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Even Allen @thatlooksqueer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The dismantling of the arts by universities and places of learning is abhorrent and must be challenged vociferously! Sign the petition. With thanks to @danielfountain.bsky.social c.org/8z6Qz48fBF

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We're on Bluesky now! 🦋 Follow us here for updates, we're just getting started. @ucu.org.uk @exetergreens.bsky.social @exeterlabour.bsky.social Here are our six key messages:

'EXETER UCU: OUR SIX KEY MESSAGES

1. EXETER UNI'S FINANCES ARE STRONG. WE'VE LARGE CASH RESERVES (£200M IN 24/25). NEVER HAD A BUDGET DEFICIT. THIS 'CRISIS' IS MANUFACTURED.
2. EXECUTIVE PAY AT EXETER IS OUT OF CONTROL. IF JUST THE 16 HIGHEST-PAID EXECS CAPPED THEIR SALARY AT £120K, WE'D SAVE MORE MONEY THAN ALL THE CUTS TO ARCHAEOLOGY & HISTORY!
3. NO MEANINGFUL CONSULTATION, BUT A CONFUSED MESS: FAULTY AND INSUFFICIENT DATA, NO REAL DISCUSSION, AND AN IMPOSSIBLE, INSULTING AND UNREASONABLE TIMETABLE TO PUSH THIS THROUGH OVER THE SUMMER.
4. AN ALL-STAFF MEETING OF 600 STAFF RESOUNDINGLY VOTED NO CONFIDENCE IN VICE CHANCELLOR LISA ROBERTS (WHOSE PAY IS PUSHING £400K). WE BELIEVE THIS IS THE BIGGEST SINGLE VOTE BY ANY UNI STAFF IN THE HISTORY OF UK HE.
5. REDUNDANCIES ARE A MANAGEMENT CHOICE, NOT A FINANCIAL NECESSITY. THEY EVEN HAVE ALTERNATIVE COSTED PLANS WITH NO CUTS, BUT THINK IT'S EASIER TO GO FOR JOB LOSSES.
6. EXETER IS A FANTASTIC UNI, WITH WORLD CLASS RESEARCH, CREATIVE AND INSPIRING TEACHING, THOUGHTFUL AND IMAGINATIVE COMMUNITY OF STAFF AND STUDENTS. LET'S KEEP IT THAT WAY.'

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#DefendExeterUni
Instagram handle @uniexeterucu
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Never thought I’d be doing press about my own redundancy but here we are

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Someone in UCU worked out that all the jobs could be saved if the exec team capped their salaries at ‘only’ 120k per year…

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Exeter Green Party @exetergreens.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Exeter Green Party stands in solidarity with the Exeter University and College Union in condemning the University of Exeter’s announcement of sweeping job cuts. These plans will recklessly imperil the University’s vital contributions to the social, cultural, and economic life of the city. 1/4

Graphic which reads: Statement of solidarity with Exeter University and College Union.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This awesome book is out now!! My work is on the cover!! Go get one, Daniel is a legend. Feels so special to have my work featured in a serious academic art book, on the cover no less!

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Wow that’s quick! I was told potential delays for non UK orders but it seems people are already receiving!

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Out now! Queer Crafts: Material Practices and the Making of Identity available via the Bloomsbury website and all good bookstores! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-cra...

A copy of a book called Queer Crafts. It is a pink cover with images of blue and white ceramic vessels on it.

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Look who’s a cover girl for a really cool book 👀

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Mark your diaries - January 2026. Available to pre-order now. 🤜🎤 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-cra...

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

*first year lecture, academic strides in* “right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION” *students wail, gnash teeth, vomit* www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told

Guidance has been published by the Office for Students on new free speech rules coming into force this year.

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Just had a notification that The Metropolitan Museum of Art have aquisitioned my book Crafted With Pride, and it’s now pride of place (pun intended!) in their research library! 📚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Huge congrats to my amazing doctoral student Chloë Edwards on passing her PhD viva today with an incredible thesis titled "Listen Without Prejudice: Queer Masculinities in the Popular Music Cultures of Thatcher's Britain". Photo: Sunil Gupta, Heaven, 1980.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The UK has dropped to its lowest position ever (22nd) on the @ilgaeurope.bsky.social ranking of the best and worst places to be LGBTQ+ in Europe. Ten years ago, it ranked in first place. Our government must reverse, not further, this shocking decline in LGBTQ+ rights.

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The landscape for LGBTQ+ research is so bleak. Still fuming that UKRI decided this review was acceptable and didn't undermine EDI policy. Highlights: no relevence to LGB cuz trans inclusive, no hostile climate cuz Pride and gay marriage, no need for declonisation cuz Tate did it 24 years ago (?) 🤷‍♀️

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Sorry I should have specified - as in, what job sites etc should I be looking at? Netherlands and Sweden are high on my list!

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Apropos of nothing that has happened this week…where is the best place to look for academic jobs in the EU? The UK no longer feels like a place my community is welcome and I am genuinely scared.

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The icon that is @roseschmits.bsky.social has legit done this with a piece called ‘Emergency Trans Toilet’

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Today’s news is so bleak. What a horribly hostile place the U.K. continues to be. Check on your trans siblings. Lives are on the line here. 🩷🤍💙

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Categories used by the state to sort people into boxes are never neutral. Some thoughts on the UK Supreme Court case ruling and the wider anti-trans campaign to narrow sex and gender categories in policy, data and law. 📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/04/16/t...

A pink background with a speech bubble that reads: The Politics of Categories

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Absolutely wonderful review of my edited collection Crafted with Pride in the Journal of Design History! 🙏

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Senthorun S. Raj @handle.invalid · 28/03/2025

“Research into sexuality and gender is vital for identifying social, cultural, and medical needs of populations, and addressing inequalities across populations.” It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship. 🌈🎓

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Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research

Published in The Journal of Sex Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

My ceramic cake/jelly collection is getting seriously out of hand…

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Yet another scandal brewing within UK Higher Ed: universities can get research money for everyone they've sacked. Big ghost fleets of lecturers who don't exist will be launched into the next Research Excellence Framework. Unis will laugh and cash in (1/2). englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...

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REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association

We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Cover reveal for the new book hopefully dropping soon 😉✍️📚🏳️‍⚧️

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Oh I didn’t know you were there! 😘

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 12/02/2025

Hugely engaging and insightful event with @danielfountain.bsky.social this evening! 🌈🧵 Crafted With Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain @intellectbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social is highly recommended! #LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay

Front cover of Crafted With Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain, edited by Daniel Fountain

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Great to ‘meet’ you virtually and thanks for your great question!

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Intellect Books @intellectbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Join us! Online public lecture. Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with Dr Daniel Fountain Wednesday 12 February 2025 6.00pm to 7.30pm Online Sign up to the lecture here 👉ow.ly/3t0G50UYr3v @danielfountain.bsky.social

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Another day, another PI asking me to work for free on their funded project to do ‘important diversity work’. When will this exploitation stop? 😅

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Update: it now has a ceramic jelly friend.

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Congrats! I hope that my editor will let me squeeze a reference to this during proofing!

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Hope you enjoy when you finally get hold of it! And book 2 which takes a more materially expansive and international approach should be out this year 😉

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Just a shame they removed the Gees Bend Quilt due to the loaners pro-Palestine stance and outspokenness against the Barbican’s censorship…

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

2024 was shit. 2025 is starting off with a trompe-l'oeil ‘wine goblet’ that looks like a camply decorated cake. #winning

A ceramic blue and white goblet made to look like a decadent cake with piped icing

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I had so many texts from friends being like “OMG WHERE IS ROSE” as if I have a tracker on you and know your every whereabouts

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a close up of a person wearing sunglasses and a blue shirt .

ALT: a close up of a person wearing sunglasses and a blue shirt .

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Well done, can’t wait to read it!

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Oh glad you managed that! It’s one of my favourites. Never seen any beavers either (or otters for that matter)! Enjoy ☺️

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

If you need any nice recommendations let me know! You should go to Budleigh Salterton and from the beach walk up the estuary to Otterton Mill for cream tea 🦦🫖🐕🎂🍰

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