📣 Calling all delegates of #LGaSSIG15 (our one-day conference on Language, Gender and Sexuality in Sport), please check your emails for very important updates about tomorrow's event!! BAAL Language, Gender & Sexuality SIG

We’re all ready for #LGaSSIG15! Looking forward to a day of language, gender and sexuality in sport. Train strikes scuppered our plans to visit dmuleicester today but our excellent hosts Lucy Jones and Dr Aimee Bailey have expertly moved us online ☺️

Such a powerful opening talk from Verity Smith for #LGaSSIG15 on trans inclusion in sport and the importance of helping young people feel supported to be their authentic selves, and to change negative media narratives around trans inclusion 👏 👏

What a thought-provoking keynote speech by Verity Smith on 'Who wins when everyone plays? Trans Inclusion in Sports' as part of today's Language, Gender and Sexuality in Sport conference 🏳️‍⚧️ #LGaSSIG15

Really interesting talk about gender and sport journalism from Alex Harris at the #LGaSSIG15 Language, Gender and Sexuality conference today. Focus on having to over conform to ways of writing in sport and having to over perform 🙌

How storytelling in Tik Tok can create community for queer kids in PE through use of memes and sharing stories of trauma. Disengagement in PE is prominent in exps for gay youth-esp gay boys in this study. could exps be different for other LGBTQ? BAAL Language, Gender & Sexuality SIG #LGaSSIG15 Dr Oliver Hooper

So many interesting talks today as part of today's Language, Gender and Sexuality in Sport conference dmuleicester BAAL Language, Gender & Sexuality SIG #LGaSSIG15

Outstanding talk from this year’s Judith Baxter award winner Oz Ozinanir. Oz’s research explores how gender stereotypes continue to impact women footballer’s professional identities. Congratulations Oz, we can’t wait to hear more about your work as it develops! 🎉 #LGaSSIG15

Our final plenary from Stephanie Schnurr and Kieran File brings together key themes from the day. They emphasise our responsibility as researchers to engage with policy & practice in specific contexts. We’ll continue to draw themes together in our discussion sessions! #LGaSSIG15

That’s a wrap! Thank you so much to everyone who made #LGaSSIG15 such an enriching and invigorating day! Special thanks to our keynote speakers Verity Smith, Dr Kieran File and Stephanie Schnurr, and Lucy Jones and Jai Mackenzie for helping to make this possible 😊

Academics! Please read and sign this letter, already 34 of your esteemed colleagues have, and it has only been live a short while. If you are concerned about The Cass Review's shoddy methodology, it is important to make your feelings known.

Really looking forward to reading Abby Barras' upcoming book (feat. Verity Smith on the cover)! routledge.com/Transgender-an…

Aaand it’s a wrap! Thank you so much to Dr Laura Coffey-Glover for hosting, to our fantastic presenters, to the committee for their hard work this year, and to everyone who came along, in-person or online. Happy Friday from the after-party contingent!

Had a wonderful few days in Bristol at #imean7, presenting mine and Lucy Jones's research on media discourses of trans athletes and catching up with familiar and new faces. Big thanks to the organisers!

Words We Live By is a glossary of words defined by young LGBTQ+ people as part of a project at the University of Nottingham. We hope our guide to LGBTQ+ language helps you understand the ways that many young people describe their lives and their identities, (1/3)

Luna has done her democratic duty (representing #dogsatpollingstations)

On my way to Poznan for #cadaad2024. Excited for the next few days of talks, catching up and hopefully a bit of sightseeing! Dr Aimee Bailey and I will be giving a presentation on the construction of Mermaids as agents of gender conspiracy in the British Press.

Brilliant talk by Jai Mackenzie & Dr Aimee Bailey on the representation of the charity Mermaids and conspiracy theories in the British press #cadaad2024

The MANTRaP team are planning a special issue of CDS on the language of the manosphere. We are especially interested in studies on non-Western contexts and in concrete, research-based positive interventions. Extended abstracts are due 1 Dec docs.google.com/document/d/1VZ…

🟣Our SIG has a new committee: Convenor: Federica Formato (Dr Federica Formato) Secretary: Frazer Heritage (Dr Frazer Heritage) Events coordinator: Aimee Bailey (Dr Aimee Bailey) Treasurer: Alexandra Krendel (Dr Alexandra K) We thank Jai Mackenzie & Dr Laura Coffey-Glover for their amazing job.