Language Justice

Move to End Violence summarizes the struggle for language justice: “We live in a context where people are discouraged from speaking their native languages, where people have been punished, criminalized and discriminated against for doing so, where thousands of Indigenous languages have been forcibly disappeared across the globe. Language injustice perpetuates violence in the ways that it silences, erases, and dehumanizes whole populations of people. Language Justice allows us to disrupt privilege and colonization, challenging English dominance and Western-centered knowledge, communication, and leadership.”

The struggle to achieve language justice has been championed by social justice interpreters, who have approached translation and interpretation from a starting point of justice.<a href="https://www.colorlines.com/articles/these-interpr [...]

“Generations have struggled to learn, despite efforts to eliminate our traditions and language. Having a strong sense of yourself and your community is a great foundation for learning.”

~ Agnes Chavis, Lumbee Tribe

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