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Episode 61 - Lucy Jones on Words We Live By: A Guide to LGBTQ+ Language


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Show notes for Episode 61

Here are the show notes for Episode 61, in which Jacky and Dan talk to Dr Lucy Jones, Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham about Words We Live By: A Guide to LGBTQ+ Language, including:

  • Why language labels are so important when discussing sexuality and sexual identity

  • Whether or not such labels categorise and divide more than they validate and unite

  • The expanding lexicon of LGBT terminology and initialisms

  • Why it’s important to start conversations around this language to learn more 

  • Advice for navigating the changing, choppy and sometimes contentious waters of the language of sexual identity in the A-Level classroom

  • The project webpage is here: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/cral/projects/words-we-live-by/about.aspx 

    Lucy Jones’ University of Nottingham profile page: 

    https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/people/lucy.jones  

    Our previous episode with Lucy is here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1m9UKNUUysD6Vawj61C2kW?si=3LdfVQjEREaUvWgxopxLEg 


    Thanks to Ali Cotton (and friends) for some question suggestions and input.


    Contributors

    Lisa Casey 

    blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

    Dan Clayton 

    blog: EngLangBlog & Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 

    Jacky Glancey 

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

    Raj Rana

    Matthew Butler 

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 

    Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 

    Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys 


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