Somewhere amidst finishing my assessment for Exclusion and Inequality, starting the pre-intensive period for Migration and Forced Displacement, and juggling an onslaught of group projects, I began questioning the feasibility of my intended final project (I guess that’s why we’re encouraged to attempt to incorporate our final project idea into this essay? To give ourselves […]

First off, I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude for the great comments and questions I’ve been getting from classmates. These have given me much to think about, as did points made in our cohort meeting in week 3. Some highlights from last week that I wanted to highlight because I found something especially […]

This week we had our first intensives, and the results were… intense. There was a certain amount of satisfaction in being able to read vast amounts of work and somehow magically remember enough of those readings to refer back to them in discussions. Probably even more so for the students in North America who were […]

  Last week, I ran across this thread on Twitter.   I wanna zoom in on one word in one sentence. “There is a *need* to develop a system that establishes a link between spoken and sign languages.” This entire abstract and paper are obviously wrong and deeply problematic, but let’s talk about “need” for […]

“What is this thing?” Good morning/afternoon/evening from Changzhou, China. This week—my first at the University of Edinburgh—has been an exciting one filled with figuring out where everything is (virtually since I’m commuting from across the planet). I began this week thinking I had a whole year before I really needed to start honing in on […]