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With more than 80 participants already registered, there is still a bit of time to sign up to join us on Wed for an event on publishing in language, gender and sexuality. @lucyjones.bsky.social and @lexiwebster.bsky.social will help us navigate the publishing process. There'll be time for questions

Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking

In a 2022 paper, Mandie Iveson and myself explored how discourses were trascending the manosphere, and were spread in mainstream "commentaries" of the world. Our work might be nowadays a bit old, considering how far this all seems to be going. 😬

Punish migrants and reward rich people. There is always this side of the coin too.

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The justifications for their choice, and the language choices are really impressive. Know your enemy, and fight it. I wasn't necessarily expecting they would do that, but I am glad they did. Really interesting insights.

My lang, gender&sexuality students could choose among 4 options. Some choose "to be" conservative politicians giving a speech about reproductive health. While chilling (e.g. the defense of the family, the domestic role of women), I commend them for facing far-right anti-gender discourses.

Books on fascism

I took the task of teaching a class on fascism and resistenza in Italy very seriously, especially at this time! I'll welcome the students with Bella ciao.

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Yes, I'll remember to tell the university :P
it was just so refreshing to see their open mind attitudes towards changing, reflecting, seeing the issue with it! Very uncommon in my experience!

Yesterday, I said that my research has moved on from gender inclusive language but.. last night I went to the first school board meeting where I am volunteering, and I raised a question about a sign with a generic masculine. They seem super open to consider changing it! So maybe my work isn't over.

from identity work, language and social attitudes, (academic) ideologies (in favour and against), the manipulation in anti-gender politics, the passage to genericity, the "confusion" on terminology and, in this chapter, the unfortunate negative appropriation in activism and mainstreaming.

Thank you to Falco and De Gruyter for giving us the chance to write this chapter which is, for me, a sort of goodbye to a topic i deeply loved: gender inclusive language. I think i have gone across, with 1 paper, 1 book, 2 chapers and 1 special edition as an editor, the whole spectrum:

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Giorgia Meloni sara' costretta a capire che la sua amicizia con Donald Trump, e la difesa a spada tratta, le costera' probabilmente l'elettorato italiano. Ovviamente, non mi dispiacerebbe, ma e' sempre stata piu' calcolatrice di cosi'.

Sometimes impact in universities is measured with "big things": contributions to policy docs, meetings with important people. when this happens, how important really is the impact on people, especially in small projects? Isn't that the most important aspect of impact? Maybe, i've an idealised view.

Huge thanks to Selenia who brought me on board with her wonderful work on (awful) Incel culture in Italy, with the added historical racist load of the North vs the South narratives. Looking forward to the conference!

Super happy to have our abstract accepted for #CADS2026 in my beloved Lancaster! @seleniaanastasi.bsky.social and myself are going to present “The Southern Question” and gender in Il Forum dei Brutti: Analysing constructions of geopolitical boundaries through a CADS-DHA triangulation".

see you there! :)

I hope some voters remember this when she claims to protect women and children.

Congrats! 🎉🎉

I adore my time in Italy. While I work, my mum calls me and asks for the weirdest house chores. This morning, when i was writing something on fascism, far-right and anti-gender, she said "come here and do something useful, put some tape on this!" - That's why I am not scared of Reviewer 2, folks!

Looking back, everyone will one day realize that all that woke stuff was right. Unfortunately, being right won’t erase the suffering.

I am rushing to finish a paper on Giorgia Meloni stemming from my keynote in August and I did not foresee the effects!!! I dreamt of Meloni last night!
Interestingly, she was finding ways to give up to her anti-gender rhetoric. R.E.M. would say "but that was just a dream, that was just a dream".

I am rushing to finish a paper on Giorgia Meloni stemming from my keynote in August and I did not foresee the effects!!! I dreamt of Meloni last night!
Interestingly, she was finding ways to give up to her anti-gender rhetoric. R.E.M. would say "but that was just a dream, that was just a dream".

What a once-in-a-lifetime experience that has been!
I am sure we will tell this story many many times! 🤣
(I shared it in class with my lang, gender and sexuality students).

mine too! 20 years from my Glasgow experience next year!

In the meantime, many students were denied this life changing opportunity. We should all be mad about this, and the latest wave of toxic nationalism will bring more and more misery. Young people do not deserve it, no one does.