Nothing like time in community. My corazón is so full. Here are a few photos of BLLING NYU's Linguistic Liberation and Lovin' Lit event! The families and children from Lenox Hill brought us all joy. Thanks to Yhamiles for the extra support. Here sharing about our Fall Community Event!

A little about the concept behind the event: This event is predicated on two main ideas, both support the principles of culturally and linguistically sustaining practices in SLP: Language is a verb (i.e., we all language and our languaging is valid). Languaging, in this case, is borrowed by Humberto Maturana’s view that language practices are embodied and from Ofelia Garcia and colleagues’ views that our languages are not objectivied, they don’t need to be separate from the bodies that produce them, separated based on ‘names’ or proficiencies. We do not need to hierarchically situate our language practices as superior or inferior. Languaging is looking at language and all the ways we communicate as co-constructed and it includes the concept of multimodality and symbols and gestures in communication, and it is the foundation to ‘translanguaging’ (Garcia, 2009) There are multiple ways through which learning and literacy can be take place. This is tied to the concept of modalities too, but it also incorporates other meaning making structures we may individually engage with in our familial contexts (e.g., being curious, analyzing critically, applying new learning).

Gracias to Kat (especially for ALL your hard work to get us here!), Shakira, Jessyca, Mona, Sofia, Katherine, Jing, Emelia, Brittany and Sydney! You are total stars! You ROCKED your translingual and bilingual read alouds!