20th annual Lavender Languages Conference, February 15-17, 2013

[William Leap]

This year's conference celebrates twenty (2) years of  lavender language 
discussion. The programs features presentations by  Paul Baker, E. Patrick 
Johnson, Lucy Jones, Tomasso Milani, Kira Hall, Tom Boellstorff  and other 
colleagues working in these areas of language and sexuality studies.

Proposed sessions will explore  such topics as  language and cyber porn, 
queer wormen's discourse,  language sexuality & nationalism, sounding 
'gay," and  (anti)homophobic discourse. 

Your ideas for a conference presentation or an organized session topic are 
welcomed. 

 More information about conference plans and logistics -- including 
descriptions and contact information for sessions currently in development 
--  can be found on the conference website: .  
www.american.edu/cas/anthropology/lavender-languages 

Best wishes , 

Wlm L. Leap
Professor ,  Department of Anthropology, American University, Washington 
DC 20016
Co-editor, Journal of Language and Sexuality 

"It is not very hard to silence us, but that is not because we cannot 
speak."    --  a Bengali villager once remarked to Nobel prize winning 
economist  Amartya Sen  (The Argumentative Indian, Picador Books, 2005: 
xiii) 

"Don't be a drag, just be a queen."  Lady Gaga