It is "silenced voices," not "voiceless."

You do not assess the pedagogical competence of an immigrant teacher through their accent. You assess the pedagogical competence of an immigrant teacher through their actual pedagogy.

White supremacy in organizations goes way beyond how many white bodies comprise an organization. It is the logics, policies, practices, and so on.

You can find someone's speech to be intelligible yet consider it "inappropriate" for academic or professional purposes. Therefore, learning how to better to listen to different types of speech has to go beyond simply learning to understand them.

How come the "all lives matter" people have nothing to say about stopping genocide? *asked in sarcastic tone*

Workplace racism often manifests in all of the self-presentation rules that racially minoritized jobseekers have to adopt such as - modifying their accents - changing their attire - "fixing" their hair - choosing a "white-sounding" name - controlling their emotions

Marginalized workers are often the subject of office politics, but they are typically excluded from participating in such politics.

If you pronounce the TH in a word like "three" with a T-sound, you are not a deficient speaker of English. You are just engaging in a phonological practice that a range of English speakers also do around the world. It is linguistic imperialism that makes you think otherwise.

Language and disability are the "neglected step-children" of DEI policies.

Whatever the context, the oppressed always get blamed for their own oppression.

It is always "accent reduction" instead of listening education.

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The idea that learning a language or travelling around the world makes you anti-racist promotes the idea that anti-racism is simply a mindset. It ignores anti-racism as a type of material struggle.

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It is a mistake to believe that a person cannot have more than one accent.

Listening can be performative and can help to maintain the status quo. Think of the employer who holds a townhall with aggrieved workers to "hear their concerns" and then does nothing afterward. The listening here was how the employer "addressed" the concerns.

Corporate diversity policies like to talk about race without ever mentioning racism.

Another example of developing critical media literacy is recognizing how "war" is not the right word to describe genocide.

One of my conference pet peeves is when an audience member dismisses a junior scholar's research by stating, "We already know this." No, we did not. We did not know the specific context of their research, the stories of the participants they interviewed, and so on.

The idea of a "near-native speaker" of a language signals that nativeness is a guarded linguistic category. Even if you "sound native," you can never "be native."