Nicky Macias

🏳️‍⚧️/🏳️‍🌈 sociocultural sign linguist, trans scholar, PhDing at UCSB, MAed at Gally, hearing SL interpreter, Latina🇨🇺 | she/they | ASL ENG ESP

[Nicky Macias @theNickyMacias]

I had a pleasure presenting my preliminary look at how mouthing constructions that results from translanguaging practices in ASL communities have real world affects on transgender and nonconforming signers (re: misgendering). ID on next tweet

[IGALA: International Gender & Language Association @IGALAssoc]

@TheNickyMacias refutes the notion that American Sign Language has no gendered pronouns — using video evidence of how mouthing constructions mark gender — making a strong case for trans-inclusive ASL use & interpreting #LavLang29

[Ben Braithwaite @benbraithwaite]

Still a few days to send your abstracts for SIGN10! There's an amazing line-up of keynote presenters and lots of fun activities in the works.

[SIGN10 Conference @Sign10C41835]

Just 2 weeks left for submitting to Sign10! Are you busy prepping your abstracts? Deadline is Wednesday 31 January!

[Lavender Languages @lavlang.bsky.social @Lavlang]

The CFP for #LavLang30 (21-23 August, Brighton UK) is now available: https://t.co/fThZhEts7z

Panel & alternative format proposals due 15 January. Oral & poster presentation proposals due 30 January.

Please share widely.

To learn more: https://t.co/B0KbgoqriH

[Ben Braithwaite @benbraithwaite]

I'm extremely excited to share that the SIGN10 conference will be hosted by the University of the West Indies, here in Trinidad and Tobago, 9th-12th December 2024! The call for papers is out on our website here: https://t.co/yh4oWq9DYY
Please share widely, and please come!

[Karen Emmorey now on Bluesky @kemmorey1]

Cool new study by Quinto-Pozos and @linasigns showing that spatial perspective-taking skills are important for sign language learning (particularly for narratives) https://t.co/7zQcd8YRi2

[Lal Zimman @lalzimman]

Today from 2-5pm, UCSB Linguistics is holding its Sneak Peek admissions event for prospective graduate students from historically underrepresented communities. For more info and to get Zoom info, see: https://t.co/YBDVIz9vE4

[Chloe Willis @chloe_m_willis]

My dissertation "The Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Bisexuality in Language and Sexuality Studies" is now available online for free! Read here: https://t.co/ZPU2PPkpbz

#bisexuality #Dissertation #linguistics @UCSB_Ling

[bananabull scholar.social/@bananabull @bananabull]

Please share with anyone you know looking for an Assistant Professor tenure-track appointment with teaching and research expertise in ASL: https://t.co/D54pFK3tps

[Nicky Macias @theNickyMacias]

So excited for my former classmate and friend! Such fascinating work 😍 (heart eye emoji)

[Linguistic Society of America @LingSocAm]

Nominate your colleague for the Arnold Zwicky Award to recognize the contributions of LGBTQ+ scholars in Linguistics in the name of Arnold Zwicky, the first LGBTQ+ President of the LSA. Nominations are due on September 15.

Read more: https://t.co/ECTIi1Uf3R

[Adam Schembri @AdamCSchembri]

We are excited to announce #SignCAFE3 will be held in Warsaw, Poland, 18-19th Sept 2025!
(the Sign CAFE series began in 2018 as workshop for linguists interested in cognitive and functional approaches to sign language linguistics)
More info is here: https://t.co/Wc2GnBLVhe 1/2

[Emily Carrigan @emleh06]

Many of you know that @jmhenner (Jon Henner) has been giving the finger to cancer for the last 6 years. I'm heartbroken to tell you that Jon left this mortal coil Monday, August 14th at 7:16am.

Details about where to send condolences will be posted in the next couple of days.

[/↻/∞/ @Mifield]

please (re-)read « Unsettling Languages, Unruly Bodyminds:
A Crip Linguistics Manifesto » , finally out of preprint and published earlier this year, co-written by Octavian Robinson and by the now, late, Jon Henner.

https://t.co/qs6lQu3RBs

here’s an excerpt from the conclusion.

[Nicky Macias @theNickyMacias]

What an incredible experience it was to connect with signed language scholars, educators, and linguists from all over the world! I’m in awe at the caliber of research coming from this incoming wave of scholars 🤩 (star-eyed wide smile)

[Desirée Kirst @IHIRealTalk]

“Seven Gallaudet students dive into language research at summer institute in Sweden”
https://t.co/R4jA3u6jgP

[Desirée Kirst @IHIRealTalk]

Lucky enough to have presented along with my fellow Gallaudet cohort members as recent linguistics graduates (@martinfoxdale & @theNickyMacias) at #FEAST. Thank you @VadimKimmelman for the Bergen welcome!

[Jon Henner @jmhenner]

After many years, revisions, headaches, and rejections, and headaches with @DeafHistorian the original paper that started the Crip lx movement is finally published.

https://t.co/SNEVFX8e65

[Nicky Macias @theNickyMacias]

So honored to have crossed the stage today and close my chapter at @GallaudetU. Being a student of linguistics here has been absolutely life changing.

[TRILL at UCSB @TRILL_UCSB]

Hi ling Twitter!👋👀 We are seeking volunteers for a ~15m survey of linguists re: methods for collecting/reporting sex & gender-related demographics. https://t.co/EEISTZCyXt Please retweet!🙏@UCSB_Ling

[Jon Henner @jmhenner]

Following @megandfigueroa 's lead I have put up a forthcoming chapter that is in Charity-Hudley, Mallinson, and Bucholtz's forthcoming book on inclusion in linguistics. In the chapter I focus on how linguists treat autistic people

https://t.co/cMAhx9twPD