Investigating the representation of transgender people in the British press
In 2015, when I first began researching for my Ph.D., I was struck by the power of media discourses to quickly change and strongly impact...
Exploring Normative Regulations of Sexual Intrusive Thoughts via (Virtual) Ethnographic Approaches a
My PhD research lies at the intersection of sociolinguistics (esp. queer linguistics) and health communication. More specifically, I use...
The interrelation of sexual and national identity construction in talk: Greek homosexuality
Greek national identity has been for centuries bonded with Orthodoxy, which explicitly recognizes two genders and one sexual identity...
Helping Faith Communities Talk Better about Sex
About a year ago, I was slogging through dissertation writing when I came upon a call for applications for a program run through my...
‘Genderlect’ in a spectrum: Language used by non-binary people, women, and men participating in a co
Within sociolinguistics, gender has long been considered distinct from biological sex; Postmodernist sociolinguists view it as a...
Breaking the binary with pronouns
My PhD project concentrates on 3rd person singular pronouns from a sociolinguistic gender perspective. For this blog post, I want to...
The 5th issue of the IGALA blog is out
Welcome to the fifth issue of the Igala Blog, the first of 2017. The previous fourth issues have mainly dealt with language and gender,...
Using ethnography to study queer identity construction
In 2012, I spent several months doing ethnography with a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth group in Northern England...
Video Porn and Audience Translation
One day late at night, I found a Japanese gay pornographic video clip unofficially uploaded by an anonymous person on an aggregated...
The 4th issue of the IGALAblog is out
Welcome to the 4th issue of the Igala blog! One year has passed from the first issue and we are delighted to see that the blog is growing...
