Aimee Bailey

For the love of Sporty Spice: the interaction of gender, sexuality, and sport in /s/ production While research into the interaction of language and sexuality is becoming increasingly widespread, there is still little sociophonetic sexuality work that considers female speakers and much of the pre...

I am very excited to announce the release of my first article! In this I explore the interaction of gender identity, sexuality, and participation in women's football.

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Congratulations Salina! 🎉 Can’t wait to read it!

Logo of the Department of Education. Title: Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education. Subtitle: Statutory guidance for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, and teachers. Dated July 2025

🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will:

- Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender"
- Teaches children the laws about "biological sex"
- Removes all references to the word transgender

What we know so far 🧵

A huge "thank you" to those who participated in our event on Wed! @aimeebailey.bsky.social did a wonderful job to put everything together and chair it beautifully! We all made a lot of notes and we look forward to getting to know more about the research of our 4 invited speakers (see post below).

Mary Oliver Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

I wish this didn’t feel so accurate so often.

I work at DMU – the job cuts are a betrayal of everything we stand for DMU has vast sums of money in its cash reserves… Sadly, this money is being stripped away to fund vanity projects outside of Leicester.

This article gives a good summary of what we're going through right now:

www.leicester.news/i-work-at-dm...

For those of you who don't know, DMU is currently proposing mass redundancies, with nearly 100 academic staff 'at risk', sadly including me. It is absolutely brutal.

Please spread the word about this protest rally happening next week in Leicester and come and support us if you're able. #DefendDMU

Our online seminars are back!
Join us on Wed 2 July 1-3pm to hear four talks showcasing some of the excellent & innovative work being done by our PGR/ECR community (see thread)
Abstracts here: baalgensex.wordpress.com/events/forth...
For the Teams link here: forms.gle/nSr2RqaZebqv.... All welcome!

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...

And in the meantime, our BAAL is siding with our transgender siblings following the ruling of the Supreme Court here in the UK. Some of us have signed this document, if you want to do it find it here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Congratulations @bethmalory.bsky.social 🎉

Cover of Linguistics Out of the Closet: The Interdisciplinarity of Gender and Sexuality in Language Science, edited by Tyler Everett Kibbey

Cover of Public Attitudes Towards Gender-Inclusive Language: A Multilingual Perspective, edited by Falco Pfalzgraf

Cover of The Language and Inclusion and Exclusion in Sports, edited by Stephanie Schnurr and Kieran File

Three important books for #TransVisibility Day! (yesterday)

Linguistics Out of the Closet
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Public Attitudes Towards Gender-Inclusive Language
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sports
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

BAAL 2025 British Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference 2025 at the University of Glasgow

CfP for BAAL in Glasgow this September is now live: baal2025.wordpress.com

Deadline 31st March, so that gives all of us (*cough* including me *cough*) time to start actually writing abstracts...

Look forward to seeing you there!

Baal Sig 2025 - Products - Manchester Metropolitan University Shop for Baal Sig 2025 at https://mmu.estore.flywire.com. <div class="redactor-editor"><p><strong>Marking milestones in Language, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Easter 2025, Manchester Metropolitan Uni...

We are delighted to announce more information about the BAAL LGaS SIG taking place in Manchester on 2nd May.
Registration is now OPEN!

Click here to register: mmu.estore.flywire.com/products/baa...

Find the programme here: baalgensex.wordpress.com/events/forth...

QICC Conference on Queer Identities in Contemporary China

Ashley Xing and Han Shutong (two of my PhD students) are organizing a timely interdisciplinary conference on 'Queer Identities in Contemporary China' (QICC) on 7th April.

Abstracts can be submitted until Feb 15 below. It's free to attend:

English: qicc5.wordpress.com
Mandarin: shorturl.at/Vt6l8

It was such a privilege to talk to over 800 A-level students and teachers about language, gender and sexuality, a topic that first sparked an interest during my own A-level. Thanks for inviting me and putting on a fantastic day @engmediacentre.bsky.social!

Dr Aimee Bailey talking about language, gender & queer linguistics at emagazine Eng Lang Conference

There didn't seem to be one yet, so I created one. Please share! Reply or DM me if you'd like to be added.
go.bsky.app/QJPicoq

Screenshot of the PDF file shared in the link, showing the schedule for the LGS in Sport event.

We've just released the schedule for our one-day event on Language, Gender and Sexuality in Sport, and it's looking brilliant! drive.google.com/file/d/1V2oT...

[Begin Image] LANGUAGE STUDY - PARTICIPANTS NEEDED We’re looking for participants in a study of how familiar people are with LGBT+ slang terminology. You will be asked to define and recall where you may have encountered given terms in a short survey. You may also volunteer to discuss slang usage with the study team. Eligibility: United States residents over the age of 18 Duration: Approximately 10-15 minutes The survey may be accessed here: [Image of a QR code] http://bit.ly/lgbtslangstudy For questions about the study, contact Vincent Mariani, vmariani@udel.edu. [End Image]

Linguist twit—Bluesky, I’m running a study on LGBT+ English slang knowledge in both LGBT+ and non-LGBT+ US English speakers! It’d be much appreciated if y’all could take it and share 🤠

bit.ly/lgbtslangstudy

Last week to get the early bird rate for the 1-day conference Language, Gender and Sexuality in Sport at De Montfort University on 5th April! We have a fanastic programme planned and will be joined by Verity Smith (rugby player and LGBT+ activist) and Stephanie Schnurr and Kieran File (Warwick)

Screenshot of the article with the following highlighted passage: In recent weeks parkrun has been doggedly pursued by protesters and the media, unhappy at its policy of allowing trans women to identify as female. Never mind the fact that parkrun has always maintained that it is a running event and not a race, has no prizes and hardly any competitive apparatus at all. You can do parkrun on a mobility scooter if you want. You can do it with a pram. You can dope yourself to the eyeballs.

Evidence that the argument against trans inclusion in sport often has absolutely nothing to do with sport itself, and instead is just another vehicle for transphobia. www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/f...

Thanks, Lucy!

How the tide turned on transgender support charity Mermaids Research shows how the group once portrayed as a respected source of advice began to be seen by some outlets as a danger to young people.

My article with @aimeebailey.bsky.social is out in The Conversation today, looking at shifting representations of the charity Mermaids and implications for trans, non-binary and gender diverse young people theconversation.com/how-the-tide...

Registration for BAAL LGaS SIG'S 's annual event on Language, Gender and Sexuality in Sport at DMU Leicester is now OPEN!

Early bird rates available until 3rd March - book here: store.dmu.ac.uk/product-cata...

Hot off the press! @jaimackenzie.bsky.social and I's article exploring representations of the charity Mermaids in the British press.
We find that, between 2015 & 2022, the image of the charity as a useful source of support is supplanted by the image of a dangerous and controversial organisation.

Haha, I’ve never been to Frankfurt but bypassing passport control sounds like a bonus to me!

Helsinki best, Kuala Lumpur worst

My second years have been very interested in ‘rizz’ this term so this will be a really useful resource!

Aw I haven’t got my copy yet and won’t now til after Xmas but it’s nice to see it vicariously!