Language Justice Resources

Each section is organized in approximate chronological order

Resources for creating multilingual spaces/organizations

• Resourcing Language Justice | materials from a workshop at Encuentro 2024 by Wave - a Language Liberation Hub

• Linguistic Justice Principles: Best Practices for Multilingual Zoom Meetings by Irene Gotera of Linguistic Justice

• Language Justice: A Toolkit for Organizers from Right to the City

• Language Justice Reflections Workbook from Move to End Violence

• Language Justice: Grounding in Black English and Black Language from Move to End Violence (video)

• Multilingual Boards of Directors: Setting the Table for Community-Led Justice by Jessica Jewell, Executive Director and Alena Uliasz, Language Justice Manager, California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.

• Organizational Language Justice Protocols Assessment Internal + Systemic Advocacy, developed by Ana Paula Noguez Mercado (API-GBV) in collaboration with Joann Lee (LAFLA)

• How to Build Language Justice a guide from Antena

• Working with Interpreters - Best Practices from the Just Communities Language Justice Network

• Preparing an Interpreted Event from the Just Communities Language Justice Network

• Language Justice Toolkit: Multilingual Strategies for Community Organizing

• Interpretation and Translation: Power Tools for Sharing in Grassroots Leadership Development by Alice Johnson for El Centro Hispano

• Further resources, including for multilingual virtual events, compiled by Antena Aire

Tools for Language Rights Advocacy

• National Language Rights Campaign & Toolkit, created by the Northwest Justice Project (available in Amharic / አማርኛ, Arabic / العربية, Chinese (Simplified) / 简体中文, Chinese (Traditional) / 中文, Haitian Creole / Kreyòl ayisyen, Korean / 한국어, Portuguese / Português, Russian / Pусский, Spanish / Español , Tagalog / Pilipino, Vietnamese / Tiếng Việt)

• Queremos escuchar tu voz. Una introducción a los derechos lingüísticos by Irene Gotera of Linguistic Justice (Spanish)

• I speak cards, created by California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) (Spanish, Dari, Hmong, Pashto, Punjabi)

Podcasts

• Interpretando el desplazamiento K’iche, Tu’un Dali podcast (Spanish)

• Mother Tongue, Queens Memory Podcast (season 3, ep. 7) (English and Tibetan)

• Se Ve Se Escucha (mostly English)

Interpreting Training Curricula & Resources

• Simultaneous Interpreting & Shadowing Practice: Diaspora Dialogues (in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole) - YouTube playlists by Jamii Linguists

• Introductory Language Justice Guide: A Resource for Emerging LJ Interpreters and Community, created by the Hudson Valley Farm Hub

• Language Justice Curriculum, created by the Center for Participatory Change

• Language Justice Toolkit for Interpreters, created by the Center for Participatory Change (youtube videos)

Articles/Talks

• Foundation for a Just Society series on Language Justice in Alliance, by Prachi Patankar and Phoebe De Padua:

  • The importance of ‘language justice’ in social justice movements

  • Bringing a language justice mindset to our work

  • Language justice: an invitation to get out of our comfort zones and build together

• Why We Ain’t Gonna Get Free in One Language (Jamila Craig at TEDxDelthorneWomen)

• Toward language justice: systemic dilemmas in the implementation of interpreting services in a California school district by Julia Menard-Warwick, Serena A Peregrina-Williams, Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Alena Uliasz & Kate Snow

• Aymarana Wasapp yatiqawi (Learning Aymara on WhatsApp) by Yvette Ramírez

• “ Guede disha” pasar la palabra de otra persona. La interpretación como lucha de los pueblos indígenas en contra de la violencia lingüística y por la dignificación de la vida by Odilia Romero (Spanish)

• Multilingual Communities Require Multilingual Surveys: A Language Justice-Informed Approach to the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey by Allison Corbett and Caitlin R. Waickman

• How Movements Are Staying Multilingual Amidst the Pandemic’s Shifting Conditions by Allison Corbett

• Language Justice in Legal Services by Joann Lee, Marisa Christensen Lundin, Ana Paula Noguez Mercado, and Alena Uliasz

• La interpretación de los movimientos by Silvia Ribeiro (Spanish)

• Bringing Language Justice to the Region by Amy Wu

• These Interpreters Are Bringing a Radical Approach to Language Access by Miriam Zoila Pérez

• La interpretación de los movimientos by Silvia Ribeiro (Spanish)

• No one is asking for it: Reflections on Multilingüelandia, a Public Engagement residency with Antena and Antena Los Ángeles, March-May 2016 by January Parkos Arnall

• The Revolution Will Not Be in English by Sophie Kasakove

These resources were originally compiled by Allison Corbett (Wave staff) on langjust.com/resources.

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