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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🦄🔔Attention queers🦄🔔 Queer fragments is starting today in Florence! ⚜️⚜️ We're so excited to welcome all our amazing speakers, the programme is packed and enticing! Join online here if you're interested! 💻 www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

💥🦄Attention queers, event announcement!🦄💥 Join our two speakers from the EUI Max Weber Program, Irene Pollini and Martin Gramc, talking about the double standards of human dignity💅 📍Sala dei Levrieri, Villa Salviati 🗓️9 June, 14:00 - 15:30 💻Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58... See you there!

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🌈Look at that QFSWG delegation in Prague!🌈 Many of our members are presenting at the "Queering 20th century East Central Europe" conference in Prague 🏛️💅 The keynote, Ann Cvetkovich, talked about queer methods, emotions and the archive 🦄💡 You can see our list of presenters and their topics below!

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A joyful and enraged call to action On 4-5 June, join the conference Queer fragments, organised by our @eui-qfg.bsky.social working group 👉 loom.ly/3kc_wuM The conference will bring together researchers, thinkers, and artists discussing why queer lives are made disposable, triable, and unlivable

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Georgia-Taygeti (she/her) @georgiakat.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

My secret passion is excel, budgets, and fundraising (to ensure brilliant researchers and activists can attend conferences without socioeconomic barriers)! We have spent much of this past year working on the Queer Fragments conference and it's a joy that it is finally here. @eui-qfg.bsky.social

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

💥🦄Good morning queers 🦄💥 Yesterday, 17 May, was IDAHOBIT (International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We chose to commemorate it with a photograph of Porpora Marcasciano, Italian writer and trans activist, by artist Lina Pallotta (details below) 📷📷 Our struggle continues!

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Hello queers! 🦄 The EUI just turned 50 🇪🇺 For the next 50 years, we demand gender and grant equality, equal and trans-inclusive healthcare for all researchers, condemnation and concrete actions against international crimes and genocides! 🇺🇦🇵🇸 Wishing for a brighter future ahead, happy birthday 🎂

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Attention queers! 🦄🦄 💥Upcoming book talk: "Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space"💥 Organised by @biljanak.bsky.social, Martin Gramc, and Vita Zalar 💅 📍Emeroteca, Badia Fiesolana, 🕰️12 May, 18.00-19.30 💻Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

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Democratic backsliding and gender equality: anti-gender mobilizations in the post-Yugoslav space

This book talk will introduce the 2026 edited book ‘Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space’ (Palgrave 2026).

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

☮️Workshop announcement!☮️ "Depending on a relation: Judith Butler as a philosopher of peace" Organised by @biljanak.bsky.social, Martin Gramc, and Vita Zalar. 📍Emeroteca, Badia Fiesolana ⏳11 May, 15.00-17.00 💻Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

🚨Upcoming event🚨 Book presentation by Paul van Trigt (University of Leiden). 📚Join this fascinating book presentation on the history of disability, human rights, the welfare state, religion, and ethnicity! 📍Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati 🕰️5 May, 11-13 💻Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

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Lola Dickinson @loladickinson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Had the best time at the Sexuality, Activism and the State in Modern Europe workshop last Friday! Co-organised with the wonderful @zsofia-v.bsky.social and @georgiakat.bsky.social

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Joseph Price @joseph-price.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Really enjoyed speaking at the European University Institute last Friday for a workshop discussing sexuality and activism across Europe organised by @zsofia-v.bsky.social, @georgiakat.bsky.social and @loladickinson.bsky.social

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

👏 Thank you to all the participants of the “Sexuality, activism, and the state in modern Europe” workshop 👏 We had a great day of inspiring presentations, illuminating discussions and thought-provoking questions ✨🦄💥 👀🎤Find a sum-up of the keynote and panels in the thread! 🎤👀

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🚨🚨Multidisciplinary Research Workshop coming! 💥🦾 Organised by researchers in the EUI Max Weber Programme 📚 📍Emeroteca, Badia Fiesolana 🕰️28 April, 9:30-18:00 💻You can register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Yesterday (April 26) was lesbian visibility day 🦄💅🦾 We are celebrating with a trans-inclusive version of the historical Labrys Pride flag 💻You can read more about the flag's history here: www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/27/l...

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

👀💅ATTENTION QUEERS💅👀 👉Interdisciplinary workshop: "Minority studies go universal?"👈 💬 Organised by Vita Zalar, Khushi Singh Rathore, Rajkumar Sahoo, Martin Gramc 📍Emeroteca, Badia Fiesolana 🗓️23 April, 13:00 - 18:30 💻 Registration: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

💥💅🏽Join our Workshop on sexuality in Western, East Central and South Eastern Europe!💅🏽💥 🏫Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati ⏳24 April, 9:30-18:00 🧑🏼‍🎨Illustration by Emese Veszely (1991 World AIDS Day in Budapest)

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Let's meet tomorrow at 5 pm in SS Annunziata, we March together for trans day of visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️🦾🏳️‍⚧️

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Thanks to all who joined our fantastic and inspiring talk with Angéla Kóczé! In case you missed it, don't worry: the book "Romani Women at the Edge of Neoliberal Europe: Discursive Emancipation and Structural Violence" (MUP) is coming out this summer and will be available at the EUI library 🌟🦾📚

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Academic freedom and integrity can do better than "gender critical" terfs‼️ Our working group will be protesting today at the EUI against the invitation of Prof. Alice Sullivan as a speaker in an event on academic freedom. Find here our statement and join us! 🦾💅

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Members of our working group too took to the streets in Florence for International Women's Day 2026: EUI is transfeminist! 🦾🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💅

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Another extremely proud and emotional moment: congratulations to Dr Mart Chmielewski for successfully defending their thesis "The Bra Capital of Poland: Socialism, Capitalism, and Economic Change in the Polish Lingerie Industry, 1940s-2020s 💥💅🏽👏🏼

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Here's the new post of our #EUIAfter series, which shows previous Working Group members and their fantastic projects after graduating from the EUI 🧑‍🎓 Meet Moisés Fernández-Cano, who is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Global Histories of HIV/AIDS at the University of Stirling.

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

🧚🏽🧚🏽 EVENT ALERT 🧚🏽🧚🏽 Tomorrow, we will host @frammaturo.bsky.social in Palazzo Buontalenti to discuss her latest book, "The Politics of Pride Events"! Join us on premise or online, registration is available here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58... Looking forward to the juicy discussions!! 💥💅🏽

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Pride events: between the global and the local

In this event, Dr. Francesca Romana Ammaturo will be discussing her recently published book titled

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

‼️Deadline approaching‼️ One week left to apply for the Queer Fragments Conference! 💥🌟 The great proposals we received made us even more eager to collect more to make this conference, as we promised, joyfully and enragedly queer. Find more detailed info on the application process in the CfP! 🦄💅

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Jennifer Ashby @jenniferashby.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

My review of Sara Crangle's An Anatomy of Mina Loy @edinburghup.bsky.social is available in Women: a Cultural Review! Thank you to the editorial team, especially Dr. Clara Jones. DM for help with access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... #ModWrite @eui-history.bsky.social @eui-qfg.bsky.social

Review: Jennifer Ashby, 'Abjection and Transcendence: Mina Loy's Esoteric Eros'.

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

💥Extension announcement!💥 New deadline for proposals: 30 January (thanks so much to everyone who submitted amazing abstracts already!). New notification of acceptance: 27 February. In the meantime, we are happy to announce our confirmed keynotes: Mahdi Baraghithi and Anna Borgos! 💅🏽✨

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Mónica Morado Vázquez @monicamoradov.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Still a couple weeks to apply for this amazing conference that can take you to Florence next June! 💥

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

"Fatti più in là. Storie e lotte queer in Toscana dal 1969 a oggi" opens this Saturday, 29 November 2025 (6 p.m.), in Carrara 📍🏳️‍🌈 All the details are available here: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Today, 20 November, is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Let’s take a moment and remember all lives lost in violence against trans* people 🕯️

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Great seminar tomorrow‼️ A discussion with Massimo Pulejo (Università Roma Tre) on gender and politics, organised by the @eui-eco.bsky.social. 13 November, 2pm, Villa La Fonte 🌟 Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The Queer Feminist Studies WG, an interdisciplinary research group based at the @eui-eu.bsky.social, is co-organising an International Conference titled "QUEER FRAGMENTS: BREAKING, REPARING, TRANSFORMING" (Florence, 4-5 June 2026)! Find attached our CfP: you have time until 9 January to apply!

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

First General Meeting of the academic year today!! 🦄💅🏽 Join us in Villa Salviati, Sala degli Stemmi, later at 1pm to discuss our agenda for this year 🧚🏽 See you all there! If you can't join on premise, reach out! We'll share a link to participate online 🦾

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The EUI PalestineWG successfully raised €30,000 to get Dr Wail Badah and his family out of Gaza. The fundraiser now aims for a new target of €55,000 to support 10 Gaza-based scholars too. We have five days left! Please donate and circulate if you can: chuffed.org/project/supp... #Gaza#Education

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Our #EUIAfter series presents our previous Working Group members and shares what they are doing after their graduation 🎓 Out first researcher is Mart Chmielewski, who is employed as a Post-doc at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Science! #EUIAfter #feministkmowledgeproduction #ECRs

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Tune in with the ongoing event with Justin Bengry (University of Oxford, King’s College London, and the University of Exeter)! 🦄🦄 ⏰ 17.00-19.00 📍Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati 💻https://www.eui.eu/events?id=582296

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Last Friday, we presented our working group to the newcomers of the @eui-history.bsky.social 📚📚 Excited to meet our new members and looking forward to the activities that we'll organise during this academic year!💅🏽 If you'd like to join before our first 25/26 meeting in November, drop us a message 🌞

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

🦄Queer Alert🦄 The EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group, together with Storie di sessualità e genere from Università di Padova, is organising a two-day "InterQueer" workshop in Padova, on 29-30 January 2026. 👉Find the call for papers here: gender.eui.eu/wp-content/u...

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Kicking off the new academic year with a table at the Law Working Groups Fair 🎉 Stay tuned and find us again on October 16 at 4 PM as part of the History Working Groups Fair!

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

As an end-of-year activity, the Working Group visited the Centro di Documentazione Aldo Mieli in Carrara 🏛️ This public LGBTQIA+ archive is run by and grew out of the personal collection of Luca Locati Luciani and welcomes curious researchers and activists. cdocaldomieli.com

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

You can join the keynotes online! Dr. Ráhel Katalin Turai and Dr. Natalya Benkhaled-Vince will reflect on interviewing as a feminist practice in Eastern Europe and North Africa. 🎙️

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Join us this Thursday for an event bringing together workers and researchers who actively support labour movements to discuss how academic knowledge and skills can be meaningfully mobilised in support of workers’ struggles. Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

In response to today's Supreme Court ruling, we'd like to encourage you to pre-order @elierlick.bsky.social's book, Before Gender. Discover the trailblazing lives of 30 trans people who will change everything you've been told about transgender history: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526192714/

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Manchester University Press - Before Gender

Before Gender - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Before Gender by Eli Erlick

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

💥FREE EBOOK!💥 This book is a transfeminist call for collective liberation. Because there's no liberation without trans liberation Download your copy here: www.plutobooks.com/978074534941...

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Justin Bengry @justinbengry.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Call for Papers: Queering the Tensions of Empire (edited collection) Abstracts of 500 words and a brief CV (2 pages, single-spaced) to be submitted by 31 May 2025. Complete essays by 1 January 2026. More info and submission info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

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Call for Papers: Queering the Tensions of Empire | H-Net

Call for Papers: Queering the Tensions of Empire (edited collection)Beginning in the late 20th century, scholars influenced by postcolonial and feminist theory and social and cultural history began to...

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

As part of the LGBT+ History Month Italia, the Queer and Feminist Studies and the Interviewing and Oral History Working Groups jointly organised a wonderful one-day workshop with Professor Tamara Chaplin.

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The celebration of LGBT+ History Month Italia continues! 🏳️‍🌈 Professor Benno Gammerl presents "Calmly continuing in turbulent times? Doing queer history today" in Padova this Thursday 📆 17 April, 14:30. centroelenacornaro.unipd.it/calmly-conti... @eui-history.bsky.social

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

A reminder to celebrate trans people and remember that they face discrimination worldwide, increasingly in countries like Hungary, which has just banned Pride! If you want to help, you can support and follow the Hungarian organisation transvanilla! (Links below) #transdayofvisibility ‍

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

A queer history of modern France On 7 April at 10.00 CEST, join a workshop with Tamara Chaplin on her recent book on female same-sex intimacy in modern French history 👉 loom.ly/D-u5XnA Organised by our @eui-qfg.bsky.social working group 📣 #QueerHistory #FrenchHistory

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