#Speakers

Sarah Esterman

SarahEsterman

Very tired of all of the marketing conferences that have mostly white speakers. I'm also very tired of the same well-known, basically hero-worshipped, white speakers at all of the conferences.

Yuri Zahhahd パリ🇩🇲🇱🇨

MissParisRenee

Black People: SAY NO TO DIVERSITY PANELS Checking out this upcoming event which has 67 listed speakers, 3 of which are Black, guess what the black speakers are speaking about?

Laura Hoang

hoang_laura

The @FIAFarnborough #FIAConnect discussions have been interesting but I’m disappointed at the lack of diversity in speakers. So I did a crude analysis, using the published programme, on the number

Berkubernetus

fuzzychef

1/ So when I say to talk proposal reviewers "you have to make an effort to include demographically diverse speakers" there's often a lot of pushback and confusion. Lemme talk

Lina Hou (侯詠絮) — Black Lives Matter ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

linasigns

People: please don’t assign one sign language interpreter an event that goes on for more than 45 minutes and has multiple speakers. It’s not the best practice, and the interpreter

Lindie Botes | 린디 • 琳迪 • リンコ

lindiebee

5 ways to practice a language when you don't know native speakers [a thread] 1. Shadowing videos and podcastsShadowing means listening to audio and repeating exactly what and how the

Louise Morris 💙

summitfundraise

Is it me? I've just turned down speaking at a national sector conference. A member of the organising committee asked me to apply & what my fee was for speaking.

Jeff Allen™

JeffAllenUT

We have #HeroConf 2021 dates! First, I want to share some of an email we sent the previously confirmed Speakers.Headline: we are rescinding all speaking invites & reopening our selection

Dr. Pragya Agarwal FRSA

DrPragyaAgarwal

[thread] WHY PAYING SPEAKERS MATTER? I recently accepted a speaking engagement for free but then realised that the event was ticketed. It has made me think more about my role

Ian Cushing

ian_cushing

https://twitter.com/tombennett71/status/1296375488768806914?s=20 Teach Like a Champion advocates for the policing and 'correction' of non-standard spoken grammar. It's a punitive and discriminatory language policy, which contrib

jen hay

jbhay

Our paper on non-Māori speakers’ remarkable implicit knowledge of te reo Māori sound patterns and word-forms has just been published. (http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-78810-4) This was so much fun to work on.

n.

DeTrop_

What happens when regional languages are allowed to thrive in a province? Let's look at Sindhi, a language that is widely applied in curriculum and scholarly level in the province.

21st Century BC Fennec Fox🌻

AkkadianFox

Against my better judgement, I dove into this rabbit hole today.Here's the jist so you don't have to: Breitbart held a news conference on the SCOTUS steps with a bunch

Penny Rabiger FCCT

Penny_Ten

Spending the morning looking at upcoming education events. All white speaker line-ups and panels are standard. Please, if you are asked to speak at an event, remember that it costs

Ben Butcher

bienbutcher

Free speech at unis is back in the news as fines might be levied against those who block speakers.This isn't the first time that the issues has come up... A

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

BlkLibraryGirl

Thread.When speakers visit universities during Black History Month students seek wisdom, fellowship, & Agape love from these speakers. There is so much emotional labor required. Please don’t expect me to

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