Our members have received a form to vote for our next Secretary! There is time until 20 October - don't forget to vote!

Deadline tomorrow!

12 more days to apply! Let us know if you have questions!

Thanks to the #BAAL2025 audience today - and please join us in the @lgas-baal.bsky.social SIG!

For info on how to become the BAAL SIG new secretary see here ⤵️ #BAAL2025

Next up, Jiaqi Tian shares her research into Chinese EFL teachers' views on teaching gender/sexuality. Here we see a mind map used in her research with novice teachers! #BAAL2025 @lgas-baal.bsky.social

Happening NOW! Thank you @lucyjones.bsky.social for chairing the language, gender and sexuality session! Lots of interesting papers and insights! #BAAL2025! And don't forget to put your name forward for the NEW secretary!

We want to expand our mailing list! Do email/DM us if you want to be added! 💜

Being the secretary for @lgas-baal.bsky.social was a wonderful experience. If you’re interested in applying and have questions, please do feel free to DM!

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026

We are looking for a new secretary! our huge thanks go to @nounfraze.bsky.social who has been a wonderful secretary for many years! Info here⤵️

A huge "thank you" to those who participated in our event on Wed! @aimeebailey.bsky.social did a wonderful job to put everything together and chair it beautifully! We all made a lot of notes and we look forward to getting to know more about the research of our 4 invited speakers (see post below).

#LavLang31 is only a couple of months away - Some of us from the BAAL LGaS SIG will be there! Will you join? Links for registration and info here: lavlang2025.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x... @lavlang.bsky.social.

50 attendees registered already! Join us next week. All info in the link below.

Don't forget to sign up for our upcoming event on 2-July All info here! 🥳 baalgensex.wordpress.com/events/forth...

Thank you to those who already signed up! there is still time, if you are interested scan the QR code and tell everyone.

Our online seminars are back! Join us on Wed 2 July 1-3pm to hear four talks showcasing some of the excellent & innovative work being done by our PGR/ECR community (see thread) Abstracts here: baalgensex.wordpress.com/events/forth... For the Teams link here: forms.gle/nSr2RqaZebqv.... All welcome!

📢 Come work with us 📢 We're recruiting a new Research Assistant to work alongside @drniccimacleod.bsky.social on her project Talking Rape: Operation Soteria and the Police Interview, funded by a Leverhulme Fellowship 👇 jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

A huge "thank you" to @nounfraze.bsky.social who organised a wonderful SIG! Everything was spotless! And stay tuned as Frazer is also organising Lavender this year!

Check the volumes in the series here: link.springer.com/series/15402

What a wonderful day on Friday! Keep on sharing the pics and your thoughts! And we'll keep in touch soon.

We are blessed with some summer weather - Manchester is set to reach 26 degrees! See you all tomorrow and safe journey to those travelling today.

For info about Friday - see here:

And in the meantime, our BAAL is siding with our transgender siblings following the ruling of the Supreme Court here in the UK. Some of us have signed this document, if you want to do it find it here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

For the Judith Baxter Award, we had 5 strong candidates. The wealth of research in the field of language, gender and sexuality is astonishing! The 4 runners up will be presenting their work later in the year, we are in the process of organising an event, so stay tuned! 🚨

Beth is going to present her work and her engagement with the health community on Friday in the afternoon! We look forward to hearing everything about it!

In 2 days, the BAAL SIG Language, Gender & Sexuality Community is meeting in Manchester for our annual event.We are delighted to announce this year's winner of the Judith Baxter's award: Beth Malory @bethmalory.bsky.social. Her work on gender and health & her committment to change is truly inspiring

The book of abstracts for the BAAL SIG (2/05/2025) is available here: baalgensex.wordpress.com/events/forth... There is still time to register - come and join us! Link to register: mmu.estore.flywire.com/products/baa...

Today we close the nominations for the Judith Baxter Awards - following the two weeks extension! You are still on time to candidate a brilliant researcher!

We have extended the call for nominations until 25th February! Check elegibility - PGs and Early Career Researchers! And email us if you have questions!

Less than a week to go!

And more language, gender and sexuality at Manchester Met - submit your abstract for LavLang 31 in August

if you are not part of our group, drop us a message here on BlueSky to be added to the mailing list and have a chance to nominate a PG student!

We are delighted to announce more information about the BAAL LGaS SIG taking place in Manchester on 2nd May. Registration is now OPEN! Click here to register: mmu.estore.flywire.com/products/baa... Find the programme here: baalgensex.wordpress.com/events/forth...

Don't forget to send your nominations!

Nominations for the Judith Baxter Award are now open! See all information here: baalgensex.wordpress.com/judith-baxte... To nominate you must be part of our BAAL Sig!

We look forward to welcoming you in Manchester! Marking milestones in Language, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Easter 2025, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK (2nd May, 2025). See call for papers and other info here: baalgensex.wordpress.com/events/forth... Deadline: 31st December🎉