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/...

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...

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

GIVE YOUR SPARE CASH NOW southernequality.org/tyep/

🏳️‍⚧️ 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...

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

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 🤗

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...

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...

Hi folks I’m coming out

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

Isn't it beautiful? Out now: The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns, edited by the brilliant Laura Paterson, with my chapter on Covid-19-related Anti-Asian Racism and excellent contributions by e.g., @archiecrowley.bsky.social and @mixosaurus.bsky.social

I made a coloring sheet for some reading week de-stressing for my #Linguistics / composition students

The American Dialect Society is now accepting Word of the Year nominations for 2023! More information here: americandialect.org/nominate-the... Nominations can be submitted via Google Forms at this link: bit.ly/23WOTYNOMS Please share far and wide!

J. Calder pointing out how the AAA/CASCA messaging on the conference theme of “transitions” (with the official theme on a rainbow pastel background no less) and organizational calls inviting discussion on “transness” erase one of the clearest referents of these terms: trans people. #AAACASCA2023

tactical mustache; geographies of passing

Thank you @kirbyconrod.bsky.social for all the posts about my talk yesterday!!

Mainstream accounts of Southern life and identity assume that Southernness and transness are incompatible, but Crowley's speakers make meaning for trans life in the South through relationships to language and place @archiecrowley.bsky.social #2023AAACASCA

speaker: "I do say I'm a Southerner because I will not leave" - refusal to leave as an act of political resistance @archiecrowley.bsky.social #2023AAACASCA

"y'all" also very salient, and speaker originally rejected "y'all" as stigmatized feature of Southern english, but then realized that it's gender neutral and started working it back in @archiecrowley.bsky.social #2023AAACASCA

How do language and place inform trans and nonbinary peoples' epistemologies? > use of sir/ma'am as Southern american features, metalinguistic awareness of benefits/challenges; speaker says these gendered honorifics give opportunity for euphoria & dysphoria @archiecrowley.bsky.social #2023AAACASCA

trans/nonbinary people who want to stay in the South (vs those who want to leave) - jobs, family, home, and also to show younger queer & trans people that there is a place for them in the South @archiecrowley.bsky.social #2023AAACASCA

Crowley: talking about trans epistemologies of place in the US south. Quoting Whitlock: "I love the South, but loving the South is mighty tricky." common queer/trans narratives of wanting to escape the South / the South as uniquely bad @archiecrowley.bsky.social #2023AAACASCA

#2023AAACASCA panel: trans linguistic logics: spacial and embodied epistemologies across modalities. @lalzimman.bsky.social giving opening remarks - this is part 1 of a 2-part panel (part 2 is tomorrow morning at 10:15!) First speaker @archiecrowley.bsky.social :D

The Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Queer Anthropology for William Leap, for his work in queer linguistic anthropology, the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference, and his and his mentorship of queer and trans students (with his words read by Michelle Marzullo) 🦩💜 🦩💜

Amazing that American Anthro and CASCA made their official conference hashtag #2023aaacascatoronto because that's so long but GUESS WHAT they're not on here so you can post to the AAA/CASCA bluesky feed with a much shorter hashtag

I did a guest blog post for Planet Word! #linguistics

Got to hang out at a Trans Day of Joy event yesterday with Haley Kinsler from NCSU and talk about how cool trans language is!!

Assistant Professor in Language, Gender and Sexuality job at Penn State psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac... Please spread the word #linguistics 🌈🎓

Linguistic injustice is a structural design feature of society. Given this, the only path to linguistic justice is through a radical dismantling, reimagining, and rebuilding of entire structures. There is no linguistic justice within inherently unjust structures.

hi linguists / #linguistics feed, pleased to note that the new routledge handbook on pronouns seems to be online, check out my chapter with Lex and Evan if you so wish (and then go peep the table of contents, so much good stuff!!)