This workshop guide is all about recognizing oppressive language and what activists can do to combat it. Practical, easy to understand and well explained retorts to oppressive language are used with a variety of racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, elitist, ageist, ablist comments. Based on role plays, the workshop guide covers:

The components of an effective interruption

Skills to cultivate

The importance of anti-oppression

Various examples

Language of Politics: A Free Workshop Series about Words and Struggle

Have you ever thought "do I really know what that word means?"

... Life's demands often lead us to stop defining words once we get "the basic idea." But political words, and the concepts to which they refer, are rooted in long histories of struggle. When we investigate these words, we find opportunities to strengthen our understanding of the world, better explain our current situation, and strategize in the face of injustice.

Spanish on her tongue (en dos lenguas) is a one-womyn show about the immigrant displacement, loss of language and denied aboriginality of a queer girl. this coming of age story begins in 1983 chile during the military dictatorship and centers around the migration of a little girl and her family to the working class neighbourhood of chalkfarm – in north york. we follow her through her excitement of learning a new language, while also re-living the shame of losing the language she was taught to love in. as she struggles with her role of translator to her family, lacking words in spanish to authentically interpret situations too mature for her age, her english vocabulary expands, placing her in between two worlds she cannot fully embrace.

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It would appear that, through lack of clarity, something has finally become clear: Slutwalk has lost me.

Among the largest groups of First Nations people north of Mexico are the Ojibwe -- also known as Ojibwa or Ojibway. 

The widely spoken Ojibwe language is known as Anishinaabemowin or Ojibwemowin.

http://www2.css.edu/app/Ojibwe_Translator/index.cfm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojibwe#Language