Young people, especially autistic young people, rely on social media for socialisation because offline spaces are not accessible to them. Without also creating accessible, youth-friendly spaces in the local community, social media bans will just leave kids with nowhere to go.

Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is nuts. Yes we need better protections online, but this is a massive overreach by Starmer. For many young people, especially marginalised ones such as trans and neurodivergent, online spaces can be a safe place for them to develop a genuine support community www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The VC after telling 2600+ members of staff that they're at risk of redundancy: I think this is a really exciting time with huge opportunities for the academic sector, actually. There's nothing exciting about cutting this many jobs. What a vile, sociopathic thing to say

On my way to Brussels for the Sociolinguistics Circle, where I'll present data from my PhD outside of my department for the first time tomorrow! 🤩 And then a short visit home. Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues and hearing Dutch spoken around me for a few days

It's Trans Day of Visibility and I wrote about how visibility without protection is a trap, and it often seems like the loudest calls for us to be visible are coming from those who have done nothing to protect us. www.coyotemedia.org/im-supposed-...

I’m Supposed to be Visible Today — But Why?

Every year I wonder if visibility and joy are the same thing. And every year I am more and more convinced that the answer is no.

coyotemedia.org

‘If things carry on as they are, there will be very few opportunities for young people to study Music at university, and therefore hardly anybody training as music teachers, and the whole system will then be stuck in a vicious cycle of decline.’ thecritic.co.uk/a-discipline...

A discipline in danger | Alexandra Wilson | The Critic Magazine

I have written previously for The Critic about the closure of Music departments in British universities and it gives me no pleasure to be revisiting the issue. Unfortunately, the domino effect that…

thecritic.co.uk

Proud to announce that I've reached 'even the guy who doesn't usually work at the front desk knows my order' levels of regular customer who always gets the same thing at my local pasta place

It’s a few days after learning that the University of Nottingham will be suspending student intake for 48 courses – including all of Modern Languages where I’m partly based for my PhD work – and will likely close down these courses entirely, and I’m still just so angry and sad and in disbelief (1/7)

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 💜

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:

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!

@culturalheritage25.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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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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’.

groene.nl

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…

bloomsbury.com

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. 🧵

🚨 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:

So I did a thread for #TransDayOfVisibility a few years ago on Twitter but with how things are going for trans people currently I think it’s time to share it again here, updated with my experiences since. Bear with me for a long thread (I have a lot of thoughts OK) 1/20

It's Trans Day of Visibility. I wrote this a few years ago. It feels like it's gotten more true every year since. transsafety.network/posts/the-pr...

The Problem of Visibility

Explaining why the International Trans Day of Visbility might be the opposite of what trans people need in an age of visibility as violence and harassment

transsafety.network

reminder that tomorrow (march 31st) is trans day of snack. if you are cis, your job is to feed a nearby trans person. if you are trans, you are invited to post your cash sharing application links and handles in order to facilitate this #tdov

If you're in the UK and have ever used any kind of gender-affirming voice training (coaching, youtube, whatever), my student would love to hear from you. It's anonymous! universityofkent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #linguistics

Never more energized and powerful than when I try to go to bed at a reasonable hour

I agree with the observation that English is becoming a "smaller" language with Brexit and American isolationism. Which means Europe and the world need to embrace linguistic multilateralism more than ever: language skills and metalinguistic awareness are a vital public investment for the future. 1/4

Marc van Oostendorp@fonolog.bsky.social · 2y ago

'Taal diende als machtsmiddel voor de Donald Trump en JD Vance tijdens hun ontmoeting met de Volodymyr Zelensky op vrijdag.' www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

Microsoft is going to price gouge you by adding their genAI to your subscription without your consent, and they are not transparent about how to avoid this bullshit. Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...

🪲🦗 Mehlkäfer, Hausgrille, Wanderheuschrecke: Manche Insekten dürfen laut EU-Recht zu Nahrungsmitteln verarbeitet werden. Rechte Akteure spinnen daraus eine Verschwörungserzählung. 🐜🐞 Mein Vortrag dazu gibt es jetzt auch im Podcast bei Deutschlandfunk Nova: www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/extr...

Die Angst vor Insekten im Essen

Manche Insekten dürfen in der EU Nahrung sein. Rechte Akteure spinnen daraus eine Verschwörungserzählung. Ein Vortrag der Politologin Léonie de Jonge.

deutschlandfunknova.de

“A secret of cisgender is that it is not only about gender. Gender is always a racial arrangement.” -Marquis Bey, Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender

Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento@pridewasariot.bsky.social · 2y ago

A cis Black woman was chased out of the women’s bathroom of the RUSD meeting in Riverside last Thursday for being a “transgender in the wrong bathroom” in case you hadn’t heard. In case it was unclear where this was going all along.

Okay, buckle up bsky, it's time for the Tale of the Bunny Paper. Here's the imported thread from twitter where the search all started: bsky.app/profile/bets... (1/n)

Betsy Sneller@betsysneller.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bill Labov died this morning. I'm not coherent enough to talk about how important and influential and brilliant he was. I am very sad. I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.

Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why? If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

CFP 3rd conference on teaching gender-inclusive language (free & virtual) Presentation proposals due 10 January 2025. More info: dornsife.usc.edu/center-for-l... Proposal submission: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...