We examine emerging practices of pronoun disclosure, discovery, and repair after the procedural turn in pronoun politics, which shifted attention from the substantive question of which pronouns should be used to the procedural question of how preferred pronouns, whatever they might be, could be effectively communicated to others. Drawing on interviews with and observations of college students and recent graduates who are committed in principle to using preferred pronouns, we consider how they seek to do so in practice, focusing on practices of disclosure, discovery, and repair. We underscore the gap between the knowledge that is required in principle to use preferred pronouns consistently and the imperfect knowledge that pronoun-users have in practice, and we show how the use of preferred pronouns creates new forms of interactional accountability.

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我们研究了代词政治的程序转向之后代词披露、发现和修复的新兴实践，这将注意力从应该使用哪些代词的实质性问题转移到了如何有效地使用首选代词（无论它们是什么）的程序问题。传达给其他人。根据对原则上致力于使用首选代词的大学生和应届毕业生的采访和观察，我们考虑了他们在实践中如何寻求这样做，重点关注披露、发现和修复的实践。我们强调了原则上一致使用首选代词所需的知识与代词使用者在实践中所拥有的不完善知识之间的差距，并且我们展示了首选代词的使用如何创建新形式的互动问责制。

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