List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: 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: Power 1. ‘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 Nonnenmacher Part II: Concepts 3. The Language of “Reading”: Competition, Camaraderie, and Competence in a Local Drag Community, Aiden Christopher VanderStouwe 4. Breaking the Rules of Guided Language, Megan Patricia Robertson (University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA) Part III: Normativities 5. '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 Bodies 7. Heterosexual Privilege and the Weaponization of Abject Sexualities, Gleiton Matheus Bonfante 8. Abjection and Subjection: The Banality of Sexual Hegemony, Chloe Brotherton and Eric Louis Russell Conclusion: The Languages of Writing Oneself: A Queer Take on the Speaking Subject, Jonathan Alexander Afterword: 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

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