Babelfish: An Investigation Into Queer & Lesbian Slang Around the World
“Who’s that hüftenwackler talking to Carol?”
“Oh, that’s Therese.”
linguistics
More Than Words: Pronouns Pt. 3 – They Said/Ze Said
The grammatical is political.
More Than Words: Pronouns Pt. 2 — How’d Gender Get In Here?
“I’d skipped a really basic question: why do some languages, including English, have gender woven into them in the first place?”
More Than Words: Keeping It Pronouns (Pt. 1)
Runes, ships, rebellious quakers, and the world’s first female grammarian.
More Than Words: Pride Rock(s)
Why are our parades always in the summer? Because Pride goeth before a fall! Thank you, thank you.
More Than Words: So Androgynous
The word that gives “you do you” a whole new meaning.
More Than Words: Dapper? I Hardly Know Her
(After you read this post you will, though.)
More Than Words: Notes On (A-)Camp
Sideways oxen, promiscuous Protestants, Susan Sontag and now us.
More Than Words: Dyke Pt. 2 — Dyke Dynasty
In which some Dykes on Bikes take on the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Start your engines.
More Than Words: Dyke Pt. 1 — Baby Dykes
Was the world’s first dyke a snappy dresser, a 1st-century warrior queen, or a tiny antelope?
More Than Words: That’s Why The Lady Is A Stamp
From dough-kneaders to Journos, and beyond.
More Than Words: Mexican Supreme Court Calls A Homophobic Slur A Homophobic Slur
A recent ruling is narrow, but sharp.
More Than Words: Underwhence?
While the rest of Autostraddle talks about underwear, I will be talking about talking about underwear. You can’t hang out at the strip club all the time, you know?
More Than Words: AP Style Guide Is Once Again No Partner (or Husband, or Wife) To Gays
The AP Style Guide’s newest language decision is making everyone cry into their cake.
More Than Words: Queer, Part 2 (Growing Pains)
From Queer Nation to queer theory to alphabet soup and umbrellas and the always-dicey process of reclamation.
More Than Words: Drag It Out Of Me
“We’re born naked and the rest is drag”
More Than Words: Queer, Part 1 (The Early Years)
“Queer” set itself up as “not straight” centuries before “straight” had even thought about being a sexual identity.”
More Than Words: Láadan
The feminist sci-fi language that never got to jump off the page and do what it was supposed to.
More Than Words: Sisterhood of the Sapphic Pants
Yeah, Sappho was a right-on woman, but that’s pretty much all anyone really knows about her. Today we’re going all the way back to the birth of the word ‘sapphic.’
More Than Words: The Associated Press Stamps Out Homophobia
You can take the word out of the stylebook, but you can’t take the complexity out of the word.