[Gala-l] CfP: Language and trans identities -- Gender and Language special issue

[Lal Zimman]

Dear Colleagues,


Below please find our call for papers for a special issue on language and
trans identities for *Gender and Language*.


Please feel free to forward this message on to others.


Warm regards,


Lal Zimman, deandre miles-hercules and Cedar Brown


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*Call for Papers: Special issue on language and trans identities for Gender
and Language* (https://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL)

Editors: Lal Zimman, Cedar Brown, deandre miles-hercules (UC Santa Barbara)

Six years after the so-called “Transgender Tipping Point” (Steinmetz 2014),
trans people continue to be an intense focus of public attention. Language
often takes center stage in these discussions, including but not limited to
norms surrounding gendered pronouns, grammatical gender, and the
epistemological status and ontological boundaries of gender categories.
Changing ideas about gendered language receive attention from trans people
and their allies and transphobes alike. Despite dramatic increases in
public awareness of and support for trans people, transphobic violence and
subjugation persists, and legal efforts to limit the recognition of trans
people’s gender identities has intensified over the past few years (Haug
2021, Krishnakumar 2021). Furthermore, “trans visibility” often constructs
an image of “gender diversity” that prioritizes white, western,
non-disabled/neurotypical, and class-privileged subjectivities (though see
Borba 2017; Calder 2020; Davis 2014; Feu’u 2017; Gaudio 2014; Hall 2009;
Steele 2019).

Building on Zimman’s (2020) articulation of trans linguistics, we invite
submissions for a special issue of Gender and Language that will highlight
research that addresses the linguistic practices, themes, and issues facing
trans and other non-cisgender communities, widely conceived. We welcome
engagements with any group whose gender identities or practices diverge
from expectations for their assigned sex, and we also welcome engagements
with the normative systems that organize trans lives (e.g. analyses of cis
people’s cisness). We especially encourage submissions focused on trans
people who are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), research
situated in the Global South, disability-related analyses, and work on
languages or varieties other than (standardized) English. Interdisciplinary
research is also invited as long as it uses language as a primary domain of
analysis (per Bucholtz & Hall 2008).

Potential topics for investigation include:

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   Examinations of the construction and/or disruption of normative
   understandings of gender, including in academic discourse and practice;
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   Explorations of the intersections of transness with race, class,
   disability, and other forms of marginalization;
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   Discussions of theoretical and methodological challenges and
   implications of working with the language of trans speakers and/or signers;
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   Considerations of structural and/or interactional transphobia,
   cissexism, and related processes;
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   Community-based participatory or community needs-based approaches and
   interventions (e.g., in education, medicine, or the legal system);
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   Approaches that center trans joy, trans vitality, and gender euphoria.


The editors will review submitted paper proposals and invite authors of
selected proposals to submit full papers. Based on the reviews, the editors
plan to accept 5-7 papers for publication in this special issue.

Proposal submissions should be sent as a PDF to
translinguisticsvolume at gmail.com by June 30th 2021. Proposals must not be
more than 1 page (with an additional page allowed for figures, examples,
and references).


Authors of selected proposals will be invited to submit their full papers,
which must be in line with the guidelines of Gender and Language (
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/about/submissions) by November 1, 2021.


If you have an idea that you are not sure is appropriate or would like to
workshop, please email any questions and ideas to
translinguisticsvolume at gmail.com before the due date and we would love to
chat with you further.

References


Borba, Rodrigo. 2017. “Ex-centric textualities and rehearsed narratives at
a gender identity clinic in Brazil: Challenging discursive
colonization.” Journal
of Sociolinguistics 21(3):320-47.

Calder, Jeremy. 2020. “Language, gender and sexuality in 2019:
Interrogating normativities in the field.” Gender and Language 14(4):429-54.

Krishnakumar, Priya. 2021, April 15. “This record-breaking year for
anti-transgender legislation would affect minors the most.” CNN. Accessed
May 16, 2021 at
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/15/politics/anti-transgender-legislation-2021/index.html

Feu’u, Poiva Junior Ashleigh. 2017. “A comparative study of the fa’afafine
of Samoa and whakawahine of Aotearoa New Zealand.” In Evan Hazenberg &
Miriam Meyerhoff (Eds.), Representing Trans: Linguistic, Legal, and
Everyday Perspectives, 171–203. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria
University Press.

Hall, Kira. 2009. “Boys’ talk: Hindi, moustaches, and masculinity in New
Delhi.” In Pia Pichler & Eva Eppler (Eds.), Gender and Spoken Interaction,
139–162. Basingstoke, UK & New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Haug, Oliver. 2021, May 12. “23 Trans People Have Already Been Killed in
2021.” them. Accessed May 20, 2021 at
https://www.them.us/story/23-trans-people-have-been-killed-2021-whispering-wind-bear-spirit-sophie-vasquez


Steele, Ariana. 2019. Non-binary speech, race, and non-normative gender:
Sociolinguistic style beyond the binary. Electronic Thesis, The Ohio State
University. https://etd.ohiolink.edu/

Steinmetz, Katy. 2014, May 29. “The Transgender Tipping Point.” Time. Accessed
May 20, 2021 at https://time.com/135480/transgender-tipping-point/

Zimman, Lal. 2020. Transgender language, transgender moment: Toward a trans
linguistics. In Kira Hall and Rusty Barrett (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of
Language and Sexuality. Available via Oxford Handbooks Online at
https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212926.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190212926-e-45
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