<p class="font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(211,209,209);background-position:0px 0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-position:0px 0px"><span class="color_11" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(41,40,40);background-position:0px 0px">Here at the IGALA blog we celebrate the new open access issue of Gender and Language and warmly welcome its new editors, Kira Hall, Mie Hiramoto, and Rodrigo Borba.</span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(211,209,209);background-position:0px 0px"> </p><p class="font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(211,209,209);background-position:0px 0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-position:0px 0px"><span class="color_11" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(41,40,40);background-position:0px 0px">Their opening editorial discusses new global concerns surrounding the study of language, gender, and sexuality and introduces papers by Deborah Chirrey, Kunming Li and Jan Blommaert, Deyanira Rojas-Sosa, Emma Putland, and Grace Diabah. Paying tribute to the founding mothers of the field, the editors encourage researchers to confront masculinist rhetoric by finding new ways to understand its performative power.</span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(211,209,209);background-position:0px 0px"> </p><p class="font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(211,209,209);background-position:0px 0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-position:0px 0px"><span class="color_11" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(41,40,40);background-position:0px 0px">We invite the IGALA community to respond to this call by contributing their thoughts, or reports on their own research, as short posts (300-500 words) to be published in the next issue of the IGALA blog. Please email your posts to Ben (IGALA bog coordinator) at <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:underline;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-position:0px 0px"><a href="mailto:browlett@hkbu.edu.hk" target="_self" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:inherit;background-position:0px 0px">browlett@hkbu.edu.hk</a></span> by the end of June 2020.</span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(211,209,209);background-position:0px 0px"> </p><p class="font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(211,209,209);background-position:0px 0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-position:0px 0px"><span class="color_11" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(41,40,40);background-position:0px 0px">We look forward to receiving your responses!</span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(211,209,209);background-position:0px 0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-position:0px 0px"><span class="color_11" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(41,40,40);background-position:0px 0px">​</span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:normal;line-height:nor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