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Lucy Jones
@lucyjones.bsky.social
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She/her. Researching language, gender & sexuality, especially LGBTQ+ youth identity and intersectionality.

Professor of Sociolinguistics at University of Nottingham, UK.

https://queerlinglang.wordpress.com/
ORCID: 0000-0002-8947-9577

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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-...
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.
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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So delighted to be in Leeds for Professor Julia Snell's @snelljulia.bsky.social inaugural lecture! 👏
Julia standing at a podium in front of a screen reading LANGUAGE DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL (IN) JUSTICE
November 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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📢Join us on the IGALA Executive Committee! 📢

Nominations are open NOW for President-Elect, Secretary, Comms Officer or Treasurer. Apply before the end of Sep to help inform the shape and direction of the International Gender and Language Association.

Just let me know if you have any questions!
IGALA logo heads a white document with the text: The time has come to elect a new Executive Committee for IGALA! This is an exciting moment for the association, as we continue to grow (with membership numbers higher than ever) and look ahead to developing more international networks. The work of our community is vital in these times of renewed global oppression and marginalisation against queer and trans people, and as misogynistic discourse continues to thrive. We are currently soliciting nominations for the following 2-year-term Executive Committee positions: (1) President-Elect: This officeholder assumes the duties of the President in the event the President cannot serve, and shall succeed to the office of President at the expiration of the term as President-elect. The President shall be the presiding officer of the Association, and shall succeed to the office of Past President at the expiration of the term as President. Normally a President's term will run for two years, i.e. from one biennial IGALA Conference to the next. (2) Secretary: This officeholder shall maintain records of meetings and decisions, call and run elections, and post minutes of public meetings and results of elections to the Membership at large. The Secretary shall also maintain the membership list, in consultation with the Journal editors. (3) Communications Officer: This officer manages the mailing lists, the website, our social media properties, advises the Board about communications strategy, and ensures consistency of voice in IGALA communications. (4) Treasurer: The Treasurer has charge of the financial records of the Society. They shall submit a financial/budget report once a year, at the IGALA Executive e-meeting, and shall submit a report on the Association's activities and finances to the membership at the open Association business meeting held at each official IGALA conference. Nominate yourself before September 30th via: tinyurl.com/igalaself
September 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Thanks to the #BAAL2025 audience today - and please join us in the @lgas-baal.bsky.social SIG!
Front page of the SIG website https://baalgensex.wordpress.com/
September 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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And wrapping up this brilliant session, Oz Ozinanir, talking about some fascinating research into how female footballers are represented and represent themselves. Their precarity and the burden of being a "role model" comes through strongly in the data.
Oz in front of a ppt showing some data from Guardian quotes and players' own Instagram posts
September 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Next up, Jiaqi Tian shares her research into Chinese EFL teachers' views on teaching gender/sexuality. Here we see a mind map used in her research with novice teachers! #BAAL2025 @lgas-baal.bsky.social
Jiaqi in front of a ppt showing a mind map
September 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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We're off! @louisstrange.bsky.social now presenting on the sexism underlying negative stances towards women football commentators: shrill voices are annoying, apparently! #BAAL2025
Louis in front of a ppt slide showing the title of the talk
September 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Fantastic and fascinating talk on the reductive, limited representations of dementia in generative AI from @uonenglish.bsky.social alumnus @emma-putland.bsky.social #BAAL2025
September 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Getting ready for #LavLang31 in Manchester later this week! Very much looking forward to catching up with @lavlang.bsky.social folks, and to seeing two @uonenglish.bsky.social PhD students @xylong.bsky.social and @maxreuvers.bsky.social present their work 🤩
Powerpoint slide with purple and white background, showing the title "Intersectionality in Queer Linguistics: Theory, Analysis Praxis" and the subtitle "Lucy Jones she/her". The British Academy and University of Nottingham logos are shown in the top left and right corners of the slide.
August 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Very happy to be in Montevideo and looking forward to #IGALA13 in a couple of days!
Montevideo spelt out in large letters in front of the coastline Poster in a window saying "verina femista" with illustrated women marching in front of a purple background
July 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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This aspect of enshittification, which Cory Doctorow calls "twiddling", just blew my mind. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
Screenshot from the linked webpage, with the text: It’s really bad here in the United States with nurses, because we have this barbaric private health-care system, and most hospitals are now staffing nurses through one of three apps that have replaced a large number of agencies. Because the apps have the market sewn up, they can do all kinds of tricks. If a nurse tries to book a shift, the app contacts a data broker and attempts to determine whether that nurse has a lot of credit card debt and whether it’s delinquent. If it is, the nurse gets offered a lower wage because people who have imminent debt are more likely to accept a lower wage. Again, because every nurse gets a different wage every time they visit, it’s very hard for nurses as a body to detect that their wages are falling.
June 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Are you interested in hosting the next IGALA (International Gender & Language Association) conference? We're now inviting expressions of interest, ahead of this year's event in Montevideo - please let me know if you'd like to chat about this!
IGALA logo: white writing with red shadowing on a lime green background
June 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Highlights for me were hearing about the important work of this year's Judith Baxter Award winner @bethmalory.bsky.social into discourses of pregnancy loss, and @jaimackenzie.bsky.social's powerful plenary on the future of LGS, in which she talked about the specific need to challenge transphobia.
Jai Mackenzie in front of her title slide, a talk named "Centring the margins - The future of language, gender and sexuality"
May 4, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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This year's annual @lgas-baal.bsky.social event in Manchester was excellent - huge congrats to @nounfraze.bsky.social for organising it, & to @helensauntson.bsky.social for bringing together so many authors in the Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender & Sexuality series to mark its 10th anniversary!
Authors in the book series sit in a line at the front of a lecture series, with Helen Sauntson stood reading a speech. Behind them is a screen bearing book covers from the series.
May 4, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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This book will also be the first publication in the new Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics series, edited by Rodrigo Borba, William Leap, and myself - do get in touch if you'd like to discuss a potential proposal! @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics Rodrigo Borba (Series Editor), Lucy Jones (Series Editor), William L. Leap (Series Editor) The series publishes monographs and edited collections that explore the connections between language, gender, and sexuality in daily life, focusing on how language users, regulatory structures (such as the media, government, etc.), audiences, and bystanders negotiate identity boundaries and reproduce or challenge social normativities. Thus, it aims to contribute to ongoing debates shaping the emerging fields of queer and trans linguistics.
April 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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I've ended up in the Daily Mail - I should have known. In terms of data analysis, the comments are equally useful/horrifying. archive.today/eGNyv
Screenshot from Daily Mail online, dated 21 September 2024, with the headline: English-speaking? Get to back of the NHS queue! Hospital sees patients who need a translator first - and Britons second
February 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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This ethnographic note comes at the start of Cedar Brown's recent article critically evaluating "pronoun rounds". In so generously sharing their emotional experience, Brown illustrates how this practice, though well-intended, doesn't necessarily benefit trans folk. utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
Screenshot from the Introduction of the article, which reads: I am attending an on-campus workshop. I am not out to anyone, even fully to myself, but I feel a visceral discomfort when people refer to me in female-coded terms. At the beginning of the workshop, the facilitator asks everyone to go around and say their name and pronouns. I feel my body tingle and my mind shut down. ‘Harry he/him’, ‘Rishada she/her’ – as the circle continues towards me, I feel a dull thud in my chest. I can't say she/her, but the thought of saying anything else makes me feel like throwing up. ‘Mara she/her’. It's my turn. I mumble my name and don't say anything about pronouns and then look at the next person. I feel everyone's eyes. They must be thinking ‘Why didn't she share her pronouns? Doesn't she care at all about trans people?’ They must think I am transphobic. The introductions end and we move onto the workshop, but I'm trapped in that moment. I can't stop thinking about it, shame snaking its tentacles through my limbs. I leave to go to the bathroom and stay there for half an hour.
February 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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It looks like #IGALA13 abstract acceptances are on their way! Who's planning to come to Montevideo at the end of July?
The logo for IGALA13 - a large yellow triangle overlaying a purple triangle, with "13 igala Uruguay" written in purple over the yellow triangle, on the left, and purple cartoon outline figures of people marching with protest signs leading up the right hand side of the image
November 19, 2024 at 8:31 AM
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Popped into the Words We Live By installation at the National Justice Museum in Nottingham today - great to see responses from visitors! This is my current favourite 😁 #LiveLoveLesbian The installation has been extended to mid-Nov: www.nationaljusticemuseum.org.uk/museum/event...
Handwritten sign on a wall that reads LIVE LOVE LESBIAN and, in the top corner, LESBIANS MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND
September 21, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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Please share: whilst the Words We Live By glossary was written by young LGBTQ+ people in England, this project also involves collecting & archiving the words used by those outside of this group. Complete our quick online form to suggest words & definitions important to you! nott.ac/yourLGBTQwords
Blue background with the University of Nottingham logo on the top left and British Academy logo on the top right, underneath which are the words in white: Words We Live By: A Guide to LGBTQ+ Language. Submit your own words. Underneath that is a white cloud, in front of which is a city scape in purple and blue with rainbows running through it, a bus featuring the words "discover our language" written on the side, and the large letters LGBTQ+ in purple.
September 12, 2024 at 5:46 AM
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Really important call for conversation about making Lavender Languages and Linguistics more accessible to more people, from this year's conference host @genderedform.bsky.social and next year's host @nounfraze.bsky.social
Following Lavender 30 (#LavLang30), some participants kept in touch to find ways to honour the promise we all shared during the conference round table, that of creating a space where our work could be accessible to non-academic and wider audiences. This is such an important opportunity to grow the impact we wish to have when working on sensitive topics, marginalised communities and discrimination. We would like to hear from you: what is, in your opinion, the best way to branch out? We are thinking of creating a website with a blog where those interested can write about their work or upload a video if they prefer. We are open to all the wonderful suggestions you might have. Once we have collected your views, we will work towards ways to operationalise them and we will open a call for volunteers. We will also work to make the job of volunteers as easy as possible & offer ways to do this inclusively and ethically. Comment here or contact Federica/Frazer. The due date is 31st October '24.
September 10, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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We've been sharing words from this glossary written by young LGBTQ+ people for the past few weeks. If you're on Insta, FB or X & would like to find out more, pls do give us a follow & maybe even some likes/reposts - it'd be great to give this a final boost! Our handle on all places is @LGBTQwords 😀
White words on a dark blue background say: Words We Live By, A Guide To LGBTQ+ Language. Underneath this is a city scape in purples and blues, cut through with rainbows, including a double-decker bus with the words "Discover our language" on its side, and the letters LGBTQ+ in purple in front of a white cloud. On the top right of the image is the British Academy logo, on the top left is the University of Nottingham logo.
August 28, 2024 at 7:27 AM
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I became a meme at #LavLang30 last week - this might be the the pinnacle of my career!
Photo of a lecture room full of people with one person (me) standing on desk to press the 'on' button on an overhead projector. The words above the image in white read: SENIOR LAVLANGERS PAVING THE WAY LIKE
August 28, 2024 at 6:42 AM
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Rodrigo Borba, William Leap and I are delighted to announce our new Bloomsbury book series Studies in Queer Linguistics! Do grab me or Bill at #LavLang30 next week if you'd like to chat about a possible proposal, or contact any of us on the details below. #linguistics 🌈🎓
New series: call for proposals SERIES EDITORS: Rodrigo Borba (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Lucy Jones (University of Nottingham, UK) & William L. Leap (American University, USA) This series publishes monographs and edited collections that explore the connections between language, gender, and sexuality in daily life, focusing on how language users, regulatory structures (such as the media or government), audiences, and bystanders negotiate identity boundaries and reproduce or challenge social normativities. Books published in this series will contribute to ongoing debates shaping the emerging fields of queer and trans linguistics. For more information or to discuss an idea for a book in the series, please contact one of the Series Editors: Rodrigo Borba, rodrigoborba@letras.ufrj.br Lucy Jones, lucy.jones@nottingham.ac.uk William L. Leap, wlm@american.edu
August 16, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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Well, this puts some of the Reviewer 2 feedback I've got over the years into perspective #AcademicSky #AcWri
Screenshot from Guardian website showing a preview of a review written about the first official portrait of King Charles (an oil painting dominated by the colour red). The text reads: Jonathan Yeo’s portrait of Charles III review – a formulaic bit of facile flattery. A psychedelic sea of lurid reds and a clunking monarch butterfly cannot save this superficially observed and carelessly executed bland banality.
May 15, 2024 at 1:49 PM