Translating Letters for Black Lives - Asian Americana
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We are reposting a recent episode of the podcast Asian Americana exploring the layers of linguistic and cultural nuance of translating the Letters for Black Lives, a crowdsourced effort to create and translate multilingual and culturally-aware resources for communities to have discussions about anti-Blackness. We collected process notes from several translator-contributors to make visible some of the complexity of this project. You can check out these translator notes now at aaww.org.
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