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Empowering Voices: A Graduate Student Instructor’s Introduction to Linguistic Justice

by Lacey Hamilton | Xchanges 19.2, Fall 2025


About the Author

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Contents

Introduction

History

Code Switching

Code-Meshing and Translingualism

Considerations in Feedback

How I Advocate for Linguistic Justice

Your Move

Works Cited

About the Author

Lacey Hamilton (she/her) recently earned a master’s degree in English with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Composition from Brigham Young University. During her graduate studies, she worked as the sole instructor of record for first-year writing and technical communication, while also mentoring and training new graduate student instructors. Her research focuses on the experiences of GSIs, including questions of authority, class size and formats, and linguistic justice.

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Posted by chanakya_das on Dec 11, 2025 in Issue 19.2

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