The recent arrest and charging of a 21-year-old Black woman in the UK for using the AAVE term Nigga in a private Twitter conversation marks a disturbing and radical shift in the enforcement of the Malicious Communications Act of 1988. This heavy-handed approach not only criminalises Black people for their language use but also highlightsContinue reading “BLAM UKs Statement against the Criminalisation of Black Languages”
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Connecting Black Atlantic Languages
By Ife Thompson Unpacking the interconnectedness of Black Atlantic languages whilst disrupting linguistic supremacy through a decolonial lens. As words like Lit, Snitch, Tings, Gwarn, Gyal, Dem, Dey, Nyash and Bae have become words used by Black British English speakers and have effectively been creolised into Black British English. It is important we better understandContinue reading “Connecting Black Atlantic Languages”
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