Language Justice Resources

Translation Resources

• For New York City, by New York City: A Collaborative and Local Approach to Survey Translation by Caitlin R. Waickman and Elyzabeth Gaumer

• Community Review of Translations: Guide for Incorporating a Community Review Process for Translated Materials by the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families

• Gender in Language Project

• You, Me, Hir and Non-Binary Language by Ártemis López (in Spanish)

Resources for creating multilingual spaces/organizations

• Resourcing Language Justice | materials from a workshop at Encuentro 2024 by Wave - a Language Liberation Hub

• Linguistic Justice Principles: Best Practices for Multilingual Zoom Meetings by Irene Gotera of Linguistic Justice

• Language Justice: A Toolkit for Organizers from Right to the City

• Language Justice Reflections Workbook from Move to End Violence

• Kuûmã Guide to linguistic inclusion & justice by ISDAO

• Language Justice: Grounding in Black English and Black Language from Move to End Violence (video)

• Multilingual Boards of Directors: Setting the Table for Community-Led Justice by Jessica Jewell, Executive Director and Alena Uliasz, Language Justice Manager, California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.

• Organizational Language Justice Protocols Assessment Internal + Systemic Advocacy, developed by Ana Paula Noguez Mercado (API-GBV) in collaboration with Joann Lee (LAFLA)

• How to Build Language Justice a guide from Antena

• Working with Interpreters - Best Practices from the Just Communities Language Justice Network

• Preparing an Interpreted Event from the Just Communities Language Justice Network

• Language Justice Toolkit: Multilingual Strategies for Community Organizing

• Interpretation and Translation: Power Tools for Sharing in Grassroots Leadership Development by Alice Johnson for El Centro Hispano

• Further resources, including for multilingual virtual events, compiled by Antena Aire

Tools for Language Rights Advocacy

• National Language Rights Campaign & Toolkit, created by the Northwest Justice Project (available in Amharic / አማርኛ, Arabic / العربية, Chinese (Simplified) / 简体中文, Chinese (Traditional) / 中文, Haitian Creole / Kreyòl ayisyen, Korean / 한국어, Portuguese / Português, Russian / Pусский, Spanish / Español , Tagalog / Pilipino, Vietnamese / Tiếng Việt)

• Queremos escuchar tu voz. Una introducción a los derechos lingüísticos by Irene Gotera of Linguistic Justice (Spanish)

• I speak cards, created by California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) (Spanish, Dari, Hmong, Pashto, Punjabi)

Podcasts & Other Media

• Collectivizing Language Justice, an interview & research project by Circular for the Hudson Valley Farm Hub (available in English and Spanish)

• Interpretando el desplazamiento K’iche, Tu’un Dali podcast (Spanish)

• Mother Tongue, Queens Memory Podcast (season 3, ep. 7) (English and Tibetan)

• Se Ve Se Escucha (mostly English)

Finding Language Workers

Directory of groups that facilitate and practice language justice (within the U.S. and Puerto Rico), created by Circular for the Hudson Valley Farm Hub

Resources & Articles Related to AI

• Machine Translation and AI-Generated Language Services: Not “Good Enough” for Justice, by Joann H. Lee, Cristina Llop, and Alena Uliasz

• Eco-translation practice in resisting AI’s ecological harms: Towards a preliminary action framework by Matthew Riemland for Encounters in Translation

• Protecting Language Justice in the Age of AI by Latinos in the South, a program of the Latino Commission on AIDS (también disponible en español: Protegiendo la justicia de lenguaje en la Era de la IA)

• Decision Guide for Considering AI Use by Techtonic Justice

Interpreting Training Curricula & Resources

• Simultaneous Interpreting & Shadowing Practice: Diaspora Dialogues (in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole) - YouTube playlists by Jamii Linguists

• Introductory Language Justice Guide: A Resource for Emerging LJ Interpreters and Community, created by the Hudson Valley Farm Hub

• Language Justice Curriculum, created by the Center for Participatory Change

• Language Justice Toolkit for Interpreters, created by the Center for Participatory Change (youtube videos)

• What Did They Say? Interpreting for Social Justice | an Introductory Curriculum by Roberto Tijerina for the Highlander Research & Education Center

Articles, Talks, & Other Publications

• Foundation for a Just Society series on Language Justice in Alliance, by Prachi Patankar and Phoebe De Padua:

  • The importance of ‘language justice’ in social justice movements

  • Bringing a language justice mindset to our work

  • Language justice: an invitation to get out of our comfort zones and build together

• Why We Ain’t Gonna Get Free in One Language (Jamila Craig at TEDxDelthorneWomen)

• Toward language justice: systemic dilemmas in the implementation of interpreting services in a California school district by Julia Menard-Warwick, Serena A Peregrina-Williams, Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Alena Uliasz & Kate Snow

• Aymarana Wasapp yatiqawi (Learning Aymara on WhatsApp) by Yvette Ramírez

• “ Guede disha” pasar la palabra de otra persona. La interpretación como lucha de los pueblos indígenas en contra de la violencia lingüística y por la dignificación de la vida by Odilia Romero (Spanish)

• Multilingual Communities Require Multilingual Surveys: A Language Justice-Informed Approach to the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey by Allison Corbett and Caitlin R. Waickman

• How Movements Are Staying Multilingual Amidst the Pandemic’s Shifting Conditions by Allison Corbett

• #BlackLanguageSyllabus, co-curated by Dr. April Baker-Bell and Dr. Carmen Kynard

• Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy by Dr. April Baker-Bell

• Language Justice in Legal Services by Joann Lee, Marisa Christensen Lundin, Ana Paula Noguez Mercado, and Alena Uliasz

• Bringing Language Justice to the Region by Amy Wu

• These Interpreters Are Bringing a Radical Approach to Language Access by Miriam Zoila Pérez

• La interpretación de los movimientos by Silvia Ribeiro (Spanish)

• No one is asking for it: Reflections on Multilingüelandia, a Public Engagement residency with Antena and Antena Los Ángeles, March-May 2016 by January Parkos Arnall

• The Revolution Will Not Be in English by Sophie Kasakove

Initial resources were compiled by Allison Corbett (Wave staff) on langjust.com/resources.

Reach out to us at hello@wavelanguagehub.org if you know of a resource that should be listed here!