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July 2024 Today.com
Are you a 'Mother'? What to know about the slang word
May 2024 Today.com
Why do teens say, 'Fax, no printer'?
May 2024 KJZZ The Show
How language goes through semantic bleaching - literally
April 2024 Today.com
What does the slang word 'mid' really mean?
March 2024 The Guardian
The anti-immigrant slur US border patrol tried to ban: 'It reflects sanctioned violence'
February 2024 Today.com
Does your kid say 'bussin'? We'll explain.
January 2024 New York Times
Among Linguists, the Word of The Year is More of A Vibe
January 2024 Today.com
Why does your kid call you 'bruh'?
January 2024 Today.com
The kids are saying 'GYAT': What does it mean?
November 2023 Harper's Bazaar
October 2023 Harper's Bazaar India
How Therapy-speak Became the Love Language of the Modern Workplace
July 2023 The Cut
The Real Meaning of Gatekeeping
July 2023 Planet Word
Barbiecore and the Language of Aesthetics
April 2023 KJZZ The Show
How 'woke' morphed from a whisper in minority community to a right-wing yell
March 2023 CNN
How 'ma'am' went from being a respectful word for some - but polarizing for others
January 2023 Rolling Stone
Why 200 Linguistic scholars decided -ussy is the word of the year
December 2022 New York Times
71 of our favorite facts of 2022
October 2022 National Geographic
Where does the love and hate for Christopher Columbus come from?
October 2022 National Geographic España
De dónde viene el amor y el odio hacia Critóbal Colón
September 2022 Business Insider
July 2022 Atlanta Black Star
July 2022 New York Times
January 2022 Rackham Graduate School
January 2022 Bustle
There's More to "Woke" than You Think
November 2021 Daily Beast
Please Don't Say You'll "Hold Space" for Me. Just Do It, and Shut Up.
September 2021 Bustle
One Weird Coincidence of the Pandemic? Forgetting Words
August 2021 Bustle
Why Gen Z & Millennials Use “Elite” So Differently
August 2021 El País
Cultura ‘woke’: ¿ha importado Europa un debate propio de Estados Unidos?
May 2021 New York Times
Make the World Better with One of these Nine Ideas
April 2021 New York Times
What is ‘Cheugy’? You know it when you see it.
April 2021 University of Michigan College of Literature, Sciences, and The Arts
March 2021 Deseret
America’s ‘Great Awokening’ Explained
September 2020 7 News Australia
These 6 words and phrases have racist and offensive backgrounds
July 2020 Today.com
These 11 words and phrases have racist and offensive backgrounds
June 2020 Deadspin
Have You Ever Heard of a 'Raw and Toolsy,' 'Well-Spoken' White Player?
June 2020 Feminist Friday Medium
Interview with Kelly Wright, Sociolinguist
June 2020 The Economist Johnson Column
Language is a telling clue to unacknowledged racial attitudes
November 2019 The Undefeated ESPN
Why do we see Myles Garrett as 'criminal'?
August 2018 The Economist Johnson Column
Spoken Press
August 2024 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
The Power of Language: How Words Shape Culture
July 2024 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
The Kamala Equation: Quantum Physics & The Cultural Accretion of Language about Her
June 2024 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
Hypergamy vs Hypogamy: Dating, gender, and the solar maximum
March 2024 Because Language
Episode 94: Mailbag of Sextillion and Three (with Kelly Wright)
March 2024 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
The Language of Women, Part III: Language, Its Usage, and Its Evolution
January 2024 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
The Language of Women, Part II: the rules of the space
December 2023 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
Folk Etymologies & the Habit of Language
October 2023 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
The Language of Women: Language, gender, and the origins of how we talk about women
August 2023 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
Education, Language, and Cultural Enslavement: How the loss of history and language shapes a culture
June 2023 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
Linguistic Imperialism: The colonization of and by language
October 2022 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction podcast Race and Colloquialisms with special guest Raciolinguist Kelly Wright
February 2022 Global News
Word "freedom" becomes rally cry co-opted by far right, experts say
February 2022 Global News
'Deltacron' danger: Name of presumed hybrid fuels panic, experts say
June 2020 The Economist Johnson Column
Language is a telling clue to unacknowledged racial attitudes