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<div class="">The SLA board of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology would like to express our thanks to those of you who attended our SLA Open Forum on Thursday evening. We came away from the meeting with exciting ideas and initiatives for moving forward,
and we are grateful to you for sharing your visions of the future with us. Approximately 120 people attended the meeting over the course of the two hours.</div>
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<div class="">Some of you may have heard that the meeting was zoom bombed during our awarding of the undergraduate paper prizes. We deeply regret that this happened. Although we were able to evict the perpetrators and get back on track within just a couple
of minutes, we were unfortunately subjected to an assault of disturbing images and hate speech. As this is a federal crime, the SLA board is working with the AAA and CU Boulder OIT to report the incident to higher authorities, including the FBI. We are also
setting guidelines in place to prevent this from happening again, which we will make available to all organizers of SLA-associated webinars and large meetings.</div>
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<div class="">You may find the minutes, video, and chat of the two hour meeting (edited to exclude offensive material) at the following google docs link. I believe you will see that we had an incredibly productive meeting, in spite of the disruption. If anything,
I hope that what we experienced on Thursday will make us all the more committed to using our 'analytic powers' as linguistic anthropologists to challenge the systems of racism, sexism, and homophobia that surround us.</div>
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<div class="">Enjoy the excerpted data!</div>
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<div class="">Warm regards,</div>
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<span style="font-size: 9px;" class="">Kira Hall, Professor<br class="">
Departments of <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/" class="">Linguistics</a> and </span></font><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/anthropology/" style="font-size: 9px;" class="">Anthropology</a></font></div>
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<div class=""><font class="" style="font-size: 9px; color: rgb(52, 93, 122); font-family: Helvetica-Light;">President, </font><a href="http://linguisticanthropology.org/" style="font-size: 9px; font-family: Helvetica-Light;" class="">Society for Linguistic
Anthropology</a></div>
<div class=""><font class="" color="#345d7a" face="Helvetica-Light" style="font-size: 9px;">Co-editor, </font><a href="https://journals.equinoxpub.com/GL/index" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 9px;" class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class="">Gender
and Language</font></a></div>
<div class=""><font class="" color="#345d7a" face="Helvetica-Light" style="font-size: 9px;">Director, <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/program/clasp/" class="">Program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice</a></font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" color="#345d7a" face="Helvetica-Light" style="font-size: 9px;">Director, <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/literacy-practicum" class="">The Literacy Practicum</a></font></div>
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