Geneva Smitherman: Dr. G. Yeah. That’s what my students in the first class I taught after I got my Ph.D. I was in the Afro department at Harvard, which had just been set up, and the students there gave me that name. They said, “We can’t call you Dr. Smitherman, that’s too stuffy.” Carrie Gillon: Hi! Welcome to Vocal Fries Podcast, a podcast for linguistic discrimination. Megan Figueroa: Hi, I’m Megan Figueroa. Carrie: And I’m Carrie Gillon. So, today I thought we would talk about Quebec. Megan: Yes, tell me. We’ve talked about Quebec before. Carrie: Yes, we have. Quebec Nationalist Francois Le ..read more

Carrie Gillon: Hi, and welcome to the Vocal Fries Podcast. The podcast about linguistic discrimination. Megan Figueroa: I’m Megan Figueroa. Carrie: I’m Carrie Gillon. Megan: Carrie, a lot of things have been happening on Latinate Twitter that I have to share with you. At the Grammys when Bad Bunny was performing, the closed captioning described it in brackets as non-English. Carrie: That’s it? Just non-English? Megan: Singing in non-English, I believe were the exact words. Carrie: Wow. Megan: Yeah. This is just terrible because I’m thinking it’s closed captioning in Grammys. With the other peo ..read more

[gifted by Catherine Anderson] [00:00:00] Carrie Gillon: Hi, and welcome to the Vocal Fries podcast, the podcast about linguistic discrimination. Megan Figueroa: I’m Megan Figueroa. Carrie Gillon: And I’m Carrie Gillon. Anniversary birthday, happy anniversary, . Is that, is that what we wanna go with? Not birthday. Megan Figueroa: I can’t, we’re not talking to the podcast. , . [00:01:26] Carrie Gillon: It seems weird to call, have a, a non corporeal entity, have a actual birthday. [00:01:32] Megan Figueroa: Um, but, you know, but you know, it, I feel like it has a mind of its own Sure, yeah, s ..read more

[music] Megan: Hi and welcome to the Vocal Fries Podcast. The podcast about linguistic discrimination. Carrie Gillon: I’m Carrie Gillon. Megan: I’m Megan Bigaroa, and 2023 is here. Carrie: 2023 is here, and it is kicking my ass, and yes. Megan: Yeah, it’s a rude year so far. Carrie: It is a totally rude, rude year, and I have to read you, I don’t even believe in horoscopes, like at all. Megan: Yeah I know you don’t. I know. Listeners, she don’t. [laughter] Carrie: I have to share the lunar New Year, by the way, happy year of the cat or rabbit [laughter]. Megan: Yes, it is. I am a year of a rab ..read more

[music playing] Megan: Hi. Welcome to the Vocal Fries Podcast, a podcast about linguistic discrimination. Carrie: I’m Carrie Gillon. Megan: And I’m Megan Figueroa. We have such a good episode for you all today. Carrie: It’s really good. Megan: It is, right? Right? Yeah. But first, let’s talk about some words. Carrie: Let’s talk about some words. Megan: Because it’s the time of the year. Carrie: It is the time of the year. Yeah. Maybe we’ll start with the first word of the year is already been announced by Collins, which is a dictionary out of Scotland. Megan: Okay, tell me what it is. I have n ..read more

Megan Figueroa: Hi! Welcome to The Vocal Fries Podcast, the podcast about linguistic discrimination. Carrie Gillon: I am Carrie Gillon. Megan: And I am Megan Figueroa. Do you have a podcast you want to tell me about? Tell us about it! Carrie: Yes! There is a podcast called, “The Story of Woman” at http://www.thestoryofwomanpodcast.com. You can check it out. It compliments ours, I think, quite a bit. She interviews one person every time and it’s always a non-fiction book that has something to do with women’s lives. The most recent episode is, “Woman and Workplace Bias: Gil Whitty-Collins, Why M ..read more

Carrie Gillon: Hi, and welcome to the Vocal Fries Podcast, the podcast about linguistic discrimination. Megan Figueroa: I’m Megan Figueroa. Carrie: I’m Carrie Gillon. Megan: You just had a birthday. Carrie: I did have a birthday. Megan: Happy birthday. Carrie: Oh, thank you. Megan: Was that involuntary noise? Carrie: Yeah. I’m like “I guess it’s a thing.” I’m caring about it less and less each year. Megan: Yeah. But anyway, what is happening in Vancouver? Carrie: Yeah, just as a bit of background, BC municipalities are having their city election soon, and there’s 15 candidates in the city of ..read more

Carrie and Megan talk with Maureen Kosse, linguistics PhD student at University of Colorado Boulder, about her paper “Ted Cruz Cucks Again”,  the origins and meaning of “cuck”,  white supremacy, antisemitism, and the alt-right. Check out The Story of Woman podcast Carrie mentions in the intro The Authority Gap Morality of Abortion ..read more

Megan Figueroa: Hi. Welcome to Vocal Fries podcast. A podcast about linguistic discrimination. Carrie Gillon: I’m Carrie Gillon. Megan: And I’m Megan Figueroa. What an episode, Carrie. Carrie: Yes, this is a good one. Megan: A crossover that has been talked about on Twitter for a while. Carrie: Yes. People have been asking for this for a long time. Megan: A long time and it’s happening. Carrie: It finally happened. We got to talk about all kinds of things. Language and podcast related. Megan: A little row at the end because we recorded it like, what? 24 hours after? All that shit. Carrie: Yes ..read more

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