![Bhasha Andolon [side] This is a memorial to the students who gave their lives to establish Bangla as the official language of Bangladesh when it was part of Pakistan.](https://culturaldaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/104320787-efb73aae5e-o-copy.jpg)
The Bangla Language & the Fight for Belonging by Shomita Mahmud Culture is the basis of humanity, and my culture is being Bengali, as in from Bangladesh. To me, being Bengali includes the foods that we eat, the clothes that we wear, and also the way we go about our lives. We are each taught …
“The tongue is a snazzy tool”—tatiana de la tierra This glossary evolved out of a writing activity in our Chicanx Literature class (CLS 4020) at California State University, Los Angeles in the spring of 2021. The assignment was to celebrate the mighty lengua and produce vignettes about cultural expressions we grew up with. …
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Our present psycho-lingual engulfs the past not unlike a psychic lahar, not unlike an exploded embolism where former states of consciousness can no longer procure the right to organically instruct. We have now entered the realm of alchemical lingual resonance. To attempt to procure a recursive lingual agenda can only be seen via a deprived …
If you want to get to know yourself better, take up a new language. You’ll never feel more Southeast Asian than when you’re learning how every Arabic verb morphs 28 times according to each pronoun. You’ll never appreciate alphanumeric more than when you’re writing down the intricate bamboo strokes of a Chinese character. If you …
By R.D. Wood with Joseph Beuys As many readers will be aware conceptual poet Kenneth Goldsmith was recently embroiled in a scandal about presenting an autopsy report of Ferguson teen Michael Brown as poetry at a Brown University event. This piece can be read as part of his ongoing project of reframing language but it …
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