I’m travelling to Manchester for #LavLang31 today, to present a paper that is strikingly relevant right now. In two months, there are national elections in the Netherlands. On Thursday, I present my study on the representation of trans rights in the previous elections. A short teaser:
A book cover with black text that reads "Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation after the Civil War. Amanda Laury Kleintop"
Congratulations on book pub day to friend and colleague @alkleintop.bsky.social!! I'm so excited to read her book "Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation after the Civil War." Use the code 01SOCIAL30 to get 30% off from UNC Press 🎉🎉🎉 uncpress.org/978146968867...
A Latina woman wearing a black blazer smiles while standing in front of a blue and yellow poster titled “Trans and nonbinary experiences in Alamance County”
So proud of my undergraduate student Azul who presented her research at @elonuniversity.bsky.social’s Summer Undergraduate Research Experience poster session yesterday!
Celebrate nonbinary people’s day by reading my paper on multiple pronouns journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/...
I'm looking to chat with nonbinary and/or trans speakers of several languages, especially including Irish, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Polish, Icelandic - but also any other languages (aside from English / Spanish / French). DM or email me!
I have a new paper out in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (and it's open access!): "“And it just becomes queer slang”: Race, linguistic innovation, and appropriation within trans communities in the US South" doi.org/10.1111/jola...
12 of my colleagues & I are doing teach-ins on campus tomorrow about various attacks on Higher Ed & our areas of expertise. There will also be a community mapping project & information for getting involved building campus solidarity for the challenges to come.
#DefendHigherEd #DayofActionforHigherEd
Congratulations!! So exciting!!
🏳️⚧️ Have you read any of the articles in our collection on trans language activism?
Discover them here:
A graphical abstract for Figueroa 2024: it shows visually how linguistic input, whether spoken or signed, leads to successful language acquisition, BUT we then get culturally specified standardized tests which measure successful language acquisition as meeting a white norm: the language of racialized communities becomes pathologized, a parallel to deaf language use (see also, Henner and Robinson's Crip Linguistics)
Teaching my ling anthro students about language acquisition and socialization which means I get to to tap the sign for @meganfigueroa.bsky.social's amazing work on ideologies of language acquisition as linguistic racism
Today's news. This new edition. Connect the dots.
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Linguistic violence is part of the fascist project.
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A screenshot of the University of Toronto Press Website for the journal Gender and Language. It lists three titles: "Cultivating trans linguistics: Creativity and contestation" by Cedar Brown, deandre miles-hercules, and Lal Zimman; "Interrogating the cisgender listening subject in the study of trans voices" by J Calder and Ariana Steele; and "Misgender or out yourself: Vulnerability in pronoun sharing practices" by Cedar Brown.
![A screenshot of the University of Toronto Press Website for the journal Gender and Language. It lists four titles: "‘But […] how can you call yourself not binary???’: Linguistic self-determination, gatekeeping and trans identities in the French-speaking context" by Jordan J. Tudisco; "
Claiming transgender identity: Contextualising linguistic tensions over the term transgender in Hong Kong" by Kimberly Tao; "
That /s/tiene tumbao: Chonga-fied sibilants and the disidentificatory sociophonetics of Miami Latinx drag" by Dozandri C. Mendoza, and "
Language ideologies, life-making and vitality in trans communities in the US South" by Archie Crowley.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:onzzja6oge4arw7wqawcxdp7/bafkreiheidouechvtsbmsba5afll4qwpbyf4kmtrmefcakogqfnaqh5grq)
A screenshot of the University of Toronto Press Website for the journal Gender and Language. It lists four titles: "‘But […] how can you call yourself not binary???’: Linguistic self-determination, gatekeeping and trans identities in the French-speaking context" by Jordan J. Tudisco; " Claiming transgender identity: Contextualising linguistic tensions over the term transgender in Hong Kong" by Kimberly Tao; " That /s/tiene tumbao: Chonga-fied sibilants and the disidentificatory sociophonetics of Miami Latinx drag" by Dozandri C. Mendoza, and " Language ideologies, life-making and vitality in trans communities in the US South" by Archie Crowley.
It's a weird time to be doing very trans research, but I'm grateful to be in community with so many great scholars working on trans linguistics -- some gathered in the latest issue of Gender and Language: utppublishing.com/toc/gl/18/3
LSA joined dozens of scholarly societies in signing a letter that begins, "American science and innovation have advanced humanity for generations... But today, science is under threat." We commit to championing integrity and conveying the importance of science. unitedsciencealliance.org
Hello! We're hoping to get connected with #lavlang -ers here in the good(better?) place so, Lavender Language & Linguistics people new & old give us a follow & share that we're here? 🦩
We've also got a #lavlang31 conference website to share (Manchester 20-22 August): lavlang2025.wordpress.com
in case you missed it, my piece for the Demystifying Language Project is up: Is singular they old or new? #linguistics
An image of 6 homemade, hand-drawn magnets. Magnet 1 shows a picture of a bottle with a label that reads "Prescriptivism repellent." Magnet 2 shows a drawing of a bored cat and reads "Sounds prescriptivist, but okay." Magnet 3 is a picture of a bottle of jam, with a label on the drawing reading "Sociolinguistics is my jam." Magnet 4 is written like a dictionary definition. It reads: "Sociolinguistics (noun) 1. Like normal linguistics, but cooler." Magnet 5 reads: "How many sociolinguists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" Followed by a small drawing of a light bulb and the words "It varies." Magnet 6 shows this text: "Miss Ms Mrs Prof Dr, ACTUALLY"
A student stayed after class to give me the most amazing gift basket of homemade goodies, including these magnets. I LOVE them. We could totally sell these as merch at NWAV, Sociolinguistics Symposium, etc.
Glad to be here!!
A flyer with a pastel rainbow background and a small progress pride flag in each corner. At the top, in large white letters with a pink border, it says Call for LGBTQIA+ Survey Participants! The body of the flyer says, If you meet the following requirements, please consider taking my five minute survey on queer identity terms. No identifying information will be collected, and your responses will inform my MA thesis research in language, gender, and sexuality at Michigan State University. You must be 18 +, a native speaker of American English, and identify as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community! Scan here or visit this link to take the survey! A picture of a QR code and the link follow. At the bottom, it say Questions? Contact survey creator Emily Duggan at: duggane1@msu.edu.
If you're...
1) 18 or older,
2) native speaker of American English, &
3) a member of the LGBTQIA+ community (broadly construed),
take a few minutes to do Emily Duggan's MA thesis survey on the social meanings of queer identity terms! (shared on her request)
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The LavLang Summer Institute 2025 is accepting applications! I will be teaching a course in Crip Linguistics🦻
💻 Program dates: June 9 - June 19, 2025 (online!)
Pass along to interested students & colleagues!
🗓️ Priority deadline to apply: December 15, 2024
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Starter pack of people doing LGBTQ+/queer linguistics (writ large)!
Please share and let me know if you'd like to be added :)
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The virtual gallery for the art show I organized this summer is now open! Like art by multilingual trans artists about the relationships they have with their languages? Check out:
✨ transxlanguaging.wordpress.com ✨
And use the comment box at the bottom of any page to join in on the collaboration 🤗
Would love to hear what they work on! Dani Heffernan's MA thesis "Constructing the “Cisgender Listening Subject”:
Trans-Feminine Speakers’ Commentaries on Voice and Being Heard" uses interview data and comments from an online forum about voice modification for trans women!
The American Dialect Society is once again soliciting nominations for the Words of the Year! Please submit your 2024 WOTY nominations using this Google Form: bit.ly/WOTY2024noms
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Another world is possible if we fight for it
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omg so excited that this is finally out - Proceedings of LSA has a special issue on teaching and learning #linguistics that i'm so grateful to have had some small part in
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While I'm at it, you should also check out (and bookmark for future reference!) @lalzimman.bsky.social's really excellent round-up of #linguistics research on pronouns: lgbtqlinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/10/06/p...
In a move surprising Probably No One, I have written about syntax pedagogy! This time for COZIL's blog: here's my five quick tips on how to make your syntax #linguistics classroom more LGBTQ+ friendly!
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Hi folks I’m coming out
