Rare photo appearance because I am too delighted not to share the news that I won yesterday's "Queer & Gender Studies Science Slam," organized by the University of Heidelberg (@lesbischel.bsky.social) in cooperation with the city of Heidelberg. Thanks for this opportunity!

📢 IGALA 14 is coming to York St John University, UK | 21–23 July 2027! Theme: 'Researching Language, Gender and Sexuality in Times of Political Challenge' Follow for updates on keynote speakers, call for papers & more. Save the date! 📅 #IGALA14 #GenderAndLanguage #Linguistics #Conference2027

The universe was listening! @dukepress.bsky.social posted the intro to *Cisgender.* You get to read vignettes about my grandmother & Leslie Feinberg & Audre Lorde... & wrestle with what they do to the cis category. You also get a peak at why disorientation is my framework of choice. bit.ly/4vKd53u

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...

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...

Aktuell führe ich eine Umfrage zu Kurzwörtern wie LGBT+, LSBTI* usw. durch. Nehmt gerne teil und leitet sie gerne weiter: umfragen.uni-hamburg.de/index.php/34...

Allow me to translate: “The murderer, unlike his victim, was not a homo. So it’s fine.”

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Je survole un papier sur les effets des genAI sur l'écriture scientifique et sa production, je ne résiste donc pas à mettre (même si c'est maintenant bien connu) la liste des mots identifiés comme ayant explosé dans les abstracts avec l'introduction de chatGPT arxiv.org/abs/2510.02408

#OTD 86 years ago, Jane H. Hill (1939–2018) was born 🎉 A linguistic anthropologist who studied Uto-Aztecan languages in the US and in her sociolinguistic work analysed strategies behind racist language, including Mock Spanish. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

Öffentliche Vortragsreihe: Heidelberg Gender Lectures – Ringvorlesung befasst sich mit aktuellen Fragestellungen aus der Geschlechterforschung www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #gender #forschung #ringvorlesung

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

Today is #InternationalPronounsDay —and we have set ourselves the almost impossible task to select two literature tips from the many fantastic queer linguistic publications on pronouns. Although we would argue that queer linguistics can be done on any level of linguistic analysis, #pronouns...

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... ...

29.10., 18 Uhr, Alte Aula der @uniheidelberg.bsky.social: Sabine_ Hark (TU Berlin) hält die Rainbow City Lecture 2025 mit dem Titel Gefährliche Erbschaften. Sex/Gender: Biologische Fundierung und das Begehren nach Kategorien. Interessierte sind herzlich willkommen!

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

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: ↓

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)

Hallo Welt! Wir sind das DFG-geförderte Netzwerk Queerlinguistik. Folgt uns für Forschung zu Sprache, Geschlecht und Sexualität, für Nachrichten und Infos zum Netzwerk, und für all things queer linguistics!

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)

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!

Following up on yesterday's semi-rant, here's another piece of cop shit I've abandoned. No notes needed. No notes from doctors, no notes from employers, definitely no funeral notices or death certificates. You actually don't need to give me any rationale at all for absences or extensions.

Calls: Queer Linguistics at the Interface Between Grammatical and Social Structure

🧵Excellent piece "They appear to have inverted the promise of the internet as an endless archive of information one can navigate for themselves. Do your own research has, in short order, become Get one canonical answer." This helps explain why Trump/Vance have gone all in on AI...

Catharine R. Stimpson 1990, as cited in Jenness, V. (1992) Coming out: Lesbian identities and the categorization problem. In K. Plummer (Ed) Modern Homosexualities.

Call for Papers: Workshop on Queer Linguistics, Klagenfurt/Austria, December 2025, co-organized by Vroni Zieglmeier (Heidelberg) ⬇️⬇️⬇️

As @danmcquillan.bsky.social & others have argued, the massive impact of AI on our institutions is a consequence of those institutions already having been hollowed out by nearly half a century of neoliberal «reforms.» They've been optimized to deliver predictable output which can now be automated 6/

"Yet, some of us have to live in the metaphors that others decorate their theories and artworks with." deLire, L. Beyond representational justice. Texte zur Kunst, 129. www.textezurkunst.de/en/129/luce-...

What language do I speak?... It doesn't seem to matter. No one seems to listen. I ask what time is it and they hear I wanna fuck your mother. I say do you have this in a size 42 and they hear shoot the pigs. Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan (1995). A Day in the Life of a Bull-dyke vimeo.com/132492043

The propensity of human beings to ascribe consciousness to anything that has googly eyes slapped on it is absolutely going to be our downfall

Judith Butler (1991) "Imitation and Gender Insubordination". In Abelove/Aina Barale/Halperin (eds), The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Routledge.

Andrea Long Chu, Females (Verso, 2019, p. 38) transreads.org/females/

So-called «AI» as developed and marketed by Big Tech isn't a mere tool. It's a political and ideological project—a system of extraction, exploitation and surveillance that concentrates power in the hands of the few. Willingly accepting this as inevitable progress means submitting to brute force 1/

Confs: Queer Linguistics at the Interface Between Grammatical and Social Structure (Workshop @ÖLT49)

Inbox pitch: "As a person who has done a TON of research - without AI - it drained what felt like years from my life—time, Alex. Time that could be spent on more fun stuff…" Research IS the fun stuff, my guy. It is the sauce.

excited to announce that we are accepting abstracts for the panel on queer linguistics at ÖLT 49, organized by @lvrbk.bsky.social, Nicholas Catasso, Mx Gaul and me. abstract deadline: 1 sept. more info: linguistlist.org/issues/36/1590

We are welcoming wonderful guest speakers at the English Department of @uniheidelberg.bsky.social this semester: @davidbritain.bsky.social, The Phonological Construction of the English Countryside, May 14 @lhlew.bsky.social, Sociophonetics and Mental Health, June 3 Everybody welcome!

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