Language with Us

What can be exhibited?

You decide! 

How do you language/ or how have you languaged? 

How has your languaging been liberated?

How do you resist thinking/ feeling your languaging is not 'good' enough?

Videos, photos, cutouts of newspapers, photo collages, pictures of our art growing up - or of our children, short interactions, words we learned growing up, expressions that we only use in our homes, nick-names, stories, love letters, grocery lists, poetry and raps...you imagine it!

Need More Ideas? 

• Video a short conversation with an elder, child, friend, family member, pet

• Show the writings of ancestors

• Show us how your stimming, your echolalia, your ways of using speech generation devices are to be affirmed and respected

• Mix the modes of communication, collage, photo, drawing, poem, story, song

• Share a translingual material you created

• Speak, sign, write, dance - use all your named languages and all their variations.

• Describe your languaging growing up using only pictures or emojis,

• If you language through sign, sign us a poem or your favorite rap about your own languaging

•  Invite us to learn about your storied traditions of personal migration and linguistic identity,

•  Tell us one lesson or recipe taught to you by your ancestors - show us who taught it, how you call the ingredients and what gestures you may use in making the recipe itself,

•  Recall a brave moment in your languaging through a painting, and

•  Impart beliefs and advice about languaging you want to leave imprinted for those who follow you

• Check out the RECAP section of our website for more ideas