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Kirby Conrod

Kirby Conrod

giving talks

on being the courier that transports my brain to other departments for colloquia

Sep 30

Sep 30

Kirby Conrod

got a phd in my special interest; what happens next will shock you

You gotta distribute your eggs across some more baskets.

May 9

May 9

Kirby Conrod

you don’t have to engineer the perfect solution to nonbinary language

Is the nature of language efficiency or clarity? Look, buddy, it’s transient, shifting like water.

Jan 15

Jan 15

Kirby Conrod

citation sprinkles

sometimes citations are the meat, and sometimes citations are the garnish

Dec 19, 2023

Dec 19, 2023

Kirby Conrod

guest post: pronoun sharing is for cis people

putting pronouns on nametags is an accommodation for cis people to help them feel better, not a thing that actually advances trans rights

Sep 29, 2023

Sep 29, 2023

Kirby Conrod

some sample emails about pronouns

some alternative strategies instead of just changing the pronouns in your email signature to 60pt font (I know, I want to, too)

Sep 21, 2023

Sep 21, 2023

Kirby Conrod

recovering from workahol dependence

Lately I keep having the thought to myself, “loving your job is a really tragic flaw.”

Aug 1, 2023

Aug 1, 2023

Kirby Conrod

so your worksona is somehow a high-strung diva and a long-suffering stagemanager

I’m going to make my work brain be friends with itself if it kills me.

Jul 3, 2023

Mariah Carey, barefoot in a fancy pink dress holding a microphone and sitting in a big white throne

Jul 3, 2023

Kirby Conrod

linguistics annual sleepover debrief part 3: some inside baseball stuff

I wrote up two quick blogposts earlier this month debriefing my time at the Linguistic Society of America’s annual meeting. In part 1, I…

Jan 26, 2023

It’s that meme that has a guy slamming down a card on a card game. The guy is labeled “yo” and the card he’s holding up in the air is labeled “el problema es el capitalismo” and the pile he’s about to slam it on is labeled “una conversación casual”

Jan 26, 2023

Kirby Conrod

linguistics annual sleepover debrief part 2: my projects!

I presented two talks at the 2023 annual meeting of the linguistic society of america. Here’s what they were about!

Jan 26, 2023

Jan 26, 2023

Kirby Conrod

Kirby Conrod

Dr. Conrod is a linguist at Swarthmore College. They write about transgender stuff, the linguistics of pronouns, and ways to work with your brain.

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