Zhiwen Song

Zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) made from scratch
My dad shared the photo ☺️
#端午节 #dragonboatfestival #food #Culture

Reminder: The Society for Linguistic Anthropology Conference "Imagination, Creation, Critique" is next week!

Join us!

Learn more and register here: www.2025slaconference.org

I am so happy to meet with everyone at the Trans institute at penn state university this summer. Amazed by everyone’s passion for (non)linguistic research and teaching. It’s truly my privilege to be mentored by the faculty who are so dedicated, generous, and supportive to emerging scholars.不虚此行～感恩🙏

Day 3
“Accented Knowledge” “representation in citation”
“Global South”

Day 2

Day 2 at the workshop

Such a wonderful event!

US Education Secretary Dragged For Embarrassing Grammatical Errors In Letter To Harvard — Black Enterprise As the letter went on and was made public on social media, critics jumped at the opportunity to denounce McMahon's comments.

My apparently unpopular opinion is that when we focus on the supposed grammar mistakes of those we disagree with we reinforce longstanding prescriptivist ideologies that are most heavily used to police poor people of color. It may seem cute but is actually oppressive.

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Who (race/ethnicity, class, knowledge etc) are “standard”?

Oh, ELL are not “standard”. Why? How?

“To give you a sense of the context, we started with over 420 applicants and invited the top 7 standard and 2 ELL to campus.” —— rejection email to finalists. #raciolinguistics #languageideology

Me: Multilingual speakers often switch or shuttle between (named) "languages." So-called monolinguals also switch depending on the context and the people.

Re: Most of the time, we speak in about the same way.

Me: ... (I really don't know what to say. )

Finding a place without an antiquated mindset (or critical systemic bias) is hard.

During the interview:

"What do your students think about you as a nonnative speaker teacher?"

"But you are not teaching English."

"International students are quiet." "... hot dishes, not cold dishes"
...

Value statement: We view multilingual students' language as an asset.

I appreciate everyone who reads my work! Please feel free to DM me if you need a copy, though I know that the library typically provides access to this reputable journal.

Day2 at aaal25. I went to an interesting, insightful, and eye-opening special session about translanguaging. I have a lot to think about.🤔

Conference

Day 1 at aaal25

Image of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a former Supreme Court Justice and founder of the ACLU Women's Rights Project, with a quote attributed to her reading "We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, We, the people."

As co-founder of our Women's Rights Project and a Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legal work left our country forever changed.

Today, on what would've been her 92nd birthday, we the people honor her legacy by voicing our dissent.

Yale Scholar Banned After A.I. News Site Accuses Her of Terrorist Link The deputy director of a liberal project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.

Technofascism: when AI tools can fabricate stories about people with views opposed to the official party position that cannot be fact checked since there is nobody to ask for the evidence they have to support such claims.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

“样” refers to things, while "样样" simply repeats the character, giving it a catchy tone. "通" signifies being skilled at something, and "松" literally means smooth, but in this context, it refers to a lack of depth. #Mandarin #Chinese #MandarinLearning (2/2)

I like the Cantonese equivalent! The Mandarin equivalent is 样样通,样样松, consisting of only three characters. It functions more as a proverb and is thus used in a colloquial and informal manner. (1/2)

Real chilling effects A extraordinary pattern of government censorship and threats to speech

New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China.

Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
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That is really tough! I hope you stay safe! 🙏

The Trump regime expands its discouraged (BANNED) words across federal agencies. The list is long

Gift article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The details are disturbing. It basically looks like a kidnapping. They even got his legal status wrong but proceeded to detain him anyway. The agents didn’t even identify themselves at first and refused to show a warrant.

His wife is 8 months pregnant

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

—- Audrey Lorde #women #genderinequality

The Secret Campaign in China to Save a Woman Chained by the Neck The accidental discovery of the woman led to a video that went viral, spurring public outrage. The Communist Party quashed the discussion, but the anger never went away.

A Chinese Woman
Chained by Neck
#铁链女
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A bag from Salted Books in Lisbon. www.famouscampaigns.com/2025/01/this...

Happy birthday!

163. The Power of Chinese Narrative – interview with Sabina Knight When reading and translating, I've often wondered about Chinese narrative. I knew from reading with my own children how important storytelling is for credibility and engagement, even at a very young a...

Lovely interview with Sabina Knight

The Power of Chinese Narrative – interview with Sabina Knight

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