Exploring Fluidity and Intersectionality: Language, Gender, and Sexuality in Discourse - Part 1

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 09:00-10:45
Location: ASJE027 (Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences)
RC25 Language and Society (host committee)

Language: English, French and Spanish

This session aims to critically examine the role of language and discourse in navigating and expressing social identities shaped by gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, and their intersections from different societies. It seeks to deepen our understanding of dynamics of language and discourse and their implications for societal norms and power structures.
Session Organizers:
Rika YAMASHITA, Kanto Gakuin University, Japan and Johan LINDWALL, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Chair:
Johan LINDWALL, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Oral Presentations
"to Normalize the Abnormal"- Political Rhetoric and the LGBT Community
Avi GVURA, Beitberl Academic College, Israel; Dolly ELIYAHU-LEVI, Israel
Gender As a Battleground: (Re)Degendering the Construction of 'I' and 'we' Identities in Populist Discourses
Silvia CERVIA, University of Pisa, Italy
Tongzhi to Tongxunlu: The Change of Gay Identity Labels and Queer Discourse in China in the Age of Platform Capitalism
Colin Y. YANG, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Queering Beauty Blogging: When Queerbeauty Meets Made-in-China Feminists
Rong WAN, Australia
“I’m Not a Faggot, I’m a Man”. How Male Sex Workers Doing Masculinity Talking Sex.
Cirus RINALDI, University of Palermo, Italy; Marco BACIO, University of Palermo, Italy
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