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Lucy Jones
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She/her. Researching language, gender & sexuality, especially LGBTQ+ youth identity and intersectionality. Professor of Sociolinguistics at University of Nottingham, UK. https://queerlinglang.wordpress.com/ ORCID: 0000-0002-8947-9577 Views my own
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Apr 11
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-...
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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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 10h
This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success". When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be. ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich. "Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · 3h
Gaza PhD student ‘heartbroken’ as family blocked from entering the UK
Manar al-Houbi’s husband and children refused entry despite her winning a scholarship to cover tuition fees, living costs and housing for them all
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 2d
“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 2d
🏳️‍⚧️ Every UK GIC's waiting list times, based on painstaking FOIs and research, are now available as part of our new investigation.

Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life, and some will never receive care. Understand why:

👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...
Map of UK with five waiting times from around the UK listing, 224, 41, 18 31 and 12 years with title: How long will you wait? The waiting times of every NHS gender clinic in the UK listed alphabetically Alongside logos for: The Gender Clinic FIles, QueerAF and What The Trans?!
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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 18d
Fear-based narratives around autism don't protect autistic people they dehumanize us. When autism is framed as a tragedy, we are treated like tragedies. That hurts. It isolates. It kills. We need understanding, not fear.
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · 22d
Follow up announcement: IGALA is now on Bluesky! 🎉 @igala.bsky.social
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · 24d
📢Join us on the IGALA Executive Committee! 📢

Nominations are open NOW for President-Elect, Secretary, Comms Officer or Treasurer. Apply before the end of Sep to help inform the shape and direction of the International Gender and Language Association.

Just let me know if you have any questions!
IGALA logo heads a white document with the text: The time has come to elect a new Executive Committee for IGALA! This is an exciting moment for the association, as we continue to grow (with membership numbers higher than ever) and look ahead to developing more international networks. The work of our community is vital in these times of renewed global oppression and marginalisation against queer and trans people, and as misogynistic discourse continues to thrive. We are currently soliciting nominations for the following 2-year-term Executive Committee positions: (1) President-Elect: This officeholder assumes the duties of the President in the event the President cannot serve, and shall succeed to the office of President at the expiration of the term as President-elect. The President shall be the presiding officer of the Association, and shall succeed to the office of Past President at the expiration of the term as President. Normally a President's term will run for two years, i.e. from one biennial IGALA Conference to the next. (2) Secretary: This officeholder shall maintain records of meetings and decisions, call and run elections, and post minutes of public meetings and results of elections to the Membership at large. The Secretary shall also maintain the membership list, in consultation with the Journal editors. (3) Communications Officer: This officer manages the mailing lists, the website, our social media properties, advises the Board about communications strategy, and ensures consistency of voice in IGALA communications. (4) Treasurer: The Treasurer has charge of the financial records of the Society. They shall submit a financial/budget report once a year, at the IGALA Executive e-meeting, and shall submit a report on the Association's activities and finances to the membership at the open Association business meeting held at each official IGALA conference. Nominate yourself before September 30th via: tinyurl.com/igalaself
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International Gender & Language Association @igala.bsky.social · 22d
IGALA is on Bluesky & Instagram (IGALA_insta) now!
Help us grow online and off by following AND nominating yourself or a colleague for an executive board position 🙃
IGALA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS DUE SEPTEMBER 30TH PRESIDENT-ELECT, SECRETARY, COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER, TREASURER tinyurl.com/nomyourself tinyurl.com/nomyourfriend
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · 24d
📢Join us on the IGALA Executive Committee! 📢

Nominations are open NOW for President-Elect, Secretary, Comms Officer or Treasurer. Apply before the end of Sep to help inform the shape and direction of the International Gender and Language Association.

Just let me know if you have any questions!
IGALA logo heads a white document with the text: The time has come to elect a new Executive Committee for IGALA! This is an exciting moment for the association, as we continue to grow (with membership numbers higher than ever) and look ahead to developing more international networks. The work of our community is vital in these times of renewed global oppression and marginalisation against queer and trans people, and as misogynistic discourse continues to thrive. We are currently soliciting nominations for the following 2-year-term Executive Committee positions: (1) President-Elect: This officeholder assumes the duties of the President in the event the President cannot serve, and shall succeed to the office of President at the expiration of the term as President-elect. The President shall be the presiding officer of the Association, and shall succeed to the office of Past President at the expiration of the term as President. Normally a President's term will run for two years, i.e. from one biennial IGALA Conference to the next. (2) Secretary: This officeholder shall maintain records of meetings and decisions, call and run elections, and post minutes of public meetings and results of elections to the Membership at large. The Secretary shall also maintain the membership list, in consultation with the Journal editors. (3) Communications Officer: This officer manages the mailing lists, the website, our social media properties, advises the Board about communications strategy, and ensures consistency of voice in IGALA communications. (4) Treasurer: The Treasurer has charge of the financial records of the Society. They shall submit a financial/budget report once a year, at the IGALA Executive e-meeting, and shall submit a report on the Association's activities and finances to the membership at the open Association business meeting held at each official IGALA conference. Nominate yourself before September 30th via: tinyurl.com/igalaself
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zero @egrettt.bsky.social · 24d
"Foreign-born UK residents are much more likely to be of working age than the UK-born — and thus less of a fiscal burden. They tend to be healthier than the UK-born, and are much more likely to have a university degree. 75% have lived in the UK for more than 5 years and 90% speak good English."
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 24d
The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl
The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration
It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there
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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 26d
Over the past two weeks I've only assigned articles written by women in one of my classes and the amount of he/him's I get on homeworks when referring to the paper author is Too High
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26d
Education is the enemy of fascism.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · Sep 9
A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired.

www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Sep 10
👇🎯 Quite literally, the published course descriptions at most universities are <decades> old & incredibly generic because the course has been taught by dozens of different professors over many years & stop it, this is not serious behavior from Texas A&M leaders & we don't need to pretend that it is.
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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · Sep 10
Again, at worst, the appropriate response to course content not aligning with course descriptions at any university is to lodge a complaint with the relevant curriculum committees and get them to change the course descriptions, rather than to fire a professor, her boss, & her boss' boss.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · Sep 10
Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Sep 10
Absolutely. Surely the thinnest of possible veils.
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Sep 10
Clarification: she's been fired, but her line manager (and that person's line manager) have been removed from their admin roles. Still shocking.
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Sep 10
If I've understood this correctly, an academic at a Texas university & two of her managers have been fired because course content deviated from what was advertised. But specifically, according to this article, because she taught LGBTQ content. This is terrifying. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Sep 6
This is disgusting. No surprise from the Mail, but still. Utterly disgusting.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Sep 6
Daily Mail today
How long until a group of small boat migrants are moved into a house in your street? It’s the next immigration flashpoint, known as Operation Scatter. As billions are spent buying up flats and houses around the country for asylum seekers, with locals moved out... Daily Mail 6 Sep 2025 By Sue Reid
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BAAL Language, Gender & Sexuality SIG @lgas-baal.bsky.social · Sep 6
For info on how to become the BAAL SIG new secretary see here ⤵️

#BAAL2025
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Sep 6
Thanks to the #BAAL2025 audience today - and please join us in the @lgas-baal.bsky.social SIG!
Front page of the SIG website https://baalgensex.wordpress.com/
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Sep 6
And wrapping up this brilliant session, Oz Ozinanir, talking about some fascinating research into how female footballers are represented and represent themselves. Their precarity and the burden of being a "role model" comes through strongly in the data.
Oz in front of a ppt showing some data from Guardian quotes and players' own Instagram posts
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Sep 6
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
Jiaqi in front of a ppt showing a mind map
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Sep 6
We're off! @louisstrange.bsky.social now presenting on the sexism underlying negative stances towards women football commentators: shrill voices are annoying, apparently! #BAAL2025
Louis in front of a ppt slide showing the title of the talk
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Sep 6
Looking forward to the Language, Gender and Sexuality SIG @lgas-baal.bsky.social session today at #BAAL2025!

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BAAL Language, Gender and Sexuality SIG
The British Association of Applied Linguistics’ Special Interest Group for Language, Gender and Sexuality
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · Sep 4
Just for a second, take a step back, and remember that these are the actions of a 56 year old man towards a 17 year old girl.
He and Brooks met at a Battle of Ideas conference on 19 October when the scriptwriter “approached her with his phone, recording her and calling her a groomer, and asking how many she had groomed”, the prosecution said. Brooks subsequently called out to Linehan outside the venue and asked him why he had called her a “domestic terrorist”. Julia Faure Walker, for the prosecution, said: “At this point Mr Linehan could’ve explained why he had called her a domestic terrorist, if indeed he had an explanation, or even ignored her … rather he responded in a way which is indicative of his extreme personal animosity towards her. “He said ‘go away groomer’, ‘go away you disgusting incel’. He called her a ‘sissy porn-watching scumbag’… He deliberately whacked the phone out of Ms Brooks’s hand.”
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