Nelson Flores

a man and a woman are dancing together in a room . ALT: a man and a woman are dancing together in a room .

Me when I found out Noem was fired

Noem’s firing shows yet again that no matter how much somebody is willing to give up their integrity to please Trump that he will always threw them under the bus once they become an inconvenience.

The only people who claim that colleges campuses stifle dissent are the MAGA cult who literally want to stifle dissent

Students being able to receive the supports that will help them be successful is a good thing. The problem isn’t students gaming the system. The problem is a system that requires them to be labeled as having a disability to receive that support.

How a Small Exchange Between Mamdani and AOC Disrupts Raciolinguistic Hierarchies and Makes Another Linguistic World Visible In a recent video, Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are standing together as he works through a Spanish-language announcement about how caregivers can register their children for childcare.

I can’t stop thinking about a short video of Mamdani working through a Spanish-language announcement with AOC's help.

So many US Latinxs grew up having our Spanish policed. This moment treated it as expertise instead.

I wrote about why that matters.
educationallinguist.substack.com/p/how-a-smal...

I suspect the journalist was most responsible for the hyperbolic nature of the claims though I do think the siloed nature of language studies means we are often “discovering” insights well established in other areas. Though I suspect that may also be a larger structural problem of academia

Anybody suggesting that this assertion is some type of groundbreaking argument is mind boggling.

“Their central claim is clear: language is not merely a spoken code. Instead, it is a dynamic, multimodal, socially grounded system shaped through interaction, culture, and shared meaning.”

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

The only time they even mention women’s sports is in their efforts to try to legislate trans women out of public life. Once they are successful at that they will then begin efforts to legislate cis women out of public life with them.

This is why even if I were to accept the simplistic way people on social media now use the term performative I would still reject the description as a criticism since all good protest should have components of performance art

This is why you do stunts.
This is why you do stunts.
This is why you do stunts.

When a Slur Is Involuntary, Is It Racist? What the BAFTA Incident Reveals About Language, Race and Disability

The BAFTA incident has been framed as either “he couldn’t control it” or “he shouldn’t be allowed in public.”

Harm clearly occurred. The challenge is responding without defaulting to ableist exclusion.

Check out my new piece exploring these issues in more depth:
open.substack.com/pub/educatio...

When a Slur Is Involuntary, Is It Racist? What the BAFTA Incident Reveals About Language, Race and Disability

The BAFTA incident has been framed as either “he couldn’t control it” or “he shouldn’t be allowed in public.”

Harm clearly occurred. The challenge is responding without defaulting to ableist exclusion.

Check out my new piece exploring these issues in more depth:
open.substack.com/pub/educatio...

love when democrats talk about kitchen table issues as if trans people and immigrants don’t have kitchen tables 🙃

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage.

I learned a lot.

An important thing to note is that this study was conducted in 2023 which was fairly early in Musk’s fascist takeover of the app. One can only assume the effects have gotten even stronger since then.

YouTube video by SEHD CBTE Nelson Flores Ideologías raciolingüísticas

If you’re interested in a Raciolinguistic 101 presentation in Spanish — complete with language-police-y captions — you can check it out here.

Yes, I struggle with grammatical gender, YouTube. But how do you know it isn’t part of my broader political vision to abolish it?

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I don’t want a Democratic version of Trump. What I do want is a Democratic version of actually holding people accountable this time around instead of following the Biden model of “healing the country” by doing nothing to protect it from fascism

you can’t teach much if you’re not allowed to teach anything “controversial,” I’m afraid.

The Big Chill: U. Of Texas Tells Faculty To Avoid Controversial Topics — Forbes The University of Texas System Board of Regents has approved a new policy that directs faculty to limit the discussion of “controversial topics” in their classes.

The overwhelming consensus of the research done on bilingual education indicates its positive social and academic effects.

This new policy means that if students find that empirical claim controversial it either needs to be eliminated or balanced with xenophobic lies.

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America’s Next Top Model and the Dangerous Myth of Preparing People for the “Real World” The new America’s Next Top Model documentary on Netflix is all anybody seems to be talking about right now.

What lessons does America's Next Top Model have for language education? Click on the link below to find out!

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America’s Next Top Model and the Dangerous Myth of Preparing People for the “Real World” The new America’s Next Top Model documentary on Netflix is all anybody seems to be talking about right now.

What lessons does America's Next Top Model have for language education? Click on the link below to find out!

open.substack.com/pub/educatio...

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

My mother requested a real ID twice and was denied. The second time I was with her and it was because her birth certificate is from Puerto Rico and included two surnames instead of the one maiden name listed on her marriage certificate. This policy will systematically disenfranchise women.

This is great news though since so many institutions acquiesced in advance the damage has already been done

And can just easily pay $35 that could maybe go to food or something 🙄

Unfortunately if this has followed the path of universities acquiescing in advance and paying bribes, it is often the lawyers who are the ones advocating for it. The role of legal counsel in undermining democracy to avoid lawsuits is an overlooked aspect of this move toward fascism.

ASL Mythbusters The most frequent of the FAQs

Last night I mentioned only 8% of hearing parents learn enough sign to have a 2-way conversation with their deaf child. Many reasons, but a lot of stems from misinfo. Here's a letter of mine where I busted some of the biggest ASL/ language acquisition myths: buttondown.com/signs+wonder...

So what I learned from the America’s Next Top Model doc is that nobody in the 2000s knew rape, sexual harassment, body shaming & Blackface were problematic so it wasn’t the producers’ fault which is interesting since I seem to remember people thinking all of those things were problematic at the time

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