Jai Mackenzie

New School Guidance announces:

Full bathroom ban.
Full PE ban.
Full school trip accommodation ban.

Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/

Trans folk and allies, flood this. It won’t stop them doing irreparable damage to trans kids in schools but in twenty years when this gets studied we’ll be able to say they knew the consequences and how poorly received it was.

consult.education.gov.uk/independent-...

Ah I put references in my BA fellowship app & recent small grants app (I’m not a rebel like Lucy…). Sounds like you don’t need to though! Good luck xx

Ahhh that’s amazing Issy! Congratulations! 🎉

For info on how to become the BAAL SIG new secretary see here ⤵️

#BAAL2025

Last day of #ADDA5: #dcmjournal co-EiC Jan Chovanec on replatforming of TV cooking shows; social media editor @laurafilardollamas.bsky.social on Goncharov CoP on Tumblr; and EB member @jaimackenzie.bsky.social on #dadlife on instagram

Just about ready to talk about seahorses and dad bods at the ADDA 5 Conference in Tilburg (Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis). I'll be presenting a case study from my Dadlife project exploring fathers' constructions of familial roles and practices on Instagram.

Huge thankyou from me also to @nounfraze.bsky.social & @helensauntson.bsky.social for organising ‘Marking Milestones in Language, Gender & Sexuality Studies’. This was such an important day for taking stock of where we’ve come from, where we are, and directions we might take in the future. Onward!

I will, thanks!

I’m with ALCS, but what is PLR?

Got my first decent payout from ALCS today. If you haven’t already, sign up!! It’s super simple.

PPT title slide "Navigating Research Ethics - Focus on Digital Data: Pick-up Artists" blue brick wall, hands working on a laptop, a mug of coffee, writing utensils logos of Tampere University and Freie Universität Berlin as well as ISLE

If you're still looking for some evening entertainment tmrw (which is also informative): @coocho.bsky.social, Alex D'Arcy, @jaimackenzie.bsky.social, and I will be talking about online research ethics; our own contribution focuses on the pick-up artists #ISLE www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/o...

Join us for the next #ISLE Online Forum taking place Wednesday, March 19 (6pm CET): "Navigating Research Ethics - Focus on Digital Data" with Alexandra D'Arcy, @jaimackenzie.bsky.social & @coocho.bsky.social. Zoom link available here: www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/o... #Linguistics #Ethics

Very excited to be part of this!

Front page of the journal article referenced in the post

I suppose one way to start here is to share a new publication. Here it goes:

'‘I am still unsure’ - Spontaneous expressions of vaccine indecision on Mumsnet'

with @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social @elenasemino.bsky.social @williamdance.bsky.social @drclaireh.bsky.social et al.
#healthcomm #vaccinations

I am looking forward to reconnecting with my LaGS family in May! Registration is now open and the programme looks fabulous with @jaimackenzie.bsky.social and Jane Sunderland (my former PhD supervisor) as plenary speakers!
Thank you @nounfraze.bsky.social for all your work in organising this.

Journal of Gender Studies Volume 34, Issue 1 of Journal of Gender Studies

Great to see this special issue on critical discursive approaches to intersecting global inequalities out today! Featuring me on the intersection of single adoption & disability, @lucyjones.bsky.social, @angelazottola.bsky.social & @dimitrisrf.bsky.social & more! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjgs20/3...

Screenshot of the article

Out now and open access! ‘Hard to swallow? A critical animal studies perspective on the discursive recontextualisation of the reality of dairy farming’ with @gavinbrookes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1750... @uonenglish.bsky.social

Ooh looks amazing Mal & Gavin, nice one! Xx

This looks like a great chapter!

Don't forget to follow @lgas-baal.bsky.social, the page of the Baal Sig in Language, Gender and Sexuality.

Ooh yay!! 💜

Starting small: let me know if you want to be added!

go.bsky.app/JTe7F8S

Yes please!

The Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies is now on BSky @jcads.bsky.social

The front cover of the book 'The politics and rhetoric of collective remembering', co-edited by John E Richardson and Tommaso M Milani

New edited collection, out now (one for library purchases though) >
www.routledge.com/The-Politics...

Sharing this post from a few months ago for the benefit of queer linguists new to Bluesky! Do get in touch if you have a book proposal to discuss 📚

Speaking as an expert on transphobia and the gender critical movement:

Block them. Hide replies. Report them. Do not "debate" them.

The fact that they are campaigning so hard against blocking and in favour of debate/their right to harassment should tell you - it serves their interests to engage.

Thank you!