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Multilingualism as Resistance
On immigrants as teammates & acts of reciprocity
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Mother Maker, Memory Keeper
On constantly creating and recreating in motherhood and language – with a nod to the brilliant work of photographer Annie Wang
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Meet Your Language Where It Is
On learning languages, (iconic) T-shirt logos & what I swore I would never say to my children and...did
The Language of Peonies
On a short season of flowers and perhaps, of everything
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On the Narratives of First & Last Words
Join me for an author event at Backstory in Balham, May 22 at 7 p.m.
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Languages Do Not Take Up Space
But culture can. Also, K-pop & British PM Keir Starmer's “learn the language and integrate” rhetoric
Language as a Home, Mother as a Bridge
And why not add noses, fences, houses and life and death to the mix!
Is Language Loss Almost Normal?
Stories of languages lost, but also found
Mother is a Verb
On Sarah Knott's historical tome, artist Jenny Saville's maternal bodies & the body memory of a parent's language
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What's Your Name, (Wo)Man?*
On the link between "Adolescence", (Italian) mothers' surnames, toxic masculinity & more
(Women) Talking & (Maternal) Guilt
Upcoming talk & thoughts on what it means to feel guilty in motherhood & language
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Language & Power
And the rich linguistic landscape of S3 of The White Lotus: Thai, Mancunian, Southern & more
English to unify or to discriminate?
On America's new "official" language & what one-language, one-nation means
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#35 Maternità multilingue
In occasione della Giornata internazionale della lingua madre, ho intervistato Malwina Gudowska, linguista ed esperta di multilinguismo
Published on Parlo anch'io! • 
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