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IGALA: International Gender & Language Association retweeted
Apr 1
Pretty much every time I hear a dude say a woman “doesn’t have a sense of humor” or “can’t take a joke,” I assume it means he harassed her and she didn’t laugh. I’ve never been wrong about it
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IGALA: International Gender & Language Association retweeted
Every single childhood vaccine has had a full placebo controlled trial. Every single one.
Not a single childhood vaccine has had a full placebo controlled trial.
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RT @miffythegamer: When you remember that only 0.5% of the population are transgender you realise that Helen is simply a trans-hating fanta…
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Truly unhinged; a person who has written a decent sentence or two in her time utterly unable to tell the truth or even understand what “literally” means
I’ve never said Khelif is trans. Khelif, as has been proven by more than once by a sex test, is a man with a DSD. ‘When your bodies chromosomes don’t align with the sex your body is born with’ is a literally meaningless sentence.
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IGALA: International Gender & Language Association retweeted
Mar 28
So this psychopath is still calling Imane a man. Even after putting her through hell and having the IOC itself put out a statement about how insane and demented this fucking loser is. Can’t believe this is who y’all were doing “separate the art from the artist” nonsense for.
Today's ruling by the IOC means a welcome return to fair sport for women and girls, but I'll never forget the scandal of Paris 2024, when people who consider themselves supremely virtuous and progressive publicly cheered on men punching women.
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RT @notbubbawallace: what she actually said was that republicans love to try to ban queer-inclusive sex ed by calling it pornographic, and…
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RT @IndiaWilloughby: I am so disappointed in gay people working for the BBC in newsrooms and other areas. Why the fuck are you allowing th…
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RT @IndiaWilloughby: BREAKING: The deceitful and disgusting @BBCNews HAS issued a directive to newsrooms telling journalists to call every…
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IGALA: International Gender & Language Association retweeted
There Are No Recorded Cases of a Trans Woman Sexually Assaulting a Woman in a UK Public Toilet Turn the so called gender critical narrative on its head and it stops being about trans people at all. It becomes about suspicion. Control. Policing bodies. Public humiliation. Fear of difference. UK crime statistics do not show a pattern of trans women sexually assaulting women in public bathrooms. There is no recognised trend in police data. No government report. No policy dataset. Claims used to justify panic rely on anecdotes, misreported cases, or deliberate misclassification, not evidence. Nothing these campaigns push improves safety. What they actually expand is who gets questioned, challenged, and excluded in public spaces. Tall women. Disabled women. Masculine women. Women who do not perform femininity correctly. Ordinary women going about their lives. Trans people are not the risk factor here. Bigotry is. The danger is not who exists. The danger is encouraging the public to decide who belongs based on appearance and prejudice. That logic never stays contained. It spreads. It escalates. It harms the wrong people. This was never about protecting women. It was about legitimising hostility and calling it concern. Once you see that, the story collapses.
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IGALA: International Gender & Language Association retweeted
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.
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IGALA: International Gender & Language Association retweeted
For the record. This was not unanimous. I was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition to this  move. Also for the record, this was not on the agenda. This was not consensus. This is censorship.
I have just been informed that the highly respected Board of the Kennedy Center, some of the most successful people from all parts of the world, have just voted unanimously to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center, because of the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building. Not only from the standpoint of its reconstruction, but also financially, and its reputation. Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump, and likewise, congratulations to President Kennedy, because this will be a truly great team long into the future! The building will no doubt attain new levels of success and grandeur.
Community note
The building is statutorily named the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Congress did not give the board the authority to change the name. law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20…
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IGALA13 Best Student Paper Award Announcement The International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) is thrilled to announce that the #IGALA13 Best Student Paper Award has been conferred to Katie Slemp, PhD candidate at York University!
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Katie responds: “I was deeply honored to receive this award, and it means a great deal to me that my work on misgendering has been recognized in this way. The prize affirms not only the importance of this research area, but also the collective efforts of those...
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"...who are working to create more equitable and inclusive ways of communicating. I am excited to keep examining how language can reflect, resist, and reshape social norms, and I hope that my research contributes to broader conversations about inclusivity and social change.”
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! We have 4 executive committee positions to fill – nominate yourself or a colleague before September 30!
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IGALA: International Gender & Language Association retweeted
Science found quite a while ago that assaulting queer people doesn’t stop us being queer
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