Spanish For Social Change

social justice movement terminology for interpreters and translators - because more bilingual movements are stronger movements!

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Big ask: chance of a lifetime ‘terp gig coming to your town

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Have you heard of the caravan for peace?   It is a historic first in North-South organizing for peace and justic...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

watch out! translation change ahead!

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the worlds of both translation and language learning could be about to change significantly. truly. watch this video and be blown away by ...
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Monday, July 16, 2012

great video argument for interpretation

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After 35 years, the Dutch ministery of Health just stopped paying for professional interpreter services in health care.  Interpreters resp...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

la prensa chusma

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the yellow press.  as rendered in this interview of Mariela Castro by Democracy Now! , which is anything but.
Sunday, July 1, 2012

shantytown

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As I've posted before , I don't like the term slum. Shantytown isn't much better as a term, but somewhat. The other option is ...
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Monday, June 18, 2012

general assembly

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General assembly in the way the term is used in the occupy movement is usually asamblea popular , not general - though they are often just...
Monday, June 11, 2012

how to interpret jokes (or not)

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this video gets particularly useful around minute four
Sunday, June 3, 2012

soberania semillera

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soberania semillera: seed sovereignty This concept was new to me when I heard it recently but instantly made sense.  It's more speci...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

contrabandista

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I learned from this article about the Wayuu, uno de los pueblos originarios en Colombia that traditionally engages in what is often call...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

person with hearing impairment

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persona con discapacidad auditiva as with all forms of disability, it is more respectful to put the word person first, both in English a...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

bullying

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bullying: matoneo escolar (often shortened to just matoneo) At the recent educators conference I interpreted for I heard several Mexica...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

referral

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referral: remisión; derivación as in, information and referral line, or referral to a specialist. derivación is very spainish :) (ie, Sp...
Friday, April 13, 2012

grounded

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grounded: arraigado Props to my compa Kirsten from Codev . We're interpreting for the IDEA network conference "Teaching for Trans...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

drones

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drones: drones I far prefer using drones than than the option aviones no tripulados or vehiculos aéreos no tripulados. As my PhD adviser, ...
Monday, March 26, 2012

icebreaker

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icebreaker: actividad de desinhibicion, 'dinámica', dinámica rompehielo I always heard these referred to as just 'dinámicas'...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

volunteer interps needed for great event in DC

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wow, a trailer for a movement event? and there's a spanish version too. now all we need are some volunteers to help us make these even...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

the R word

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If you live in the US or Canada I hope you've been exposed to some of the wonderful campaign to ban the R word and replace "retard...
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Thursday, March 8, 2012

chucha

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chucha is one of those words with what seems like a thousand meanings depending on the country. Below is a video making fun of these sorts ...
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Thursday, March 1, 2012

great translation tool

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wordreference has added new search bar add ons for firefox since the last time I blogged about the tools I use or if you prefer, they have ...
Friday, February 24, 2012

back channel

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back channel: un canal de comunicación discreto This came up in this interview of former Colombian president Pastrana on the tenth annivers...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

warlords

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warlords: señores de la guerra unfortunately it doesn't sound as good if you're just talking about ONE warlord (it's Carlos Ca...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

TRAINING coming up in interpreting for social justice

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speaking of the fabulous Wayside, they have a training coming up March 23rd - 25th, 2012 1100 Mill Pond Road Faber, VA 22938 (434) ...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

politiquería

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politiquería : influence-peddling this rendition caught my eye in Adam Isaacson's report on Montes de Maria over at the fabulous Just t...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

why I don't love "language justice" terminology

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I've been mulling over the 'language justice' terminology used by a lot of my compas who organize to make our movements more m...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

leaders

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leaders: lideres y lideresas I've been seeing this version in more Spanish language movement documents - recently in several from Bolivi...
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