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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Aug 19

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:

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Archie Crowley @archiecrowley.bsky.social · Aug 19

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 book cover with black text that reads "Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation after the Civil War. Amanda Laury Kleintop"

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Archie Crowley @archiecrowley.bsky.social · Jul 25

So proud of my undergraduate student Azul who presented her research at @elonuniversity.bsky.social’s Summer Undergraduate Research Experience poster session yesterday!

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”

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · Jul 14

Celebrate nonbinary people’s day by reading my paper on multiple pronouns journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/...

A trans linguistic perspective on multiple pronoun use in English, a paper in the proceedings of the linguistic Society of America written by Joshua Raclaw

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · May 23

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!

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Archie Crowley @archiecrowley.bsky.social · May 23

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...

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article examines how seven transgender South Carolinians drew on racialized conceptions of linguistic ownership during metalinguistic discussion about queer and trans language during ethnographi...

doi.org

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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · Apr 17

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

AAUP @aaup.org · Apr 16

See you out in the streets tomorrow.

Lots of ways to participate: in person, online, everywhere.

#defendhighered

@actioninhighered.bsky.social
@higheredlabor.bsky.social

Events — A National Day of Action for Higher Ed

Organize your April 17 Day of Action for Higher Education action now! You can also register for a virtual action. See you April 17!

www.dayofactionforhighered.org

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Archie Crowley @archiecrowley.bsky.social · Apr 6

Congratulations!! So exciting!!

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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · Mar 18

GIVE YOUR SPARE CASH NOW
southernequality.org/tyep/

Trans Youth Emergency Project: Supporting Families of Trans Youth

Supporting families of trans youth nationwide through the logistical and financial burdens of navigating bans on gender-affirming care.

southernequality.org

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Mar 10

🏳️‍⚧️ Have you read any of the articles in our collection on trans language activism?

Discover them here:

buff.ly

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · Mar 3

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

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)

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Jacqueline Messing @jacqmessing.bsky.social · Feb 28

Today's news. This new edition. Connect the dots.
www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Ev...

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Archie Crowley @archiecrowley.bsky.social · Feb 20

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

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.

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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · Feb 14

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

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lavlang.bsky.social @lavlang.bsky.social · Jan 29

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

Lavendar Languages and Lingusitics Conference, 20th-22nd August, 2025

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

lavlang2025.wordpress.com

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · Jan 27

in case you missed it, my piece for the Demystifying Language Project is up: Is singular they old or new? #linguistics

Is Singular They Old or New? – Demystifying Language Project

Why are they/them pronouns easier for some people to use? The answer can tell us a lot about the English language, and how it is changing.

demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu

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Elizabeth Peterson @lissu.bsky.social · Dec 10

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.

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"

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Archie Crowley @archiecrowley.bsky.social · Nov 22

Glad to be here!!

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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · Nov 21

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)

msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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.

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Hann Bingham Brunner, PhD @disabldlinguist.bsky.social · Nov 16

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
forms.office.com/r/sFnM0TkM4q

Microsoft Forms

forms.office.com

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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · Nov 15

Starter pack of people doing LGBTQ+/queer linguistics (writ large)!

Please share and let me know if you'd like to be added :)

go.bsky.app/2mjmgqt

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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · Nov 15

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 🤗

trans*languaging

transxlanguaging.wordpress.com

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Archie Crowley @archiecrowley.bsky.social · Nov 13

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!

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American Dialect Society @americandialect.org · Nov 5

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
More details here: americandialect.org/2024-woty-no...

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