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Theresa Heyd

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Je préfère ceux qui n'y arrivent pas pour la bonne et simple raison que je n'y arrive pas très bien, moi-même.

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · May 12

"The jokes that mean the most to you are the ones you don't quite get"
(Sedgwick 1996, Queer Performativity)

Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 1h

ich koche und es wird so gut 🍜

How to Make the Ultimate Cantonese-Style Wonton Noodle Soup

A great Cantonese-style wonton noodle soup is the ultimate calling card of a Hong Kong chef

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2h

Berliners, get involved! Lovely club.

Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 2h

My football club has a brand new women‘s team and they‘re recruiting players. Affordable membership fees, pro coaches, regular training and games. Please share with any Berlin friends who might want to play football in a friendly, & LGBTQ+ inclusive environment. Newcomers and returners welcome.

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Ingebot Bachmann @ingebotbachmann.bsky.social · 2h

Einmal muß das Fest ja kommen!

Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 2h

na du Schöne

Hauswand mit wildem Wein, die Blätter leuchten pink

Hauswand, orangefarbene Beeren

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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 3h

Old happenings

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Ingebot Bachmann @ingebotbachmann.bsky.social · 22h

Blauer Zufall am Horizont! Und meine begeisterten Augen

Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 23h

Soll es am Ende tongue in cheek sein, Badetypen/body types, unknowability of gender etc., schon eher unwahrscheinlich, oder
❔️

Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 23h

Konnten die Texter*innen dem, zugegeben charmanten, Reim und Rhythmus in den Personenbezeichnungen nicht widerstehen und haben inklusivere Formulierungen dafür drangegeben?

Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 23h

Ein kleines gender puzzle, diese Werbung.
Gibt es im Jahr 2025 noch größere Gruppen an Leuten, die diese Personenbezeichnungen ohne Probleme generisch lesen können, insbesondere mit direktem visuellen Bezug auf die dargestellten Schwimm-Körper?

Werbung der Berliner bäder Betriebe. Man sieht drei Menschen in schwimmkleidung, zwei im Badeanzug, einen in shorts

Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 1d

Hellooo from Lankwitz 🏊

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · May 12

"Everyone knows that some lesbians and gay men
could never count as queer, and other people vibrate to the chord of queer without having much same-sex eroticism or without routing their same-sex eroticism through the identity labels 'lesbian' or 'gay.'" (Sedgwick 1996: 138)

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · May 12

They are available for the work of metamorphosis, reframing, refiguration, transfiguration, affective and symbolic loading, and deformation; but are unavailable for effecting the work of purgation and deontological closure." (Sedgwick 1996: 142)

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · May 12

The forms taken by shame are not distinct 'toxic' parts of an identity that can be excised; they are instead integral to and residual in the processes by which
identity itself is formed.

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · May 12

"Which means, among other things, that therapeutic or political strategies aimed directly at getting rid of individual or group shame, or undoing it, have something preposterous about them: they may 'work'-they certainly have powerful effects-but they can't work in the way they say they work. (...)

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · May 12

"The jokes that mean the most to you are the ones you don't quite get"
(Sedgwick 1996, Queer Performativity)

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div-ling e.V. @div-ling.org · 1d

New #GL publication! 📄

What is gender #linguistics? Our new editorial statement defines the field and the aims of our journal.

Now published in Gender Linguistics: gender-linguistics.org/index.php/jo...

Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 1d

Reading and enjoying: Sex Panic Rhetorics by @drianbarnard.bsky.social

cover in red and purple: Sex Panic Rhetorics/Queer Interventions, Ian Barnard

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monoton @monoton.bsky.social · 1d

bluesky & more

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Frazer Heritage @nounfraze.bsky.social · 1d

This thread has really made my day. It’s so lovely and validating seeing someone clearly read (with a lot of care) a paper that’s really close to my heart - and not only that, just *getting* what exactly what I was trying to say. I’m so appreciative! ❤️🥰🥰

Netzwerk Queerlinguistik @queerlinguistik.bsky.social · 1d

Another #ComingOutDay-related queer linguistic publication, @nounfraze.bsky.social's (2025) study—available #OpenAcces in the #JournalOfPragmatics—focuses on the coming out of transgender video game characters. Heritage connects Pragmatics, Ludolinguistics,...
doi.org/10.1016/j.pr...

Social identity and implicature: Exploring the pragmatics of transgender coming out narratives in videogames

Despite being one of the most popular forms of media, videogames are an under-researched text type within linguistics. This paper examines the languag…

Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 1d

congratulations! 💐

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Solvejg Nitzke (sie/she) @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social · 1d

Still waiting for hardcopies to arrive, but can't wait to announce that

Making Kin with Trees. A Cultural Poetics of Interspecies Care

has been published!

It's part of "Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference" find it here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Cover of Making Kin with trees on a computer screen. Cover shows a wall with tree branches behind it and the shadow of branches on it

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Netzwerk Queerlinguistik @queerlinguistik.bsky.social · 1d

Another #ComingOutDay-related queer linguistic publication, @nounfraze.bsky.social's (2025) study—available #OpenAcces in the #JournalOfPragmatics—focuses on the coming out of transgender video game characters. Heritage connects Pragmatics, Ludolinguistics,...
doi.org/10.1016/j.pr...

Social identity and implicature: Exploring the pragmatics of transgender coming out narratives in videogames

Despite being one of the most popular forms of media, videogames are an under-researched text type within linguistics. This paper examines the languag…

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Netzwerk Queerlinguistik @queerlinguistik.bsky.social · 1d

Today is #ComingOutDay—and we have two queer linguistic literature tips to go with it! First off, Tyler Kibbey’s (2021) essay “Linguistics Out of the Closet” (#OpenAccess in @cadlin.bsky.social) calls for a “queering” of the discipline of linguistics altogether.
doi.org/10.25189/267... ...

Linguistics Out of the Closet | Cadernos de Linguística

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 1d

erster Test und sie sind gut, extreme pickle euphoria 😃

Gewürzgurke!

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 1d

same guys who are "concerned!!!! about women's sports" when it means excluding and isolating trans girls from sport lol. misogyny all the way down. for so many men, women's sports is something inherently lesser and another stage for objectification and comedy with female athletes as the punchline

WIRED @wired.com · 2d

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money." www.wired.com/story/men-ar...

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."