Language Liberation
Language liberation is an essential tool in the effort to eliminate other oppressions (racism, classism, genocide, sexism, young people’s oppression, and so on). This is because language has been used to hold in place the power and structure of the dominant groups and the privileges of their status quo. Language liberation is a “key tool” for transforming an oppressive situation into a fair one, as it can guarantee the space, time, visibility, advocacy, and voice that have been taken away from oppressed groups.
– Paxti Xabier Odriozola Ezeiza, International Commonality Reference Person for Languages and Interpreting
Rooftop, Sobo Badé, Toubab Dialaw, Senegal • Erin Huang-Schaffer, 2016
Translations
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ARTICLES ON LANGUAGE LIBERATION
- Ideas for Languages and Interpreting
- Thirty Years of Liberation
- Written Language, Oral Language, and Their Liberation [Euskara] [Español]
- Language Liberation is Crucial
- Language Liberation, and Individual Re-emergence
- Language Liberation for Native English Speakers
- The Minute of Silence is a Minute of Liberation and Revolution
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