Aimee Bailey

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Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities Cambridge Core - English Language and Linguistics: General Interest - Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities

Free download until 28th November! cup.org/49fcy0M
Using discourse analysis, I show how not all queer & male-identified individuals in Sinophone contexts navigate the same sets of ideological influences, nor in the same ways, despite the ostensible stability of associated cultural & sexual labels.

Hardback book with a green cover and pink, stencilled writing, reading LANGUAGE AND LGBTQ+ YOUTH: ANALYSING MARGINALISED IDENTITIES THROUGH AN INTERNATIONAL LENS by Lucy Jones. The cover picture is an abstract image with shapes in various rainbow-like colours.

It feels really, really good to finally hold the hard copy of this in my hands! Years of work in one shiny new book 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...

Welcome onboard, Salina! 🎉

Thanks, Keighley! This is actually just what I was looking for 😊

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).

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!

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

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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

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