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Celestine S. Kunkeler

@celestinekunkeler.bsky.social
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Academic, historian, degenerate I research the radical right, fascists, and reactionary nonsense about sexual and gendered deviance. UK-based.

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Tamta Gelashvili @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The final paper of my PhD is now out in @democratization.bsky.social! I ask how and why regime type impacts far-right mobilization. My starting point was a paradox: the far right is global, yet most of what we know about it comes from research on a handful of countries in Western Europe 1/9
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Far right mobilization in hybrid regimes: evidence from Georgia and Ukraine
How and why does regime type impact far-right mobilization? Most of our knowledge about the far right comes from studies of Western democracies, leaving far-right mobilization in hybrid regimes und...
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POP @populismblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New book out 🔥 The Fascist Zeitgeist. Authoritarian Legacies and the Iberian Far Right. (Elements in the History and Politics of Fascism @universitypress.cambridge.org) How is the success of the Iberian far right linked to the memory of Franco and Salazar? doi.org/10.1017/9781009588072
The image shows, on the right half, the book's cover, with fascist architecture from Rome, which is the signature image used by the series on "The History and Politics of Fascism". The left half of the image shows the book's back, that includes the following summary: 
The far right is achieving unprecedented electoral success, even in countries once considered immune such as Spain and Portugal. For decades, the stigma surrounding the long dictatorships of António Salazar and Francisco Franco seemed to inoculate the Iberian Peninsula against far-right mobilisation, yet Chega and VOX have shown that collective memory evolves – and stigma fades. This Element argues that understanding the far right's global rise requires attention to authoritarian nostalgia: a longing for an idealised authoritarian past. When activated by credible political actors with sufficient media visibility, this sentiment can generate support for far-right movements even in societies with a collective memory firmly condemning their authoritarian past. Using original survey data, the Element shows how contemporary far-right forces mobilise the ghosts of authoritarianism to erode democratic norms, revealing the enduring power of collective memory in shaping political behaviour.
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Audrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Celestine S. Kunkeler @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hegseth banging on about t-levels and t-slurs shows anti-trans politics is about a lot more than attacking trans people in far-right politics. Hatred of trans women is also a fear of feminisation, w. deep historical roots, and is integral to this macho bs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Are you man enough? Republicans bet on ‘virile, brawny’ testosterone to juice the midterms
Hoping to win back male voters, the Trump White House is pushing the regressive idea that one hormone could be a magic elixir of masculinity
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Inkluderende feminisme 💖 @inkluderendefeminisme.no · 26/09/2026
«The Hate Review 2026» fra Forbidden Colours viser hvordan antigendermobiliseringer er en alvorlig trussel mot menneskerettighetene i hele Europa. Rapporten diskuterer også antigendermobiliseringer og -aktører i Norge. Les rapporten her: drive.google.com/file/d/1ft9D...
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This week 75 years ago, a referendum was held as to whether the Communist Party of Australia could be banned, which was narrowly defeated. I published this article on how the attempt to ban the CPA fit within other anti-communist measures in the Anglophone world. www.academia.edu/34350672/Pol...
Britain and the World 10.2 (2017): 170-196
DOI: 10.3366/brw.2017.0274 © Edinburgh University Press
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EVAN SMITH
Policing Communism Across the
'White Man's World': Anti-Communist Co-operation between Australia, South Africa and Britain in the
Early Cold War
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A long time coming: my new review essay on Magnus Hirschfeld’s life and legacy is out today in @blnreview.bsky.social blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Over the moon to see this important book translated into English by my very good friend and co-author Elissa Mailander.
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
📣 New article online! 'Prostitution and Moral Regulation in Spain, 1936–56: Institutional Control, Social Trajectories and Gendered Marginality', by Julio Prada Rodríguez Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Wissensnetzwerk Rechtsextremismusforschung @wi-rex.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Registration is open for our international conference “Ideologies and Networks Across Borders: The Transnational Far Right” in Leipzig! Join us for a broad range of panels + keynotes by Anukriti Dixit, @vladimirsafatle.bsky.social & @kai-arzheimer.com. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/ideologies...
conference sharepic: Oct 14-16, 2026, Leipzig; more information: wi-rex.de/wi-rex-veranstaltungen/
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 06/09/2026
wild week for those learning feminism is not a synonym for good
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Catherine Baker @cat-baker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My first solo-author article, Is the Far-Right Anti-Science?, is now published in Social Epistemology. It explores the far-right’s epistemic struggle to claim scientific authority, attacking and co-opting science to legitimise white supremacy & misogyny—an issue academia must increasingly attend to
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Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Period Politics (by me, @dr-mel-channon.bsky.social and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social) is available for pre-order! Everything you ever wanted to know about menstrual justice and injustice worldwide 🩸 🩸 🩸 🩸 🩸
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Period Politics
Period Politics - Inside the Global Fight for Menstrual Justice
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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Historians who insist on referring to all people living cross gender lives in history as “they/them” are so nefarious.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/09/2026
I wrote about the garbage “study” HHS just released, attempting to link support for trans people and left-wing political violence, a kind of remixed Stephen Miller screed with some additional citations:
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Trump’s Vile Campaign to Link Trans People and Political Violence
A bogus new HHS report argues that support for transgender rights pushes people toward political violence. It’s just the latest chilling installment in a larger project of bigoted propaganda.
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The Helsinki Notebooks @helsinkinotebooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Upcoming public panel: "Fascism as Colonialism? Colonialism as Fascism? Entanglements, Transfers, and Interpretations" on Friday 11 September (attend for free in person in Helsinki or via zoom) helsinkinotebooks.com/2026/09/01/p...
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PUBLIC PANEL Fascism as Colonialism? Colonialism as Fascism? Entanglements, Transfers, and Interpretations (1930s–1950s)
This autumn the Locating Global Protest project continues its work in public, returning to a question that has shaped the research from the start. Friday 11 September 2026, 13:00–15:00 (EEST) Main …
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I wrote about the most recent HHS study, and I wanted to draw attention to something I did a little differently than some of the other people writing about these things: I tried to lay out as clearly as possible how the study was done and what it claimed to be trying to accomplish.
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Celestine S. Kunkeler @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My article on counter-revolutionary women in Europe is now out in the Journal of Women's History! It looks at women's involvement in the reaction against left-wing revolutionary politics after 1917, with case studies from Scandinavia, the Netherlands, and Britain. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Ángel Alcalde @angelalcalde.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My new article, co-authored with Jose Escribano, is already available online! "War and Globalisation in the Modern Era (1500s-2000s)" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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War and globalisation in the modern era (1500s–2000s): actors, technologies and spaces
What was the historical relationship between war and globalisation? While scholars have challenged conventional assumptions about the alleged deglobalising effects of war, global historians have no...
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Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
From years of collective work, Colonialisms and Queer Politics has been published! Presenting chapter analyses of 11 empires, and their colonial legacies, plus comparison of both legal and social regulation. #Colonialisms #Queer #LGBTIQ+ @uofgsociology.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The EHRC guidance does not apply to workplaces, and trans people are not criminalised for using any toilet in the UK. But the whole point of this - as with Section 28 back in the 1980s - is to intimidate people. Don't give into that fear.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 16/07/2026
given the ‘gender critical’ war on amnesty over accurately characterizing their agenda, the way they responded to amnesty supporting sex work decriminalization feels like a dry run. eleven years ago now:
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Amnesty International Is Finally on the Right Side of the Sex Work Struggle
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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 14/07/2026
Really delighted to say that our article critiquing the Cass Review from Archaeological, Historical, Mythological, and Heresiological perspectives has been published in the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. You can freely read it below 👇 bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/5/1-...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13/07/2026
gender is unserious stuff for ladies, “the manly man” is big important politics, got it
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sowwy we called out the fascist transphobes 👉👈 they have too much scawy fascist money for Amnesty International sowwy trannies you’re rights just too expensive
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies @cambridgegender.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We're looking for an ECR for a one-year joint post with Peterhouse who can teach topics related to gender and any of the human, social, and political sciences.
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Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen 殷莉 @elengebretsen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
worth a re-read and renewed attention, not the least since the austria-based "think tank" athena forum has established itself also in the nordics in recent months.
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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Open Access for the next two weeks! New title of the series "The history and politics of Fascism", Cambridge University Press.
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Italian Fascism in the Nordic Countries (1919–1945)
Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - Italian Fascism in the Nordic Countries (1919–1945)
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
it couldn’t have happened without an alliance between centrist reactionary ‘feminism’ and known unrepentant workplace sexual harrassment perpetrator clarence thomas
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
As I’ve said before, any serious attempt to ban conversion practices in Britain has to confront the fact that the NHS never stopped doing it. This draft bill not only fails, it explicitly gives “healthcare providers” permission to continue.
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Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Lots to say about this quote from Phillipson but I think a key element is how cis people are understood as 'biological' and therefore as having material needs (services, spaces) where as trans people are an 'identity' and therefore only have cultural/recognitional needs ('not being pilloried').
“I don't want trans people to be constantly pilloried on social media for being who they are and wanting to live the lives that they want to lead.

“But also I want women to be able to access the services and service providers to be able to deliver the services that they believe are necessary on a single sex basis for women who have experienced male violence. I don't think those two things ought to be in conflict.”
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Jacob Aasland Ravndal @jacravn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I år er det 15 år siden 22. juli-terrorangrepet. I den anledning har vi skrevet bok om høyreekstremisme i Norge etter 22. juli. Boka oppsummerer 10 år med forkning ved @crexuio.bsky.social og er åpent tilgjengelig for alle her: www.scup.com/doi/book/10....
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Scandinavian University Press
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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
New OFTV interview with trans historian Jules Gill-Peterson on the controversial question: is there a history of anti-trans discrimination? Please share! ✨ m.soundcloud.com/onefromtheva...
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OFTV Presents - Interview with Jules Gill-Peterson
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
new issue of Mediations, "Total Sexual Difference" and damn mediationsjournal.org/toc/volume-3...
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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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Kasper Braskén @kasperbrasken.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Ny publikation!!! Jag medverkar med ett kapitel i antologin ”Antifascistisk kritik”! Mitt bidrag handlar om ”den antifascistiska blicken” eller hur antifascistister har visuellt tolkat fascismen och antifascismen i Sverige och Europa under mellankrigstiden:
Antologin Antifascistisk kritik, (red.) Maria Mårsell och Charlott Neuhauser Kasper Braskén: ’Den antifascistiska blicken: Visuella tolkningar av motsatsförhållandet mellan fascism och antifascism i mellankrigstidens Europa’
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Juliet Jacques on Labour's Section 28: "Civil disobedience and trans organisation will flush this contemptible code down the toilet of history, and we can push for a full inquiry into how the EHRC became captured by transphobic fanatics and ask how we can safeguard such bodies [...] in future."
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Trans Segregation Is Becoming Law. What Can We Do About It? | Juliet Jacques
‘Single-sex spaces’ must now exclude trans men and women, according to new guidance from the EHRC. We aren’t taking seriously just how dangerous this will be, write Juliet Jacques.
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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
[two people with the same opinions] strange bedfellows
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The new issue of @jhistsex.bsky.social is an embarrassment of riches!! So excited to read all these articles! muse.jhu.edu/issue/56922
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Project MUSE - Journal of the History of Sexuality-Volume 35, Number 2, May 2026
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Can't believe THIS has been labelled as "intolerant".
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 24/05/2026
This legislation is most going to affect us in terms of the cultural climate, in emboldening institutions and bad actors itching for an excuse to justify their litigious urges and bigotry. But we still have friends, family, allies, advocates, and each other. Put that in your fucking paper.
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Celestine S. Kunkeler @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I don't really share many of the views here on liberal democracy, but this amounts to a very useful summary of how the UK's anti-trans movement has worked in the past decade, and how it works towards authoritarian & reactionary outcomes.
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I lied, because “it is a stereotype that gender critical people are nasty bastards” is actually written into this code and sorry you can’t legislate to make people like you
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Examples of stereotypes in relation to religion or belief are that persons who hold or manifest certain gender-critical beliefs necessarily have negative attitudes towards trans people, or that persons who hold or manifest the belief that same-sex sexual activity is sinful necessarily have negative attitudes

wards gay people. The judgment explains that: it may be that some persons who hold / manifest such beliefs have such animus, but it is stereotyping to assume that all do '32
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Celestine S. Kunkeler @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
You could print these out and put them in places you know.
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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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Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen 殷莉 @elengebretsen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Ny rapport fra det store europeiske forskningsprosjektet #RESIST peker på hvordan retorikk + framstillinger av LHBTQI+ stadig hardner til. Dette er dessverre i tråd med vår forskningskronikk i fjor – behovet for kunnskapsbasert, ansvarlig offentlighet er akutt. Rapport: zenodo.org/records/1850...
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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
New research on the sheer shamelessness of NS propagandist Leni Riefenstahl, who continued to earn thick coin from her films in the postwar period. www.cargo-film.de/heft/69/essa...
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Firma Riefenstahl. Eine Recherche zu Leni Riefenstahls Nachkriegseinkünften aus ihren NS-Filmen | Jurriën Rood
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Wes Streeting has resigned to take the job he was born to do…regional sales manager for Moss Bros
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