Linguistics news from Stanford: the public portion of a PhD oral exam, next Monday, 6/19/17, 3-4:15: Jeremy Calder, Handsome Women: A semiotics of non-normative gender in SoMa, San Francisco. Drag queens in the 2015 SoMa “Oasis Follies” drag night Abstract This dissertation examines the relation between the linguistic and the visual in communicating social meaning and performing gender … Continue reading On the fierce femininity of drag queens