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Hannah Ayres

@hannahva390.bsky.social
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PhD @ University of Warwick I IAS Early Career Fellow I queer & trans* re/presentation in museums 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏛📸 “Mistress of queer history” I She/her I Co-host @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social

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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
My first journal article has officially been published! If you want to know more about trans museology and especially the Museum of Transology, check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A “weapon of survival”: the importance of material culture in trans re/presentation
The Museum of Transology contains the UK’s largest collection of objects re/presenting trans, non-binary and intersex people’s lives. It is a project that fosters and centres community for trans pe...
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Working on article corrections 💪
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Theoryish Podcast @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
WAR! What is it good for? Absolutely this week's new episode! We were joined by @hdabrown.bsky.social to discuss "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz . We discuss politics, Napoleon, and Battlestar Galactica! Listen on anchor.fm/theoryish
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Henry Brown @hdabrown.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
War is a continuation of podcast by other means… Had a blast talking with @paolamedgonz.bsky.social and @hannahva390.bsky.social about CvC and Crimson Tide among other things!
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I passed the PhD Viva and am now Dr Hannah Ayres 🥳🥳🥳 Thank you to @richardsandellrcmg.bsky.social and Igi Moon for examining the thesis and making the experience thoroughly enjoyable and encouraging ☺️
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Theoryish Podcast @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
We are back this week with another excellent book from ‪@manchesterup.bsky.social‬ ! We interviewed Rustam Alexander on his monograph, The Red Closet:The hidden history of gay oppression in the USSR. Listen on anchor.fm/theoryish
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Playing round with Obsidian for my first book proposal 📚🕸️
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
We reaching 2000 followers on Spotify @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social 🥳🥳
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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I am co-editing an issue of Puncta with Chris Jingchao Ma on Critical Trans Phenomenology! Submissions are due July 15th. Here is the CFP with full details: puncta.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/pu...
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CFP: Critical Trans Phenomenology | Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We are finally back from our mid season break 🥳 Check out our episode on Carmilla here: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I researched the Museum of Transology for my PhD, and it’s so incredible to see the growth of this project at their 10-year anniversary at the Lethaby Gallery 🥰💜
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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 07/04/2025
Toronto job posting: Museum Collection Specialist at The ArQuves: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives. Salary: $60 000/year + healthcare benefits Deadline: 21 April 2025 More info and to apply: arquives.ca/museum-colle... (Please share, thanks!) #Toronto #GLAM #MuseumStudies🌈🎓 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈
The ArQuives Job Alert

Museum Collection Specialist

The Museum Collections Specialist will work to improve collection management and public access to the connection, particularly through improving our descriptive standards in our collection management system

Full-time, 11-month contract
37.5 hours per week
$60,000/year + health benefits
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ROLES Sexuality & Gender Studies Network @rolesbham.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It's that time again! The Call for Papers for the 2025 ROLES Sexuality and Gender Studies Conference is now open! More info below, and visit rolesbham.wixsite.com/home/confere... for more info/to submit! Welcome to all researching in Gender and Sexuality Studies!
Poster announcing a Call for Papers

Theme: Looking Back,
Looking Forward

Deadline: 2nd May, 12pm

Conference: 9th June, at The University of Birmingham and Online via Zoom. 

The University of Birmingham’s student-led ROLES Sexuality and Gender Studies Network is delighted to announce the Call for Papers for its 14th Annual Conference.

We welcome 250-word abstracts - along with a 50-100-word bio - for 20-minute paper presentations, as well as proposals for presentations that break the mold of conventional academic conference papers. 

Go to https://rolesbham.wixsite.com/home/conferences for more information and to submit an abstract.
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Kit Colliver @presentlyincorrect.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I'm pleased to announce that my paper 'Trans* people’s perceptions of political participation in the wake of voter identification requirements: evidence from the UK', co-authored with Ash Stokoe, is now available Open Access with the European Journal of Politics and Gender doi.org/10.1332/2515... 🌈🎓
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Trans* people’s perceptions of political participation in the wake of voter identification requirements: evidence from the UK
The UK Elections Act 2022 introduced a photo identification (ID) requirement for voting in person in UK general elections and local elections in England and Wales. Fiercely debated, civil society grou...
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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Don't forget the deadline to apply is approaching! APPLY TO PRESENT>> forms.office.com/e/wCQ7W9CyaD Applications close on 28th April 2025 #AcademicSky 🌈🎓 #Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity #Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT #Trans #TransLivesMatter #Trans+ #TVCE
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Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 23/04/2025
Just a reminder I've created a queer and trans studies feed to collate discussions, publications, news and academic jobs relevant to our field. Please like and pin it for easy access, use the 🌈🎓 emojis together to post to it, and share it with your colleagues!
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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
OUT NOW! My chapter 'Toward Asexual Geographies' features in the 10-yr anniversary edition of Asexualities. Feels like a full circle moment! In it, I ask how asexuality studies and geographies of sexuality can enrich the other + think space asexually. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Submitted my first journal article 🤞🤞
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Update: the Viva has been rearranged, it's going to be a little while to wait but looking forward to it! Also I'm feeling a lot better than I was - finally off the painkillers 🌞
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Working on my first journal article today! I think I'm almost there with it 🥳 (still have to format and proofread but the bones are there)
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Simon Arthur @simonarthur.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I have just signed the contract to publish the book based on my PhD thesis, with R outledge books!! Titled "A Sociology of Institutional Banking Power: Elite Power at the Heart of British Banking" which I need to submit in October 2026. I am both excited and terrified!!
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I was meant to have my Viva today (it would have started 15 minutes ago!), and had been looking forward to it for a few months. Unfortunately I've been dealing with a long term health condition, and it reared its head last week and landed me in A&E.
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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We're delighted to open the Call for Papers for the sixth Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference: Globalities and Regionalities (3-6 June 2025). The themes are 'Globalities' and 'Regionalities' with deadline 3 May. Details below and here: middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...
A Call for Papers poster for the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference 2025. The banner image is a medieval map of Afro-eurasia.
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
New episode 🥳🥳 listen here: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/the... Or wherever you get your podcasts
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Theoryish draws from a wide range of disciplines to bring theory to you in the most relevant, interesting, and accessible way. This show aims to create an inclusive community of learning and will show...
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Editing for @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social between teaching classes 💅💅
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Editing for @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social 😌🧹🌕
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Happy to announce an exciting new beginning at @humboldtuni.bsky.social — a new department within BIM dedicated to gender, sexuality, and migration! I am thrilled to serve as co-head of the department alongside @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social! More information: bim.hu-berlin.de/de/abteilung...
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 01/03/2025
If you're not involved in disability activism in the UK you might not be aware of John Pring's incredible and long standing journalistic work covering failings and outright lies from successive British governments about welfare cuts.
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Warwick Researcher Development @warwickrdo.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Why has it taken me so long to trip over this podcast series; Theoryish- take a look #PhDSky open.spotify.com/show/2qDMP6A...
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Podcast · Theoryish · Theoryish draws from a wide range of disciplines to bring theory to you in the most relevant, interesting, and accessible way. This show aims to create an inclusive community of ...
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I’m so excited for this episode to finally be out in the world! Please check out and spread the word, we’d really appreciate it 🥰 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/the...
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Theoryish draws from a wide range of disciplines to bring theory to you in the most relevant, interesting, and accessible way. This show aims to create an inclusive community of learning and will show...
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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester.
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Theoryish Podcast @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
What do YOU know about art? This week we discuss the seminal1939 Clement Greenberg essay "Avant-Garde and Kitsch." We discuss flatness, art, and political kitsch. Listen on your fave podcasting platform via anchor.fm/theoryish !
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Myself and @paolamedgonz.bsky.social were interviewed for the Exchanges Discourse podcast about @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social 🥰 If you fancy a listen you can check it out here: open.spotify.com/episode/1EMr...
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
New episode 🥳🥳: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/the...
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
💅💅💅 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/the...
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
We are back 🥳🥳
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
New episodes of the podcast soon 👀 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/the...
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Anastasia Chamberlen @ana-chamberlen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
JOB (pls share!) you still have some days to apply for this Impact Coordinator role to join the Vulnerable State Project team at Warwick. For details please see here: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
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Research Impact Coordinator (109963-1224) - University of Warwick
Title: Research Impact Coordinator (109963-1224). Application Deadline: 12/01/2025, 23:55. Position Type: Fixed Term
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Back to teaching ☀️
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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Call for conference contributions to ‘Queer Pasts: What’s Queer in Queer History?’ taking place in Copenhagen in May 2025. CFP deadline is 10 January 25.
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Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Analog Game Studies doing a queer-focused issue! CFP here, full essays due in April: analoggamestudies.org/cfp/cfp-quee...
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CFP: Queer Analog Game Studies | Analog Game Studies
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Amazing conference theme alert! CFP examining, from queer/trans studies perspectives, how "individuals, groups, and organisations can be said to make, un-make, and re-make texts"
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I FINALLY SUBMITTED THE PHD 😭😭😭
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We got the Spotify Wrapped for @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social 🥰 very thankful that so many people enjoyed our podcast! We can’t wait to bring you all Season 3 in January 💖💖
Top episode: bell hooks: All About Love: New VisionsListeners come from 89 countries. Our top country is the United States.We’re a top 5 show for 858 fans.We’re a top podcast for 142 fans!
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Rebecca Wright @rebwright.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
We are now advertising a funded PhD connected to our Wellcome Trust project "Carbon Bodies" at Northumbria University. Will be good for those interested in the intersection of energy/health or wanting to explore histories of hygiene. Deadline is the 24th January. tinyurl.com/b9h9adfc
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An Energy History of Hygiene and Cleanliness in Modern Britain (RDF25/ADSS/HIST/WRIGHT) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - An Energy History of Hygiene and Cleanliness in Modern Britain (RDF25/ADSS/HIST/WRIGHT) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Less than a month till I finally hand my PhD in (after 6 years!) - I’m feeling good about where the thesis ended up ☺️ I’m not certain what will happen after this but, for now, I’m trying to stay with the feeling that I achieved something monumental by completing the PhD 💜
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! I will be adding to it; do comment or message if you would like to be added - & share! go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq
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Josh Sbicca @joshsbicca.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Not sure how these starter packs come to be but here you go food studies friends. go.bsky.app/Evp1Stc
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Lis Bundock @lisbundock.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Join the super friendly and supportive LGBTQ+ Research Network for people researching LGBTQ+ topics. We meet regularly online to share ideas and research. Share your username in the comments to be added. @dradambrett.bsky.social go.bsky.app/S2RmnYf
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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 19/11/2024
New funding opportunity for LGBTQ+ Creative Projects in Scotland! 🌈 Find out more about the funding offered by Museums Galleries Scotland through the Small Grants Fund here: www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/funding/smal... The project will be able to join the QHCN Development Programme 2025-26
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Small Grants Fund - Museums Galleries Scotland
Any organisation that runs an accredited museum in Scotland can apply to Museums Galleries Scotland for up to £15,000 from the Small Grants Fund.
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