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By JPB Gerald

A podcast working against white epistemology and raciolinguistic ideologies.
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"The many acronyms of language education"

Unstandardized EnglishSep 11, 2019

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Becoming a So-Called Scholar, Part Three (S3E12)
Feb 07, 202252:55
Becoming a So-Called Scholar, Part Two (S3E11)
Jan 24, 202255:05
Becoming a So-Called Scholar, Part One (S3E10)
Jan 10, 202259:04
Checklists and Merit Badges (Live Presentation) (S3E9)
Dec 27, 202128:04
Making the White Perceiver Better, with Melissa Baese-Berk (S3E8)
Dec 13, 202157:23
The Voices of Lived Homelessness Experience, with Kadisha Davis (S3E7)

The Voices of Lived Homelessness Experience, with Kadisha Davis (S3E7)

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 lived experience and expertise on the topic, his wife's colleague Kadisha Davis, who hosts the "Hear Our Voices" podcast on this topics.

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Nov 29, 202154:08
The Challenge of Changing TESOL from the Inside, with Clara Bauler (S3E6)
Nov 15, 202101:07:08
Classics, Grammar, and Artificial Obstacles, with Siobhán McElduff (S3E5)
Nov 01, 202155:39
How are these damn journals still putting out achievement gap articles in 2021?
Oct 22, 202129:20
On the Inherently Colonial Structure of Language Education, with Gabriella Licata (S3E4)
Oct 18, 202101:10:07
Workplace Hellness, with Erika Strandjord (S3E3)
Oct 04, 202101:20:27
Hidden Curricula/Parental Individualism, with Jess Calarco (S3E2)
Sep 20, 202159:51
Pathologized Languaging, with Maria Rosa Brea (S3E1)
Sep 06, 202101:30:22
Season 2 Finale, Recap, and Miscellaneous Stories about Racism and Motivation
Jun 07, 202159:48
A System of Saviors, with AMT Gerald
May 24, 202154:46
The Purpose, Promise, and Problem of Professional Organizations, with Rob Sheppard
May 10, 202157:43
Re-Opening For Who? With Selena Carrión
Apr 26, 202101:17:59
Problematizing Early Childhood Education, with Elizabeth King
Apr 12, 202101:28:43
Unsustainable, with Rachel Emas
Mar 30, 202101:07:53
Talking about Talking about Burma, with Chu May Paing
Mar 15, 202101:01:26
The Academics Doth Protest Too Much, with Cailtin Green
Mar 02, 202101:11:57
Neurodivergent Narratives, with Ali Oats
Feb 16, 202101:17:05
The Whiteness of Trivia, with Keith Stewart
Feb 02, 202101:13:07
A Critical Analysis of 90 Day Fiance (no, seriously)
Jan 19, 202152:22
On the Limits of Whiteness, with Neda Maghbouleh
Jan 05, 202101:09:25
New Language Teacher, with Destiny Alvarez
Dec 22, 202001:03:26
ELT After Whiteness, with Scott Stillar and Vijay Ramjattan
Dec 08, 202001:25:06
Radicalizing Literacies and Languaging, with Ale Babino and Mandy Stewart
Nov 24, 202001:03:02
The Eugenicist's Best Friend
Nov 10, 202057:22
Language Access, with Anar Parikh
Oct 27, 202001:03:11
A Brief Trip to Lovecraft Country, with Keisha Weil
Oct 21, 202001:19:14
Some Critical Thoughts on Epistemology and Scholarship
Oct 13, 202057:34
Language Teaching and the white Working Class, with Nicole Pettitt
Sep 29, 202001:19:05
The Numbers Game, with Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo
Sep 15, 202001:08:18
Cancel 'Cancel Culture' Culture, with Caitlin Green
Sep 01, 202001:42:48
Season 1 Finale and Recap

Season 1 Finale and Recap

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 learned lessons and really found its legs.
Jun 08, 202002:09:56
These Uncertain Times, with AMT Gerald

These Uncertain Times, with AMT Gerald

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 delve into her career working in homeless services, "affordable" housing, what "homeless" actually means, and a lot of other things that make him feel very lucky to have found her.
Jun 02, 202054:43
Critical Covid Conversations #7: Kelsey Swift

Critical Covid Conversations #7: Kelsey Swift

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.
May 26, 202001:09:44
Language and Barbados

Language and Barbados

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 semester. Definitely a different episode from the others!
May 19, 202052:31
Critical Covd Conversations #6: Ale Babino

Critical Covd Conversations #6: Ale Babino

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 talented designations, the impact of whiteness on her career, and how language learners may be particularly impacted by this current traumatic interruption.
May 12, 202055:28
We Need To Talk About Karen

We Need To Talk About Karen

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 these non-slurs (insults, in fact) are equated to slurs, and what can be done about Karens.
May 05, 202001:07:54
Critical Covid Conversations #5: Betsy Sneller

Critical Covid Conversations #5: Betsy Sneller

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.
Apr 28, 202001:03:54
New York

New York

Host JPB Gerald reflects, alone, on his experiences being at arm's length for NYC's two decades of ongoing disasters, his love for the city, his gratitude and guilt, his realization that impresses different types of white people helps no one but them, and finding a purpose for the future.
Apr 21, 202044:47
Critical Covid Conversations #4: Chey Davis

Critical Covid Conversations #4: Chey Davis

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 discuss her teaching on race and racism, how analysis of racism and disability might evolve after our current time period, and the abject fiction of American mythologizing.
Apr 14, 202001:08:28
Critical Covid Conversations #3: Mariam Durrani

Critical Covid Conversations #3: Mariam Durrani

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 critical scholars, have to do during and after Covid.
Apr 07, 202001:06:35
Critical Covid Conversations #2: Abby Bajuniemi

Critical Covid Conversations #2: Abby Bajuniemi

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 discussion from our usual fare. Then they speak of the ways in which diversity and inclusion efforts fail, and academia in general in the uncertain future.
Mar 31, 202052:56
Critical Covid Conversations #1: Jessica Sierk on Niceness and Whiteness

Critical Covid Conversations #1: Jessica Sierk on Niceness and Whiteness

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 and whiteness, then asks for her take on what changes we might hope to see in how niceness and whiteness are constructed in the future that has been suddenly upended by the current crisis.
Mar 24, 202001:03:09
The Union of Theater and Language Education

The Union of Theater and Language Education

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 work in Spain navigating and what she brought back with her to build a language teaching career, with her theater background, her culture and language, and her racialization shaping her craft, her pedagogy, and ultimately, her advocacy.
Mar 17, 202001:03:54
The Ideal Employee

The Ideal Employee

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 are, like everything else, constructed along racial lines.
Mar 10, 202058:03
Exceptional Merit

Exceptional Merit

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 as meritocracy reigns.
Feb 25, 202051:21