Aimee Bailey

Our members have received a form to vote for our next Secretary! There is time until 20 October - don't forget to vote!

We're hosting Lavender Languages from 2-4 September 2026. Save the date! Plenaries and a formal announcement to be follow shortly...

Delighted to announce (ugh, can't believe I'm saying that) that Alon Lischinsky and my bibliography of Trans Media Studies is out with Oxford Bibliographies! It's basically the equivalent of a compilation tape - key works, deep cuts and things we like

www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

Thanks so much, Joshua (and yes definitely to a study of Scarleteen)!

Are you teaching prescriptivism this year? If so, please consider introducing your students to YourWrong.co.uk. It could form part of a seminar activity or prep! I'd also be very happy to provide some corpus examples for a small analysis task. Just get in touch!

We are looking for a new secretary!

our huge thanks go to @nounfraze.bsky.social who has been a wonderful secretary for many years!

Info here⤵️

Revisiting herstory: from trailblazers and herstory makers to the pitfalls of popular post-feminism We live in a moment where feminism is “done” everywhere we turn—be it online or offline, on billboards or on television, in music or in the press. In this moment, however, we are also experiencing ...

New journal article with Paige Johnson and Camila Montiel McCann on 'herstory' and popular postfeminism on Twitter/X. Really proud of this great teamwork: a result of years of interaction and open reflection on our CDS methods.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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!