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A podcast seeking justice for the racially, linguistically, and neurologically minoritized. Host JPB Gerald examines issues including whiteness, raciolinguistics, academia, capitalism, and sometimes pop culture.
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On Podcasting and Linguistic Justice, with Megan Figueroa and Carrie Gillon of The Vocal Fries (S3E13) from 2022-03-07T14:00
On this episode, his first as a member of the Connectd Podcast network, host JPB Gerald brings on the hosts of the Vocal Fries, Drs. Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa, to discuss podcasting and thei...
ListenBecoming a So-Called Scholar, Part Three (S3E12) from 2022-02-07T14:10
In this episode, host JPB Gerald concludes his story about his journey fromapplying to his doctoral program up through his dissertation. This part covers the book deal, the absurd amount of project...
ListenBecoming a So-Called Scholar, Part Two (S3E11) from 2022-01-24T14:36
In this episode, host JPB Gerald continues his story about his journey from applying to his doctoral program up through his dissertation. This part covers his decision to start publishing up throug...
ListenBecoming a So-Called Scholar, Part One (S3E10) from 2022-01-10T16:19
In this episode, host JPB Gerald starts a three-part series in which he recounts his first few years as a so-called scholar. Part one is about choosing to go to school in the first place, the first...
ListenChecklists and Merit Badges (Live Presentation) (S3E9) from 2021-12-27T15:02
A live recording of host JPB Gerald's presentation from the 2021 NYS TESOL Conference on shortcuts that majoritized teachers take. If you like the work and are interested in supporting the show, pl...
ListenMaking the White Perceiver Better, with Melissa Baese-Berk (S3E8) from 2021-12-13T16:23
In this episode, host JPB Gerald discusses a necessary avenue in language learning and teaching, namely the process of shifting the burden to where it belongs, the white perceiver. If you enjoy the...
ListenThe Voices of Lived Homelessness Experience, with Kadisha Davis (S3E7) from 2021-11-29T16:10
In this episode that switches things up a bit, host JPB Gerald discusses the reality of supposedly affordable housing and support for individuals with housing insecurity with a person with actual l...
ListenThe Challenge of Changing TESOL from the Inside, with Clara Bauler (S3E6) from 2021-11-15T14:34:41
In this episode, host JPB Gerald speaks with his good friend Dr. Clara Bauler about efforts to challenge the structures of TESOL and language teaching more broadly from their related but dissimilar...
ListenClassics, Grammar, and Artificial Obstacles, with Siobhán McElduff (S3E5) from 2021-11-01T14:46
On this episode, host JPB Gerald speaks with Dr. Siobhán McElduff about ancient languages, classics, grammar, and how all of these subjects combine to be used as a barrier to exclude and oppress. I...
ListenHow are these damn journals still putting out achievement gap articles in 2021? from 2021-10-22T14:13:24
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ListenOn the Inherently Colonial Structure of Language Education, with Gabriella Licata (S3E4) from 2021-10-18T14:27:16
In this episode, host JPB Gerald speaks with Gabriella Licata about the ways in which harmful and oppressive language ideologies are reproduced by the very way that language education is structured...
ListenWorkplace Hellness, with Erika Strandjord (S3E3) from 2021-10-04T15:04
In this episode, host JPB Gerald speaks with guest Erika Strandjord about the harmful discourse surrounding "workplace wellness" and the language used to shame workers. If you are able to support t...
ListenHidden Curricula/Parental Individualism, with Jess Calarco (S3E2) from 2021-09-20T14:11:55
In this episode, host JPB Gerald spends most of the episode discussing grad school gatekeeping with sociologist, Dr. Jess Calarco. They talk about grading, academic writing, and other aspects of th...
ListenPathologized Languaging, with Maria Rosa Brea (S3E1) from 2021-09-06T16:16:25
On this season 3 (!) premiere, host JPB Gerald speaks with Dr. Maria Rosa Brea, a speech language pathologist, about the very concept of pathologized languaging and all that follows from it. If yo...
ListenSeason 2 Finale, Recap, and Miscellaneous Stories about Racism and Motivation from 2021-06-07T15:10:39
In this final episode of season 2, host JPB Gerald reviews each episode of the season and some observations from each discussion, and also recounts a few stories of interpersonal cruelty and its co...
ListenA System of Saviors, with AMT Gerald from 2021-05-24T22:23:05
In this episode, host JPB Gerald brings back the hard-to-wrangle co-habitant AMT Gerald. They talk about saviors in nonprofits and the way that the systems supporting charitable and altruistic orga...
ListenThe Purpose, Promise, and Problem of Professional Organizations, with Rob Sheppard from 2021-05-10T15:34:29
On this episode, host JPB Gerald brings back old friend Rob Sheppard to talk about their roles in professional organizations, specifically in the TESOL world, but also more broadly. Why are they al...
ListenRe-Opening For Who? With Selena Carrión from 2021-04-26T11:57:19
In this episode, host JPB Gerald speaks with fellow NYCer and Bronx teacher Selena Carrión about the learning loss discourse, the re-open arguments, and exactly who has been leading the conversatio...
ListenProblematizing Early Childhood Education, with Elizabeth King from 2021-04-12T14:47:19
In this episode, host JPB Gerald speaks with Dr. Elizabeth King about her research in Early Childhood Education on emotion language, but also we talk about the literature in that subfield and the g...
ListenUnsustainable, with Rachel Emas from 2021-03-30T01:18:28
In this episode, host JPB Gerald talks to guest Dr. Rachel Emas about her work in the field of sustainability and also her experience unlearning patterns that had rendered her harmful to her studen...
ListenTalking about Talking about Burma, with Chu May Paing from 2021-03-15T23:49:21
In this episode, host JPB Gerald and guest Chu May Paing discuss, through the lens of the current situation in Burma, the way that academics and academia prefer to talk distantly about real issues ...
ListenThe Academics Doth Protest Too Much, with Cailtin Green from 2021-03-02T02:44:18
On this episode, host JPB Gerald brings back Dr. Caitlin Green to talk about some Very Online (and mostly male) Academics who just cannot stop shouting into the internet about wokeness, anti-racism...
ListenNeurodivergent Narratives, with Ali Oats from 2021-02-16T03:12:40
In this episode, host JPB Gerald and guest Ali Oats recount their similar but divergent experiences as students, one formally diagnosed with ADHD, one not but clearly so, one white and one Black, h...
ListenThe Whiteness of Trivia, with Keith Stewart from 2021-02-02T02:23:04
In this episode, host JPB Gerald talks to his old friend Keith Stewart - a professional trivia host - about trivia, something they both love but which often reinforces white epistemology and prefer...
ListenA Critical Analysis of 90 Day Fiance (no, seriously) from 2021-01-19T02:17:06
I kinda just wanted to do something fun, and consider I've spent way too much time watching that show, I came up with some ideas related to the topics I talk about on this show to discuss. It's act...
ListenOn the Limits of Whiteness, with Neda Maghbouleh from 2021-01-05T11:28:53
On this episode, host JPB Gerald discusses the book "The Limits of Whiteness" with its author, Dr. Neda Maghbouleh. The book sheds light on an under-explored axis of racial categorization, specific...
ListenNew Language Teacher, with Destiny Alvarez from 2020-12-22T11:27:18
Switching perspectives here, host JPB Gerald talks to Des Alvarez about her new career as a language teacher, her plans for the future in the field, and how it's been to begin work in 2020 of all y...
ListenELT After Whiteness, with Scott Stillar and Vijay Ramjattan from 2020-12-08T11:23:54
Oh boy! Literally, because there are three men, but still. Scott Stillar and Dr. Vijay Ramjattan return to help host JPB Gerald envision a world where whiteness is no longer centered in ELT. It's q...
ListenRadicalizing Literacies and Languaging, with Ale Babino and Mandy Stewart from 2020-11-24T11:36:55
In this episode, host JPB Gerald discusses the brand new and vital book, "Radicalizing Literacies and Languaging," with authors Dr. Mandy Stewart and (returning guest) Dr. Ale Babino. The authors w...
ListenThe Eugenicist's Best Friend from 2020-11-10T11:54:21
First solo episode of the season! In this episode, host JPB Gerald reflects on how the racism he experienced, particularly his positioning as the One Black Friend, was actually tied to an implicit ...
ListenLanguage Access, with Anar Parikh from 2020-10-27T10:15:40
In this episode, host JPB Gerald and guest Anar Parikh (@anarparikh) discuss the many issues with discrepancies in language access and the impact this has on minoritized communities, particularly ...
ListenA Brief Trip to Lovecraft Country, with Keisha Weil from 2020-10-21T11:24:02
Spoilers ahead! Beware! Host JPB Gerald and guest Keisha Wiel dive into the many fascinating aspects of HBO's Lovecraft Country, which you really should go watch before you listen to this.If you li...
ListenSome Critical Thoughts on Epistemology and Scholarship from 2020-10-13T10:34:47
In this meta-episode, JPB examines the reasons why he chooses to analyze whiteness in his research and scholarship, and mostly ends up being very critical of academia overall! I kinda... went off. ...
ListenLanguage Teaching and the white Working Class, with Nicole Pettitt from 2020-09-29T10:11:31
In this episode, host JPB Gerald discusses English Language Teaching and its conceptualization among the Midwestern American white working class. With his friend and fervent academic supporter, Dr....
ListenThe Numbers Game, with Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo from 2020-09-15T10:18:47
We all rely on numbers to back up our points, right? And one of the ways we rely on quantitative statistics is to advance anti-racist and heteroglossic language goals, at least as critical scholars...
ListenCancel 'Cancel Culture' Culture, with Caitlin Green from 2020-09-01T10:33:42
In the Season Two premiere, host JPB Gerald reflects on the work he has engaged in this summer and then discusses the white hegemonic nonsense of the concept of 'cancel culture,' focusing on abusiv...
ListenSeason 1 Finale and Recap from 2020-06-08T18:51:54
In this episode, host JPB Gerald combs through the entire first season of the show, including snippets from every single episode. Enjoy! We'll be back at the end of the summer with a show that has ...
ListenThese Uncertain Times, with AMT Gerald from 2020-06-02T13:38:01
In this very special episode, host JPB Gerald and his special guest, AMT Gerald, discuss how these times are only "uncertain" for folks whose lives didn't already include housing instability, and d...
ListenCritical Covid Conversations #7: Kelsey Swift from 2020-05-26T13:25:47
In this episode, host JPB Gerald and guest Kelsey Swift discuss historical constructions of English and a lot of other things about the posible future ahead of us.
ListenLanguage and Barbados from 2020-05-19T13:27:17
In this special episode, host JPB Gerald speaks with Dr. Rebecca Shapiro and several of her students in Barbados on what they have learned about language and dialect in their just-concluded semeste...
ListenCritical Covd Conversations #6: Ale Babino from 2020-05-12T13:19:33
Another week inside, another episode. This week, host JPB Gerald speaks to Dr. Ale Babino about the construction of bilingual education and dual language programs, the intersection of gifted and ta...
ListenWe Need To Talk About Karen from 2020-05-05T13:29:29
Joined by former guests Kelly Wright and Maureen Kosse, as well as Kelly Yoshida Nuttall in the background, this episode is a free-flowing conversation about "Karen," how it's NOT the n-word, why t...
ListenCritical Covid Conversations #5: Betsy Sneller from 2020-04-28T13:31:58
In the next episode of this ongoing series, host JPB Gerald speaks with Dr. Betsy Sneller about the value of linguistic analysis in the present and future.
ListenCritical Covid Conversations #4: Chey Davis from 2020-04-14T15:52:32
In this 4th episode of an ongoing series (I really am going to try to keep it going as long as we're all inside), host JPB Gerald speaks with Chey Davis, Associate Professor of English. They discus...
ListenCritical Covid Conversations #3: Mariam Durrani from 2020-04-07T13:22:32
In this episode, host JPB Gerald and guest Dr. Mariam Durrani discuss her work in on anti-Muslim racism, feminist and public anthropology, American empire, and what, if we are lucky, we, as critica...
ListenCritical Covid Conversations #2: Abby Bajuniemi from 2020-03-31T15:53:03
In this second episode of the self-isolation period, host JPB Gerald speaks with Dr. Abby Bajuniemi about her work at the intersection of tech and linguistics, a different sort of language discussi...
ListenCritical Covid Conversations #1: Jessica Sierk on Niceness and Whiteness from 2020-03-24T16:07:08
In the first installment of an impromptu series recorded during the early stages of NYC's self-isolation from Covid-19, host JPB Gerald speaks to Dr. Jessica Sierk about her research on niceness an...
ListenThe Union of Theater and Language Education from 2020-03-17T16:05:21
In this episode, host JPB Gerald speaks with Jade Cintron about her experiences incorporating her experience with and passion for dramatic arts into her language teaching work. She speaks of her wo...
ListenThe Ideal Employee from 2020-03-10T12:55:59
In this episode, host JPB Gerald welcomes back Dr. Vijay Ramjattan to discuss another of his specialties, the topic of what constitutes "employability" and "professionalism," and how these concepts...
ListenExceptional Merit from 2020-02-25T23:46:44
In this episode, host JPB Gerald analyzes his theorized connections between ELT, racism, white fragility, and meritocratic ideologies, positing that antiracism in ELT will always struggle as long a...
ListenRacialization Experiences as ELT Professionals from 2020-02-11T00:54:05
In this episode, host JPB Gerald speaks with Alice Kim about her experience as a fellow racialized ELT professional who has taught abroad and also, unlike the host, spent time teaching students in ...
ListenConcepts of Academic Integrity/Language of Greater Communication from 2020-01-29T00:09:02
In this episode, host JPB Gerald speaks with Brendan DeCoster about the concept, and troubling nature, of the "language of greater communication," and how this affects language policy in several di...
ListenTowards a Pedagogy of Heretical Whiteness from 2020-01-20T04:01:46
In this special, personal episode, host JPB Gerald expounds upon his "problem of practice" upon entering his doctoral program, his research goals, and his hopes for refining a pedagogy he calls "he...
ListenChasing Encounters Crossover from 2020-01-14T14:46:43
In this episode, host JPB Gerald completes his conversation with Chasing Encounters podcast host Yecid Ortega. The first half of the conversation can be found on his podcast page (link it here!). T...
ListenThe Language of White Supremacy from 2019-12-24T11:06:44
In this episode, host JPB Gerald speaks with Maureen Kosse about the insidious ways white supremacy and the alt-right use language to lure people, what led to our current predicament, and where we ...
ListenDiscriminating Outcomes from 2019-12-11T13:22:49
In this episode, host JPB Gerald speaks with Kelly Wright about her article "Language and Discrimination: Generating Meaning, Perceiving Identities, and Discriminating Outcomes." Linguistic discrim...
ListenThe Altruistic Shield, LIVE from 2019-11-27T00:12:39
Live presentation of the Altruistic Shield paper at NYS TESOL, 11/15/19. Yay!
ListenAn 'accurate' conversation about 'fluency' from 2019-11-13T10:21:22
In this episode, Scott Stillar joins JPB to discuss the concept of fluency and how it can be used as a judgement and a barrier.
Listen'What can we actually do about native speakerism?' from 2019-10-23T12:09:41
If you are in the field of language education, you know that native speakerism is a prevalent form of discrimination. But we've been talking about it forever and it continues to bedevil the field. ...
Listen'Black and/or smart' from 2019-10-09T12:17:31
In this slightly different episode, host JPB Gerald speaks to his experiences being classified as 'smart' from a young age and how that has often been placed in opposition to his status as Black.
Listen"Everyone has an accent" from 2019-09-25T12:18:39
In this episode, host JPB Gerald discusses accents with newly-minted PhD-holder Dr. Vijay Ramjattan, who has conducted considerable research on the topic. The dialogue focuses on how the word "acce...
Listen"The many acronyms of language education" from 2019-09-11T15:14:02
In this episode, host JPB Gerald and guest Lydia Villaronga discuss several acronyms within the field of language education, including ESL, ELL, TESOL, and others. Many of these acronyms seem harml...
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