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Dr Jessica Aiston @jessaiston.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Young people, especially autistic young people, rely on social media for socialisation because offline spaces are not accessible to them. Without also creating accessible, youth-friendly spaces in the local community, social media bans will just leave kids with nowhere to go.

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The VC after telling 2600+ members of staff that they're at risk of redundancy: I think this is a really exciting time with huge opportunities for the academic sector, actually. There's nothing exciting about cutting this many jobs. What a vile, sociopathic thing to say

Final three paragraphs of the 12 May Times Higher Education article where VC Jane Norman defends the job cuts. The text in the image is:
"Overall, Norman believes that the changes are “exciting” and will future-proof the university through a transition period in UK higher education. While she stressed that she did not want to “minimise the adverse impact on staff”, she said the moment represents “huge opportunities” for the university.

“I think it’s a really interesting time in higher education…The world is changing, geopolitics is changing, and what students want is really changing. I think the universities that will survive and thrive are ones like ours that are taking a very proactive view of the environment, and thinking carefully about how they want to not just survive for the next couple of years, but to thrive in 10, 20, 30 years for the future.

“So actually it’s an exciting time for higher education, because I think there’s a real opportunity to shape our response and still stick with our core strengths of excellent research and excellent teaching, but make sure we do it in a way that’s modern, effective and fit for the future.”"

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

On my way to Brussels for the Sociolinguistics Circle, where I'll present data from my PhD outside of my department for the first time tomorrow! 🤩 And then a short visit home. Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues and hearing Dutch spoken around me for a few days

Photo of the Beeston train station, with part of a rolled-up poster visible in front. It's a sunny day and the platform is empty.

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 31/03/2026

It's Trans Day of Visibility and I wrote about how visibility without protection is a trap, and it often seems like the loudest calls for us to be visible are coming from those who have done nothing to protect us. www.coyotemedia.org/im-supposed-...

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I’m Supposed to be Visible Today — But Why?

Every year I wonder if visibility and joy are the same thing. And every year I am more and more convinced that the answer is no.

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Dutch has 'uit volle borst zingen' (singing out of full chest), meaning singing loudly/enthusiastically, which seems similar if a little more restricted in application (I don't think I know it to be used for shouting, just singing)

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

It was a really interesting event, and a very big thank you for making it accessible online as well!

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Polly McMichael @pollymcmichael.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

‘If things carry on as they are, there will be very few opportunities for young people to study Music at university, and therefore hardly anybody training as music teachers, and the whole system will then be stuck in a vicious cycle of decline.’ thecritic.co.uk/a-discipline...

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A discipline in danger | Alexandra Wilson | The Critic Magazine

I have written previously for The Critic about the closure of Music departments in British universities and it gives me no pleasure to be revisiting the issue. Unfortunately, the domino effect that…

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Proud to announce that I've reached 'even the guy who doesn't usually work at the front desk knows my order' levels of regular customer who always gets the same thing at my local pasta place

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Perhaps UoN management should take some lessons from the courses they’re suspending: it is precisely the critically engaged, reflexive, integrated thinking and communication that are taught in many of these courses, that are glaringly missing from the decisions and communications management put out.

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Especially when such decisions are communicated in the most untransparent way – instead of taking accountability, the uni’s management hides behind empty jargon, vague expressions, and the obviously void claim that this shouldn’t harm the research of the very people whose departments are at risk.

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

The knock-on effects of this decision will be felt across the university and will be difficult to repair – who would choose to study at an institution that so actively devalues their broader field, even if their specific niche in this field is still offered as a course?

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Both this decision and how it was communicated to us show management to be deeply problematic and irresponsible. A management that believes that tanking their institution’s reputation will improve their financial situation clearly does not understand the importance of being seen as reliable, stable.

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

But also for people in other fields at UoN or working with the university, who are now learning just how unreliable and irresponsible a partner the university is. An institution that is willing to cut entire departments overnight, cannot believably promise to protect other departments in the future.

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

For myself, but also for the faculty whose work has continually put UoN on the map as an institution producing outstanding research and teaching, the current students now learning that their courses will fizzle out after them, the prospective students whose chosen field is no longer available.

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

It’s a few days after learning that the University of Nottingham will be suspending student intake for 48 courses – including all of Modern Languages where I’m partly based for my PhD work – and will likely close down these courses entirely, and I’m still just so angry and sad and in disbelief (1/7)

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

On my way home after three amazing days of #LavLang31. Another fantastic edition with a fomo-inducing programme filled with impossible choices, and a great unofficial social evening programme to get a taste of what Manchester has to offer. It's an incredible privilege to be part of this community 💜

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

If you want more of this, come see my talk in Manchester! And at some point in a journal near you.

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

With this knowledge, BBB’s position on gender-affirming care in 2025 is not a shift compared to their 2023 position – it’s merely a continuation thereof. It’s important that news media see through this to not perpetuate the dressing up of anti-trans positions as “reasonable” or “supportive”.

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The moment you actually look at these manifestos through a critical lens, this apparent support falls apart. At no point did BBB grant trans people the right to self-determination. In BBB’s 2023 manifesto, the right to be oneself continues to be conditional, something to be gatekept.

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

As I found in my study, BBB’s (and several others parties’) apparently supportive position on trans rights is only positive when viewed in light of the more overtly anti-trans parties on (mostly) the far right. But if “acknowledges that trans people exist” is the measure of support, the bar is low.

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Yes, in 2023 BBB emphasised “the importance of quick and qualitative care for both [trans] youths and adults.” However, this assertion was couched in conditionality and the suggestion that gender-affirming care is currently too easily accessible, while hinting at the social contagion theory.

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

NOS writes that this position is in contrast with BBB’s previous election manifesto (2023), in which BBB advocated for better care for (young) trans people. However, as I found in my study, BBB’s previous election manifesto was not as trans-supportive as it seemed.

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Last week, Dutch national broadcasting company NOS wrote about the draft election manifesto of the “Farmers-Citizen Movement”, BBB. BBB’s manifesto for the upcoming elections takes a stance against gender-affirming care for young trans people and “excessive symbolic politics” about LGBT+ policy.

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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:

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The call for papers for the Cultural Heritage Management and Conservation Conference at UoN is open until 30 June! This conference is organised by my peers and promises to be a great space for sharing research across disciplines from people at all career stages. Please share widely!

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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!

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Archie Crowley @archiecrowley.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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...

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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article examines how seven transgender South Carolinians drew on racialized conceptions of linguistic ownership during metalinguistic discussion about queer and trans language during ethnographi...

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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Nieuwe column voor @groene.nl: Door haar pijlen te richten op genderdiversiteit, zoekt én vindt extreemrechts aansluiting bij conservatieve, religieuze en zelfs ‘gematigde’ krachten. Verzet tégen extreemrechts betekent ook opstaan vóór de rechten van trans personen. www.groene.nl/artikel/tran...

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Verzet tégen extreem-rechts betekent ook opstaan vóór de rechten van trans personen

Het verdedigen van trans-rechten is een noodzaak, geen ‘woke agenda’.

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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Very exciting to see that my book is now up on the @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social website! 'Language and LGBTQ+ Youth: Analysing Marginalised Identities through an Intersectional Lens' will be out in November 🥳 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...

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Language and LGBTQ+ Youth

This book takes a queer linguistic and intersectional approach to the analysis of young LGBTQ+ people's identity constructions, showing how their language use r…

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/04/2025

As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

🚨 New Article! 🚨 How do cisgender listeners perceive trans voices? A fascinating study by Emmett Jessee & J Calder explores how gender identity affects how certain sounds are categorised by listening subjects. 🎙️🔍 📖 Read the full article here:

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

So please actively support the trans people in your lives, whether they are visible or not. And use whatever opportunity you have to make trans visibility less difficult and less necessary. Fight back against anti-trans policies, educate people on trans issues, help keep us safe 20/20

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I will keep being visible as a trans person. I have the privilege to safely do so, even if current events are making me more wary as well. But this burden can’t only be on trans people, we need others to stand with us loudly, visibly, and uncompromisingly 19/20

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Being visible as trans in many cases changes how people interact with you. Even in my experiences, in which people mostly do not (overtly) react negatively, I’m marked as Other. For trans people who do not share the same privilege, being visible as trans can be outright dangerous 18/20

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

People straight-up tell me that they think my transness is OK because “I’m normal about it” – spoiler alert, that’s not acceptance. I don’t want you to tolerate my transness because you think I’m “normal about it”, I want you to accept my transness simply because 17/20

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Their discourse markers uncover deeply ingrained assumptions and attitudes: “Maar val je dan wel gewoon op vrouwen?” (bonus points for whoever can point out the three words that I find particularly painful in this example) 16/20

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

They will ask questions that show how trans people’s private lives are often considered to be public property, for example asking about my medical history or sex life. Questions that would be considered wildly inappropriate when posed to a straight, cis person 15/20

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

When people learn that I’m trans, they often seek out and voice what (they think) is feminine about me, thus invalidating my belonging to the category of “man” as well as feeding my own dysphoria. They mark me as different, "not quite a man" 14/20

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This privilege, as well as many others (white, educated, masculine, etc), protects me even when I am out as trans and gay, but even from behind that shield, being visible as trans opens the door for many hurtful and invalidating comments – some intentionally so and some well-meaning 13/20

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

However, being visible as trans is also difficult. I’m cis passing and (usually) straight passing, which grants me considerable social capital and safety. As such, I can choose when I am visible as trans, and makes that visibility safer too 12/20

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

But we need to talk about it. And we need to keep living our trans lives despite all of it. We cannot let ourselves be erased from public life, banished from organisations (at least at the visible surface), written out of policy. This is more pressing than ever 11/20

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

A lot of people in the Netherlands still think of the country as progressive when it comes to LGBT+ rights, but we’re not exempt from the threats that the rights of trans people (and not just trans people) are facing around the world 10/20

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I don’t teach at the moment, but have had the opportunity to share my research about anti-trans discourses in Dutch politics at a conference and in my department here in Nottingham. Doing and sharing this research makes it very clear how dire things are 9/20

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I think we’ve made a lot of progress since I first encountered the concept of transness, and I see this reflected in the diversity of gender identities around me, but we have a long way to go still, perhaps longer than when I first wrote up these thoughts 8/20

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The positive responses this receives makes it very worthwhile. I have had students come and tell me that I made a difference – both queer/trans students and cis straight students. And that is just from me doing my job as a trans student who also happens to teach, mentor, and present 7/20

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

If people who are just figuring out that they may be trans have access to many, diverse trans stories, maybe they won’t be as scared and lonely for as long & maybe they won’t feel like being trans is the worst thing that could’ve happened to them, because it shouldn’t be 6/20

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I wanted them to have access to stories of people who are trans and do well academically, teach, have supportive friends & family, who are just going about their daily lives. I wanted them to have access to trans stories that are not filled with pain and violence 5/20

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

When I taught undergraduate courses, my students were roughly the age I was when I started living as Max. I wanted them to see me at a decade older and be able to imagine a future where they’ll still be around when they’re supposed to reach that age. Because I couldn’t 4/20

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