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Anna Heinonen @annahei.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'll be giving a talk titled 'Blurring the boundary of sexual and non-sexual intimacies in communal and couple-defiant households' at the Manchester Metropolitan University next Wednesday, 7th Oct at 3 pm. The event is hybrid, welcome to join us! Link to the event and registration:

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CISG Seminar with Anna Heinonen

Anna will share her research on intimacies in communal and couple-defiant households, followed by time for discussion

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've submitted to this symposium: and maybe you would like to too? Call for Papers: Queer Rural History Symposium (Location: Reading, England)

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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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FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When heckled by a protestor at his conference speech, Farage said she probably studied Sociology. Probably! Why do right-wingers hate Sociology so much? Because it provides people with knowledge to change the world, not as a thought exercise, but as the tools of liberation youtu.be/N03BXeWj6q4?...

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Awake and on the March: A Public Defence of Sociology - Finn Mackay

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Rachel Bayer @rachelbayer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finalizing proofs today for my forthcoming chapter in the Routledge International Handbook of Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms due out early next year! Take a peek at all the amazing contributions in the Table of Contents here: www.routledge.com/Routledge-In...

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please follow/connect with me on LinkedIn! I will leave BSky soon :)) www.linkedin.com/in/joe-jukes...

Joe is standing in front of an orange-yellow wooden wall. They are smiling and wearing a blue and white striped jacket. The sun is shining. They are happy.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please follow/connect with me on LinkedIn! I will leave BSky soon :)) www.linkedin.com/in/joe-jukes...

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This news and the University of Brighton stuff circulating this week is just another hammer to my own (and our collective) hope in the future of UK HE. Truly idiotic levels of vandalism far in excess of managerial prudence... are they not aware that arts, hums & soc. sciences concern, well, life?!

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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1/3 CFP: Islandness in Contemporary Critique Online Conference | 1–2 Feb 2027 We invite 15-minute papers advancing one clear conceptual provocation about how islandness is generative for contemporary critical thought 500-word abstracts due 1 Nov 2026

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Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#Bristol #Queer #lgbtq+ History fans! There's a free lecture about the history of Bristol Pride by Dr Robert Howes 3/10 at the Peel Lecture Theatre at the University of Bristol 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I featured myself on my own podcast (forgive me)! But it was fab to speak with my colleague Derek Ruez about my research into LGBTQ+ rural life and queer friendship. In particular I emphasise friendship's relationship to mutual aid. Listen here/Spotify/Apple/more: www.spreaker.com/episode/lgbt...

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LGBTQ+ friendship, spatial commitments and rural England with Joe Jukes - Space & Sexuality

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reminder that I produce a podcast called Space & Sexuality! So far we have covered: - Pride and politics in Copenhagen, - Queer suburbia - Queer architectures - Queer-trans ecologies - Queer organising in Amsterdam - and more! Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/show/033DRqR... 🌈🎓

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Space & Sexuality

Podcast · Joe Jukes · Welcome to Space & Sexuality, a new podcast series that brings together leading and emerging scholars in the field of queer geographies to explore cutting-edge research at the in...

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sadly no specific calls for gender, sexuality, human geography etc. BUT could be a great call for other scholars!

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Derek Ruez @derek-ruez.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Excited to be in such great company in this thought-provoking @edinburghup.bsky.social collection, Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe, edited by @stilllife0.bsky.social, @ajsecor.bsky.social & @mikkojorge.bsky.social. The book is open access: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-cultura...

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Rachel Bayer @rachelbayer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Gorgeous first day at the European Geographies of Sexualities Conference in Maribor!

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My uni have just withdrawn Geography, History & Geography and Politics & Geography undergrad courses run from our Penryn campus. Terrible for Cornwall. How did the staff find out? When UCAS clearing opened at 8am 😡

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My wonderful friend and colleague Rachel passed her PhD examination this month!! Hers is the first full research project on asexual geographies (that I am aware of), with excellent empirical data. Congratulations Rachel!

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Part of my research includes "ITE" or DIY/Outsider art in Finland. So, it was great to go and see the large exhibition, "Karnivaali" of ITE art in Hämeenlinna this week! Lots of queer ruralities on show incl. Jyri Rastas from Tampere and my research subject Veijo Rönkkönen.

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"What was once a worrying trend across a number of disciplines is now an emergency, threatening all subjects. Courses are closing, provision is contracting, and geographical inequalities in access are becoming entrenched."🔥🔥🔥 Blessed to have been taught by @sjs1869.bsky.social who tells it like is.

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This week at work I submitted an article manuscript about looking for queerness in rural photo collections. I'm thinking about materiality and the material conditions of desire, and how photography can amplify these... Excuse the awful photographs x

Black and white photo (ca 1940s?) of two male labourers in work-wear atop a large tractor.

Image of two small glass cups sat on top of a white cloth, which is laid in such a way at to also provide the backdrop. Harsh flash.

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

📣New queer geographies podcast! 🌈🎓 Introducing 'Space & Sexuality': Every 2 weeks, I share conversations with leading & emerging scholars across queer/trans geographies of sex and sexualities. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to the first 2 ep's: open.spotify.com/show/033DRqR...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

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University of Exeter cuts an ‘existential threat to humanities’

Russell Group institution cites changing student demand as it puts 500 staff at risk of redundancy, with 150 jobs set to go

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Just heard about the 200 redundancies announced by my previous employer, the University of Exeter. 170 of those are in Humanities and Social Sciences. This is what happens in a country with the collapsing HE funding system with VCs-cum-CEOs on £300k salaries+bonuses and corporate governing bodies.

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A DIY maypole for Midsummer!

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Ana-Cristina Santos (she/her) @anacristinasantos.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🔥 My latest book, A Research Agenda for Queer Ageing, has just been published! Bringing together world-class scholars across the 🌍, this #OpenAccess book is precious. Enjoy! #PrideMonth 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #SociologyMatters #trace_ces #queerageing @erc.europa.eu @elgarpublishing.bsky.social @ces-uc.bsky.social

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Summer is here and with it, our workplace Mölkky league, a community-building bit of fun involving Finnish skittles 🌳🌳🌳

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Ana Viñuela @anavinuela.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

To put these numbers into perspective: In 2024, the University of Dundee had a bit over 3,000 staff.

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Rachel Bayer @rachelbayer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Still buzzing from our @aroaceresearch.bsky.social talk! It was such a pleasure to reflect with @joejukes.bsky.social on why we love geography, and share some of our work with such an engaged audience. If you'd like to learn more about Asexual Geographies, check out our co-written article here:

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New directions for asexual geographies - Joe Jukes, Rachel Bayer, 2025

Thinking geographically involves empirically contextualizing and critically contesting the situatedness of relational life. Thinking asexually, meanwhile, means...

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Going into Friday rounding off a research trip to Eastern Finland with colleagues. We’ve been visiting an ITE / DIY artist’s home and staying on a nearby island 💚 Let the Finnish Summer times roll from here on out…!

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George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My latest article has just been published in The Historical Journal. It looks at the ways in which HIV/AIDS was positioned as not just an urban problem, but one that was antithetical to rural spaces. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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HIV/AIDS and the English Countryside | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core

HIV/AIDS and the English Countryside

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Rachel Bayer @rachelbayer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month! Really looking forward to kicking off the Aro/Ace Online Talk Series with @joejukes.bsky.social this Friday, 5 June. Everyone is welcome, details below ✨

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Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network @aroaceresearch.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

We are delighted to welcome @rachelbayer.bsky.social and @joejukes.bsky.social for the first session of the Aro/Ace Online Talk Series who will introduce us to #asexual #geographies! The talk will take place on zoom next Friday, 5 June, at 3pm (UK). Link here: www.aroaceresearch.com/events

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Martha Robinson Rhodes @mrobinsonrhodes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

My furry editor and I are excited to announce the publication of my book, Bisexuality and Beyond: A History of Multiple-Gender-Attraction in Modern Britain!

A box containing several copies of the book Bisexuality and Beyond. A small tabby cat is enthusiastically rubbing her head against the box.

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Tens of thousands of jobs lost from UK Higher Education in recent years, causing god knows how much damage to universities' local economies - government sat twiddling their thumbs.

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Happy Friday! Entering the weekend by sending off a new and improved chapter on lesbian-queer homemaking for an edited collection 👀

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

A gloriously verdant & happy Mayday! The green fuse is lit, the lushness breathtaking, the birdsong still (though much-diminished) a wonder. Cuckoo calling in the distance. It makes you feel youthful (I’m not) & hopeful (I am). Hope you can find some of this wherever you are.

The freshest greenest beech leaves on trees above a corrugated modern barn

Vivid green Beech leaves against the blue sky, darker where they overlap

Thatched cottages in the lush landscape; their roofs just showing. Downland beyond, all framed by trees

Beech and holly trees either side a track through the woods

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Marjo Kolehmainen @marjokolehmainen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

All welcome - this will be livestreamed!

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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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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The Table of Contents of this book looks amazing!

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