - Believer Magazine
When I walked into the Whitney Museum of American Art in February 2025 to attend the opening reception for Christine Sun Kim’s retrospective exhibition, All Day All Night, I found the museum bustling ...
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
“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...
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Tanya Tagaq isn’t here to make pretty things
On her sixth album, Saputjiji, the Inuk artist sings (and yes, sometimes screams) about the ‘farcical clown show’ of capitalism and its environmental harms
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Idea for future Deaf Academics / Dr. Deaf workshop. www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...
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How digital decluttering parties help in the quest for inbox zero
We speak with Coral Short, who runs a virtual event called Empty, where people face their overwhelming inboxes together
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 27/03/2026
“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.” 🦠
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The Human Cost of Failing to Name COVID ‘Airborne’ | The Tyee
Safety laws are being sidestepped. One doctor’s nightmare shows how health-care workers pay the price.
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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...
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Decolonising AI: Being Human Once More: Some reflections on decolonisation and GenAI
Since the recent rise in popularity in the use of generative AI, a number of scholars have tried to conceive of ways in which it could be beneficial to decol…
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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
“I really, really hate writing that pulls its punches, stalls out in exposition that we don’t need.” —Maggie Nelson
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Maggie Nelson, The Art of Nonfiction No. 13
“Any time someone has suggested that the kind of book I was describing couldn’t or shouldn’t be pulled off, it’s made me think, I’ll show you.”
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 09/03/2026
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.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 08/03/2026
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.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
These most recent allegations against Trump are vile and disgusting. Nobody is above the law. Especially not the leader of the pedophile protection party.
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Justice Department publishes documents with sexual assault allegations against Trump
The department shared FBI documents outlining allegations involving Trump.
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