The best thing about grad admissions this year is seeing how many applicants who use they/them pronouns are being seamlessly referred to as such in letters of recommendation. Way to go letter writers for languaging correctly & way to go students for being out to faculty 🏳️‍⚧️

Fun with accents: I ask for butter and receive cheddar. #californiavowels

My latest for Vogue Magazine: Across the South, a Trans Housing Movement Grows featuring House of Tulip, My Sistah’s House, Trans Housing Coalition, and Trans Housing Atlanta Program. vogue.com/article/across…

My dad sent me this picture the other day and I love it so much. I spent easily 10% of my childhood on his shoulders. (Also - he was about 2 years younger here than I am now!)

Join us tomorrow at 9am for our #LSA2022 panel: Advancing Trans Linguistics! We will have great talks from me and Lex Konnelly, Ph.Dead ☠️, julien de jesus 🍉, @jadio_studies, Brooke English, and @linguistpapi and discussion with @lzimman and Jeremy Calder!

Y'all... this has never happened before.

Sociocultural linguists: what conferences do you like most for sharing your work/engaging with scholars from outside the US and Europe?

Gender neutral pronouns are not a new idea in the English language. Learn about their history & why they matter in the latest episode--coproduced with Peer Health Exchange featuring Ve’ondre & @lzimman. #genderpronouns #PrideMonth youtu.be/3TE_H45zxmI

Not allowed to invite students to share their pronouns? You can do an activity where students write short bios in the third person.

Hi ling Twitter!👋👀 We are seeking volunteers for a ~15m survey of linguists re: methods for collecting/reporting sex & gender-related demographics. tinyurl.com/mtjyz339 Please retweet!🙏UCSB Linguistics

So proud of UCSB Linguistics grad students who are receiving their PhDs today, and especially my students Chloe Willis and Jazmine Exford, who wrote groundbreaking dissertations on bisexuality and racialized Spanish learners respectively. TRILL at UCSB is representing!

Today from 2-5pm, UCSB Linguistics is holding its Sneak Peek admissions event for prospective graduate students from historically underrepresented communities. For more info and to get Zoom info, see: bit.ly/UCSBSneakPeek2…

Students doing queer and trans linguistics: There are only a few days left to apply for the LSA's Committee on LGBTQ+ Issues in Linguistics' (NEW!) student travel grant to attend the LSA's Annual Meeting! Apply here by 7/15: lsadc.org/content.asp?ad…

ALSO, tomorrow (7/12) is the last day to nominate yourself or someone else for the LSA's Arnold Zwicky Award: lsadc.org/arnold%20zwick…