question, recalibrate, and subvert hegemonic narratives about sex, gender, and bodies. On today's #TDoR, let us honor those who passed, and celebrate the practices of solidarity, empowerment and liberation in the #TransCommunity.

highlighting how the youth cooperate in creating a normalizing and affirming discursive environment, in which trans-exclusion and ignorance are positioned as the "other" to a trans-inclusive "normal".
Both papers show how trans individuals and communities use language to...

solidarity and mutual identity construction in a support group of transgender youth and their parents. In a meticulous analysis of two interactions in the group, Jones shows how the participants discuss instances of ignorant questions or comments by cisgender people (mostly adults)...

Second, @lucyjones.bsky.social 's 2020 paper "Subverting transphobia and challenging ignorance: the interactive construction of resistant identity in a community of practice of transgender youth" in @jlangdiscrim.bsky.social uses discourse analysis to highlight moments of...
doi.org/10.1558/jld....

calls attention to power dynamics through practices of linguistic innovation, re-signification, inversion, and juxtaposition (25), working towards the goal of liberation for all people.

paper to the dialogue section on Trans Language Activism in @jslx.bsky.social (#OpenAccess) introduce "euphoric transmutation", a form of language play emerging in safe(r) spaces. It consists of "survivorship testimonies, ritual language, language play, and counterhegemonic narratives" (26) and...

but today, we want to recommend two papers which use linguistic methods and findings to describe and theorize trans empowerment and solidarity in a societal climate of growing transphobia. First, Tulio Bermudez Mejía and Anyel Marquinez Montaño's 2024 response...
doi.org/10.1111/josl...

Ein wichtiger Beitrag zur romanistischen Gender- und Queerlinguistik!

Link zum Buch:

Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sog. generische Maskulina häufig gerade nicht generisch, sondern mit einem male bias interpretiert werden, das durch gender-inklusive Formen in einigen Fällen abgemildert oder beseitigt werden kann.

Die Arbeit schafft eine empirische Grundlage für die Debatte über genderinklusiven Sprachgebrauch im Spanischen: Mittels psycholinguistischer Experimente untersucht sie, wie sog. generische Maskulina und alternative Sprachformen – darunter auch nichtbinäre Formen –  interpretiert werden.

Out-rageous bodies: Unfolding the closet

Miriam Neuhausen & Corinna Assmann

(i.e. the use of English pronoun sets in an otherwise German discursive context).
We'll let you know here once the papers are published!

Do you have queer linguistic literature tips on pronouns? Feel free to drop them below!

Have a great #InternationalPronunsDay!

findings from her MA thesis on the complex indexicalities of pronoun sharing practices. The thesis found that people share their pronouns to communicate a number of things—including, but absolutely not limited to aspects of gender. Sawall also discusses multilingual pronoun sharing practices...

(e.g. "my pronouns are Fuck/Off). Heyd investigates the semiotics, semantics, and metadiscursive framings of mock pronouns and connects this phenomenon to other uses of mock language such as Mock Spanish (Hill 1999).
doi.org/10.1525/aa.1...

And Hannah Sawall is working on publishing...

By the way: Some of our members are also cooking up papers on #pronoun practices.
@theresaheyd.bsky.social is working on a manuscript on "mock pronouns" as a digital linguistic practice. Mock pronouns take the shape of 'pronuns in bio' but consist of ridiculing or nonsensical linguistic material...

the radar of straight members of the audience. The choice of a third person pronoun can equally reveal or conceal the lecturer's identity, e.g., when Morrish uses either "we" or "they" when teaching about lesbian discourse. In a heteronormative world, pronouns can be "incriminating" (185).

avoid coming out to her students when discussing linguistic examples from her personal life in lectures. Morrish classifies the avoidance of pronominal anaphora as "a recognizably gay tactic" (186), arguing that this discursive practice both signals queerness to queer students and falls under...

analyzes identity revelation and concealment through language in dialogue with Queer Theory and Critical Discourse Studies. With an autoethnographic approach, Morrish focuses on the position of lesbian lecturers at university. Crucially, Morrish points out the "circumlouctions" (186) she uses to...

But pronouns can not only be used to index queer identities and epistemological orientations, their use and the avoidance thereof can also conceal queerness in unsafe environments. Liz Morrish's (2002) chapter "The case of the indefinite pronoun" (#paywalled)...
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