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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 · 1h

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...

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 3h

bluesky & more

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Frazer Heritage @nounfraze.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 4h

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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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 4h

congratulations! 💐

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Solvejg Nitzke (sie/she) @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 4h

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…

doi.org

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Netzwerk Queerlinguistik @queerlinguistik.bsky.social · 4h

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

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin image/svg+xml

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 20h

erster Test und sie sind gut, extreme pickle euphoria 😃

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 1d

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."

www.wired.com

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langscipress.bsky.social @langscipress.bsky.social · 23h

Just published "The construction of multilinguals as Others: Do we practice what we preach?" edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Claudio Scarvaglieri, Christoph Schroeder & Heike Wiese #openaccess #cam langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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Andy Warhol @warhol.bsky.social · 1d

Self-portrait,
https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/4085

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New New York Times @nyt-first-said.bsky.social · 1d

computerrarium

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 1d

Covid-Impfung-links, Grippe-Impfung rechts, also wenn jetzt nicht die Sonne rauskommt, weiß ich auch nicht 🌞

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 1d

Gute Besserung, aber der geplante Vortrag klingt fantastisch!

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 1d

ok, es ist a bisserl frisch, aber heute nachmittag 16 Grad, Berliners! 🌤

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Stephanie Harkin @saharkin.bsky.social · 9d

My book is out! 💗
Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames is a 6-year-long labour of love for young adult stories, teen heroines in videogames and unnoticed girly game histories.
Thank you @livvy.itch.io for the beautiful cover!

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Book cover for "Girlhood Game: Gender, Identity, and Coming of Age in Video Games." A youthful feminine bedroom is depicted, centring on a computer desk setup with game accessories.

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 1d

Hab mich aus Versehen für Spätsommer angezogen, in der U-Bahn alle Trenchcoat und Funktionsjacke

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 1d

so hatte ich noch gar nicht drüber nachgedacht, aber 💡

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 1d

Aber wenn du es nach deutschen Clipping-Regeln machst, kannst einen schönen HoRo tragen, auch nicht schlecht, oder

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