there is something so special about this kind of middle school teacher specifically - they fucking save lives

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I feel this in my bones 😩 for me it's like all the air in the room suddenly got too thick and heavy to move through

sorry if my reply is too late, but I would love to know!

to be 100% clear this is exciting research and it gets me pumped to see more linguistic interest in lesbian/bisexual women!

I wonder how the bisexual results might shift if these studies also took on a community of practice style analysis - I get the sensitivity in bi communities around asking about dating history or friend groups, but given the significance of CoP in other sociophonetic studies it seems relevant?

Our (with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social) introduction to the special issue is now available! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I will make this up to you someday