Communication, Diversity
Content that fails to address the needs of speakers of marginalized languages perpetuates the power imbalance that prioritizes the dominant culture at the expense of everyone else.

Confusion about Language Clive Varley

"Communities Creating Healthy Environments defines “language justice” as “building and sustaining multilingual spaces in our organizations and social movements so that everyone’s voice can be heard both as an individual and as part of a diversity of communities and cultures.”

"The responsibility to achieve greater language justice does not only lie with linguists and language experts. Awareness about language and multilingual communications should be the domain of everyone involved in social movements, nonprofits, philanthropy, and human rights advocacy.

"You can help dismantle language barriers by starting with your own organization’s communications. Here are five simple steps to get started."

Article: 
Language Is Power:
5 Action Steps for Communicating in a Multilingual World