TRILL at AAA 2023

At the 2023 Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Toronto, TRILL was in full force! Our panels included…

Trans-cending Realms and Selves, Pasts and Futures: Language and the Politics of Remembering

Organizer: Dozandri C. Mendoza

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Daniel Vázquez Sanabria [need pronouns], UT Austin (Mexican American & Latina/o Studies)

2. “Lubunca: Trans Perspectives on Language, Memory, and Kin-Making”
Dilara Çalışkan (she/her), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Anthropology)

3. “Transcestral Citation(ality): The Semiotic Utility of Diasporic Relation in Puerto Rican Ballroom”
Dozandri C. Mendoza (they/she, elle/ella), UC Santa Barbara (Linguistics)

4. “In Lieu of Flowers: Trans Memory, Temporality, and Community-Building at Vigils, Days of Remembrance, and Memorials”
Jordan Tudisco (they/them), UC Santa Barbara (Comparative Literature)

5. “‘Praise the Ancestors:’ Memorialization, Reverence, and Collective Grief in Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever”
Marissa Morgan (she/her), UC Santa Barbara (Linguistics)

6. Discussion
Sherina Feliciano-Santos, University of Michigan (Anthropology)

Trans linguistic logics: Spatial and embodied epistemologies across modalities

Organizers: Lal Zimman, Joshua Raclaw, Ariana Steele

1. “I Want to Stay in the Carolinas Because I Want to Create those Spaces:” Trans Spatial Epistemologies in the U.S. South
Archie Crowley (they/them), Elon University (English)

2. “Under Erasure: Linguistic Innovations in Response to the Anti-LGBTQIA+ Law in Russia”
Marina Zhukova (she/her), UC Santa Barbara (Linguistics)

3. “Navigating Queerness, Language, and Trinidad’s Sociopolitical Landscape in Sign Language Interpreting”
Kristy/Kris Ali (she/her or they/them), UC Santa Barbara (Linguistics)

4. “Narrating The Cisgender Listening Subject: Metalinguistic Commentaries On Voice Feminization”
Dani Heffernan (she/her), UCLA (Anthropology)

5. “Liberation under Hegemony: Nonbinary Ideologies of Gender Subversion and the Racialization of it All”
Ariana Steele (they/them), Ohio State University (Linguistics)

6. Discussion
J. Calder (they/she), University of Colorado, Boulder (Linguistics)

Trans linguistic logics: Pronominal and grammatical epistemologies

Organizers: Joshua Raclaw, Ariana Steele, (& unofficially: Lal Zimman)

1. “Transforming Gender Indexicality through Trans Logics and Queer Interactional Frames”
Joshua Raclaw (they/them), West Chester University (English)

2. “Metalinguistic Commentary about Neologistic Pronouns”
Kirby Conrod (they/them), Swarthmore College (Linguistics)

3. “Commodification of Pronouns: Corporations’ Discourse on Trans-Inclusive Practices”
Cedar Brown (they/them), UC Santa Barbara (Linguistics)

4. “Beyond Third-Person: Epistemologies of Race, Place, Gender, and Power in you guys and y’all”
Cooper Bedin (they/them), UC Santa Barbara (Linguistics)

5. Discussion
Lal Zimman (he/they), UC Santa Barbara (Linguistics)