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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
(There's something so... permanent about the word indefinitely which I really hate, but it feels apt. I cannot commit to any particular path of my future right now. The status quo is indefinite. It's anxiety inducing to use but that's where we're at!)
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Since it seems I am finally set to be starting my new job tomorrow, I would like to share that I am taking a step back from pursuing a career in Higher Education indefinitely. This is, of course, not an easy decision, and not one I've really had to make, since it was basically made for me.
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A new essay for all my trans siblings and our allies. "As the UK enters a new era of state-mandated segregation, I find myself asking: was it all worth it?"
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What we have won
It was the largest trans protest in British history. We travelled from across the country to central London. We were joined by allies, especially cis gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer people who re…
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
📣 New article online! 'The Ukrainian Football Federation Declares Independence (1959–65)', by Yacov Zohn Muldoon Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Popped into the Putney Waterstones on my way back from buying some baking bits and spotted @carolinesharples.bsky.social in the wild!!
A picture of a bookshelf in Waterstones with Caroline's book, The Long Death of Adolf Hitler.
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Last year I tried making a sign for Trans Pride and managed to mess it up. It was double sided with the trans flag on one side and non-binary flag on the other. When I write on the trans side, the non-binary flag was then upside down on the back... This year I fixed it !!
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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We're really looking forward to our Queer Studies Symposium at the University of Galway on August 4th. Registration is now open through Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ie/e/university... Once again, huge thanks to @historyatgalway.bsky.social & @philosophygalway.bsky.social for all the support!
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University of Galway Queer Studies Symposium
An academic Queer Studies Symposium being held at the University of Galway to coincide with Galway Pride Week and showcase LGBTQ+ research.
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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE 🚨 🏛️ Power, violence and consent are not the same thing. Harry Tanner untangles one of the biggest misunderstandings about sexuality in the ancient world. 📚 🎧 Listen now: www.patreon.com/hist... #History #RomanHistory #HistoryPodcast #LGBTQHistory
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qUCL @qucl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
qUCL Annual Lecture: 'Changing Gender' with Susan Stryker 19 Oct 6pm, UCL From nineteenth-century phrenology to present-day anti-trans conspiracies, Stryker finds surprising places to tune into the origins, idiosyncrasies & generative possibilities of the gender concept www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...
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qUCL Annual Lecture: 'Changing Gender' with Susan Stryker
From nineteenth-century phrenology to present-day anti-trans conspiracies to examples from her lifetime as an agenda setting historian, filmmaker and activist, Stryker finds surprising places to tune ...
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Marty Davies @smartypantsmarty.com · 12/07/2026
New Campaign: Protect Pride. Protect Democracy! 🏳️‍🌈 I'm so Proud (with a capital 'P') to see this go live. protectprideprotectdemocracy.com
A vibrant campaign poster featuring an abstract, grainy background of swirling Progress Pride flag colors.

Large, bold white text in the center reads: "PROTECT PRIDE. PROTECT DEMOCRACY."

Below the main slogan, smaller white text reads: "JOIN THE MOVEMENT AT PROTECTPRIDEPROTECTDEMOCRACY.COM".

At the bottom left and right corners, the logos for ILGA Europe and EPOA (European Pride Organisers Association) are displayed in white.
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Unfortunately this has been rescheduled to February!
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Delighted to share that I will be speaking at the University of Westminster's Queering Academia conference as part of the panel "Queer Lives in London: Community, Survival and Care." For anyone interested in the panel, you can join us at 12 using the link: www.westminster.ac.uk/current-stud...
A poster for the Queer Lives in London: Community, Survival and Care panel. The poster is purple, with the title of the panel at the top and the panelists below. From left to right these include: Dibyesh Anand, the chair, Dr. Adam Tate, Alex Powell, Shiwei Ooi and myself.
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Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
#TodayInQueerHistory June 24 (1973) New York City hosts the Christopher Street Libertation Day rally. Sylvia Rivera, who helped many in the community, was excluded from speaking by 'white middle class gays.' She takes the mic anyway, and delivers her blistering "Y'all Better Quiet Down" speech.
A woman standing and holding a mic
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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
📣New queer geographies podcast! 🌈🎓 Introducing 'Space & Sexuality': Every 2 weeks, I share conversations with leading & emerging scholars across queer/trans geographies of sex and sexualities. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to the first 2 ep's: open.spotify.com/show/033DRqR...
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Lovely weekend at home teaching my nieces and nephews to call me doctor uncle Alan now.. I'm not sure it's going to stick but we'll keep trying
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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Excited to announce that myself and @altirishhistorian.bsky.social are organising a Queer Studies Symposium in the University of Galway on August 4th 2026. See the Call for Papers below if you'd like to get involved! For any questions, please DM me or email d.gallen2@universityofgalway.ie.
Title: Call for participants. Queer Studies Symposium. University of Galway, August 4th 2026.

Body text: In recent years, the state of academic research into the lives and experiences of queer individuals and communities has advanced dramatically, both in Ireland and abroad. However, this has also come at a time when the hard-won LGBTQ+ rights have come under attack in many parts of the world, and queer people faced increased levels of violence and harassment. To coincide with Galway Pride Week, the University of Galway will play host to a Queer Studies Symposium on Tuesday, August 4th 2026 seeking to showcase some of the fascinating research being done on the past and present of the LGBTQ+ community. 

We welcome submissions from all academic fields relating to research on LGBTQ+ topics, including but not limited to: LGBTQ+ history in Ireland and abroad; Queer art, literature, poetry, drama, etc.; Transgender and queer medicine, science, healthcare and psychology; Human rights, persecution and legal status for gender and sexual minorities; LGBTQ+ activism, solidarity and cross-community organizing. 

Submissions from doctoral and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. Those interested in participating should send an abstract (max. 250 words) along with a short bio (max. 100 words) to Daniel Gallen (d.gallen2@universityofgalway.ie) by Friday, July 10th 2026. Please include Queer Studies Symposium in the subject line. Proposals for panels will also be considered, and should include a panel title, contact information and bios for all speakers, along with abstracts for each constituent paper. 

For additional information or queries, please contact the symposium organisers:
Daniel Gallen, d.gallen2@universityofgalway.ie, School of History and Philosophy.
Elliot Gallogly, e.gallogly1@universityofgalway.ie, School of History and Philosophy.
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Join us for the launch of a new Holocaust Studies special issue on queer experiences during the Holocaust at which we will hear from a panel of editors and contributors to the issue 📅 16 July, 6:30 - 8pm 📍 The Wiener Holocaust Library, London Free tickets:
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Special Issue Launch: Queer Experiences in the Holocaust - The Wiener Holocaust Library
Join us for the launch of a new Holocaust Studies special issue on queer experiences during the Holocaust at which we will hear from a panel of editors and contributors to the special issue including…
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
So very pleased to share that I successfuly defended my thesis earlier today! Thank you to my wonderful supervisory team for their support over the last few years, and to Al and Craig for coming all the way to Roehampton to speak about my research! It was an absolute joy
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Lola Dickinson @loladickinson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
New article (open access!!) online now with Contemporary British History www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘In the eyes of the law I might be a man but what do I look like?’: trans women and sex work in 1980s and 1990s England
This article considers the precarious position of trans sex workers in 1980 s and early 1990 s England by examining the ambiguities of medico-legal interpretations of their identities and labour. D...
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
One week until my viva!!
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Never in my life did I expect to be so happy to see an episode of doctor who cancelled but if it means THAT show runner is no longer in charge then I'm happy to see my childhood show enter the wilderness years
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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🚨CFP🚨 “Visual Cultures of Sexuality in Postwar Europe” (Birmingham City University, 19-20 May, 2027)
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The sinking in my heart when I opened Instagram after a long day of revising my associate fellowship application to see Anthony Head has left us is indescribable...
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Huge congratulations to @joejukes.bsky.social and @rachelbayer.bsky.social on an informative and inspiring presentation on Asexual Geographies for the first @aroaceresearch.bsky.social talk. Very excited to see how and where Asexual Geographies will develop in the future
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Rachel Bayer @rachelbayer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network's Online Talk Series starts today at 3pm Irish/UK time! Join us as we introduce the emerging sub-field of Asexual Geographies & talk about all things space, place, and asexuality 💜 🌍 ✨ Link here: www.aroaceresearch.com/events
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Layla McCay @laylamccay.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Lots of you have been asking about my new non-fiction book The Queer Bookshelf about the history (and present and future) of LGBTQ+ literature. Today is book launch day in the UK. Anything you can do to help talk about it and make it a moment would make me joyful. And of course, buy the book!
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The Queer Bookshelf by Layla McCay | Waterstones
Buy The Queer Bookshelf by Layla McCay from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I am not in Birmingham so I can't make this but if any of my followers are please do tag along and let me know how it goes!!
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George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
My latest article has just been published in The Historical Journal. It looks at the ways in which HIV/AIDS was positioned as not just an urban problem, but one that was antithetical to rural spaces. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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HIV/AIDS and the English Countryside | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
HIV/AIDS and the English Countryside
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Very apt that the viva for my thesis, the first critical history of the London Pride March, will be held in Pride month.
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
We're celebrating Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Browse our curated reading list and use discount code PRIDE30 at checkout for 30% OFF until 30th June 2026. Head to our Blog here to shop now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/06... @sachacoward.bsky.social @jennychambles.bsky.social #PrideMonth #booksky
We're celebrating Pride Month
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 01/06/2026
Now that’s what people power stopping hate and bringing hope looks like! ✨🌈 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/…
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‘Bigger and better than ever’: how Durham Pride beat Reform’s funding axe with help from the miners
Solidarity between LGBTQ+ people and unions has saved an event denied ‘a single penny’ of council money
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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Teaching and learning are radical acts of resistance. Resources for teaching LGBTQ history: chssp.ucdavis.edu/lgbtq-primar... 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #sschat 🍎
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LGBTQ Primary Sources
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
👐 How can we build stronger forms of solidarity, support, and belonging for queer diasporic communities in the UK? This Queer@King's workshop brings together activists, researchers, students, and community organisers on 12 June 🌈 🔗 Register ⤵️
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Queer Diasporas: Solidarity, Activism, and Belonging | King's College London
How we can build stronger forms of solidarity, support, and belonging for queer diasporic communities.
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Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network @aroaceresearch.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
We are delighted to welcome @rachelbayer.bsky.social and @joejukes.bsky.social for the first session of the Aro/Ace Online Talk Series who will introduce us to #asexual #geographies! The talk will take place on zoom next Friday, 5 June, at 3pm (UK). Link here: www.aroaceresearch.com/events
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
While I am still recovering from all the work and excitement that went into yesterday, it's been really nice to feel hopeful about future directions for my work on Pride in London. Even if getting a foothold into academia is difficult right now, there are so many alternate paths I can pursue
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to present on my research thesis with such a diverse and engaged audience today. My particular thanks go to Pippa and Zoë for their contribution to the roundtable discussion, it was really inspiring to hear them talk about their experience.
A photograph of me presenting today.A photograph of me taking note during the roundtable while Pippa Catterall talks next to Zoë Playdon.A picture of the lovely cake baked by my supervisor, Caroline Sharples. Stickers with flags for various LGBTQ+ identities are on the frontA photograph of the slice of cake, with rainbow tier sponge inside.
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
One more day!!
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Really wanting to practice my script for Friday but there are builders on our roof hammering away so I have instead spent the majority of my day overstimulated, trying to flush the sound out with noise cancelling headphones, and finishing marking the final essay submissions for my module.
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
ONE WEEK TO GO Interested in learning more about the history of the London Pride March? How LGBTQ+ Communities have used Pride symbols to visualise the politics of their identities over the last fifty years? Then join me on May 22 at 11am BST to find out more. Sign up: forms.gle/ovZ57oMzZgS2...
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Research Seminar: Symbols of Pride & the Politics of Queer Liberation + Roundable
Join PhD candidate Alan Lee (University of Roehampton) on May 22 as he shares the findings of his PhD thesis: Symbols of Pride & the Politics of Queer Liberation. Over the last fifty years, LGBTQ+ com...
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
We have just had a room upgrade!! Rather than GH008, we will now be in the David Bell Building in DB109.
An updated version of the poster. The text is largely the same, but now reflects the new address: Sir David Bell Building. University of Roehampton, Digby Stuart College, Roehampton Lane, London, SW15 5PU (Room: DB109),
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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Save the date! June 17, 2026. Thrilled to help launch Matt Cook's new book Writing Queer History at Mansfield College, Oxford together with Jeffrey Weeks (South Bank), Rebecca Jennings (UCL), and Colin Johnson (Indiana State). www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-wri...
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Launch: Writing Queer History by Matt Cook
Panel discussion and book launch.
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Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Deviants and Trailblazers is now out! 🎉 If you're looking for a long-form, joined-up history of trans activism and trans rights in the UK going all the way back to the 1940s, this is it! D&T covers many events, groups, and people never before chronicled. www.plutobooks.com/product/devi...
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
We have just had a room upgrade!! Rather than GH008, we will now be in the David Bell Building in DB109.
An updated version of the poster. The text is largely the same, but now reflects the new address: Sir David Bell Building. University of Roehampton, Digby Stuart College, Roehampton Lane, London, SW15 5PU (Room: DB109),
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I have organised a (hybrid) research seminar to talk about the findings of my PhD thesis for May 22 at 11am. I am joined by Pippa Catterall, @frammaturo.bsky.social and Zoë Playdon for a roundtable discussion. Sign-up form, including an abstract for the paper: forms.gle/b5GK8bYye9YD...
A poster advertising the research seminar and roundtable discussed in the main post. The main body of text is organised on the left hand of the poster, with an intersex-inclusive progress pride flag on the right hand side. The text reads:

Join Alan Lee, a doctoral candidate at the University of Roehampton, for a research seminar discussing the findings of their PhD thesis. 

Alan will be joined by a panel of esteemed queer scholars, Pippa Catterall (University of Westminster), Francesca Romana Ammaturo (London Metropolitan University), and Zoë Playdon (University of London), for a roundtable discussion, followed by a Q&A.

Thursday 22nd May 2026, at 11:00am. 

The event is hybrid. Join us in-person at Grove House Froebel College, Roehampton Ln, London SW15 5PJ (Room: GH008), or online. Sign-up link below.
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Absolutely bewildering that as I finish replacing the battery for my laptop on my own at 23:37 on a Tuesday, I think, for the first time in a long time, how proud my older brother would've been of me. I didn't even feel this when I handed in my thesis. A project I dedicated to him. Grief is strange
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Sébastien Tremblay @sebboo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I am thrilled to be part of this new forum in German History alongside wonderful colleagues for which I have a lot of respect (even though...yes..we do disagree 😆). Thank you @npapadogian.bsky.social and Craig Griffiths for this opportunity!
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Forum New Directions in Queer and Trans* German History*
Abstract. Through dialogic responses by ten historians of the queer and trans* German-speaking world, this Forum takes stock of a vibrant and growing field
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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
“Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation” @cornellupress.bsky.social featured in the Guardian! 🥹 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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‘Live and let live’: Northern Ireland historian uncovers surprising era of tolerance of gay men
Public records and private papers reveal compassion and tacit acceptance before ‘moral panic’ took hold in the 1950s and 1960s
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I have organised a (hybrid) research seminar to talk about the findings of my PhD thesis for May 22 at 11am. I am joined by Pippa Catterall, @frammaturo.bsky.social and Zoë Playdon for a roundtable discussion. Sign-up form, including an abstract for the paper: forms.gle/b5GK8bYye9YD...
A poster advertising the research seminar and roundtable discussed in the main post. The main body of text is organised on the left hand of the poster, with an intersex-inclusive progress pride flag on the right hand side. The text reads:

Join Alan Lee, a doctoral candidate at the University of Roehampton, for a research seminar discussing the findings of their PhD thesis. 

Alan will be joined by a panel of esteemed queer scholars, Pippa Catterall (University of Westminster), Francesca Romana Ammaturo (London Metropolitan University), and Zoë Playdon (University of London), for a roundtable discussion, followed by a Q&A.

Thursday 22nd May 2026, at 11:00am. 

The event is hybrid. Join us in-person at Grove House Froebel College, Roehampton Ln, London SW15 5PJ (Room: GH008), or online. Sign-up link below.
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Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Looking forward to sharing details of an upcoming research seminar and roundtable on Monday!
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