The LJC Podcast
Welcome to Conversations w/Linguistic Justice Collaborative of Georgia’s podcast—an engaging platform for exploring the multifaceted issue of linguistic justice and the steps we can take to foster inclusivity in our communities.
En cada episodio, conversamos con activistas, líderes comunitarios y jóvenes, quienes nos comparten sus perspectivas sobre cómo las barreras lingüísticas afectan la vida de las personas y qué podemos hacer para apoyar la misión y visión de la LJC.
Belkis Raquel Paulino
Host
We’re on winter break: See you in 2025!
season 1: Episode 7
Black Language as a World Language
Dr. Amberly Evans is an expert in Black Language. Mr. Alaa Hedeeb is an expert in World Language Education. What happens when Black Language is acknowledged as a world language? This episode brings us into Mr. Hedeeb’s Arabic Three course at an Atlanta metro high school as his students learn about Black Language as part of their multilingual identities featuring Dr. Evans.
Keep Learning:
- Read: With Liberty and Black Linguistic Justice for All: Pledging Allegiance to Anti-Racist Language Pedagogy
by Dr. Teaira McMurtry - Listen: Exploring Black Joy Through Language and Literacy, a playlist based on Dr. Latoya Tolefree’s dissertation research on Black languages, literacies, and joy.
- Watch: A playlist of YouTube shorts from Dr. Sunn m’Cheaux on Black Language
- Want to learn more with Dr. Evans? Visit her website or follow her @teachlearnandbeyond
season 1: Episode 6
In this episode, Lindsey Walker, Presley Dyer, Caitlin Hochuli, and Leah Panther present the results of Swappin’ Stories, a participatory archiving project, with the Towns County Historical Society. The project sought to preserve Towns County’s North Georgia Appalachian history, make it accessible for community and school based education, and support the sustained work of the Historical Society to change media representations of Southern Appalachia.
Keep Learning:
- Read: Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia by Art Rosenbaum
- Read: Un-White: Appalachia, Race, and Film by Meredith McCarroll
- Listen: Appodlachia and Folks & Visions
- Watch: Mountain Talk from The Language & Life Project at North Carolina State University
season 1: Episode 5
Youth researchers with the LJC, Anela, Samira, Sabina, and Siham, are back with part two! Continuing from part one, they unpack their research on immigration in their community to consider how language and culture are part of “Americanization”: what is lost and what is gained by immigration, migration, and forced migration?
Keep Learning:
- Read: Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
- Listen: Stevie Wonder “Can We Fix our Nation’s Broken Heart”
- Follow: @ElevatedEnergyExchange
season 1: Episode 4
The Linguistic Justice Collaborative podcast has been taken over by youth researchers Anela, Samira, Sabina, and Siham as they talk about a series of interviews they conducted on immigration in Georgia, their own experiences, and contested definitions of “diversity”, “immigrant”, and “American”.
Keep Learning:
- Read: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Listen: Freedom by Marisa Ronstadt and the Know-It-Alls
- Follow: Georgia Youth Justice Coalition
season 1: Episode 3
Raquel talks to Latise, a doctoral candidate and elementary teacher who studies Black Language and Black Language educators’ perceptions of linguistic diversity.
Keep Learning:
- Read: Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy by April Baker-Bell
- Listen: JPB Gerald’s Unstandardized English
- Follow: Sunn M’Cheaux
Season 1: Episode 2
Raquel sits down with three youth members of the LJC, Akosua, Navah, and Tajrian, to learn about the linguistic diversity of their community and their research on language.
Keep Learning:
- Read: Methods for Community-Based Research: Advancing Educational Justice and Epistemic Rights by María Paula Ghiso and Gerald Campano.
- Listen: The whyPAR Podcast from the Youth Research Lab
- Follow: Youth-Nex
Season 1: Episode 1
Bienvenidos al podcast de la Linguistic Justice Collaborative of Georgia (LJCG), un espacio dedicado a promover la justicia lingüística. En cada episodio, exploramos temas relacionados con los derechos lingüísticos, la accesibilidad de servicios en múltiples idiomas y la importancia de la inclusión cultural en nuestras instituciones.
En el primer episodio presentamos quienes somos en Espanol a traves del punto de vista de una miembra del equipo de investigadores, Belkis Paulino.