Lavender Languages 22, Feb 13-15, 2015

[William Leap]

Sessions under development include: 

(Anti)homophobic discourse analysis
Language learning and Sexuality 
The demarcation of trans experience in discourse
Homonormativity, homonationalism and language
Language, Islam and sexuality in Francophone cultures
Lavender languages, queer ecologies 
LGBTQ discourses in contentious politics and social movements
Porn languages, bodies and technologies 

Your proposal for a paper , performance piece or other conference 
presentation is welcomed.  Proposals are due by November 15th  The 
conference website provides details :   
http://www.american.edu/cas/anthropology/lavender-languages
 

Wlm L. Leap
Professor, Department of Anthropology, American University, Washington DC 
20016
Co-editor, Journal of Language and Sexuality   
http://www.benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jls

"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