Language, gender and sexuality in 2021

This year-in-review addresses the way violence and civil unrest manifested intensely in 2021, at two-year mark of Covid-19 pandemic, by inspecting local dramas various authors re-narrate through lenses gender, sexuality their semiotic performances. Three focal points organise literature recontextualised here. First is study lingering effects cisheteropatriarchy different contexts. Second, while forging a diagnosis present, texts reviewed here address ongoing practices that defy persistent colonial gaze. Third, they propose future paths follow decolonial route now centre language, gender research. Overall, works resonate with sound past, fury present hope for future. While transitioning forward actions set forth today, reimagine yesterdays. As such, indicate chronotopic mobility power-resistance