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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This looks like a cool queer history conference!

Call for Papers: Queer Rural History Symposium
Date: Monday 15th March 2027
Venue: The Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, RG1 5EX
Lunch to be provided for all attendees
About the Symposium
Until recently, studies of queer history have focused almost exclusively on the urban sphere, given the greater availability of archival material evidencing queer lives in the city. The few queer rural histories which have been popularised in public consciousness are those of aristocrats in country homes, such as Anne Lister and Vita Sackville-West. However, it goes without saying that people with dissonant sexualities and gender identities lived and loved in all corners of society throughout the centuries, including the countryside. As such, there is a growing appetite for broader research into this area. How did queer people meet those who were like-minded in regions of scarce population density? What forms did their relationships take against a backdrop of criminality and stigma? And how did rural attitudes towards queer people differ to those in the city?
This one day symposium aims to bring together researchers of all backgrounds, and at any stage of their work, to share ideas and discuss methods on this emerging field of study. It works towards the goal of not just filling gaps in academic knowledge that exist for both rural history and queer history, but also to show queer people living in the countryside today that there is, and always has been, a heritage and a place for them.

Proposals
We invite proposals on themes such as, but not limited to, the following:
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Queer histories of the working and middle classes in rural areas
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Methodologies for recovering queer rural histories, such as the use of museum and archive collections
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Queer rural networks: how they met and flourished
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The response of rural communities to queer relationships
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Migration of same sex couples from the city to the countryside and vice versa
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The ways in which museums and archive services respond to queer rural history
If you would like to submit a proposal, please send an abstract (max 250 words) along with a short bio (50 words) to symposium organisers Tim Jerrome and Esther Rutter at t.jerrome1@uni.brighton.ac.uk. It is preferable that these come in the form of a Word document attached to the email. The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Sunday 6th December 2026.
If you would like to attend the symposium without presenting a paper, let us know via the above email as we need to ensure we do not go above capacity.
We are currently applying for funding to help cover travel costs for those who need it. Please let us know if you would like to attend but would require assistance with travel costs to do so. Priority will be given to attendees where cost would otherwise be a barrier to participation.
Many thanks to Rainbow Canopy (The LGBTQ+ network of Forestry England), the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, and the staff at The MERL for helping us to fund and organise the symposium.

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

CFP: Economic and Social History Society of Ireland - Annual Conference 2026 (4-5 Dec. at TCD). Paper proposals should be sent to Dr Anne Dolan adolan@tcd.ie by 23 October.

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University of Galway - History @historyatgalway.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We are delighted to announce the line up for the History Research Seminars this semester. All welcome! Wednesday, 4pm, Hardiman Building G011.

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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just heard one of the neighbour kids singing “Last Christmas” outside my window. In September. So I’ve somehow managed to lose Whamageddon before the start of the new academic year. Cool cool cool cool.

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Orla Egan she/her @orlaegan1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

New Permanent LGBTQ Exhibition WE WERE ALWAYS HERE opening this week!!!!! #SpéirGhorm

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Rachel Bayer @rachelbayer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It was such a treat to present at the Queer Studies Symposium at the University of Galway earlier this week, and to share space with so many brilliant queer researchers. 🌈 Massive thanks to @gallenator85.bsky.social and @altirishhistorian.bsky.social for organizing such a successful event!

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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We had an absolutely amazing day at our Queer Studies Symposium on Tuesday! So wonderful to see all of the brilliant research being done on LGBTQ+ topics. Our keynote panel was a particular highlight, with four longtime activists giving insights into their journeys fighting for LGBTQ+ rights.

L-R: Elliot Gallogly, Daniel Gallen, Alison Forrestal, Sarah-Anne Buckley.

L-R: Sarah-Anne Buckley, Micheál Kerrigan, Sara Phillips, Orla Egan, Nuala Ward.

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Niall Herron @niallherron.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Join us for Critical Enough?, a postgrad conference on gender and sexuality at Queen's University Belfast, Mon 10 Aug, 9am to 6pm. Keynote by @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social and a closing Mail Art workshop with @dzbelluigi.bsky.social. Click the link to register! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

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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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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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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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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Currently in the process of filling out a DPIA for my PhD project, and the last seven sections, spanning four-ish pages, have me effectively repeating the same two pieces of information over and over with marginally different wording each time and hey why is my eye twitching?

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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Really looking forward to attending this and speaking on methodological approaches to researching the Irish LGBTQ+ diaspora!

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Irish in Britain @irishinbritain.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🏳️‍🌈A new guide from Crosscare Irish Diaspora Support Project aims to help LGBTQI+ Irish citizens who are returning to Ireland - includes key information to help plan a smooth transition back, developed in consultation with TENI – Transgender Equality Network & LGBT Ireland 👇 ow.ly/g09850Zi7Cv

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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Just under two weeks left to submit proposals for our Queer Studies Symposium! The response so far has been amazing. Get in touch if you’d like to get involved.

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Oral History Network Ireland @oralhistoryie.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Huge thanks to everyone who made the 2026 @oralhistoryie.bsky.social Annual Meeting at Meadowlands Hotel Tralee a massive success! 🎉Fantastic 2 days with Mary Stewart, amazing presenters and showcases. Full recap coming to our newsletter soon! oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/about-us/new... #OHNI2026

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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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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 19/06/2026

A while back I created my own note-taking application by using code + Obsidian. It's a way of organising research grounded in social networks/collective biography. I've since refined it and I'm working on an open source version I'll share more widely. Here is a quick preview:

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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Presented at the @oralhistoryie.bsky.social annual meeting today about how oral history can unlock the hidden histories of the Irish LGBTQ+ diaspora. Really wonderful experience, though I remain incapable of taking a normal photo!

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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

My wife’s doing a study on rural LGBTQ+ community engagement as part of her degree. If you’re LGBTQ+ and live in Co. Galway and surrounds, please fill in this short survey to help her out! forms.office.com/e/4axxJipWsF

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Microsoft Forms

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

In the grand scheme of things it isn’t a huge deal, but I was looking forward to doing a keynote on gender/queer histories & archives at a conference in Belfast tomorrow - and it has to be rescheduled because of the riots/actions of the racist gobsh*tes - 🤬🤬🤬

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Oral History Network Ireland @oralhistoryie.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

📣 Join OHNI's #oralhistory meeting in Tralee with keynote Mary Stewart, FREE Kerry Writers' Museum panel & fascinating papers including @gallenator85.bsky.social on Irish LGBTQ+ migrants in London (1967-1993). 📅 18–19 June 📍Meadowlands Hotel, Tralee Co. Kerry www.tickettailor.com/events/oralh...

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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Really looking forward to speaking at this next week!

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Hans moleman meme. The text is "I need the most galway job you have/no, that's too galway."

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Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Delighted to announce the CFP for the fourth series of the Irish History Students' Association podcast. Any questions please email ihsapodcast@gmail.com 1950ihsa.jimdosite.com/podcast/

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Podcast | 1950ihsa

The IHSA podcast.

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University of Galway - History @historyatgalway.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Join us tomorrow for our last seminar of the semester! Elliot Gallogly will be speaking on “Urban Standards on Rural Behaviour: Expectations vs Lived Experience of Queer People in Rural Ireland”, on Wednesday, 1 April at 4 pm in Room THB-G010. All welcome!

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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Finally got a chance to watch this and it’s really good. Sarah’s stuff is always excellent, but this is a phenomenal exploration of how we can (and in many cases “must”) imagine the past by examining the negative space in the historical record. Personal, emotional, and empathetic to its subjects.

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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Seems like a surprisingly narrow definition, all things considered. Like, does it have to be Churchill? Does it have to be a beaver? What if the beaver is a conservative? Much to ponder.

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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Had to look up the spelling and plural of something in a dictionary, and trying real hard not to think about what the Top Lookup says about our current historical moment. I’m sure it’s fine.

Merriam-Webster “Top Lookups” box, where the top item on the list is the word “fascism”.

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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

When my wife and I were planning our wedding, we were both heavily involved and each had opinions about what we wanted. So many times when we met with vendors, I was basically ignored. Not even for things that were specific to her (dress, flowers, etc) but like venues and photography. It was wild!

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 26/11/2025

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Call for papers for our new special issue on 'Nocturnal London', edited by Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu, and @mcmccluskey.bsky.social. Abstracts due in by 31 March 2026. All submissions and reposts much appreciated.

Nocturnal London: From Torches to Neon Signs in a City After Dark
Edited by Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu and Michael McCluskey

The editors of this special issue, Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu and Michael McCluskey invite submissions on the theme of London nights. This volume of the London Journal will examine the histories of the city after dark, from its origins in Roman London to the present. Often overlooked, night has long been an essential dimension of urban life: as the city’s appearance change in the lightening of torches, oil lamps, gaslight, incendiary bombs and neon signs, nocturnal imagery, sounds, smells and professions – legal and not legal – emerge from the darkness. For Londoners, the night was never simply the absence of day; it was a time of danger, sociability, and creativity; a theatre of crime and vice, but also of performance, work, and pleasure.

The special issue will place particular emphasis on moments when the character of London’s nights was especially contested, including – but not limited to – the Elizabethan, the eighteenth century, the Victorian, the wartime and the postwar city. The Elizabethan period witnessed the emergence of the city’s playhouses, taverns, and nocturnal entertainments, alongside concerns about disorder and moral decline. Eighteenth-century coffee-houses and club meetings reflected the nocturnal city’s uneasy mix of polite sociability and transgressive undercurrents, while pleasure gardens flourished as spaces of spectacle, employment, cross-class mingling, and erotic charge

under cover of darkness. In the Victorian era, the introduction of gaslight transformed both the material and imaginative experience of the night, making the city’s streets newly navigable while also exposing poverty, vice, and vulnerability to the gaze of reformers, police, photographers, and journalists. Wartime London, by contrast, was marked by darkness and silence imposed from above: the blackout and the Blitz remade the urban night as a zone of danger, solidarity, and belonging. The postwar decades, and especially the 1960s, brought the era of Swinging London, in which nightlife became emblematic of youth, fashion, music, and cultural revolution.

Equally important are the particular districts that have defined London’s reputation after dark, including – but again not limited to – the West End and the East End. The East End has been imagined as a zone of poverty, danger, and cultural resilience, alive with street-level economies that flourished under cover of night. The West End has long been associated with theatres, clubs, and the rituals of fashionable display. Soho, especially in the twentieth century, became a microcosm of cosmopolitanism, transgression, and reinvention, providing a home for migrants, artists, musicians, and London’s gay community, who together redefined the possibilities of nocturnal sociability.

Beyond districts and periods, we also invite reflections on the people who navigated, transformed, and reimagined the nocturnal city. The editors are especially keen to foreground questions of diversity and difference. How have London’s nights been inhabited, shaped,

and contested by women, by queer citizens, by migrants and racialised communities, and by those whose working lives were tied to the hours of darkness? How was night both policed and celebrated? How did nocturnal spaces serve as arenas of negotiation between surveillance and resistance, authority and anonymity, privilege and precarity? How have representations in literature, theatre, music, art, and film contributed to the cultural meanings of the nocturnal city? We welcome submissions from across the disciplines, including history, literary and cultural studies, art history, archaeology, urban geography, sociology, performance and media studies, as well as ecology, environmental humanities, and architecture and urbanism. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, as are contributions that combine archival research with theoretical or methodological innovation.

Abstracts of 300–400 words, accompanied by a short biographical statement, should be submitted by 31 March 2026. Full-length articles will be in the range of 6,000–8,000 words and are due by 31 March 2027. Please send proposals and queries to Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu, and Michael McCluskey (m.cinquegrani@kent.ac.uk, scarlett.zhu24@gmail.com, and m.mccluskey@northeastern.edu) with the subject line Nocturnal London Special Issue.

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

NEW QUEER HISTORY ARTICLE from me & @charlielynch.bsky.social! muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

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Project MUSE - Queer Men and Networks of Communication in Northern Ireland Before the 1970s

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Norma Owens @normaowens.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Delighted to be presenting some new research on the Headford Lace industry to the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society next Monday (10 November) at 8pm in the Harbour Hotel. All welcome! gahs.ie/next-lecture/

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Next Lecture (10 November 2025) – Cumann Seandálaíochta agus Staire na Gaillimhe

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University of Galway - History @historyatgalway.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Interested in doing a MA in History? Find out more at University of Galway's Postgraduate Open Day on Tues., 11 Nov. 4-6pm in Bailey Allen www.universityofgalway.ie/postgraduate... For a preview our exciting MA, take a look here youtu.be/SIKBbxm0K1o

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MA History | College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies

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LGBTQ+ History Association @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Have a history paper or research turning into a paper by June 2026 ? If so consider submitting a panel or individual paper to the Queer/Trans History 2026 conference! #QTHC26 Submission deadline is November 1st! To learn more please visit: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Love logging into a website and clicking “remember me”, then coming back later and having it be like “wtf? Who the hell are you?!” Perfect. Wonderful. No notes 🙃

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Elliot @altirishhistorian.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Hi everyone! I'm currently looking for participants for interviews for my PhD research. I'm working on the history of the LGBT+ community in rural Ireland, the way being in rural Ireland impacted the community and how the community impacted rural Ireland, 1970-2000.

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University of Galway - History @historyatgalway.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Delighted to share our Research Seminar Series for this semester! We're starting off next Wed 10 Sept @ 4pm by welcoming our new colleague, Dr Ciarán McCabe, who will be speaking on 'Privacy, Respectability, and Working-Class Domestic Spaces in Dublin's Tenements, c.1910-c.1960'!

Poster for Dr Ciaran McCabe's seminar paper entitled 'Privacy, respectability and working class domestic spaces in Dublin's tenements, c.1910-60'. Wednesday 10 September at 4pm in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Today was my first official day as a PhD student with @historyatgalway.bsky.social and I’m looking forward to getting stuck in properly!

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The #CFP for the Queer/Trans History Conference #QTHC2026 is live, and submissions are due in November. We hope you can all join us in Michigan for a fantastic conference! lgbtq-ha.org/conferences/...

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Queer/Trans History Conference 2026 | LGBTQ+ History Association

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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Amazing day at Galway Pride! Bowser was once again everyone’s favourite doggo ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I’ll be forever mad that use of the em dash has become a “telltale sign” of GenAI responses. As someone who frequently uses the em dash - and has since before GenAI was a thing - it feels like it’s muscling in on my turf. Back off, robot! The em dash is mine!

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Daniel Gallen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I’m delighted to have unknowingly carried on the long and proud tradition of Donegal people coming to Galway to get degrees in the university. If you’re from Donegal and interested in history, then it’s really your duty to do the MAH in UofG! Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

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