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Max Reuvers
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ESRC-funded PhD student in linguistics at the University of Nottingham. Previously at the University of Groningen. All of the ideas, none of the time. Queer & trans linguistics, multilingualism. He/him 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Aug 23
On my way home after three amazing days of #LavLang31. Another fantastic edition with a fomo-inducing programme filled with impossible choices, and a great unofficial social evening programme to get a taste of what Manchester has to offer. It's an incredible privilege to be part of this community 💜
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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Aug 19
If you want more of this, come see my talk in Manchester! And at some point in a journal near you.
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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Aug 19
With this knowledge, BBB’s position on gender-affirming care in 2025 is not a shift compared to their 2023 position – it’s merely a continuation thereof. It’s important that news media see through this to not perpetuate the dressing up of anti-trans positions as “reasonable” or “supportive”.
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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Aug 19
The moment you actually look at these manifestos through a critical lens, this apparent support falls apart. At no point did BBB grant trans people the right to self-determination. In BBB’s 2023 manifesto, the right to be oneself continues to be conditional, something to be gatekept.
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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Aug 19
As I found in my study, BBB’s (and several others parties’) apparently supportive position on trans rights is only positive when viewed in light of the more overtly anti-trans parties on (mostly) the far right. But if “acknowledges that trans people exist” is the measure of support, the bar is low.
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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Aug 19
Yes, in 2023 BBB emphasised “the importance of quick and qualitative care for both [trans] youths and adults.” However, this assertion was couched in conditionality and the suggestion that gender-affirming care is currently too easily accessible, while hinting at the social contagion theory.
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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Aug 19
NOS writes that this position is in contrast with BBB’s previous election manifesto (2023), in which BBB advocated for better care for (young) trans people. However, as I found in my study, BBB’s previous election manifesto was not as trans-supportive as it seemed.
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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Aug 19
Last week, Dutch national broadcasting company NOS wrote about the draft election manifesto of the “Farmers-Citizen Movement”, BBB. BBB’s manifesto for the upcoming elections takes a stance against gender-affirming care for young trans people and “excessive symbolic politics” about LGBT+ policy.
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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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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Jun 5
The call for papers for the Cultural Heritage Management and Conservation Conference at UoN is open until 30 June!

This conference is organised by my peers and promises to be a great space for sharing research across disciplines from people at all career stages. Please share widely!
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culturalheritage25.bsky.social @culturalheritage25.bsky.social · Jun 5
We are delighted to announce the call for abstracts for the Cultural Heritage Management and Conservation Conference on 18–19 September 2025 at the University of Nottingham.

For more information, please visit www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/event/cultur....

All the best,
The Organising Team
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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...
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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...
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Elianne van Turennout @realhanswiegel.bsky.social · May 14
Als ze al hulp krijgen, is er vaak schaamte. Zo maakte ik schoon bij iemand zonder koelkast; rauwe kip lag in een kast waar de fruitvliegjes aan het deurtje waren vastgeplakt. Meteen mijn baas ingelicht over de koelkast en rauwe kip en een sopje gemaakt, om te ontdekken dat de boiler ook stuk was.
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Margriet Oostveen @moostveen.bsky.social · May 14
De verzorgingsstaat wordt het minst vertrouwd door de mensen die hem het hardst nodig hebben. Mensen met een goed inkomen denken intussen vaak geen verzorgingsstaat meer nodig te hebben: een fatale denkfout, legt Monique Kremer uit. Zij adviseert de overheid al jaren. Nu is het tijd om te luisteren
Leve de sociale staat! (Of: hoe maken we Nederland weer solidair?)
De verzorgingsstaat, ooit een prachtig en solidair systeem, wordt nu het minst vertrouwd door de mensen die hem het meest nodig hebben. Hoe kan dat? Hoogleraar Monique Kremer adviseert ministeries hie...
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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · May 6
Nieuwe column voor @groene.nl: Door haar pijlen te richten op genderdiversiteit, zoekt én vindt extreemrechts aansluiting bij conservatieve, religieuze en zelfs ‘gematigde’ krachten. Verzet tégen extreemrechts betekent ook opstaan vóór de rechten van trans personen. www.groene.nl/artikel/tran...
Verzet tégen extreem-rechts betekent ook opstaan vóór de rechten van trans personen
Het verdedigen van trans-rechten is een noodzaak, geen ‘woke agenda’.
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Apr 11
Very exciting to see that my book is now up on the @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social website! 'Language and LGBTQ+ Youth: Analysing Marginalised Identities through an Intersectional Lens' will be out in November 🥳 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...
Language and LGBTQ+ Youth
This book takes a queer linguistic and intersectional approach to the analysis of young LGBTQ+ people's identity constructions, showing how their language use r…
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Apr 3
As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵
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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Mar 31
🚨 New Article! 🚨

How do cisgender listeners perceive trans voices? A fascinating study by Emmett Jessee & J Calder explores how gender identity affects how certain sounds are categorised by listening subjects. 🎙️🔍

📖 Read the full article here:
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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Mar 31
So please actively support the trans people in your lives, whether they are visible or not. And use whatever opportunity you have to make trans visibility less difficult and less necessary. Fight back against anti-trans policies, educate people on trans issues, help keep us safe 20/20
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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Mar 31
I will keep being visible as a trans person. I have the privilege to safely do so, even if current events are making me more wary as well. But this burden can’t only be on trans people, we need others to stand with us loudly, visibly, and uncompromisingly 19/20
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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Mar 31
Being visible as trans in many cases changes how people interact with you. Even in my experiences, in which people mostly do not (overtly) react negatively, I’m marked as Other. For trans people who do not share the same privilege, being visible as trans can be outright dangerous 18/20
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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Mar 31
People straight-up tell me that they think my transness is OK because “I’m normal about it” – spoiler alert, that’s not acceptance. I don’t want you to tolerate my transness because you think I’m “normal about it”, I want you to accept my transness simply because 17/20
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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Mar 31
Their discourse markers uncover deeply ingrained assumptions and attitudes: “Maar val je dan wel gewoon op vrouwen?” (bonus points for whoever can point out the three words that I find particularly painful in this example) 16/20
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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Mar 31
They will ask questions that show how trans people’s private lives are often considered to be public property, for example asking about my medical history or sex life. Questions that would be considered wildly inappropriate when posed to a straight, cis person 15/20
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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Mar 31
When people learn that I’m trans, they often seek out and voice what (they think) is feminine about me, thus invalidating my belonging to the category of “man” as well as feeding my own dysphoria. They mark me as different, "not quite a man" 14/20
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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · Mar 31
This privilege, as well as many others (white, educated, masculine, etc), protects me even when I am out as trans and gay, but even from behind that shield, being visible as trans opens the door for many hurtful and invalidating comments – some intentionally so and some well-meaning 13/20
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