Spanish For Social Change

watch this gorgeous video, it will leave you inspired. maybe even inspired to subtitle? Many thanks to Michael Joseph for the translation be...

Translators get a bad rap as traitors. Quite the opposite, to translate is to be an ally. As social justice interpreters in particular we am...

do no harm: acción sin daño Not quite literal, but this is how folks in Colombia who are working with Mary Anderson's framework are tra...

The movement to close the US Army's School of the Americas has come up with this great neologism - see their description of it at the bo...

vanishing point: punto de fuga see Derek Gregory's fantastic chapter on “Vanishing points” in Violent Geographies: Fear, Terror, a...

well known - not notorious! This is not particularly a social movement term, but I have herd it rendered with the false cognate several...

burnout: sindrome del quemado (what August vacations are good for) Wikipedia en español lo tiene como sindrome del burnout but t...

It's true - I'm obsessed with this term. I said I would stop blogging different options for it but I just can't resist - in Bet...

hollaback: atrevete The hollaback movement against street harassment has spread to Latin America and is growing. Atrevete is obviously not a...

accion de tutela (Colombia): writ for the protection of constitutional rights segun wikipedia: La Acción de Tutela es un mecanismo creado ...

I added the International Medical Interpreters Association to my list of interp orgs to know about in the left sidebar.

feminicidio, rather than femicidio As a feminist activist in Colombia explained it to me, in Colombia femicidio is understood to mean just t...

I love this pic of the w hite overalls but what, was that machine translation? It's everything for everybody.

When I stumble on a word I turn to my own glossary first, because often I've stumbled on it before. After that I go to wordref in my fi...

Should we avoid using (or translating into) words with little known racist etymologies? I avoid the word 'gyp'' in English, even...

A big thanks to Claudia Johnson at the very cool LawHelp Interactive who pointed me to a bunch of great resources. The Sacramento Courts ha...

I was reminded by my fab compa Jeremy of the importance of sending something like this, so I just modified Jeremy's version and sent thi...

A book-length translation of the work of Mexican feminist activist and social critic Marta Lamas has just come out, translated by John Pluec...

Interpretation is oral, translation is written. I must have said this one sentence out loud over a thousand times by now. My friends and f...

hue-ism as in racism, but, as I understand it, particularly discrimination within communities of color of people with darker skin. I heard ...

primordial: fundamental As in, 'su apoyo ha sido primordial para nosotros'. This is another one of those that sounds really funny i...

good standing: cumplimiento y constancia as in, member in good standing - miembro cumplido y constante or, for example, "Miembros de pl...

"Language and the human spirit are inextricably intertwined. We interpret the world through language. We express ourselves through lang...

es es titulo de una exposición lindisima que ví en Bogotá. Acabo de encontrar el glosario de la exposicion enlinea aca , la recomiendo alta...

minga: minga (collective work action) la minga llega a Bogota The above are photos I took of the Colombian minga at the end of their long ma...