In this week's episode, Tuck speaks with Kirby Conrod (they/them), a PhD candidate in linguistics. Among other subjects, Kirby specifically studies the use of they/them pronouns. Topics include:

• Tips for folks who struggle with they/them pronouns.
• Reasons why those folks might be struggling more than other people.
• Being a nonbinary person in academia.
• Coming into a nonbinary identity in Taiwan.
• What is syntax?!?

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here and here.

Read Kirby's Medium post: "How to do the absolute minimum (with pronouns)".

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