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Montreal Benesch 🍉
@montreallx.bsky.social
they/them 🏳️‍⚧️

linguist; educator; first-gen american; grad student in the Trans Research in Linguistics Lab at UCSB

http://montrealbenes.ch
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Starter pack of people doing LGBTQ+/queer linguistics (writ large)!

Please share and let me know if you'd like to be added :)

go.bsky.app/2mjmgqt
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New paper out in NUSA! 'An un-Austronesian Austronesian language: Proto-Western Yapen and its lexicon' by me & @montreallx.bsky.social

(Sorry for the sketchy looking link preview, it really is the journal's website!)
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#linguistics

tufs.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001...
東京外国語大学学術成果コレクション
CMS,Netcommons,Maple
tufs.repo.nii.ac.jp
September 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
September 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
July 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Are you trans and/or nonbinary (in the broadest sense of these terms)? Have you studied abroad or are you considering studying abroad in the future?

Please check out my awesome advisee's dissertation study.

[Please share widely with your networks 💜]
August 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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i don't think most people want to hear PhD-level answers to their everyday questions, actually. i learned that from being on dating apps.
August 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Isaac made it out of the DRC to Kenya! Is anyone in/does anyone know people in or near Nairobi? Please get in touch -- he's still looking for work and could really benefit from local knowledge/connections
My friend Isaac needs $500 to leave the DRC (where the rebel group M23 has taken control of his town). The money will pay for passage across the border and establishment of refugee status after crossing. It would mean a lot to both of us if you were able to contribute to getting him to safety ❤️
August 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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June 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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FINALLY!!!
May 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Reminder this is happening in 4 min!
My collaborators and I are hosting an upcoming LSA webinar on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 13:00-14:00 EDT (UTC-4) about methods of measuring gender in linguistics! If you came to our workshop at the 2024 LSA annual meeting, this will be very similar. Details here: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
The gender question: Current best practices for asking about sex/gender in linguistic research
The gender question: Current best practices for asking about sex/gender in linguistic research Presenters: Lal Zimman, Cooper Bedin, Montreal Benesch, Marina Zhukova As ideas about sex and gender cha...
www.lsadc.org
May 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Breaking: Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka (D) has just been arrested by the Trump administration after he was protesting outside of an ICE facility.
May 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
My collaborators and I are hosting an upcoming LSA webinar on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 13:00-14:00 EDT (UTC-4) about methods of measuring gender in linguistics! If you came to our workshop at the 2024 LSA annual meeting, this will be very similar. Details here: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
The gender question: Current best practices for asking about sex/gender in linguistic research
The gender question: Current best practices for asking about sex/gender in linguistic research Presenters: Lal Zimman, Cooper Bedin, Montreal Benesch, Marina Zhukova As ideas about sex and gender cha...
www.lsadc.org
May 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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1/5 I am pleased to announce a new paper, based on a talk I gave last year at the annual meeting of the Human Biology Association. This link is open 4 a free read for a while but eventually it will get pay-walled because I can't afford open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Rethinking Gender/Sex Identity
Until quite recently, investigations of gender/sex development operated from a baseline assumption that gender/sex is dichotomous or binary. Most such studies constructed gender/sex outside of or adj....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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I can't remember the last time I saw an article just focus on this. Not that they've bent the truth or misrepresented a few facts a little, but that every single solitary thing that the GOP says on the topic is a stone cold lie with absolutely no basis in reality.
ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...
March 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Ok some cool things from the LingComm conference.

A zine courtesy of @soltovar.bsky.social and the students of "A Linguistics of the Oppressed". Very cool, big fan.

heyzine.com/flip-book/eb...
Outcomes of the proseminar A Linguistics of the Oppressed | PDF to Flipbook
Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker
heyzine.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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I'm really loving the poster session at #LingComm25! Seeing some really fun and inspiring approaches to linguistics communication!

Montreal Benesch put on a linguistics art show about trans*languaging:

transxlanguaging.wordpress.com/virtual-gall...
virtual gallery
virtual gallery click on an image to be taken to its collection’s page Middle picture in second row and left picture in third row courtesy of @mariebelle_photos
transxlanguaging.wordpress.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Are you uncomfortable with the idea of your speech being evaluated by "AI"? You should be! It was my pleasure to speaker with the amazing @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000! www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
Linguists Versus 'AI' Speech Analysis (with Nicole Holliday), 2025.03.17 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
Measuring your talk time? Counting your filler words? What about "analyzing" your "emotions"? Companies that push LLM technology to surveil and summarize video meetings are increasingly offering to (p...
www.buzzsprout.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
My friend Isaac needs $500 to leave the DRC (where the rebel group M23 has taken control of his town). The money will pay for passage across the border and establishment of refugee status after crossing. It would mean a lot to both of us if you were able to contribute to getting him to safety ❤️
March 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Proud to be a life member of @lingsocam.bsky.social, who has just come out with:"Four Reasons Why English Should Not be the Official Language of the United States: Statement Against White House Executive Order “Designating English as the Official Language of The U.S.”
www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...
LSA
Four Reasons English Should Not be the Official Language: Statement Against White House Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of The Un
www.lsadc.org
March 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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(Also if you're a language educator who is also in-community, even better! --- This awkward little division of roles between trans/nonbinary community languager experts and language educators is not meant to do that kind of erasure 🫠)
ISO Language teachers for gender justice

Are you a language teacher who wants to learn more about gender justice & collaboratively make free resources to support the teaching and learning of nonbinary ways of doing languages other than English?

Interest form: bit.ly/GenderJustPL...

Please share!
February 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Boycotts are taking hold. Protests are on the rise. Federal courts are hitting back. The Trump-Musk-Vance regime's popularity is plunging and DOGE is losing credibility. In these dark times, it's important to recognize that people are fighting back. Join them.
February 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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"The concert was abruptly canceled without explanation."

It's homophobia. Homophobia is the explanation.
operawire.com/kennedy-cent...
Kennedy Center ‘Abruptly’ Cancels Gay Men's Chorus Concert - OperaWire
The Kennedy Center has canceled The Gay Men's Chorus concert on May 21.
operawire.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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new blog post: do people use third person pronouns within earshot of the referent? YES, all the time, and if you've never noticed this happening, you've got to increase your linguistic awareness
Pronoun Studies FAQs: do you use pronouns in front of people?
Do people actually use third person pronouns in front of the person they’re referring to? Linguistics says: it’s more likely than you…
kconrod.medium.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:23 AM
the DOCTOR @mzhukova.bsky.social got this great picture of me working the Science in Action table at the MOXI museum, collecting data for an experiment with @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social :)
February 16, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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This is tomorrow - join us to learn about queering the #linguistics classroom!

Find the Zoom link here: div-ling.org/talks
The next talk in our 2024/2025 talk series will be given by Sol Tovar.

The talk will be on the topic of "Queering the linguistics classroom".

Find more information here: div-ling.org/talks

#linguistics #Linguistik
January 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM