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Vroni Zieglmeier

@vzie.bsky.social

(socio-)linguist and bubble tea aficionado swimming, singing, and researching in berlin, heidelberg, and all over the place

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Tarik Abou-Chadi@tabouchadi.bsky.social · last wk.

Being queer means being the target of violence. Every queer person knows this. It's deeply engraved in who we are. We live with it every day of our lives. Not because of terrorism but because it is structurally enshrined in our "free" societies. Violence against queer people is not an exception ...

Vroni Zieglmeier@vzie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

very proud to see a student paper that emerged from one of my courses published in the Heidelberg Journal of English Studies. M Thielebörger discusses political discourse in 'sticker clusters' in the streets of Heidelberg. so cool! journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/hj...

Peeling Back the Layers | Heidelberg Journal of English Studies

Urban public spaces are increasingly shaped by informal visual practices beyond official signage, with stickers functioning as politically charged interventions in the urban linguistic landscape. This study examines political sticker clusters in Heidelberg, a university town characterised by a high concentration of politically engaged students, to explore how public space is contested through visual and linguistic means. Drawing on the concepts of emplacement and transgressive signs (Scollon and Scollon 2003), the paper analyses sticker clusters as layered, polyphonic visual texts (Reershemius 2019), with particular attention to multimodal meaning-making (Bezemer and Jewitt 2018). Building on Awcock’s (2021) understanding of stickers as tools of everyday resistance, the study situates sticker placement within broader contexts of youth-led political discourse. The data consists of photographs of sticker clusters collected in central Heidelberg during the summer of 2025, focusing on sticker-dense locations in public and university-adjacent spaces. Qualitative analysis shows that sticker clusters function as semiotic hot­spots in which political ideologies are performed, contested, and renegotiated through practices of layering and covering. Rather than operating as isolated messages, stickers form dynamic, spatially anchored texts that contribute to grassroots, bottom-up public discourse in student-dense urban environments.

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Prof. Nicole Holliday@mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI”

Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” This is a (very) incomplete list of journalistic and scholarly sources that provide information about limitations and documented drawbacks of variou...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 10mo ago

Pretty sure real science is actually reading the papers, thinking very deeply, and more, before writing, not generating literature review-like objects with no authorial intent or legwork

Iain Cheeseman@iaincheeseman.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Today @anthropic.com released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been game changing— a supercharged research tool. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵 www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

Netzwerk Queerlinguistik@queerlinguistik.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Forschung aus dem Netzwerk Queerlinguistik: in dieser Reihe stellen wir bereits veröffentlichte und neue Publikationen unserer Mitglieder vor. Heute: Lind, Miriam. 2023. How to do gender with names: The name changes of trans individuals as performative speech acts. IJLS 12(1): 1-22

Cover der Zeitschrift International Journal of Lanugage and Sexuality, buntes abstraktes Muster auf grau
Netzwerk Queerlinguistik@queerlinguistik.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Unsere Mitglieder Theresa Heyd und Vroni Zieglmeier organisieren im WiSe die Heidelberg Gender Lectures. Mit den Beiträgen von Sabine_ Hark (29.10.), Miriam Neuhausen & Corinna Assmann (05.11.) und Carolin Müller-Spitzer (04.02.) sind auch Beiträge mit queerlinguistischem Bezug dabei! Infos: ↓

Theresa Heyd@theresaheyd.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Vorankündigung: Im Wintersemester 2025/2026 finden erstmalig die Heidelberg Gender Lectures statt. Mit Gastvorträgen von Sabine_ Hark (TU Berlin) und Carolin Müller-Spitzer (IDS Mannheim), sowie Beiträgen der Heidelberger Gender & Queer Studies. Mark your calendars, das wird wundervoll!

Plakat Heidelber Gender Lectures, weiß und blau, mit Details Heidelberg Gender Lectures 29. Oktober, Alte Aula: Sabine_ Hark: Gefährliche Erbschaften. Sex/Gender: Biologische Fundierung und das Begehren nach Kategorien Eröffnung & Auftakt Gender Studies CAS (anschließend Empfang) 05. November Miriam Neuhausen & Corinna Assmann: Out-rageous bodies: Unfolding the closet 19. November Ute Hüsken: Nuns and women in contemporary transcultural Buddhism 03. Dezember Renata Motta & Yaatsil Guevara Gonzalez: Geschmack der Grenze: Essen, Gender und Zugehörigkeit auf der Flucht 17. Dezember Brigitte Sölch: Kunstgeschichte und Feminismus 07. Januar Philipp-Thomas Wehage: Games & Gender – Implizites und explizites Spiel mit Geschlecht 21. Januar Karen Nolte: „WahnsinnsFrauen“ – Aneignungen von Hysterie in der Neuen Frauenbewegung 04. Februar Carolin Müller-Spitzer: Gender & Sprache im Deutschen unter empirisch-linguistischer Perspektive
Netzwerk Queerlinguistik@queerlinguistik.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Am 12. und 13. September fand unser erstes Treffen in Hamburg statt. Bei fantastischer Aussicht aus dem "Philosophenturm" wurde über Struktur und Ausrichtung des Netzwerks, Konferenz- und Publikationspläne, Ideen für Kooperationen innerhalb des Netzwerks und die grundlegende Frage... (1/x)

Aussicht aus dem Hamburger Philosophenturm, im Vordergrund Campus der Uni Hamburg, Fernsehturm, Planten un Blomen, im Hintergrund Hafenkräne.
Vroni Zieglmeier@vzie.bsky.social · 11mo ago

4: Being queer/trans is neither reactionary nor revolutionary Holly Lewis (2022) Ten axioms for a queer Marxist future. In Politics for Everybody. Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection. London: Zed Books. (p. 275)

The argument that capitalism thrives off normativity ignores the fact that it also thrives off diversity, pluralism, fashion, and market segments. While the heteronormative family is productive for capital, queer urban individualists and drop-out counter-culturalists are also productive for capital – the former as ‘creatives’ in the labor market, the latter as a surplus population (or, in the US, low-cost service industry labor). Queers without children are also not entirely outside the family matrix in that unmarried and childless family members are often taxed with eldercare. It is romantic to think that you can change the world through diverse sexuality, creative self-expression, and communal bonding. But you can’t. Also, trans and intersexed people should not be used as a flag of radical possibility for a new, postgendered future. First of all, trans and intersexed people are, more often than not, gendered. Second, trans bodies have enough pressures without being required to have to intentionally position their bodies as political objects.11 However, if queerness is not progressive, it is also not reactionary or a product of bourgeois deviation, as it was sometimes caricatured by mid-century Marxist and Third Worldist movements. Nor is it a Eurocentric import external to precolonial peoples. It is also not
Theresa Heyd@theresaheyd.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Diese Woche geht es los: am Donnerstag beginnt der konstituierende Workshop des DFG-Netzwerks Queerlinguistik an der Universität Hamburg. Freue mich auf die Zusammenarbeit mit vielen tollen Kolleg*innen!

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