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:

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...

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/...

Linguistic Society of America@lingsocam.bsky.social · last yr.

NOW AVAILABLE! Proceedings of the LSA Vol. 10. The 89 articles in the volume stem from rigorous research presented at the 2025 LSA Annual Meeting & provide a marvelous showcase of the breadth & vitality of linguistics today, spanning the linguistic spectrum. tinyurl.com/yxryppk9 #Proceedings #LSA

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...

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...

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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 · 2y ago

See you out in the streets tomorrow. Lots of ways to participate: in person, online, everywhere. #defendhighered @actioninhighered.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social

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.

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

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. www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Ev...

Linguistic violence is part of the fascist project. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-e...

Trump plans to sign executive order making English the official language of the U.S.

The U.S. has never had an official language, though many states have designated English.

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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

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

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

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

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.

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_...

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

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

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

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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...

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

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 journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/...

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...

Pronoun research roundup

The following is a list of research on trans people’s use of pronouns in English and a few other languages where scholars have written about trans and gender-neutral pronoun innovations. Lang…

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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! lgbtqlinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/m...

Make your theoretical syntax classroom more LGBTQ-friendly with these 5 quick tips!

Theoretical linguistics is not necessarily a space that excludes queer linguists outright — hell, we named our LGBTQ Linguistics award after Arnold Zwicky, a prolific syntactician (among othe…

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Hi folks I’m coming out

Joshua Raclaw@joshuaraclaw.com · 2y ago

You too can come out as an linguist in an English department, or as nonbinary, or as

Roses are red Violets are blue All varieties are grammatical Yes, that means AAE too!

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 3y ago

Since this site is open now, have a greatest hits thread of #linguistics takes on the Roses are Red meme: Roses are red Violets are blue Ideas are green And colourless too

Some of my students colored @emrem.bsky.social’s linguistics coloring page today in class!!

LingComm grants are live! Got a nacent LingComm project you need some additional funds to get off the ground? Apply before April 30. lingcomm.org/grants/