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Pwòf lengwistik @MIT & Grenadye @MITHaiti pou lekòl tèt an wo & Akademisyen @Akademi_Kreyol . I TWEET IN MY NAME ONLY

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Michel DeGraff

21 days

This is must-read for those who engage in historical & linguistic distortions where “Zionism”=“Judaism,” and who, in doing so, make it harder to fight against real antisemitism, especially when they collaborate with powerful antisemitic white supremacists

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A statement on Jewish activism, safety, and recent events at MIT | The Tech

Note: this statement is being cross-published in the MIT Faculty Newsletter

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MIT Jews for Ceasefire

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Read our new statement in The Tech, On Jewish Activism, Safety, and Recent Events at MIT! We welcome anyone in the MIT community who may be questioning how to interpret or respond to events on campus, to reach out to us to start a conversation.

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

Sa se afich nan lekòl ann Ayiti—kote tout moun pale kreyòl epi se yon ti zuit ki pale franse. Si. ou menm tou, ou konn wè kalte afich sa yo, pataje foto, videyo, eks. an ba la a. An n goumen ansanm pou n valorize idantite nou, lang nou, kilti nou, eritaj nou, patrimwàn nou. ✊🏾🇭🇹

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Michel DeGraff

2 years

Lè m te tou piti sou ban lekòl frankofòl, Frè Enstriksyon Kolonyal Sen Lwi Gonzag @islghaiti te di m kon sa kreyòl pa ta fouti mennen m ale pi lwen pase Lagonav... 😰 ... Mèsi @GessicaGeneus , Ayiboboooo ! 🥰 1❤️

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Michel DeGraff

4 years

@betsysneller @ktchernes “Good grammar costs $$$” reminds me of Haitian proverb “Kreyòl se lang rasin. Franse se lang achte”=“Kreyòl is the language we’re rooted in; French, the language we buy”. In Haiti, Kreyòl is often viewed as “bad French” yet everyone speaks Kreyòl, only some 3% speak fluent French

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Michel DeGraff

3 years

France's silencing of *THE* Revolution that defeated Napoleon & altered the colonial order. The Haitian Revolution promoted liberty as UNIVERSAL right so it was NO “extension” of the American or French so called “Revolutions” @DrSepinwall @FictionsofHaiti

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Michel DeGraff

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One of best & most honest reports on Haiti in @NYTImes & anywhere else in long while. It's not everyday that "blan" reporters reflect on their own positionalities & biases in their views about Haiti, then try to rectify it—for greater good. Mèsi @LPolgreen

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

4 months

Black linguists at Linguistic Society of America @LingSocAm centennial meeting #LSA2024 . 1💜 Thank you sooooo much, Pwòf Nicole Holliday @MixedLinguist , for organizing and for helping us build community 🙏🏿

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Michel DeGraff

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. @JuliaGaffield @washingtonpost : “Neither the French nor the British were the first to abolish slavery. That honor goes to Haiti ... forcing slaveholding nations to come face to face with the contradictions of their own “enlightenment.”...”

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Michel DeGraff

3 years

🔥 @MITHaiti @MIT_JWEL @MITOpenLearning @MIT_SHASS @KeanUniversity @MIT 🔥

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Platfòm MIT-Ayiti

Pou yon lekòl tèt an wo

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Michel DeGraff

2 years

@naomiosaka « Kreyòl pale, kreyòl konprann » ki fè « ak lang kreyòl, lasyans fè dekabès » nan @MITHaiti — tablo a se travay Atis nan Kalfou Richès (paske Ayiti twò rich pou n ta pòv)

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Michel DeGraff

1 year

Welcome Pwòf @UjuAnya to @MIT @MITLanguages . Thank u for speaking truth to power, always. Yes, Pwòf @DrIbram , there's no middle ground between racism & anti-racism—not even for (so called) "decolonial" scholars who are comfortable teaching & writing about what they don't practice

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Michel DeGraff

1 year

Feeling lots of gratitude & inspiration at 97th @LingSocAm Annual Meeting, in Denver, Colorado — reuniting with dearest old friends & meeting new colleagues, many of whom make me feel honored to be a linguist, a creolist, an activist and a human. 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

New seminar @MIT Linguistics this semester on LINGUISTICS & SOCIAL JUSTICE: LANGUAGE, EDUCATION & HUMAN RIGHTS (Tuesdays 2-5pm) : @mit_shass @mitjwel

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Michel DeGraff

4 years

Linguistic bias in systemic racism — the case of Haiti is even worse: with Haitians united by one national language (Kreyòl) but courts, state offices, schools @MENFP_Education @PRATIC509 , etc. all operate in French as primary language. LINGUISTIC APARTHEID through & through

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Shaeley Santiago

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Role of linguistic bias in systemic racism - trial of Zimmerman as just 1 example #AAVE @MichelDeGraff #TESOL2020

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Michel DeGraff

11 months

📢 Calling Creolists, Creole/Kreyòl speakers, Scholars, Educators, Activists, etc., to join me on this journey "Reclaiming Creole languages & Creole studies: Tracing paths for reparations & nation-building" #BlackLivesMatter #OurLanguagesMatter 🌍🌈 ✊🏿🇭🇹 #ToutMounSeMoun @UCLACERS

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Michel DeGraff

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Looks like "DECOLONIZATION & LIBERATION" is, at long last, making it into our linguistics curricula. YES!!!! Cc: @MIT @MIT_SHASS @MIT_CIS @HistoryMit @MITLanguages @MITPoliSci @MITWGS @MITDiversity @MITLibraries

@haspelmath

Martin Haspelmath

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Now available in open access:

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Michel DeGraff

3 years

Woy! Gade analiz @Harvard nan 3 lang (kreyòl, franse & angle) sou krim gouvènman @MoiseJovenel pandan jiris & lòt plim e ank « zuzu » nou yo kontinye ap derefize ekri lang nasyonal la... Report Finds Haitian Government Complicit in Crimes Against Humanity

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Michel DeGraff

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February 1st, 2022. Feeling honored & energized to be starting a Black History Month that's turning into a Black History Semester—on the 1st day of co-teaching "Black Matters" course @MIT_SHASS @MIT with Prof. Danielle Wood @Space_Enabled & Prof. D. Fox Harrell @MITVirtuality 🙏🏿

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Michel DeGraff

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Lang a nou se zam a nou pou dekolonizasyon ak liberasyon — yon jou vyendra, lengwis yo tou ava konprann sa

@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

9 years

Kreyòl pale, kreyòl konprann, kreyòl ekri: pouvwa, konesans, lengwistik, edikasyon nan istwa Ayiti ak istwa lemonn http://t.co/zAadr98Xaf

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Michel DeGraff

2 months

Where are @MIT ethics & political & social-justice philosophers when we most need them? Knock, knock, knock @ @MITphilosophy , anyone home? 🙏🏿 Repost • @mit_caa • Just to clarify some things…🫢

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Michel DeGraff

4 years

🥰HAPPIEST FRIDAY: Binging with (on) Black Linguis(tic)s🥰 From the Caribbean to California via Zoom. So good to see & be inspired by you all—especially younger scholars & graduate & undergraduate students presenting groundbreaking research👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 #2AAAL #SCL2020 @ACharityHudley

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Michel DeGraff

6 years

Me in taxi: Hello! Taxi Driver—Tom: I hear an accent. Where from? Me: Haiti Tom: Isn’t that shithole country? Me: 😱 Ok... Have you heard about these Africans in the Americas who taught Europeans about universal human rights & who started Black Lives Matter in the 18th century?

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Michel DeGraff

5 years

Platfòm MIT-Ayiti pou yon lekòl tèt an wo: . Tanpri, vini kole zepòl nan yon bèl konbit pou kreyasyon & pataj bon jan materyèl an kreyòl pou yon lekòl tèt an wo — epi fè pawòl la mache pou mouvman an ka vanse

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Michel DeGraff

2 years

Drum rolls... Kite tanbou yo woule... AYIBOBOOOOOOO !!! Men anpil, chay pa lou .... It does take a village — and more... Mèsi Fanmi ak Zanmi — Ansyen yo la tou ...

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Michel DeGraff

4 years

#BlackLivesMatter #HistoryMatters . Silencing Haitian history is part of anti-Blackness hegemony. That's why Louverture & Dessalines are absent in many history textbooks which include Washington & Napoleon. Even Chirac "forgot" Haiti was a French colony 😱

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Anchoring the Course with #StayWoke | Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies | Linguistics...

MIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity

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Michel DeGraff

2 years

Minis @NesmyManigat , Èske nivo alyenasyon ak demounifikasyon sa a ap toujou rete obligatwa — 2 syèk apre 1804 ? Ki jan w panse n ava rive kaba pratik kolonyal anti kreyòl sa yo k ap krebete ti moun yo e k ap vyole ni dwa fondamantal yo, ni lwa peyi a ? 🙏🏿

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

2 years

Enpòtans lang matènèl nan atizay Dimanch 27 fevriye 1pm Twitter Space @rythmes_509 @SylexOfficiel Atis @BicTizonDife + Lengwis @KendiZidor + Jounalis Kensley Marcel @AnseyePouAyiti @P4Hglobal @AECIDHaiti @Matenwa @EDjeride @PaulSciBelony @PropheteEmmelie

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

8 years

Jodi a sèlman, gen 3 otorite Leta ki mande m pou m tradui an kreyòl kèk dokiman yo ekri an franse. Men repons mwen:

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Michel DeGraff

2 months

#InternationalMotherTongueDay news—grant for bilingual book A Linguistic Revolution: Harnessing Power of Kreyòl & Other Mother Tongues for Education & Liberation in Haiti & Beyond—Vètyè lengwistik: Pouvwa lang a nou pou liberasyon & lekòl tèt an wo pou tout moun ka moun tou patou

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@mitpress

The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social

2 months

🧵/ The recipients of the 2024 Grant Program for Diverse Voices have been announced, and we are excited to share with you the five exceptional proposals that we look forward to publishing in the near future. Learn more 👇 and please join us in congratulating the authors!

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Michel DeGraff

3 years

Lafrans piye Ayiti epi se kon sa kolon franse bati peyi a yo. Epi nou menm ann Ayiti, pandan lang franse ap krebete nou, se li Jean Fouchard, Papa Dòk, Leslie Manigat @YanickLahens e latriye rele « butin de guerre » ak fyète ! Tande analiz Pwòf Marlene Daut @FictionsofHaiti ✊🏿🇭🇹

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Michel DeGraff

7 years

One root cause of massive academic, economic & political failure in Haiti: Teaching (il)literacy in language that most Haitians don't speak

@jdbaron

Juan D. Baron

7 years

Research: Using students’ home language engages them in learning process. Reality: 1st gr. French textbook used in pre-school, pre-school!

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Michel DeGraff

2 years

L'enquête se poursuit ? Men, pou ki sa @NYTimes pa di anyen menm sou magouy @HillaryClinton ak @OAS_official ki — selon dokimantasyon Pwòf Ricardo Seitenfus ak yon bann lòt aktè lokal e entènasyonal — te bay PHTK kle palè nasyonal ?

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

2 years

At @SocLingAnth conference, soo looking forward to learning more about linguistic anthropology & to discussing our joint struggles (un)silencing the colonial past & articulating plans for a more just future.

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Michel DeGraff

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Michel DeGraff

2 years

Proud of students in my "Creole languages & Caribbean identities" class who inspire me as they "read the word & the world" in Freire & Macedo mode. One of them had her essay on “Linguistics and economics in the Caribbean” published in her home country Saint Vincent & Grenadines👏🏿

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

Kreyòl la se yon lame. Se sòlda kreyòl ki pote VOKABI-LARI ak lòt chedèv atistik pou @BICTizonDife . Jan Dessalines te di nou, an n «tchenbe lang a nou» — paske baton ki nan men w se ak li ou pare kou — @nickmofo @mit_cms @MIT_SHASS @ArtsatMIT @mitopenlearning @mit_jwel @MIT_MTA

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Michel DeGraff

3 years

Advancing pro-blackness in Bilingual Education: Radical possibilities in light of an ethical imperative #LaCosecha2020 @DLeNM w/ Profs Cristian Aquino-Sterling @NelsonLFlores @BrittLFrieson Kenzo Sung Thanks for inspiring leadership! Thankful for Cristian's convening & slides

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

4 years

"The politics of education in post-colonies: Kreyòl in Haiti as a case study of language as technology for power and liberation" — in the Journal of @OfPostcolonial Linguistics.

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

Ale enskri epi suiv leson @FotWobo a pou n ka rive maton nan grafi kreyòl la

@FotWobo

Korije Fot (Wobo)

3 years

Lizay Jodi a @FotWobo pote pou ou òtograf kòrèk kèk mo anpil Ayisyen souvan ekri ak fot. konpran n ❌ | konprann ✔ apran n ❌ | aprann ✔ konnin ❌ | konnen vinn ❌ | vin ✔ e latriye. An n aprann ekri kreyòl. ✊🏿🤖

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Michel DeGraff

6 months

18 novanm 1893 — 18 novanm 2023 : Nou sonje Batay Vètyè, konba liberasyon pou n kraze chenn METAL. Jounen jodi, nou toujou nan Vètyè kote n ap goumen pou n kraze chenn MANTAL yo — paske #ToutMounSeMoun tou patou, nan Palestin tou. ✊🏿🇭🇹🇵🇸✊🏿

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Michel DeGraff

3 years

Repost • @MITHaiti • Saint Lucia 🇱🇨 on the move in the Creole liberation movement

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

Linguistics & human rights — the "canary" in the minefield of injustice? @LingSocAm

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Michel DeGraff

4 years

#BlackLivesMatter , SO NO LANGUAGE IS « OTHER » ! Keynote @TESOL_Assn July 18, 2020, 9AM: Learn how @MITHaiti contributes to equal opportunity & sustainable development by helping put all languages on a level playing field. Register by 12 July! #TESOL #ELT

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

@FotWobo @Akademi_Kreyol Ochan pou @FotWobo ! Travay sa a ap ede konpatriyòt nou yo metrize ekriti lang nanm nou. Sa merite ankourajman tou lè jou. Epi tou, ou byen sèvi ak analiz syantifik sou varyasyon nan kreyòl la. M ekri mesaj sa a pou Pwòf Dominique Fattier ki te dirije ekip Atlas Lengwistik la

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

2 years

@jahochcam So honored in @jahochcam 's & Tracey Weldon's company @ #LSA2022 . And here's a happiest update to my lecture yesterday. Julie's lecture in ASL was the 2nd after Ted Supalla's (2012) to infuse linguistic diversity into @LingSocAm plenaries. Mine, in Haitian Creole, was 3rd. Next?🙏🏿

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

«Vyolasyon dwa lengwistik, se krache sou konstitisyon nou an ... Represyon lengwistik la toujou la. Lang Kreyòl ayisyen an ap reziste » - Balistrad Blog — mèsi @leevens_vilme @Balistrad 🙏🏾

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

Bravo @Andries_Coetzee for 16th issue of Language & for making it open access—a historic #BlackLivesMatter moment for @LingSocAm . Mèsi Pwòf Dòk @ACharityHudley @CLMallinson @MarieBucholtz for bending the moral-universe arc. I'm honored to share your path:

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

2 years

In some fields, like linguistics and certain linguistics departments, white supremacy, disguised as "science," "altruism," and even as ... "level-playing field" (!!!), still reigns supreme... So, THANKS to Pwòf Dòk @ACharityHudley & team for calling this out. We've got work to do

@drbenjohnson

Ben Johnson 🦠📝

2 years

Everyone needs to read this @nature editorial on how science and scientists were responsible for justifying slavery, colonisation and racism, based on a deeply flawed unscientific model of white supremacy that lasted for 100s of years:

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Michel DeGraff

6 years

Article by @MichelDeGraff ( @MIT Linguistics @MIT_SHASS ) on linguistics' role in the right to education:

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Michel DeGraff

3 years

Sa se twòkèt la. Chay la la: — History & unity for liberty. Mèsi Pwòf Marlene Daut @FictionsofHaiti & @TiJanBosal Casimir @MarkBowsherFilm @HistoryHit @GibszZZz @muskagroup @ievayoyo @RAPBOSAL @mawonanndi @BosalWist @vavaayiti ✊🏾🇭🇹

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

Videyo sa a bay plizyè konpatriyòt pil fyète lè yo wè blan k ap chante an kreyòl. Se menm konpatriyòt sa yo ki derefize ekri an kreyòl ! Gen ladan yo k ap kouri dèyè m paske m ap pwone kreyòl kòm zouti ki djanm pou ansèyman ! Yo di kreyòl la ap « izole » Ayiti ! Ki dizon pa w ?

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

Un-faking news about Haiti's past & present since the past is not event past. Mèsi Dr @JuliaGaffield 1. French Revolution as roots of Haitian Revolution 2. Napoleon's defeat by yellow fever 3. Dessalines's "white genocide" 4. Haiti as republic in 1804 5. Haiti's isolation in 1804

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

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@DrArielHenry . @DrArielHenry , Nan sikonstans n ap viv yo, tanpri sispann « pale franse ». Se nan lang RASIN nou, lang Boukman lan, pou n kreye LINYON ki pou ban n FÒS. #KotLangManmanNou ? #F èLAnKreyòl tou — se sa Konstitisyon an mande, se sa « kominikasyon » mande, se sa respè dwa moun mande

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Michel DeGraff

4 years

Reading @ChelseaStieber ’s “Haiti’s Paper War” in today’s pre-election moment when Whiteness is trumping democracy doubles as a vindication of Jean-Jacques Dessalines' vision for Haiti, in 1804 already, as “Empire of Liberty” against White supremacy (see @EricLevitz in @NYMag )

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

4 years

17 oktòb 1806: Asasina Papa Dessalines. An n sispann asasinen Anperè a. An n sispann toupizi Manman Lwa peyi a ak rèv zansèt yo konsènan endepandans nou, konsènan idantite nou, konsènan lang nou. An n valorize istorik ak kapasite nou kòm nasyon. Respè pou lang nasyonal nou! ✊🏾🇭🇹

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Michel DeGraff

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"Haití, más allá de los mitos" @ALAIinfo @lamour_lilas @MamyrahProsper @TiJanBosal @FictionsofHaiti @chelseastieber @Dr_Saint_Herard @wwJJDdo @Adita_Ferrer @DrSepinwall @Soccerpolitics @LoopHaiti @AlterPresse @nouvelliste

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

4 years

On linguistics, Creole studies, Critical Race Theory, language, education and social justice... #BlackLivesMatter #LanguageMatters

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

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. @MarcAlainB , Nou kontan Banj lan vin rejwenn nou nan lakou @MIT . Sa pral ede nou monte nan yon nivo siperyè. WELCOME!

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Marc Alain Boucicault 🇭🇹

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Jodia mwen rekwaze avèk pi gran ene Ayisyen 🇭🇹 nou nan @MIT ! Chapo ak respè pou @MichelDeGraff ak @MITAyiti !

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Michel DeGraff

2 years

Leta Franse vle Ayiti sèvi ak FRANSE KÒM SÈL LANG OFISYÈL & SÈL ZOUTI POU ANSÈYMAN. Epi se Leta Franse, tou, ki konsidere FRANSE KÒM LANG ETRANJE ann Ayiti lè etidyan ayisyen vle etidye an Frans. Epi inivèsite ann Ayiti mande egzamen franse pou enskripsyon

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Michel DeGraff

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If "the Holocaust began with WORDS" (dixit @UNESCO ) do you think that LINGUISTS can contribute anything to "education [that] can play a key role in preventing genocide"? If so, what? If no, why not? If you're a linguist, please, PLEASE, chime in. Your input will be so appreciated

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

6 years

Tout jwèt se jwèt. Men, #KotK òbPetroCaribeA @ChallengePetro sa a pa ka ladan non! Mezanmi, lè politik tounen blag epi lè blagè tounen politisyen, nou chaje ak pwoblèm vre wi. Se lè sa a nou bezwen @Se_Joe nan...

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

4 years

Mèsi @ACharityHudley ! I'm retweeting this because I keep getting similar requests for me to work without pay—as part of new "Diversity Equity Inclusion" initiatives at mostly white institutions ("Equity" for free?) Here's a ready-to-send paragraph I now cut-and-paste as a reply:

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

2 years

Paske Abraram di se « A S E », sa se yon bèl mesaj lanmou kreyòl Èzili ak papa l nan @MITHaiti ap voye pou @Rutshelle sou Chante Alfabè Kreyòl La — pou @Rutshelle , tou, ka onore òtograf lang nasyonal la kòm lang ki rele tout Ayisyen ak Ayisyèn chè mèt chè mètrès. 1❤️ @FotWobo

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

Igbo matters. Kreyòl matters. Each and every one of our languages matters. Because our #BlackLivesMatter Mèsi @ChimamandaReal @IgboConference @MITHaiti @mitopenlearning @mit_jwel @MIT_SHASS @MIT

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

Jodi 26 desanm an n selebre Makaya, an n kore @RAPBOSAL ak @DiskobMizik travay Grenadye pou Grenadye, an n chante «Tribilasyon ak kè kontan», an n pwofonde yon istwa d Ayiti k ap kase chenn mantal kolonyal ✊🏾🇭🇹 @RAPBOSAL @mawonanndi @MawonArdy @BosalMizik @vavaayiti

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

Kreyòl nan medya yo — nan jounen kreyòl tou lè jou : — @nouvelliste @AlterPresse @LoopHaiti @woymagazine @Ayibopost @MENFP_Education @miloodyv66 @MAE_Haiti @EmmanuelJacquet @MCultureHT @BrunoMaesUnicef @UNICEFHaiti @calsdh @ijdh @BAIhaiti @FOKAL_Ayiti

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

4 years

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, in 1805 already in his Constitution for Haiti, legislated “Blackness” as a political category no matter skin color & ethnicity. In @KAnthonyAppiah ’s 21st-century analysis, “Blackness, like whiteness, has never not been political.”

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

Suggested homework for a year-long commemoration of Indigenous Peoples' Day (formerly known as Columbus Day): Raoul Peck’s #ExterminateAllTheBrutes is an epic overview of the origins and functioning of white supremacy through various sorts of hegemony.

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

Il faut cesser de soutenir Jovenel Moïse en Haïti

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

2 years

. @UNESCO promotes "linguistic diversity" & "Indigenous languages" @ILDecade . Yet @UNESCOstat linguists devalorize certain languages by claiming they are not "languages." In the case of Creoles, @UNESCO 's claim is based on a dubious Pidgin-to-Creole hypothesis tainted by racism😱

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MIT-Haiti Initiative / Inisyativ MIT-Ayiti

2 years

These doll & language tests are reflexes of hegemony among politicians, schools @MENFP_Education universities @UEHAITI @UQuisqueyaHaiti courts @MJSPHaiti linguists @UNESCO human-rights organizations @UNESCO_Haiti , etc. What “direct action” can heal these wounds? «Ranmase, sonje»

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Michel DeGraff

5 months

Happy 95th Birthday Pwòf Noam Chomsky 🎂BòN FèT🎂

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

4 years

Linguistic apartheid unveiled. An indispensable step to make #BlackLivesMatter . Thank you Sharese King & Katherine @K_Kinzler @UChicago . Op-Ed in @LAtimes : Bias against African American English speakers is a pillar of systemic racism

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

4 months

Haiti's 220th anniversary of independence reminds us that liberation is always possible — against all odds... ✊🏿🇭🇹🇵🇸✊🏿 @Mondoweiss @FictionsOfHaiti @MalickGhachem @DominiqueDPH @RFatton @HaitiJustice @Bertrhude @JakobJohnston @renauld_govain @Matenwa

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Mondoweiss

4 months

The sort of violence we see in Palestine has happened everywhere people refuse to be dominated. This New Year Day we celebrate the 220th anniversary of Haiti’s independence and are inspired by a revolution that reminds us liberation is possible.

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

12 days

Samdi 20 Avril sa a, 8–10pm, @PweziLibete pral brase lide ak Pwòf @MichelDeGraff @MITHaiti sou tematik « KREYÒL SE LANG REVOLISYON » — sou paj Twitter / X Pwezi Libète :

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PWEZI LIBÈTE

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Samdi 20 Avril sa, 8 è-10 è nan aswè, yon lòt fwa se yon gran onè pou Pwezi Libète, ki pral resevwa pwofesè @MichelDeGraff , valorizatè e defansè lang kreyòl la, atravè MIT pou "Yon lekòl tèt anwo", sou tèm sa : "Kreyòl lang revolisyon". Rejwenn nou jou sa pou nou bwase lide.🫂🇭🇹

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

6 years

Analiz tèt frèt Thomas Lalime sou #PetroCaribeChallenge @ChallengePetro pou @AyitiNouVleA . Ki vle di: Lè n ap mande #KotK òbPetroCaribeA, fòk nou sonje ke defi sa a se yon maleng ki soti nan yon kansè jeneralize k ap depafini nannan sosyete nou an....

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Michel DeGraff

4 years

Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis et al on Bolivia: “We condemn the violence in the strongest terms, and call on the US and other foreign governments to immediately cease to recognize and provide any support to this regime.”

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Michel DeGraff

3 years

#KotLangManmanNou ? Rapò @FotWobo sa a detaye konsekans pinisyon anti kreyòl sou mantal ti moun yo. Se tankou yon jenosid lengwistik & kiltirèl ki kondane ti moun yo nan echèk depi an lagan nan lekòl tèt an ba. Fòk otorite yo rive kraze chenn mantal sa yo.

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

6 months

@IBJIYONGI @AAUP @pal_legal Thks @IBJIYONGI for COURAGE which is at premium in Academia today. Yesterday I was shouted at by pro-Israeli prof @MIT faculty meeting where one topic was "Standing together against hatred" w/ antisemitism as "initial primary focus" but no mention of genocide against Palestinians

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

Lafrans kòmanse ap antre nan « Syèk Limyè » nan dosye lang & dwa moun. @AssembleeNat ionale vote bèl lwa sou « lang rejyonal » ! Petèt sa va enspire yon kad legal pou pwomosyon lang NASYONAL pa nou an, ann Ayiti. E ou menm, ki dizon pa w sou dosye sa a ?

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

2 years

#Freda is "for Haitians by Haitians...the way we see ourselves & not how people see us. It's a mirror for us & a window for anyone outside Haiti who wants to understand what the oldest free republic in the world is after 218 years & where we are with that freedom we fought for"❤️

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

4 years

Se tout sosyete a ki dwe leve kanpe pote kòd pou n mare Kòd Penal sa a paske se yon Kòd ki *ILEGAL*. Kòd sa a, an franse, vyole Konstitisyon an depi an lagan—Atik 5 & 40. Konstitisyon an di n gen 1 lang NASYONAL (kreyòl) ak 2 lang OFISYÈL (kreyòl & franse). Kopi: @moisejovenel

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

Nan atik @AyiboPost sa a, Jacques Michel Gourgues & @BrunyRebecca ap analize « EPISTEMISID » k ap krebete ti moun yo depi sou ban lekòl, depi nan ti klas yo — ak benediksyon Ministè Edikasyon Nasyonal. Nou bezwen ISTWA LAKOU @TiJanBosal la🙏🏽 @forfhaiti

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Michel DeGraff

4 years

October 18: Anténor Firmin's birthday. I love @LingSocAm 's tribute by colleague Margaret Thomas But this picture of Firmin as defender of racial equality is incomplete without a critique of his racist belief in linguistic IN-equality -- cc: @ACharityHudley

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

6 years

La France est très fière d’être “Bleus”, mais pas fière d’être noire. Mèsi Pwòf Grégory Pierrot for sharing this truth—personal & global: “In this World Cup as in others before, I am left to reflect on the dilemmas...

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Michel DeGraff

5 years

Libète nou se pran pou n pran l Inisyativ @MITHaiti ap patisipe nan mouvman k ap fè pou lang kreyòl la nan 21èm syèk sa Descartes te fè pou lang franse depi nan 17èm syèk Wi, vin kole zepòl ak nou:

Michel Anne Frederic DeGraff

Libète nou se pran pou n pran l Inisyativ @MITHaiti ap patisipe nan bèl mouvman sa a k ap fè pou lang kreyòl la nan 21èm syèk sa Descartes te gentan fè pou lang franse a depi nan 17èm syèk... Wi,...

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

2 years

Tanpri @Duolingo mande Minis @PropheteEmmelie (KILTI & KOMINIKASYON ann Ayiti @MCultureHT ) ak lòt otorite nan gouvènman Ayiti pou yo suiv egzanp Majistra Miyami @FrancisSuarez . Minis Prophète derefize ekri lang matènèl la ata nan « Journée internationale de la langue maternelle »

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

Preview of my slides for online workshop on Thursday, December 10, 2020, 10:30AM **EST** at @shefenglish @sheffielduni — featuring Pwòf Anne @ACharityHudley et al

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

4 years

Today 7/4/2020 I received a request to sign a letter to @LingSocAm asking that a colleague be removed from the list of LSA Fellows & "media experts." 𝗠𝘆 "𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲" 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗜 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗶𝘁.

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

“There’s no such thing as a NATURAL DISASTER. What you have is a natural HAZARD that overlaps with a VULNERABLE system.” @DrWendyRocks . Haiti's only "malediction" is (neo-)colonial greed, from both within & without, that's made us overwhelmingly vulnerable. @ambafranceht , ou la ?

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

2 years

@DrSepinwall @gabriel_mathy Given its history, Haitian Creole does show some influence from West-African languages but its grammar is not West-African—not French either. If we apply the Comparative Method without biases, then it should indeed be classified as a Romance language.

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Michel DeGraff

2 months

Mèsi @LaurenVillagran @EduardoMCuevas @USAToday ! Too rarely have I had any chance to speak w/ anyone anywhere—even in Academia, even @MIT —who deeply understands, like @TiJanBosal in his books, that we Haitians have been fighting nonstop for DECOLONIZATION & LIBERATION since 1492

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

28 days

Please read "The Road to Famine in Gaza" @NYbooks by @NeverGordon & @MunaHaddad , especially if you have any lingering doubt that Israel's government is committing genocide in Gaza. NB: This use of famine for genocide started long before October 7, 2023:

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

2 years

Looking forward to @LinguaCulturaXP event w/ Fanm Vanyan @AvishtaSeeras Darnelle @JadenTiMoun & team—Friday, June 24, 2022, *10AM EDT* @MITHaiti @mit_jwel @globalcenterWC @GlobLangRights @wikitongues @soclinganth @LingSocAm @AECIDHaiti @foietjoiehaiti1

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Michel DeGraff

1 month

In 2015, some of us were asking: Linguistics & Human Rights: What are the connections? Now in 2024, in the context of misinformation around an ongoing genocide, isn’t it time for us linguists to ask: Language & Linguistics & Decolonization & Liberation: What are the connections?

@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

9 years

Linguistics & Human Rights: What are the connections? = Lengwistik & dwa moun: youn kore lòt! @LingSocAm @AAAS_SRHRL http://t.co/SNbRrr0r3c

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Michel DeGraff

3 years

Se depi 1492 Ayiti nan goumen ak Lagrandyab. An n mande Kako Charlemagne Péralte ak Pwòf @YvelineAlexis . Sa se liv nou dwe li pou n konprann orijin sa k ap pase ann Ayiti jounen jodi — kote se bandi legal ki kontwole peyi a e k ap toupizi popilasyon an.

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

3 years

@FotWobo Wobo a merite wi — paske sa se yon pwojè total kapital ki pral ede konpatriyòt nou yo rive metrize lang nasyonal la. Sa se yon etap ki nesesè nan wout liberasyon pou n rive bati peyi tèt an wo. Ankouraje

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

2 years

Today is a good day to remind @UNESCOstat @UNESCO @ILDecade that Creole languages duly belong to the realm of "languages." UNESCO needs to publicly rectify their claim to the contrary. This misclassification of Creole lgs undermines respect for human rights & linguistic diversity

@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

2 years

Kanpay pou kaba diskriminasyon lengwistik kont lang kreyòl yo rive nan pi wo nivo @UNESCO kote Anbasadèz Dominique Dupuy @DominiqueDPH nan Delegasyon Pèmanan Ayiti nan UNESCO @DphUNESCO ap defann validite lang kreyòl yo kòm LANG KI LANG MENM JAN AK TOUT LANG. Sa se AKSYON DIRÈK

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@MichelDeGraff

Michel DeGraff

1 year

@LingSocAm @_ravensnest @jessgrieser @rachelawiselure @sonjalanehart @MIT_SHASS @MITHaiti @mitopenlearning @mit_jwel @mixedlinguist @WordsByJamaal With heartiest thanks to my @MIT Linguistics colleagues @MIT_SHASS for these congratulations. THANK YOU !!! Mèsi anpil ANPIL !!!! 1❤️

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