The University of Arizona is hiring for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor to serve as Director of the French Basic Language Program beginning August 2026. Applications due November 14, 2025. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Please share widely. 💜 [I'm not on the search committee.]

Been cooking up a new study abroad program in Paris for this coming summer! arizona.via-trm.com/program_broc... Open to both UA and non-UA students. No pre-requisites or langauge requirments. Please feel free to share with anyone you think might be interested. 💜

With everything else that is happening, I learned today that all Title VI grants have been terminated --that is 16 langauge resource centers and countless other programs supporting multilingual and international education who no longer have support.

JUST IN: The search for the next Research Chair in Trans Studies at UVic has begun! Hiring at the Associate or Full Professor level in the Faculty of Humanities or Sociology - July 2026 start 🏳️‍⚧️ If anyone wants insight on UVic or the Chair (I'm a PhD here) pls reach out! www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

Lengua mutante is in print and includes a chapter from me on trans cultures of language (including how the negative attitudes people have towards trans ways of doing language don't hold water -ya can't do language wrong or ruin it!- & miss the brilliance and agency of trans people doing language).

Are you trans and/or nonbinary (in the broadest sense of these terms)? Have you studied abroad or are you considering studying abroad in the future? Please check out my awesome advisee's dissertation study. [Please share widely with your networks 💜]

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has shared this quick survey! We're still gathering responses from trans/nonbinary/genderqueer Arabic languagers, so please continue to share the call with your networks 💜

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has shared this quick survey! We're still gathering responses from trans/nonbinary/genderqueer Arabic languagers, so please continue to share the call with your networks 💜

Do you speak Arabic? Are you trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, gender fluid, or otherwise gender non-conforming? Please consider taking this 9-question survey to help us create free materials for teaching Arabic. uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please share widely 💜

today!! kirby's talk in about half an hour!! @krisknisely.bsky.social workshop later this afternoon, and then @maureenogallagher.bsky.social !! (all will be recorded and youtub'ed eventually, i am told)

Thank you everyone for the help! Someone who languages in Korean and can do this work has gotten in contact with me to join the working group. I appreciate you all. 💜

Hi friends! I'm hoping someone who languages in Korean might have an interest in participating as a trans/nonbinary language expert. If you know anyone who might be a good fit, could you share this with them? Thank you in advance for any help! 💜

If you want to help disabled people fight New York's proposed mask ban... wear a mask. If more people would mask up in solidarity, these important accessibility tools would be harder to ban. Help us normalize masking and protect your health in the process!

Tonight is the last night. Please take a minute to do this if you haven't yet. It can be an important way to slow down these harms💜

Amazon is listening to conversations in people's homes and using these voice recordings to train AI — and now, customers won't be able to opt out. We deserve control over who has access to our voices.

There are still 2 items that you can submit comments on. Please take 1 minute to help 💜

2. Having a public record with massive public opposition strengthens arguments in court to challenge the new policy. Each submission begins to add up in making a difference.

Thanks for the question and we hope everyone will submit a comment on the last two portals. Deadline is tomorrow, Thursday, March 20th at 11:59pm. Let’s make these final hours count. transequality.org/news/freedom...

Thanks for all the boosts! I'm still looking for someone who is trans/nonbinary/etc. (in the broadest sense of these words) and languages in Arabic who wants to help teachers make more inclusive & affirming materials 💜

Hi friends! I'm hoping someone who languages in Arabic might have an interest in participating as a trans/nonbinary language expert. If you know anyone who might be a good fit, could you share this with them? Thank you in advance for any help! 💜

Thank you to everyone who has filled out an interest form! I'll be reviewing all of them and sending emails to people as quickly as I can. 💜

Today is the last day. Please take the 1-2 minutes this takes. 💜

Today is the last day. Please take the 1-2 minutes this takes. 💜

It has become increasingly dangerous to fly while #trans and it will get worse if we don't speak up against this. This takes two minutes. Please do and share. transequality.org/news/freedom...

Please take a moment to publicly comment by March 17 to help protect trans passport access (It only takes a couple minutes and they guide you through every step of the process in this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6YO... ), and then tell 3 friends. transequality.org/news/freedom...

FYI, in less than 10 days, the comment portal will shut down. We must act *fast*. Two deadlines to pay attention to: March 17th for First-Time Passport Applications, and March 20th for the other two. You can join us in flooding the portal here: transequality.org/news/freedom...

We must flood all three portals with our clear opposition to these harmful changes. 1. DS-82 Passport Renewal 2. DS-5504 Name Change & Corrections 3. DS-11 First-Time Passport Applications The proposals in each portal create needless barriers for trans people to access accurate documents.

A public comment period is underway on three passport changes that harm trans people by: - Broadly restricting access to accurate passports - Preventing updates to names and gender markers on passports - Requiring applicants to disclose their "biological sex at birth" instead of their gender

@krisknisely.bsky.social is organising a wonderful "event" - see the call here⤵️ (and if you know language teachers, please feel free to share).

What I love about this project is I get to virtually hang out with a bunch of language educators & a bunch of nonbinary people & make cool stuff that we then get to give away to teachers, learners, & everyone and anyone who wants it --- Sign up to make cool free language resources with us! 💜

This is going to be a good one, y'all. (And YAY, Kirby! 🥳) 💜

Language educators: Want to do some concrete good in the face of (gestures around) & co-create nonbinary languaging resources? Check out this professional group (basically an OER incubator putting teachers & languagers together to make free gender-just language resources). Tell a friend💜

FYI: The due date for #LavLang31 abstract submissions has been extended to 17 March. Please share the call widely with your networks! lavlang2025.wordpress.com/submit-abstr...

FYI that Yuka is still looking for a few more participants. Please check out their call below and share with your networks.

Language educators: Want to do some concrete good in the face of (gestures around) & co-create nonbinary languaging resources? Check out this professional group (basically an OER incubator putting teachers & languagers together to make free gender-just language resources). Tell a friend💜

Please continue to share! Lots of space left in this professional learning/working group! :) #LangChat #LanguageTeacher #Languages #ProfessionalDevelopment #OER

Please continue to share! Lots of space left in this professional learning/working group! :) #LangChat #LanguageTeacher #Languages #ProfessionalDevelopment #OER

FYI to anyone who may be looking for an online birth class by and for queer & trans people www.embodiedbirthclass.com Next class starts Mach 11. Tell your friends. 💜

Gender justice-minded language teachers, please consider this great opportunity to participate in paid professional development and research this spring!

(Also if you're a language educator who is also in-community, even better! --- This awkward little division of roles between trans/nonbinary community languager experts and language educators is not meant to do that kind of erasure 🫠)

ISO Language teachers for gender justice Are you a language teacher who wants to learn more about gender justice & collaboratively make free resources to support the teaching and learning of nonbinary ways of doing languages other than English? Interest form: bit.ly/GenderJustPL... Please share!

Need an easier way to share this with people not on Bluesky? I've added a copy of this call to my website as well: www.krisknisely.com/participate-...

Thank you to everyone who has been sharing this! Y'all are awesome. (And thank you to the handful of people who have expressed interest so far.) Please keep sharing if you know others who might be interested. I'm hoping we can make a little good in the world together 💜

“The work that I do is about pushing back against . . . these ideas that we have about language and . . . gender that are really quite rigid . . . Language can’t be separated from the people who do language.” Proud to be involved in this pod with @krisknisely.bsky.social and @cornelllrc.bsky.social

ISO Trans/nonbinary people to hire as (non-English) language experts Are you trans and know a language other than English? I'm looking for people who are in-community and want to collaboratively develop free language learning materials. Interest form: bit.ly/TLangExpert Please share!

On Wednesdays, we listen to #SpeakingOfLanguage. 🎙 Kris Knisely expands on his recent talk about gender justice in language education. Listen in & like us! https://lrc.cornell.edu/podcast #pamplemousse @krisknisely.bsky.social

"one of the most alarming escalations in the ongoing assault on trans rights [..] History is littered with examples of marginalized groups whose movement was curtailed as a precursor to broader persecution. Lawmakers, activists & allies must recognize the gravity of this moment—before it’s too late"

"Solidarity and a refusal to practice 'anticipatory obedience' are essential. If parents, students and educators together refuse these policies, the policies will become unenforceable..." — @lewispants.bsky.social