Commodification of trans inclusion

This work ask how mobilizing pronoun inclusion can construct multinational companies as sympathetic subjects, distracting from their role perpetuating inequality through global capitalism. This mixed method analysis of corporate discourse explores the way that companies construct themselves with respect to pronouns, the social media uptake of such discourse by queer people, and the exploitative effect these corporations have on people in the Global South. 

Commodification of pronouns: corporations’ discourse on trans-inclusive practices. Anthropological Association of America, November 2023.

Corporate trans inclusion: Discursive strategies of pronoun commodification online. Linguistic Society of America, January 2024.

Orfalea Center Fellowship, Global Genders and Sexualities Cluster

Platform trans-inclusion: on pronoun fields and commodification. Queer in AI workshop at ACL 2023, Toronto, Canada. July 2023.