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Kris Knisely
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Researching French and trns applied linguistics (ALx). Co-editor #RedoingLinguisticWorlds http://bit.ly/RLWbook CFP for RLW2: https://www.krisknisely.com/rlw2 Spoonie Views are mine alone (not my employer's).
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My heart breaks for what this lack of funding means for language education and for us all.

[All things considered, I'm very small potatoes in this ---I'll still be publishing the free open-access language materials that I've been working on with some amazing colleagues on my website (stay tuned).]
September 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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And gloss: Knisely, K. (2025). [Trans language is good language too: Understanding the value of trans cultures of language in education.] In Á. López (Ed.) Lengua mutante: Reflexiones sobre lenguaje inclusive [Mutant Language: Reflections on Inclusive Language]. (pp. 263-292). Pie de Página.
September 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Citation: Knisely, K. (2025). El lenguaje trans también es buen lenguaje: Sobre el valor de las culturas trans del lenguaje en la educación In Á. López (Ed.) Lengua mutante: Reflexiones sobre lenguaje inclusive. (pp. 263-292). Pie de Página. editorialpiedepagina.com/product/leng...
Lengua mutante
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September 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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If you have any trouble accessing my chapter in Spanish or in English, please don't hesitate to get in contact with me so that we can fix that together: krisknisely.com/publications
La gente tiene ideas muy firmes sobre cómo podemos o debemos hacer lenguaje, hacer género y hacerlos juntos. Cuando desafiamos esas nociones restrictivas, esa misma gente puede tener reacciones intensamente negativas, cuando no directamente violentas. Cuando no nos ajustamos a las expectativas sociales sobre cómo debemos combinar el género y el lenguaje (ya sea en referencia a nosotres mismes o a les demás), a menudo parece que todo el mundo desde mindundis en Internet hasta cajeres en el súper, pasando por profesoris de instituto y por las supuestas autoridades lingüísticas (como la Real Academia Española o la Académie française)— quiere decirnos que no podemos hacer lenguaje como lo hacemos, que estamos lenguando mal, o incluso que estamos arruinando la lengua [...]. El lenguaje y el género se convierten en herramientas de opresión y control. Esta tendencia a pensar en algunas formas de hacer lenguaje como correctas y otras como incorrectas es particularmente común en contextos educativos y en discursos populares (o conversaciones del día a día) sobre educación (considérense, por ejemplo, Díaz, Mejía y Villamizar, 2022; Knisely, 2025d; López, 2023). Pero ¿pueden ser realmente erróneas nuestras formas de hacer lenguaje? ¿Podemos realmente arruinar la lengua? ¿Es el modelo de una lengua «buena» y única realmente útil —o siquiera posible— en la educación? En este capítulo tomamos en cuenta lo que nos enseñan las culturas trans del lenguaje sobre las posibilidades que existen para hacer lenguaje y lo que dice la investigación sobre las repercusiones de incluir culturas trans del lenguaje en nuestros entornos educativos. Ojo, spoiler: A través de esta exploración de lo que sabemos sobre las culturas trans del lenguaje y sobre la educación lingüística con justicia de género, llegaremos a comprender que ni nadie lengua mal ni se puede dañar el lenguaje, y que incorporar las culturas trans del lenguaje en la educación ofrece una amplia gama de beneficios para todes... Abstract: People have strong ideas about how we can or should do language, do gender, and do them together. When someone’s ways of doing language and gender challenge these restrictive notions, people tend to have intensely negative if not outright violent reactions. For those of us who flout expectations for doing gender and language together (whether in reference to ourselves or to the trans and nonbinary people in our lives), it often seems as though everyone –from a random stranger on the internet, to cashier at the grocery store, to the teachers at school, to so-called language authorities (like the Real Academia Española or the Académie Française)– wants to tell us that we can’t do language the way that we do, that our languaging is wrong, or even that we are ruining language. This tendency to think of some ways of doing language as right and other ways of doing language as wrong is particularly common in educational contexts and in the popular discourses (or day-to-day conversations) about education. But, can our ways of doing language really be wrong, can we really ruin language, and is a singular model of ‘good’ language actually helpful or even possible in education? In this chapter we will consider what trans cultures of language teach us about the possibilities that exist for doing language and what the research says about the impacts of including trans cultures of language in our educational environments. Spoiler alert: Through this exploration of what we know about trans cultures of language and about gender-just language education, we’ll come to understand that no one’s languaging is wrong, that language cannot be harmed, and that bringing trans cultures of language into education offers a wide-range of benefits to everyone.
September 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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This 💜
March 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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2. Having a public record with massive public opposition strengthens arguments in court to challenge the new policy.

Each submission begins to add up in making a difference.
March 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Reposted by Kris Knisely
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Thanks for the question and we hope everyone will submit a comment on the last two portals.

Deadline is tomorrow, Thursday, March 20th at 11:59pm.

Let’s make these final hours count. transequality.org/news/freedom...
FREEDOM TO FLY: Take Action to Protect Trans Passport Access | A4TE
The U.S. Department of State has opened public comment periods on three important passport applications, and we must flood all three with our opposition to anti-trans changes before it's too late.
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March 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Yay, one person at least is going to join us, but I'd be happy to have a 2nd person, so if you're reading this and you think you might be someone who can contribute to this project, please fill out an interest form! Thank you! 💜 So grateful and excited to be doing some good and to be in community.
March 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM