A proper pronoun references a specific person in third person. Proper pronouns can be used as a way of avoiding mis-gendering or generically gendering a person.
Find out more about proper pronouns here.
Download a guide for using proper pronouns in the classroom here.
Public Presentations:
- Lavender Languages and Linguistics. California Institute of Integral Studies. San Francisco, California. May 21–23, 2021.
- 4th Annual Sexual Health Education Fair. Augustana College. Rock Island Illinois. February 14, 2020.
- TEA Talks. Augustana College. Rock Island, Illinois. November 20, 2019.
- Queer Modernisms III. Oxford University. Oxford, England. April 25–26, 2019.
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