Ashley R Moore

Parliamentary staff of colour earn £2,000 less than white colleagues, study suggests Exclusive: GMB union’s report also finds pay disparity for women and disabled, trans, non-binary and gay staffers working for MPs and peers

A concrete example of how intersectional oppression is not simply a case of addition: This report into salary gaps between UK parliamentary officers indicates women being paid £1,000 less than men, POC £2,000 less, but Black women £6,000 less. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Title slide from the presentation. The title is “I didn’t see being gay as an experience that could unfold in Arabic”: Heteronormativity, linguacultural ideologies, and coloniality in the emergence of linguistic dissociation among some queer plurilinguals. I've used an image of people walking on rainy city streets that look almost monochrome. However, one of them is holding a vivid rainbow umbrella.

Excited to share my latest work on linguistic dissociation at Penn State University on Friday!

📚 NEW: Associate Professor Cassie J. Brownell (brownellcassie.bsky.social) has been named winner of the 2025 Media Literacy Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)! Congrats, Professor! #OISECelebrates

Learn more: ncte.org/awards/ncte-...

Oh good, they got my note.

The gradual inclusion of truth about the experience of slavery in American museums has been one of the most deeply researched and considered and consequential developments in public history over the last half century. Enraging we have to defend it in this way.

The cover of the book, the title of the book in English and, presumably, Arabic (I'm not an Arabic user). Very cute illustrations featured, including what I can only describe as a penis bird.

Arabic and its various dialects are often positioned as somehow being intrinsically anti-queer but the truth is that queer language exists wherever there are queer people, which is EVERYWHERE. Just got my copy of @marwankaabour.bsky.social's beautiful Queer Arab Glossary. Can't wait to dig in!

"No concession will ever be enough." A very slow lesson for so many institutions and orgs.

We had an argument in the queue for ours 😅

Not to mention the fact that Gauff now has to spend so much time and energy responding when she should be basking in the glow of her incredible achievement.

YouTube video by Good Morning America Coco Gauff is giving Aryna Sabalenka "the benefit of the doubt" | GMA

The supreme grace Coco Gauff is extending to Sabalenka is an example of the emotional labour people of colour, especially Black women, often do when responding to White mental gymnastics that ignore facts to dismiss their achievements. youtu.be/7K3Ha2VanWE?...

Guu on Davie?

Something tells me they won't be testing for White fragility and other kinds of privilege-related brittleness...

Screenshot of book cover Title: Workable Accents: How International Teaching Assistants Vocally Fashion and Contest Academic Labor Author: Vijay A. Ramjattan Image: A multi-coloured and patterned speech bubble being assembled by four hands of different skin tone; "Bloomsbury" is written beneath the bubble

Screenshot of one section of the book entitled, "Why Examine Workable Accents?"

If you want a sneak preview of my book, Workable Accents, please click this link to read a decent chunk of the introductory chapter:

shorturl.at/MfGLQ

Please remember to ask your university or local library to order a copy and share this post widely! Thanks in advance!

This is a screenshot of the front cover of the book. The top half contains the title, "Workable Accents: How International Teaching Assistants Vocally Fashion and Contest Academic Labor," and my full name, Vijay A. Ramjattan. The bottom half contains a multi-coloured speech bubble with multiracial hands reaching out to it from four corners.

My very first book is available for pre-order!

Workable Accents explores how international teaching assistants conceptualize accent in relation to academic labor.

Please ask your (university) library to order a copy: shorturl.at/KUC4R

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Amazing!!! 🤩

Hot off the press in time for the long weekend 🔥🔥🔥, my article showing the importance of generating multiscalar temporal account of linguistic dissociation (and other phenomena shaping the linguistic repertoire) is open access in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics! doi.org/10.1016/j.rm...

it's always a little satisfying when something that is a *moral* disaster is *also* a political disaster, because it's not always the case!

Great news! For some reason the headline here is different from the one I saw: "Gulf students ask to be taught Gangalidda instead of Japanese" I wish more educational contexts would rethink or diversify the language options available in schools amp.abc.net.au/article/1052...

Very exciting, hybrid conference on language and literacies education! Submission deadline is June 30!

Ughhh. Check out my 2024 paper and learn why this is nonsense!

Excited to announce that ✨ A Show of Hands: Kalika and the Goddess of Learning is a #1 New Release in Children’s Holidays Around the World & Eastern Religions!
#2 in Children’s Hinduism & #13 in Holidays & Celebrations📚 Out now: a.co/d/0mSNYVq
#RettSyndrome #AAC #InclusiveLit #disability

"Some of the cast of the new HBO Harry Potter series have experienced online abuse in response to their involvement. However, all three of the key actors so far revealed have also played landmark LGBTQ+ roles." Abuse is not OK, critique is.

Pedro Pascal calls JK Rowling a ‘heinous loser’ in wake of supreme court gender ruling The actor has long been an activist for LGBTQ+ rights and has a transgender sister who often accompanies him on the red carpet

This article defends three main actors in the new HP series because they've previously taken LGBTQ+ roles. WTAF? If non-LGBTQ+ actors earn money and acclaim from LGBTQ+ roles, then they should stand in solidarity with those communities when they're persecuted. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...

On my way to #AERA and the US border agent told me to tell everyone the 3 things education should focus on: 1) financial literacy, 2) bodily literacy and wellbeing, 3) spiritual wellbeing, or how one might live a good life. Honestly, I'm onboard 🥰

Never forget that many of the institutions and companies that dismantled DEI-related initiatives did so not out of anticipatory obedience but because they never really wanted diversity, equity, and inclusion in the first place. They are showing us what they have always been.

It always helps me to remember that the interviewers are probably nervous, too. They want desperately to find a good and capable colleague, so I try my best to help them relax. And that helps me relax.

I'm so sorry your family member had to endure that. I wish everyone had access to systems that recognise their humanity and bodily autonomy, including the right to a good end-of-life on their own terms.

CW: Assisted dying. I was moved in all sorts of ways by Martin Roemers on photographing his parents shortly after they chose to die together. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

Title: “Black children are gifted at learning languages – that’s why I could do TBLT”: inclusive Blackness as a pathway for TBLT innovation Abstract: This paper presents a case study of a Black Spanish-language teacher and her 4th-grade students using Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) six years after a teacher-training program. We describe the program and the teacher’s understanding of tasks and TBLT. Using a bottom-up approach, we then explore the teacher and students’ implementation of TBLT six years later in a socioeconomically resilient 4th-grade classroom in Miami, Florida, where 95 % of the students are Black. Task-as-process was assessed with classroom observations, handouts, task outcomes, and interviews. Findings revealed that the teacher continued using TBLT, highlighting both its opportunities and challenges. Opportunities were driven by her beliefs, reliance on “Black students’ linguistic gifts,” and access to sample tasks...

so proud of this collaborative work! here's @melissabaralt.bsky.social @clemonsaris.bsky.social & my study on TBLT Spanish instruction with young learners. the possibilities for WL teaching are endless when Black cultural value is assumed❤️🖤💚
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... [dm us for copies]