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Montreal Benesch 🍉

@montreallx.bsky.social
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they/them 🏳️‍⚧️ linguist; educator; grad student in the Trans Research in Linguistics Lab at UCSB montrealbenes.ch

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/10/2026
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
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Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
If you’ve seen this article, you may be sitting with anger, pain, or just exhaustion at dealing with another helping of colonial nonsense. We feel a responsibility to speak back when these colonizing narratives show up, yet again, in such a prominent venue. endangeredlanguages.com/story/respon...
New Yorker article title "Sometimes It's Okay to Let a Language Die" with "Sometimes It's" crossed out in red ink and "IT'S NOT" written above it. To the right is text "A Response to The New Yorker" and the ELP logo.
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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Kara Becker, Montreal Benesch @montreallx.bsky.social , Satchel Petty and Parker Scarpa @parkerjscarpa.bsky.social propose a new model of indexical field through their exploration of #uptalk and social personae onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Uptalk, Personae, and the Structure of Social Meaning in the Indexical Field
The indexical field is a common framework for understanding the relationship between a linguistic variable and its social meanings, though there is still much to be learned about how meanings relate ...
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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A BUMPER issue of the Journal of #Sociolinguistics is out just in time for your summer reading list! We have articles on #AAVE & 'TikTok' language; #uptalk; #genderinclusive language; & #raciolinguistics, along with a brilliant dialogue on #ethics, a response to our book symposium, & 2 interviews!
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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
What do you call this and where are you from? I just learned a new word for it and am wondering if it's regional, or what...
A portable, pop-up structure that creates an four posts of an approximately seven foot cube and a roof made of flexible red material. In the background is a lawn with a tree.
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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE
In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.
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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
'Uptalk, Personae, and the Structure of Social Meaning in the Indexical Field' is out now in the Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social! Find out how Americans perceive uptalk in English when told the talker is a girlboss, Valley Girl, stoner, twink, or butch 👀 Free link: tinyurl.com/cj8w556w
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Pumpkin Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Always: mad love to everyone protesting against corrupt tyranny - but please do ensure, if you haven't already, that you join liberatory groups after the protest. Mobilisation without organisation is a parade. The situation is too dire for us to not push beyond disagreeable placards. Solidarity ✊
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De Gruyter Brill Linguistics @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
💪 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
Book cover of the collection entitled 'Battlefield Linguistics: Queer, Trans, and Feminist Interventions in Linguistics and Discursive Change', edited by Scott Burnett and Francesca Vigo.
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Prof. EAGZ @emmmilygz.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
New paper out in NUSA! 'An un-Austronesian Austronesian language: Proto-Western Yapen and its lexicon' by me & @montreallx.bsky.social (Sorry for the sketchy looking link preview, it really is the journal's website!) 🧪 #linguistics tufs.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001...
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東京外国語大学学術成果コレクション
CMS,Netcommons,Maple
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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
Title: Gender Census 2025.

Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part.

Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.
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Kris Knisely @krisknisely.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Are you trans and/or nonbinary (in the broadest sense of these terms)? Have you studied abroad or are you considering studying abroad in the future? Please check out my awesome advisee's dissertation study. [Please share widely with your networks 💜]
Studying abroad? Have studied abroad? Trans/NB/Gender Trans non-compliant? Research Participants needed! A queer-led dissertation on gender, language and power Takes ~15 minutes for survey! Complete the survey to enter a 50 gift card raffle! Find the Study Survey https:/ ttps://bit.ly/ALDiss /ALDiss Additional compensation for interview(s)! T Scan me Questions? Contact: leydic@arizona.edu leydic@ An Institutional Review Board responsible for research University Arizona reviewed research praject prajectand found acceptable, according applicable state and federal regulations and University policies designed protect the rights and welfare of participantsi inresearch.
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Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
i don't think most people want to hear PhD-level answers to their everyday questions, actually. i learned that from being on dating apps.
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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Isaac made it out of the DRC to Kenya! Is anyone in/does anyone know people in or near Nairobi? Please get in touch -- he's still looking for work and could really benefit from local knowledge/connections
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Brad Pitt Fighter @hillrat.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
One caller tells this magazine that they called the hotline so that they could recommend that the second Trump administration “eat my entire asshole.”
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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
FINALLY!!!
An article headline that says Brazilian super cows are taking over the world
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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Reminder this is happening in 4 min!
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Breaking: Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka (D) has just been arrested by the Trump administration after he was protesting outside of an ICE facility.
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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
My collaborators and I are hosting an upcoming LSA webinar on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 13:00-14:00 EDT (UTC-4) about methods of measuring gender in linguistics! If you came to our workshop at the 2024 LSA annual meeting, this will be very similar. Details here: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
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The gender question: Current best practices for asking about sex/gender in linguistic research
The gender question: Current best practices for asking about sex/gender in linguistic research Presenters: Lal Zimman, Cooper Bedin, Montreal Benesch, Marina Zhukova As ideas about sex and gender cha...
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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
1/5 I am pleased to announce a new paper, based on a talk I gave last year at the annual meeting of the Human Biology Association. This link is open 4 a free read for a while but eventually it will get pay-walled because I can't afford open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Rethinking Gender/Sex Identity
Until quite recently, investigations of gender/sex development operated from a baseline assumption that gender/sex is dichotomous or binary. Most such studies constructed gender/sex outside of or adj....
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I can't remember the last time I saw an article just focus on this. Not that they've bent the truth or misrepresented a few facts a little, but that every single solitary thing that the GOP says on the topic is a stone cold lie with absolutely no basis in reality. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...
They're lying to you about transgender women and girls in sports
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For The WinThey’re lying about transgender people in this world. They’re lying about what LGBTQ+ inclusion in society really means, and they’re lying about trans people in sports. They’re lying about a “transgender cult” and “transgender insanity,” about teachers indoctrinating kids with “transgender ideology” and about “making mice transgender.” 

Right-wing activists, anti-trans bigots, many politicians, the president — they’re lying to you about many things but especially trans women and girls in sports. They’re lying about transgender athletes supposedly ruining women’s sports, and they’re lying about this being a ubiquitous “problem.” 

They are deliberately and strategically lying about trans folks’ lives, about trans athletes and about their own disingenuous motivations for pushing these lies. They don’t care because they keep doing it. 

Worse, it’s working. They're lying about trans people, especially trans women and girls in sports, probably, in part, because the actual data doesn't support their arguments. 
Yet several states have their own bans against trans athletes competing in sports consistent with their gender identity, despite expert estimates of fewer than 100 trans high school athletes nationwide. In 2022, Utah's Republican governor, Spencer Cox, vetoed an anti-transgender bill - it was eventually overruled by the legislature - and outlined his rationale. Along with the high suicide rates for trans youth, he noted that of 75,000 high school athletes in the state, four identified as trans and just one student was playing girls' sports. A whole state bill targeting four athletes, but really, one.
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Amanita (Termy) 🍄 @amanitatermy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Ok some cool things from the LingComm conference. A zine courtesy of @soltovar.bsky.social and the students of "A Linguistics of the Oppressed". Very cool, big fan. heyzine.com/flip-book/eb...
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Outcomes of the proseminar A Linguistics of the Oppressed | PDF to Flipbook
Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker
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Lisa Dücker @ladidalisa.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I'm really loving the poster session at #LingComm25! Seeing some really fun and inspiring approaches to linguistics communication! Montreal Benesch put on a linguistics art show about trans*languaging: transxlanguaging.wordpress.com/virtual-gall...
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virtual gallery
virtual gallery click on an image to be taken to its collection’s page Middle picture in second row and left picture in third row courtesy of @mariebelle_photos
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Are you uncomfortable with the idea of your speech being evaluated by "AI"? You should be! It was my pleasure to speaker with the amazing @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000! www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
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Linguists Versus 'AI' Speech Analysis (with Nicole Holliday), 2025.03.17 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
Measuring your talk time? Counting your filler words? What about "analyzing" your "emotions"? Companies that push LLM technology to surveil and summarize video meetings are increasingly offering to (p...
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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
My friend Isaac needs $500 to leave the DRC (where the rebel group M23 has taken control of his town). The money will pay for passage across the border and establishment of refugee status after crossing. It would mean a lot to both of us if you were able to contribute to getting him to safety ❤️
Infographic with Title: Mutual aid call, subtitle: support an activist from the DRC! Main text: Isaac is an artist, filmmaker, and environmental activist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is looking for support in his migration journey and refugee application fees to escape political violence in the country. Venmo: montreal dash benesch. In the bottom right, a button with the words $500 needed inside it. In the bottom left, a picture of a man holding a camera. In the top left corner, an icon of a camera.Infographic with Title: Mutual aid call, subtitle: support an activist from the DRC! Isaac is also looking for work opportunities! He is a professional in natural sciences specializing in ecology, wildlife and flora monitoring, and landscape dynamics analysis using geospatial techniques. Holding a Bachelor's degree (BAC plus 5) in Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, he has developed extensive expertise in integrating remote sensing tools, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and advanced statistical analyses for ecosystem study and management. For potential opportunities, please email: isaacphilisntabala20@gmail.com. In the bottom right corner, an icon of a plant.
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Proud to be a life member of @lingsocam.bsky.social, who has just come out with:"Four Reasons Why English Should Not be the Official Language of the United States: Statement Against White House Executive Order “Designating English as the Official Language of The U.S.” www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...
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Four Reasons English Should Not be the Official Language: Statement Against White House Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of The Un
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Kris Knisely @krisknisely.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
(Also if you're a language educator who is also in-community, even better! --- This awkward little division of roles between trans/nonbinary community languager experts and language educators is not meant to do that kind of erasure 🫠)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Boycotts are taking hold. Protests are on the rise. Federal courts are hitting back. The Trump-Musk-Vance regime's popularity is plunging and DOGE is losing credibility. In these dark times, it's important to recognize that people are fighting back. Join them.
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Esther Ciammachilli @estherc.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"The concert was abruptly canceled without explanation." It's homophobia. Homophobia is the explanation. operawire.com/kennedy-cent...
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Kennedy Center ‘Abruptly’ Cancels Gay Men's Chorus Concert - OperaWire
The Kennedy Center has canceled The Gay Men's Chorus concert on May 21.
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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
new blog post: do people use third person pronouns within earshot of the referent? YES, all the time, and if you've never noticed this happening, you've got to increase your linguistic awareness
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Pronoun Studies FAQs: do you use pronouns in front of people?
Do people actually use third person pronouns in front of the person they’re referring to? Linguistics says: it’s more likely than you…
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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
the DOCTOR @mzhukova.bsky.social got this great picture of me working the Science in Action table at the MOXI museum, collecting data for an experiment with @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social :)
A white person with long blue hair wearing a black mask and a gray shirt sitting at a table. On the table is two computers, one with a eye tracking camera on it and a button box in front. There is also a box of crayons, paper, headphones, and other miscellaneous items on the table. There is a banner attached to the front of the table that says Producing and Perceiving Language, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara. Behind them is a wall that says Science in action above an icon of a person's head with fireworks coming out of the frame, below which says Participate, play, or watch. Ciencia en acción. Participa, juega, or mira. Also on the wall is a small whiteboard that says The researchers will return Saturday, February 1.
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div-ling e.V. @div-ling.org · 28/01/2025
This is tomorrow - join us to learn about queering the #linguistics classroom! Find the Zoom link here: div-ling.org/talks
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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
BOOK GIVEAWAY - Things are Bad right now, so I will send a free copy of my book Glorious Bodies to one randomly selected person who makes an appointment to start HRT or get a trans surgery of any kind. Just DM me or reply here and let me know, and I will enter you in the drawing :)
The Professor holds a copy of his book Glorious Bodies, which could be yours if you get a little more trans gender!
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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
📢The abstract submission deadline for the 27th Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) has been extended! ✨Deadline: January 31, 2025 👀See liso.ucsb.edu/conferences for details ✍Submit abstracts at app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76886...
A black and white protest-poster-inspired conference poster. In white text on a black background is the title LISO 2025 and the subtitle the 27th annual conference on language interaction and social organization. The following lines say, in black text on a white background, Theme: research and (re)action, Conference dates: May 23-24, 2025; and Submission deadline: January 31st, 2025. There are QR codes to the conference website and abstract submission portal. In a box on the right side are the plenary speakers: Lynette Arnold, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Shannon Ward, University of British Columbia, Okanagan; Kevin Whitehead, University of California, Santa Barbara. At the bottom of the poster is a black strip with white text that says the conference will be followed by a symposium on "representing language and its users" on May 25, 2025.
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Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com · 17/01/2025
💯 It's our 100th episode! 💯 To celebrate, we're giving you 100 fun facts about linguistics this month See how many you recognize and tell us about your favourite linguistics facts this month in honour of our 100th episodiversary!
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100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics
This is our hundredth episode that's enthusiastic about linguistics! To celebrate, we've put together 100 of our favourite fun facts about linguistics, featuring contributions from previous guests and
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Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Do you know a language activist doing amazing work to protect and promote their language? Nominate them for the 2025 Linguapax Award:
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
The NYPD described public social media posts showing “disdain for corporate greed” in the wake of the United CEO shooting as “extremist activity” requiring counterterrorism measures. They think Americans who don’t want to be exploited by corporations are terrorists and the corporations are victims.
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Not every study needs to have a power analysis, but every study needs a sample size justification. I discuss 6 approaches, and 6 ways to think about which effect sizes are of interest in the study you are planning. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I make stickers now :) (the wild 🦆 chase one is actually from @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social's lab! bonus)
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Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Exciting mail from @montreallx.bsky.social 💌💌💌💌 Stickers from @lalzimman.bsky.social’s lab at UCSB!
Four stickers and a note. Stickers read: wwlzd?, a wild duck chase, trans research in linguistics lab, trans research in linguistics lab. Note says: enjoy! :) Monty
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 20/11/2024
Normalize asking your colleagues to send Maria Gouskova IPA transcriptions of their names. www.gouskova.com/2022/03/25/l... #linguistics
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Linguist names | Maria Gouskova
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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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_...
A flyer with a pastel rainbow background and a small progress pride flag in each corner. At the top, in large white letters with a pink border, it says Call for LGBTQIA+ Survey Participants! The body of the flyer says, If you meet the following requirements, please consider taking my five minute survey on queer identity terms. No identifying information will be collected, and your responses will inform my MA thesis research in language, gender, and sexuality at Michigan State University. You must be 18 +, a native speaker of American English, and identify as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community! Scan here or visit this link to take the survey! A picture of a QR code and the link follow. At the bottom, it say Questions? Contact survey creator Emily Duggan at: duggane1@msu.edu.
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UCSB Ling @ucsbling.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
🚨 Announcing the 27th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 27)! May 2-3, 2025 Abstract deadline: December 31, 2024 Abstracts may be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese See wailconference.org for more
Poster for WAIL 27 at UCSB
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Hann Bingham Brunner, PhD @disabldlinguist.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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
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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome! go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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
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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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 🤗
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trans*languaging
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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
today's the day! moving everything over from twitter and I'm going to be here now 🤗
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