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Kristin Snoddon (she/her)
@kristinsnoddon.bsky.social
Applied sign language linguistics, sign language ideologies, critical ethnography. Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University; student of Caribbean studies.
It’s been a week of saying, “Thank goodness that’s over.”
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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@melwoods.me: We must not overcomplicate what’s going on here.

This is the Alberta government saying the rights of trans kids to receive life-saving health care, go by their own pronouns at school or play on sport teams don’t matter as much as the Smith government’s right to dictate their lives.
Danielle Smith Goes Nuclear on Trans Rights | The Tyee
Alberta’s premier is overriding Charter protections. Here’s a fact check on her claims.
thetyee.ca
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Names can be changed! TMU once again shows the world how it’s done. nowtoronto.com/news/new-tmu...
New TMU Station signs go up as TTC formalizes renaming of former Dundas Station - NOW Toronto
New TMU Station signage is rolling out across the former Dundas Station as the transit hub undergoes its official rebranding.
nowtoronto.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Onudeah Nicolarakis, JDSDE Advisory Board Member & Kristin Snoddon, Associate Editor, are keynote presenters at the Caribbean Deaf Education Conference. JDSDE is pleased to support registration costs for select doctoral students/early career scholars. To apply visit forms.gle/NTkwFf29jWcs...
November 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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New book outlines theoretical and methodological approaches to analyzing deaf people's experiences of understanding and being understood. buff.ly/zoyy9jt
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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“I am living proof of what happens when parents ensure their Deaf child is offered full language access and genuine choice from the very beginning of life.”

B.C. government decisions are making that kind of access and choice harder to find. Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli
How BC Killed the ‘Last Hope’ for the Deaf Community | The Tyee
A Tyee Q&A with Deaf advocate Sarah-Anne Hrycenko after an NDP retreat on a plan for change.
thetyee.ca
November 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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After 46 years of providing services, the Deaf Children’s Society of BC is closing. Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli
BC Government Blamed as Deaf Kids Lose Key Support | The Tyee
A society that’s supported families for 46 years says a provincial decision forced it to shut down.
thetyee.ca
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
New vlog and blog post about my book that was published yesterday! @researchtmu.bsky.social @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social @channel-view.bsky.social acadeafic.org/2025/11/12/d...
Deaf Interpreters and Being Understood
by Kristin Snoddon
acadeafic.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Difficult to decide whether it's the incompetence or the depravity that bothers me more.
November 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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It's publication day for these exciting new titles!

📖 "Fictional Linguistic Landscapes" by Osman Solmaz
📖 "Being Understood" by Kristin Snoddon
📖 "Radical Inclusivity" edited by Gloria Park, Quanisha Charles, Shannon Tanghe and Marie Webb

All available now on our website: buff.ly/Lx0Cy9y
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Thank you to the person who observed that it’s weird for a hearing white non-American man (and sign language linguist) to announce to me that he hates Marlee Matlin. People like this are dangerous.
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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‘The US military is now carrying out extrajudicial executions on the high seas of people who in the past would have been put on trial and, if found guilty, given a federal prison sentence. Gone is any semblance of due process.’

A.S. Dillingham on the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
A.S. Dillingham | Murder at Sea
Since President Nixon declared war on drugs in 1971, US policies of mass incarceration at home and interdiction and...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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‘While the relief efforts are heartening, the devastation is overwhelming. The road to recovery in western Jamaica looks tremendously long.’

Luke de Noronha on the aftermath of Hurriance Melissa, from the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Luke de Noronha | After the Hurricane
I got a text from Denico last Wednesday afternoon: ‘I’m okay bro it’s a disaster.’ Power remained down across 75...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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My full statement on Zohran Mamdani's historic win.
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Let’s go Blue Jays.
October 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
thetyee.ca
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Wrote a bit about the history of deaf people in film for @pbs.org American Masters in honor of the new documentary about @marleematlin.bsky.social "Not Alone Anymore". Brava to Marlee and director Shoshannah Stern on a beautiful film. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
How the portrayal of Deaf people in film has evolved over time | American Masters | PBS
March 30th, 1987—21-year-old Marlee Matlin, bespectacled and in a puff-sleeved purple gown, cautiously took the stage and changed the course of film
www.pbs.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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If men were normal about women disagreeing with them the world would be entirely different.
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
What about those Jays eh.
October 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
❤️🤟🏻
In our latest #AcademicSpotlightSeries, Dr Kate Rowley, deaf scholar & Deputy Director at DCAL, shares her inspiring journey from Deaf Studies to PhD, exploring sign linguistics, deaf culture & accessibility in education. Watch her story: youtu.be/BOSXQ6KwMiU
Academic Spotlight Series | Kate’s Journey: From Research Assistant at DCAL to Deputy Director
YouTube video by DCAL UCL
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Honoured to co-author this piece on how early childhood systems shape the lives of families with disabled children — and the gendered, racialized, and classed labour placed on mothers and caregivers.
October 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'
Phillis Wheatley, the first Black nature poet | The Observer
Enslaved as a child, the 18th-century writer became the first published Black woman – and a pioneer of nature poetry whose legacy still inspires
observer.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM