Critical Sexuality Studies, Lavender Languages, and Everyday Life

Michelle Marzullo is Chair and Professor in the Human Sexuality Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies, USA.William L. Leap is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at American University, USA.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Doing Language and Power: Lavender Languages, Critical Sexuality Studies, and Everyday Life, Michelle Marzullo (California Institute of Integral Studies, USA) and William Leap (Florida Atlantic University, USA)Part I: Power1. ‘Putes Feministas’: Inclusive Language and Social Media Activism, Leyla Savloff (Elon University, USA)2. Constructed Speech and Figures of Childhood in Arizona Lawmaker Comments About Anti-Queer Legislation, Sean NonnenmacherPart II: Concepts3. The Language of “Reading”: Competition, Camaraderie, and Competence in a Local Drag Community, Aiden Christopher VanderStouwe4. Breaking the Rules of Guided Language, Megan Patricia Robertson (University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA)Part III: Normativities5. 'The Transgender Couple’: Transnormativity and the Discourse of t4t, Lex Konnelly (University of South Carolina, USA) and Archie Crowley, (Elon University, USA)6. Situational Variation in a Bigender Finnish Speaker’s Idiolect: A Folk Linguistic Case Study, Meri Lindeman (University of Turku, Truku, Finland)Part IV: Abject Bodies7. Heterosexual Privilege and the Weaponization of Abject Sexualities, Gleiton Matheus Bonfante8. Abjection and Subjection: The Banality of Sexual Hegemony, Chloe Brotherton and Eric Louis RussellConclusion: The Languages of Writing Oneself: A Queer Take on the Speaking Subject, Jonathan AlexanderAfterword: Critical Sexuality Studies and Lavender Languages Inquiry, Working Together in Dialogue, William Leap (Florida Atlantic University, USA) and Michelle Marzullo (California Institute of Integral Studies, USA)Index

A triumphant volume that will leave you pondering new questions, reconsidering the political fabric of our language, and feeling immensely hopeful for the future of queer and sexuality scholarship. If this is the future of critical sexuality studies, count me in!