💪 Congratulations to @burscott.bsky.social and Francesca Vigo on the publication of their impressive collection! 👉 Details here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111351568/html#overview @montreallx.bsky.social @kleonichka.bsky.social @helensauntson.bsky.social @robvoigt.bsky.social

Our members @theresaheyd.bsky.social and @vzie.bsky.social are organizing an interdisciplinary conference with Miriam Neuhausen (Heidelberg)—with amazing keynote speakers! Conference theme is "ethics of queer in/visibility," CfP is open, deadline March 31!

💡Learn about the use of gender-inclusive language across 14 European languages in this new book edited by Falco Pfalzgraf: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111701608/html#overview @lhekanaho.bsky.social @sofialampro.bsky.social @genderedform.bsky.social @michael-hornsby.bsky.social

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...

Hot off the press: a guest issue of The Mouth Journal, co-edited by network member @miriam-z.bsky.social, on Producing, Evaluating, and Perpetuating Gender Difference through Language Practice.

The call for papers for Lavender Languages & Linguistics 32 (Edinburgh) is now open! Deadline: 28 March 2026.

The deadline for submitting an abstract has been extended to January 9th, 2026! :)

It was a pleasure to have you, Lindsay—and we can only second Martin Stegu's call to action!

#CfP The conference "identity construction and English(es) from the margins" (Univ de Lorraine/Metz) explores intersections of language, identity work, and marginalization, including (but not limited to) queer and trans perspectives. The call closes on Dec 19: engmargins.sciencesconf.org

Netzwerk Queerlinguistik on tour: Our members Oliver Bunk @lvrbk.bsky.social and Vroni Zieglmeier @vzie.bsky.social are co-hosting (with Nicholas Catasso & Mx Gaul) a workshop on queer linguistics at the Austrian Linguistics Conference #ÖLT2025 in Klagenfurt!

Hot off the press: Sörries-Vorberger (2025) on pronoun specifications in German email signatures, reporting on survey data from students and staff at the University of Hamburg.

Today: Our member Hanna Bruns (Bonn) is giving an online talk, hosted by the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations (QMUL). Hanna will present recent work on language attitudes towards gender-inclusive language in German. Attendance is free, no registration required. More infos: gfds.org.uk

Today marks #TransDayOfRemembrance - a day dedicated to the memory of those who passed this year in the trans community, especially those targeted by violence and discrimination. Queer and trans linguistic research can shed light onto discursive practices often at the basis of anti-trans violence...

Conference alert: Falco Pfalzgraf @qmul.bsky.social is organizing an online conference on the resistance to gender-inclusive language. The program looks amazing, including a talk by our member Samira Ochs with Aline Siegenthaler. Register until March 23! www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

It feels really, really good to finally hold the hard copy of this in my hands! Years of work in one shiny new book 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...

Forschung aus dem Netzwerk Queerlinguistik: in dieser Reihe stellen wir Publikationen unserer Mitglieder vor, heute von @miriam-z.bsky.social! Zapf (2024). Gender, Sprache, Kognition. Eine linguistische Untersuchung zu gender-inklusivem Sprachgebrauch im Spanischen. Metzler.

Out-rageous bodies: Unfolding the closet Miriam Neuhausen & Corinna Assmann

Am Mittwoch geht es weiter: Corinna Assmann und Miriam Neuhausen aus dem Anglistischen Seminar der @uniheidelberg.bsky.social sprechen über Out-rageous bodies: Unfolding the closet. 5.11., 18 Uhr, Neue Universität, Hörsaal 4a, everybody welcome!

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...

HI. It's me. WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23. Keynote Speakers • Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University) • Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business) • Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern) • Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece) • Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)

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... ...

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

Exciting CfP: @emmachados.bsky.social is organizing a thematic session on queer linguistics with special focus on the Spanish-speaking world at the LIV Symposium of the Spanish Society of Linguistics (SEL) in Madrid in January. The call closes tomorrow (30/09). linguistlist.org/issues/36/28...

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: ↓

Queerlinguistische Forschung unterwegs: an der @humboldtuni.bsky.social hat @lasovo.bsky.social eine soziophonetische Analyse der BVG-Ansagen von Philippa Jarke vorgestellt und dabei Aspekte der akustischen Identität zwischen Berliner Schnauze und queerer Stimme diskutiert ⬇️

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!