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This introduction frames the special issue 'Mobilising Language, Gender and Sexuality Studies', situating the contributions in relation to interdisciplinary scholarship on migration, gender, sexuality and language. In particular, this introduction draws attention to Global South theorisations of migration as resistance, suggesting that scholars of language, gender and sexuality can build on such approaches to trace forms of agency that otherwise might go unnoticed. The contributions to this special issue investigate how gender and language circulate in dominant migration discourses and are contested by mobile communities, linking normative ideologies to individual bodies and lives through the use of stereotyped figures. The introduction also highlights how themes of time, place and nation weave through the contributions and calls for a scalar approach that resists the widespread downscaling of migrants' own discursive acts. It concludes with a call to action that urges scholars to consider how they might support the ways in which mobile communities are making sense of and taking action in the world.

Frontmatter -- Keywords -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. #: micha cárdenas -- 2. Abjection -- 3. Affect -- 4. Agency -- 5. Anal -- 6. Bathroom -- 7. BDSM -- 8. Biology -- 9. Biopower -- 10. Capital -- 11. Carcerality -- 12. Care -- 13. Cis -- 14. Citizenship -- 15. Colonialism -- 16. Consent -- 17. Decolonization -- 18. Development -- 19. Deviance -- 20. Diaspora -- 21. Difference -- 22. Disability -- 23. Ecology -- 24. Education -- 25. The Erotic -- 26. Experience -- 27. Fat -- 28. Femme -- 29. Flesh -- 30. Gender -- 31. Girl -- 32. Health -- 33. Heteronormativity -- 34. Heterosexuality -- 35. Identity -- 36. Imperialism -- 37. Indigeneity -- 38. Intersectionality -- 39. Intersex -- 40. Justice -- 41. Labor -- 42. Lesbian -- 43. Masculinity -- 44. Matter -- 45. Methods -- 46. Migration -- 47. Movements -- 48. Performativity -- 49. Porn -- 50. Property -- 51. Queer -- 52. Race -- 53. Religion -- 54. Reproduction -- 55. Securitization -- 56. Settler Colonialism -- 57. Sex -- 58. Sexuality -- 59. Sex Work -- 60. Sovereignty -- 61. Space -- 62. Sports -- 63. State -- 64. Subaltern -- 65. Subjectivity -- 66. Temporality -- 67. Trans -- 68. Transnational -- 69. Two Spirit -- 70. Woman -- References -- About the Contributors

Abstract
In this contribution to the special issue of the Journal of Language and Sexuality celebrating
its 10th anniversary, I reflect on several key articles in the journal that related to my work in language and sexuality with
queer, Latinx and bi/multilingual individuals and organizations, survey the field of language and sexuality today from my vantage
point, and propose several directions for the future of language and sexuality studies, namely: to engage multilingualism, to
question our ideologies as researchers, to grapple more deeply with intersectionality through ethnography, and to consider age more
seriously.

AbstractAs an introduction to the special issue, this paper presents an overview of previous corpus linguistic work in the field of language and sexuality and discusses the compatibility of corpus linguistic methodology with queer linguistics as a central theoretical approach in language and sexuality studies. The discussion is structured around five prototypical aspects of corpus linguistics that may be deemed problematic from a poststructuralist, queer linguistic perspective: quantification and associated notions of objectivity, reliance on linguistic forms and formal presence, concentration on highly frequent features, reliance on categories, and highlighting of differences. It is argued that none of these aspects rules out an application of corpus linguistic techniques within queer theoretically informed linguistic work per se and that it is rather the way these techniques are employed that can be seen as more or less compatible with queer linguistics. To complement the theoretical discussion, a collocation analysis of sexual descriptive adjectives in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is conducted in an attempt to address some of the issues raised. The concluding section makes suggestions for future research.

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