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Warda Farah

@wardasworld.bsky.social
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Interested in all things Race, Disability & Language I write what I like, whenever I feel like it... COFOUNDER ROUNDED farahconsulting.my.canva.site vizzy.com/@wardafarah

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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 23h
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G-SHOCK Radio - Afternoon Tea - Warda Farah - 13/09 by G-SHOCK Radio
G-SHOCK Radio - Afternoon Tea - Warda Farah - 13/09
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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One bit of life advice I always have in mind is that at the end of their lives, no one wishes they’d worked more
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Liam Renouf @liamrenouf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please read and share
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Decolonisation Is Not a Metaphor: A Call to Action over the University of Sheffield’s Complicity in the Ongoing Genocide in Palestine.
On filing ethics forms, the corporate university's lip service to anti-racism, and why academics must name Sheffield’s collusion at every opportunity.
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My new book Pure Fantasies: The Rise of Health Fascism, is ready to preorder! www.plutobooks.com/product/pure...
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Pure Fantasies - Pluto Press
From Mussolini to the manosphere, fascism has always been a health movement
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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The Bell Curve Baby
Modern child‑development milestones and even contemporary Speech & Language Therapy practices trace their roots to a fraught historical legacy (Varga, 2011)— one deeply entwined with the early eugenic...
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You can listen to me chat to @drrobertchapman.bsky.social & @mboveda.bsky.social on Language and (DIS)Ability tensions - languagetensionspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2617863/epis...
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Language and (Dis)Ability Tensions - Language Tensions Podcast
This episode of Language Tensions explores disability, neurodiversity, and identity through an intersectional lens, connecting personal experiences with broader educational and societal systems.
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Speech Bubbles CIO @speechbubblescio.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
You can submit your short story, be part of our creative journey, and help amplify children’s voices: www.speechbubbles.org.uk/storyfundsto... Your donation, your story, your impact. #StoryFUNd #RaiseVoices #SpeechBubbles #StoryFUNd #oracy #speechlanguageandcommunication
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Story FUNd — Speech Bubbles
Take part in Story FUNd - create a story as a gift for someone and have it read by a professional actor!
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Speech Bubbles CIO @speechbubblescio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Check out www.speechbubbles.org.uk we decided to stop using photos of children because of the #Safeguarding risks so we employed ... #HI (Human Illustrators)
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Speech Bubbles | Speech Bubbles
Speech Bubbles is a UK charity that uses drama to help children develop communication skills, confidence, creativity, wellbeing and participation. We work with schools and theatre partners across Engl...
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A child is not a problem around which society organises its concern. A child is a person in the process of becoming... www.linkedin.com/pulse/expect...
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Expectation vs Harvest of Hope
A child is not a problem around which society organises its concern. A child is a person in the process of becoming, carrying histories, relationships, languages, desires and ways of knowing that cann...
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Knowledge is presented as something delivered from the front of the room, while the body is expected to remain still and receptive. I was the child who shifted, fidgeted, looked away, doodled, chatted , hummed, rocked, I was often read as resistant or inattentive www.linkedin.com/posts/warda-...
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The right to move(ment) and gaze | Warda Farah
Knowledge is presented as something delivered from the front of the room, while the body is expected to remain still and receptive. I was the child who shifted, fidgeted, looked away, doodled, chatted...
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Fela Kuti quickly became my go to language scholar… not because he wrote about language in some fancy inaccessible way, but because he understood its living force. www.linkedin.com/posts/warda-...
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Fela Kuti's Spaces of Reprieve | Warda Farah
Fela Kuti quickly became my go to language scholar… not because he wrote about language in some fancy inaccessible way, but because he understood its living force. In songs such as Mr Grammarticalogyl...
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We often operate under the naive assumption that progress is a straight line, that once a right is won, it is permanent. But history shows us a "template of time" where the pendulum swings back and forth. www.linkedin.com/pulse/pendul...
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The Pendulum of Progress
In 2025, a quiet but seismic shift began within the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). A proposal was put forward to strip specific language from the Speech-Language Pathology and Au...
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Mr. Grammarticalogylisationalism Is the Boss, targets the post-colonial African elite who use dense, confusing English oyinbo" to disconnect from and rule over everyday citizens. he mocks & mimics the overly complicated language of academics and bureaucrats. www.linkedin.com/pulse/fela-k...
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Fela Kuti's Spaces of Reprieve
The better oyinbo you talk The more bread you go get School sets na grade for bread B.A.
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
And sometimes I need to dream. I need to dream about the work I want to make. The life I want to live. The ideas I do not yet have to explain. The spaces where I can be creative without someone immediately asking how it can be used, measured, or monetised. www.linkedin.com/pulse/rounde...
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Rounded...
The right collaborations eventually come not when you expect them, not when you force them, not when you are aligned with another individual but when it just is. Rounded is just that for me, a place t...
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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New paper: few autistic ppl & parents like "profound autism" or support levels, even w/ a more conservative recruitment strategy (SPARK data from medical model Simons Foundation): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Yet US autism policy is trying to force PA agenda w/o considering public comments.
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I've added my name to the open letter calling for a public inquiry into the tragic death of Professor Jason Arday. Will you join me? goodlaw.social/625453
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
so, briefly, @aat-transcribes.bsky.social has had a really shitty year financially; I executed some growth plans over 2025-26 that didn't go to plan, and ended up drastically increasing our costs for very little return on investment. Add to that tough market conditions all round? It's a struggle
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In 2025, ASHA proposed to strip specific language from the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology certification standards. Terms like cultural competence, diversity, equity, inclusion, and culturally responsive practice are on the outs…. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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The Pendulum of Progress | Warda Farah
The Pendulum of Progress
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The system elevates us, not as an act of grace, but as a method of curation. Black Icarus - thoughts on Prof Jason Arday inspired by this matisse piece www.linkedin.com/pulse/black-...
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Black Icarus white System
In my book white System Black Therapist I write about the "white system" that intricate, suffocating tapestry of institutional and structural whiteness- does more than just cast a shadow. It defines t...
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Ouch. The curriculum review oracy focus made no reference to multilingual abilities if pupils. Only deficit in English. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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An oracy framework for England’s schools: linguistic justice edition
It is September 2028. All schools in England have just started teaching the new national curriculum. As part of this, they are adhering to guidance contained within a new oracy framework, named as ...
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Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Just came across this amazing documentary. Expect some more clips today!
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Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Here is a recording of "Responding to Gaza: Sanctuary, Silence and Selective Empathy" I answer three questions: Why responding?, Why Gaza/Palestine?, Why there's been no or little response from universities? I end with a note on moving forwards with the wounds of Gaza. youtu.be/PEWFMZI5UAU?...
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Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
My poem in 'Keep Telling of Gaza' published by Sidhe Press.
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Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
You are cordially invited to the launch event of a new series hosted by the Manchester Poetry Library called ‘at the edges of languaging’. The opening event is on 8th June 2026. To register: www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve... @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Very happy to say I've just signed for my next book with @plutopress.bsky.social. "Pure Fantasies: The Rise of Health Fascism" will be out next year!
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Very happy to say that Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction, written by @suereviews.bsky.social and myself, is out now! It was a lot of fun trying to condense neurodiversity theory, research, practice, and politics into a single, brief book. Available in all the usual places!
Yellow and green book on a desk next to a houseplant.
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
DM for copies!📿📿📿 Pearls before swine: an Nkwaethnographic exploration of the language and labor of Black women scholars www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CBMWQ...
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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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Tasha Austin PhD [she] @profeaustin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
So grateful - #25 today among Amazon bestsellers at this stage of preorders!🎉 I can't wait to share this work with the world. And you don't have to support Amazon (I certainly, don't!) Revolutionary Possibilities in Black World Languaging is now available from the publisher! #LanguageEd #TeacherEd
Purple binding and orange array of colors on cover of 'Revolutionary Possibilities in Black World Languaging" by Tasha Austin. Pictured - artwork of two Black women facing one another against a sunset colored background. Publisher - palgrave macmillanQR Code leading to palgrave macmillan website where 'Revolutionary Possibilities in Black World Languaging' can be purchased directly: https://link.springer.com/book/9783032308887
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I wake up a lot of nights nowadays with extreme anxiety and flashbacks relating to trans people being driven out of the workplace, what i've seen personally in academia but also knowing this is happening more and more across sectors in the UK. Look out for your trans colleagues, before its too late.
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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A great discussion about autism, education, liberation & social justice at the joint book launch for “Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction” (@academic.oup.com) by former Fellow @drrobertchapman.bsky.social & @suereviews.bsky.social and “It Takes All Kinds of Minds” (@routledgebooks.bsky.social)
A panel of five people sitting in front of an audience
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 03/05/2026
Prisons are turning to mail scanning in what they claim to be an effort to combat drug smuggling. But don't let them fool you: Mail scanning is inhumane & ineffective. "If DoCs want to stop drugs in prison, they need to expand treatment." More from @phillipvancesmith2.bsky.social👇
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Prisons exploit drug panic to swap paper mail for electronic. Guess who profits?
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Phillip Vance Smith II, who is serving life without parole in North Carolina.
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Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Language is the brick that builds the walls. Language is also the brick that can be thrown at these walls in pursuit of fairer presents and futures.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images. The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Comrades in Ireland, I'll be speaking about neurodiversity and capitalism at Rupture Radical Bookfair in Dublin on May 30th. Not sure what time yet but the book fair is on 12 to 5 at the Teachers’ Club, Parnell Square, Dublin.
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
www.routledge.com/White-System...
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Neurodiverse Connection @ndconnection.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Understanding reduces harm As Stress Awareness Month ends, take time to learn: ✔ What Autistic burnout is ✔ How to recognise meltdowns & shutdowns ✔ How trauma shows up in Autistic people Explore NdC resources: ndconnection.co.uk/resources/nd... #StressAwarenessMonth #AutismSupport
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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 27/04/2026
Why stop at teaching kids about housing issues - schools should also be giving pupils a grounding in their human rights.
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Letters: Why don't people learn about their rights at school?
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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Same.
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Sudan’s war has become the 21st century’s worst humanitarian crisis. 😢
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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Free Epistemic Injustice workshop next week for social researchers interested in or already using it as a conceptual framework and keen to explore it more and learn about alternatives. Tues 14 April, 7pm London time via Zoom. See you there? #QualitativeResearch #ParticipatoryResearch #AcademicSky
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 10/04/2026
“we found that 78% of authors (of studies on ABA) had a conflict of interest (COI) Some worked in ABA clinics, some offered paid consulting to other ABA providers, and some did both Almost all papers (93%) had at least one author with these kinds of connections.” 🫠 #AutRes
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A 5-Year Update of Conflicts of Interest in Autism Intervention Research in Applied Behavior Analysis Journals - PubMed
Researchers' false, incomplete, or missing disclosures of conflicts of interest (COIs) can introduce bias into research, can erode public trust in research findings, and represent ethical violations of most academic journal policies. A 2020 study discovered that publications in applied behavior anal …
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
If you’ve ever felt unseen by systems, misunderstood by language, or caught between identities - this episode is for you. www.hidden20.org/podcast/ward...
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E105: Warda Farah — The Hidden 20%
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 06/04/2026
Amoco, now part of BP, never cleaned up after its failed oil prospecting mission. Rural Kenyans are suing for a right to a clean environment.
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An American Company Drilled for Oil in Kenya — and Left Behind Soaring Cancer Rates
Amoco, now part of BP, never cleaned up after its failed oil prospecting mission. Rural Kenyans are suing for a right to a clean environment.
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Posting this thing i wrote again since a lot of people are calling trump mad or insane right now and that's still obscuring far more than it reveals. open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
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Gramsci on Madness and Fascism
Hegemony and Sanist Slurs
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 27/03/2026
Happy #fridayreads! Y'all, with the loss of income I could especially use your support of my books. Here's my novel: bookshop.org/p/books/none... And my novella: bookshop.org/p/books/fes-... I think y'all need to take a journey with these in your minds. Free your minds & the rest will follow.
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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Thank you so much to those of you who came along to Tuesday night's panel discussion on Transcription for Racial Justice, and even bigger thanks to our three fantastic panellists, @elisney.bsky.social, @divyampersaud.com and @wardasworld.bsky.social >
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Transcription for Racial Justice Panel, Tuesday 24 March 2026
How can transcription and closed caption services serve and support the goal of achieving racial justice?
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Knowledge isn’t neutral. Who gets heard, recognised, and recorded shapes inequality and injustice. Next week, at the AAT online panel, we’re exploring transcription, captioning & racial justice and their roots in colonial research. Join us: funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/transcriptio...
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Transcription for Racial Justice Panel, Tuesday 24 March 2026
How can transcription and closed caption services serve and support the goal of achieving racial justice?
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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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