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Anzaldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Aunt Lute Books, 1987, pp. 53-64

DeGraff, Michel. “As a Child in Haiti, I Was Taught to Despise My Language and Myself.” New York Times, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/opinion/haiti-kreyol-creole-language-education.html

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Kimmerer, Robin Wall. “Asters and Goldenrod” Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions, 2013, pp. 39-47.

Li, Yiyun. “To Speak is to Blunder.” New Yorker, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/to-speak-is-to-blunder

Limon, Ada. “The Contract Says: We’d Like the Conversation to be Bilingual.” The Carrying, Milkweed Editions, 2018, Reprinted by Poetry Foundation https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147503/the-contract-says-we39d-like-the-conversation-to-be-bilingual

Lorde, Audre. “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” Sinister Wisdom, vol. 6, 1978.

Miller, Kei. “Place Name: Oracabessa.”  In Nearby Bushes. Carcanet Press, Ltd., 2019, pp. 34-35. Reprinted by The Poetry Society https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/place-name-2/

Pietri, Pedro. “Puerto Rican Obituary. ” Puerto Rican Obituary. Monthly Review Press, 1973, pp. 1-11, Reprinted by Poetry Foundation https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58396/puerto-rican-obituary

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Thors, Margrét Ann. “Gun Bubbles.” Creative Nonfiction, 2022, https://creativenonfiction.org/writing/gun-bubbles/

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Tran, Phuc. “Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive.” TEDx Talks, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeSVMG4GkeQ

Meraji, Shereen Marisol, Devarajan, Kumari, and Donnella, Leah. “Saving a Language You’re Learning to Speak.” Codeswitch. National Public Radio, 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/03/09/975484734/saving-a-language-youre-learning-to-speak

Lyiscott, Jamila. “Three Ways to Speak English.” Ted.com, 2014, https://www.ted.com/talks/jamila_lyiscott_3_ways_to_speak_english?subtitle=en

This book reproduces the following openly licensed essay.

Samatar, Sofi. “Skin Feeling.” The New Inquiry, 2015, https://thenewinquiry.com/skin-feeling/.

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