Warda Farah

The World We’re Fighting For Sounds Like Bad Bunny Singing in Spanish at the Super Bowl For many of us, Bad Bunny’s selection to perform at the next Super Bowl was a moment of joy. A global artist singing in Spanish on one of the biggest stages in the world feels like an affirmation o…

In anticipation of the Super Bowl this weekend I thought I would reshare my post from when Bad Bunny was first announced as headlining the half time show to remind us that the joy many of us will feel is a reminder of the world we are fighting for.

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Is #neurodiversity a Global Northern White paradigm?.

another eye-opening article I've come across while writing my #neuroqueering digital youth work chapter.

Nair, V. K., Farah, W., & Boveda, M. (2024) #Autism,

LINK:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13623613241280835

Dr. Rashidah Ismaili — Remembering the power of the Black arts movement Dr. Ismaili is revered for her work and involvement in the Black Arts Movement, centered in the Lower East Side in the 1950s to 1970s.

BLACK NEW YORKER: For 2026, Dr. Rashidah Ismaili is proud to be one of the few still carrying the torch from the Black #Arts Movement.

See also: the homophobia baked into the British colonial legacy in Africa

www.wearequeeraf.com/the-colonial...

James Reed of recruiter Reed, which was founded by his father, has warned graduates that they should "think about a job that involves working with your hands" as AI takes on white-collar work.

Or consider being born to parents who can give you a role in the family firm?
www.ft.com/content/c894...

I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like “audiences intrigued by his unusual communication style”

Probably the most important thing about the increasingly reliance on AI owned by fascist billionaires, is that this reliance will help those owners by causing mass unemployment, in turn leading to further support for the fascist politics and parties that those same billionaires fund and support.

‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary

Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?

🌟 We're looking for a Programming Fellow to develop part of this year’s Refugee Festival Scotland, running 12 - 21 June.

The role is a fantastic learning opportunity for an emerging producer or curator interested in the arts and themes of migration.

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People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

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...

www.routledge.com/White-System...

I’m always looking for a new form for the latest wordless thing I’m attempting to translate. Joanne Limburg's neurodivergent notes on writing.

neurodivergentnotesonwriting.substack.com/p/im-always-...

And we cannot move towards abolition without this conversation because: The cultural hatred for Black and Brown teens, particularly those who are queer and/or disabled shapes ALL of our discourse on crime.

A Police Killing Drew National Protests. At Home, a Commission Struggles with How to Make a Difference.  - Bolts Part I: “I’m going to still try” On July 6, 2024, the morning after Sonya Massey was murdered by a Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy, a local citizen journalist named Calvin... Read More

The police killing of Sonya Massey ignited protests throughout the country. In Illinois, a civilian commission met over the last year to debate changes—holding tense, difficult meetings.

This story follows the commission for months—and captures just how agonizing these processes can be.

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the source article for the quote points out a major issue - orthographies for African languages sometimes don't mark tone, in spite of tone being crucial to word meaning! (and tonal pronunciation almost always changes postlexically, too - when you put words together into phrases) 🐦🐦

Protip for good white people: there IS a answer when asked “are you racist?”

You simply say: “being born and raised in white supremacy means all of us hold and racialised worldviews. But I am learning about racism and working on changing my worldview and myself.”

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Alex Wheatle, novelist and ‘Brixton Bard’, dies aged 62 The writer, who found success with young adult novels, inspired one of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films which was based on the author’s childhood British writer Alex Wheatle, the author of books including East of Acre Lane and the Crongton series, has…

Alex Wheatle, novelist and ‘Brixton Bard’, dies aged 62

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Hi my new book is already out and shipping! You should have bought it already!

Conceptualizing and describing autistic language: Moving on from ‘verbal’, ‘minimally verbal’ and ‘nonverbal’ - Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Alyssa Hillary Zisk, Jordyn Zimmerman, Betty Yu, 2025

New editorial in @journalautism.bsky.social with @yesthattoo.bsky.social @jordynbzim.bsky.social and @bettyyu.bsky.social where we argue that "nonverbal" and "minimally verbal" are not useful constructs for grouping or describing autistic people. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm so honoured... thank you

We were thrilled to meet Warda at the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference last summer and are just as excited for this new, important book.

Are we nurturing a person’s capacity to express their truth or gently steering them toward an institutional ideal of what normal speech/language/communication should be? 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿

www.routledge.com/White-System...

such a fun time working with you x

So happy to say our book is now published! Working with the amazing editorial team has been a privilege, including @abihackett.bsky.social, @davidbenshannon.bsky.social, Vishnu Kkn, Christina MacRae, Rachel Holmes, @khawlabadwan.bsky.social, Rosie Flewitt and @wardasworld.bsky.social. Thanks all! 🌸

Every child has the right to play- the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
#earlyyears #play #playmatters #understandingchildhoods #SirenFilms

Do you feel lucky? Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place | Julian Richer I have been fortunate, and I know it. Now I’d like more successful people to admit that meritocracy is a myth, says Julian Richer, founder of Richer Sounds

Do you feel lucky? Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place | Julian Richer

On language, Ai, and care:

The interruption of care
The disruption of the machine

“Moving from Silence into Language and Action.” (Re)Imagining Advocacy with Black Motherscholars and Their Motherwork Across Multiple Contexts Racial animus, the fear, hatred, dehumanizing, and othered perceptions of Black people is an ideology that too often undergirds Black children’s experiences within schools. Through similar patterns...

🚨 New pub 🚨 co-authored w Dr. Keishana Barnes & Dr. Elizabeth Morgan, we uplift Black mothers’ advocacy work.
“Moving from Silence into Language and Action.” (Re)Imagining Advocacy with Black Motherscholars and Their Motherwork Across Multiple Contexts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51 Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.

I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.

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