Jai Mackenzie

New School Guidance announces: Full bathroom ban. Full PE ban. Full school trip accommodation ban. Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/

For info on how to become the BAAL SIG new secretary see here ⤵️ #BAAL2025

Just about ready to talk about seahorses and dad bods at the ADDA 5 Conference in Tilburg (Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis). I'll be presenting a case study from my Dadlife project exploring fathers' constructions of familial roles and practices on Instagram.

Huge thankyou from me also to @nounfraze.bsky.social & @helensauntson.bsky.social for organising ‘Marking Milestones in Language, Gender & Sexuality Studies’. This was such an important day for taking stock of where we’ve come from, where we are, and directions we might take in the future. Onward!

Got my first decent payout from ALCS today. If you haven’t already, sign up!! It’s super simple.

If you're still looking for some evening entertainment tmrw (which is also informative): @coocho.bsky.social, Alex D'Arcy, @jaimackenzie.bsky.social, and I will be talking about online research ethics; our own contribution focuses on the pick-up artists #ISLE www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/o...

Join us for the next #ISLE Online Forum taking place Wednesday, March 19 (6pm CET): "Navigating Research Ethics - Focus on Digital Data" with Alexandra D'Arcy, @jaimackenzie.bsky.social & @coocho.bsky.social. Zoom link available here: www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/o... #Linguistics #Ethics

Very excited to be part of this!

I suppose one way to start here is to share a new publication. Here it goes: '‘I am still unsure’ - Spontaneous expressions of vaccine indecision on Mumsnet' with @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social @elenasemino.bsky.social @williamdance.bsky.social @drclaireh.bsky.social et al. #healthcomm #vaccinations

I am looking forward to reconnecting with my LaGS family in May! Registration is now open and the programme looks fabulous with @jaimackenzie.bsky.social and Jane Sunderland (my former PhD supervisor) as plenary speakers! Thank you @nounfraze.bsky.social for all your work in organising this.

Great to see this special issue on critical discursive approaches to intersecting global inequalities out today! Featuring me on the intersection of single adoption & disability, @lucyjones.bsky.social, @angelazottola.bsky.social & @dimitrisrf.bsky.social & more! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjgs20/3...

Out now and open access! ‘Hard to swallow? A critical animal studies perspective on the discursive recontextualisation of the reality of dairy farming’ with @gavinbrookes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1750... @uonenglish.bsky.social

Don't forget to follow @lgas-baal.bsky.social, the page of the Baal Sig in Language, Gender and Sexuality.

Starting small: let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/JTe7F8S

The Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies is now on BSky @jcads.bsky.social

Sharing this post from a few months ago for the benefit of queer linguists new to Bluesky! Do get in touch if you have a book proposal to discuss 📚

Speaking as an expert on transphobia and the gender critical movement: Block them. Hide replies. Report them. Do not "debate" them. The fact that they are campaigning so hard against blocking and in favour of debate/their right to harassment should tell you - it serves their interests to engage.

My CUP element is finally out! 🙌 You can download it for free for a couple of weeks. Will soon post some reflections available in the book!

Out today with @jaimackenzie.bsky.social & Sarah Atkins! We considered the ethical challenges of doing participant-centred research in linguistics, thinking beyond the formal ethics review process by drawing on our own - quite different - experiences in the field. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Proof received. Special issue coming October 2024.

The MANTRaP team are planning a special issue of Critical Discourse Studies on the language of the manosphere. We are especially interested in studies on non-Western contexts and in concrete, research-based positive interventions. Extended abstracts are due 1 Dec docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My book ‘Connected Parenting: Digital discourse and diverse family practices’ is now out in paperback! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/connected...

My exploration of ‘divine motherhood’ at the intersection of single adoption and disability is out today! This is part of an exciting special issue exploring intersecting inequalities, watch this space for the full set! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today's the day! Really excited to hear our fantastic speakers talk about language, gender and sexuality in sport today at #LGaSSIG15!

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)

And while I'm here, it seems a good time to mention that, in April, @aimeebailey.bsky.social and I are hosting an event in Leicester on Language, Gender and Sexuality in Sport - we'll be talking about just these sorts of issues as well as much more. Join us! baalgensex.wordpress.com/events/forth...

You can now sign up for Bluesky without an invite! 🎉 bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Hot off the press! @jaimackenzie.bsky.social and I's article exploring representations of the charity Mermaids in the British press. We find that, between 2015 & 2022, the image of the charity as a useful source of support is supplanted by the image of a dangerous and controversial organisation.

I’m hoping to read more (academic papers) in the new year… does anyone have any recommendations for *free* (or v low-cost) text-to-speech apps that’ll help me on my way?

Delighted to share that my monograph "Incels and Ideologies: Exploring How Incels Use Language to Construct Gender and Race" is now published with Palgrave Macmillan's Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality series! : link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #gender #racism #incels

Proofs day with @aimeebailey.bsky.social! So pleased that our article on representations of (the charity) Mermaids will soon be released into the wild 🥳

All the cool kids are joining now! Welcome, @michelezappavigna.bsky.social 👋🏼

On the 25th April (in the IoE, the heart of the beast) to be precise. Arguing a complex case about the nature of transphobia. Bringing together a number of perspectives from queer sociology to propaganda studies.

Did you know that I created a database of marginalized scholars in language? Check it out here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #linguistics #language

And another one! Hello @christianilbury.bsky.social 👋🏼

Welcome to bluesky, @suminzhao.bsky.social! My first invitee ☺️

Rod Borba, Wlm Leap & I are developing a new book series: Studies in Queer Linguistics. It will complement existing lang, gender & sexuality series but is the first focused solely on QL. If you have a monograph in the planning stages, do get in touch. We'll announce the publisher when it's official!

For folks not on the bird site, the call for papers for the BAAL language, gender & sexuality SIG’s event at De Montfort University, on April 5th 2024, is out now! Hosted by the excellent @aimeebailey.bsky.social & @lucyjones.bsky.social. Details on our website baalgensex.wordpress.com/events/