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Gerald Roche
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AuDHD & PhD. anthropology, language, power. he/him
New book: The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777783/the-politics-of-language-oppression-in-tibet/

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · Nov 15
It's publication day! The Politics of Language Oppression sheds light on a global crisis of linguistic diversity that will see at least half of the world's languages disappear this century.

Use 09BCARD for a 30% discount from @cornellupress.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
A book cover. The top half of the cover is sky blue, with black text on bright yellow high-lighting. The text reads "The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet". The lower half shows a photograph of a tiled public square with a brightly lit building at the back of the square. People are walking on the square, and a child is sitting in a large model car. In the bottom right hand corner is the author's name, Gerald Roche, in bright yellow.
geraldroche.bsky.social
A year ago, I published my article "We need a global language rights movement" in @gscjournal.bsky.social. Since then, it's been viewed 85,000 times. Here's a short thread on the article's key arguments and a few other things...

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
geraldroche.bsky.social
This morning's reading - on the abuse and death of Indigenous students in India's contemporary boarding school system.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/indi...
Indigenous Children Are Still Dying in Boarding Schools
In India, as in other countries around the world, abuse accompanies eviction from ancestral lands
www.scientificamerican.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Article accepted for publication: "Five Key Concepts for Autistic Linguistic Justice: Securitization, Revitalization, Rights, Planning, and Ethics." 🥳
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Reposted by Gerald Roche
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The good folks at @e-l-p.bsky.social are taking applications for their "Ready to Revitalize" training program until Dec 1. It's a great chance to learn more about language revitalization and meet other revitalizers from all around the world.

www.surveyhero.com/c/rtr2026
text and logo on a white background - logo is some green and brown blobs. like, maybe people hugging
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 AM
geraldroche.bsky.social
Article accepted for publication: "Five Key Concepts for Autistic Linguistic Justice: Securitization, Revitalization, Rights, Planning, and Ethics." 🥳
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
geraldroche.bsky.social
The good folks at @e-l-p.bsky.social are taking applications for their "Ready to Revitalize" training program until Dec 1. It's a great chance to learn more about language revitalization and meet other revitalizers from all around the world.

www.surveyhero.com/c/rtr2026
text and logo on a white background - logo is some green and brown blobs. like, maybe people hugging
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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When Language Maintenance Means Language Shift: Tibetan as an Heritage Language in Amdo Families in France

www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/10...
www.mdpi.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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"War is the health of the state."
Black and white text and image, showing the frontspiece of "The State" by Randolph Bourne. Image is an etching of a skeleton sitting on a throne.
November 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
geraldroche.bsky.social
Today is the International Day against Violence and Bullying at School, including Cyberbullying ,and I'm proud to share this blog post showing how work I contributed to has helped inform the new National Standard on Bullying in Australian Schools.

otarc.blogs.latrobe.edu.au/the-new-nati...
How our team’s research informed the new National Standard on Bullying in Australian Schools – Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre
The new National Standard is a step toward tackling bullying in schools. Here’s how we played a part in shaping it.
otarc.blogs.latrobe.edu.au
November 6, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Reposted by Gerald Roche
chowleen.bsky.social
Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":

「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」

-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
For Zohran, You teach us how to engage the world in difficult times. May you inspire many and blaze a trail! It’s like a path across the land—it’s not there to begin with, but when lots of people go the same way, it comes into being. —Lu Hsun, “Hometown” From the dedication page of Mamdani, Mahmood, "Neither Settler nor Native : The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities," Harvard University Press, 2020
June 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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"Language-discordant healthcare is often borne by the most disadvantaged, highlighting the crucial importance of addressing this in advancing health equity."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Respirology</em> | APSR Respiratory Medicine Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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In response to this article, I'm receiving multiple reports on Facebook that there is, in fact, no war in Ba Sing Se. Huge if true.
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Reposted by Gerald Roche
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This is a rare and valuable interview that discusses the difficult political predicament of linguistic minorities in Tibet.

www.nationalia.info/interview/11...
“We are neither Chinese nor Tibetan: we are Minyag”
2025 marks 300 years since the Minyag, a little-known people then living in the highlands between Tibet and China, fled religious persecution. Back then, Tibet was a patchwork of faiths, but as its co...
www.nationalia.info
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
geraldroche.bsky.social
This is a rare and valuable interview that discusses the difficult political predicament of linguistic minorities in Tibet.

www.nationalia.info/interview/11...
“We are neither Chinese nor Tibetan: we are Minyag”
2025 marks 300 years since the Minyag, a little-known people then living in the highlands between Tibet and China, fled religious persecution. Back then, Tibet was a patchwork of faiths, but as its co...
www.nationalia.info
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Reposted by Gerald Roche
geraldroche.bsky.social
The winner of the 2025 Linguapax Award has been announced, and it's an amazing group in Colombia doing important work on language maintenance and revitalization under very difficult circumstance. Read more below
www.linguapax.org/en/hilo-de-j...
Hilo de Ju’gthë’sx Pthuuse’jnxi’s project wins the 2025 International Linguapax Award | Linguapax InternationalHilo de Ju’gthë’sx Pthuuse’jnxi’s project wins the 2025 International Linguapax Award | L...
www.linguapax.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 AM
geraldroche.bsky.social
The winner of the 2025 Linguapax Award has been announced, and it's an amazing group in Colombia doing important work on language maintenance and revitalization under very difficult circumstance. Read more below
www.linguapax.org/en/hilo-de-j...
Hilo de Ju’gthë’sx Pthuuse’jnxi’s project wins the 2025 International Linguapax Award | Linguapax InternationalHilo de Ju’gthë’sx Pthuuse’jnxi’s project wins the 2025 International Linguapax Award | L...
www.linguapax.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Reposted by Gerald Roche
languageinsociety.bsky.social
NEW FROM 54(4)

"Towards a sociolinguistics of deglobalization" by @geraldroche.bsky.social & Jessica Kruk

#Deglobalization #Sovereignty #Neoliberalism #Coloniality #Securitization
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
Towards a sociolinguistics of deglobalization | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
Towards a sociolinguistics of deglobalization - Volume 54 Issue 4
doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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e-l-p.bsky.social
The recording of the 2025 Ready to Revitalize showcase is now available on YouTube, spotlighting community language revitalization programs in Canada, Kenya, the US, Indonesia, France, South Africa, Nepal, Ukraine, Cameroon, Mexico, and Aotearoa: youtu.be/Yb6zKkeMQCA?...
October 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
geraldroche.bsky.social
lips
A cartoon-style midsagittal diagram of the oral cavity and its features drawn by CoPilot. The label lips is pointing to the nose.
October 28, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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bluntshovels.bsky.social
always love having to buy a new mobility aid after travel

[melbourne airport took apart my walking stick, didn't return it, and left me stranded away from bags and stick. random person rescued pieces of stick and bags and sat with me during meltdown to put stick back together enough to get home]
October 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Although autistic people have long been asking for greater acceptance and justice, I'd like to thank the good folks at Stanford University for ignoring all of that and curing mouse autism instead.
thebrewnews.com/science-tech...
Stanford scientists reverse autism-like symptoms in mice with experimental drug
Stanford scientists reversed autism-like symptoms in mice using an experimental epilepsy drug, offering new hope for autism research.
thebrewnews.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
geraldroche.bsky.social
i found this really helpful video which says that if a kid has trouble reading social situations and people hate them for it, they should just read social situations more appropriately. problem solved
scene from a cartoon. an elephant in a green t-shit speaks to camera and there is a hippo standing outdoors in the background. closed caption text reads 'appropriately read the situation he saw that young hippo was busy and he decided'
October 26, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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if this bear doesn't make eye contact in job interviews he obviously deserves to never get a job and maybe also to starve to death. since it is frustrating when bears just decide to die like this i'm really glad this instructional video exists. problem solved.
screen-cap from an animated film, showing a bear in a suit - closed captions on the image read "good idea to have good eye contact during meetings like a job interview"
October 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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ah yes, K?fi?td"t
book cover with what looks like an AI-generated illustration in the style of Soviet propaganda art. Parts of the title are written in faux Cyclic
October 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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great interview (and listen out for the interviewer's response at 0:59)

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Changing Australia: Daryn McKenny and Callum Clayton-Dixon on saving Indigenous languages - ABC listen
At one point in history, Australia was home to more than 250 languages and some 800 dialects. Colonisation and cultural suppression have seen most of those languages become endangered — or lost altog...
www.abc.net.au
October 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM