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LGBTIQ* Movements as Agents of Democratization @queerdemocracies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Queere Geschichte aus vielen Perspektiven: Im WiSe 2026/27 lädt der Arbeitsbereich „Didaktik der Geschichte“ der FU Berlin zum Kolloquium Queere Geschichte ein. 🏳️‍🌈📚 📍 Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, FU Berlin (hybrid) 🕑 dienstags, 14:00–16:00 Uhr ✉️ Anmeldung und Fragen: queerdem@geschkult.fu-berlin.de

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Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social · 2h

Have been off the socials for a while but this was such a fabulous conference at such an important time. Many thanks to the #uniBielefeld crew for putting gender history front and centr

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Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Delighted to raise a glass to a lovely surprise that arrived in today’s mail - congratulations all! What a wonderful bunch to work with and many thanks @jennifervevans.bsky.social @kerrywallach.bsky.social, Jill Suzanne Smith, Javier Samper Vendrell and Andrew Webber for your generous endorsements!

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Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 11/02/2026

CFP for a special issue on the global politics of anti-trans moral panics from transfeminist perspectives. Timely and necessary. www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Global Politics and Anti-Trans Moral Panics: Transfeminist Perspectives
Academic Editor(s): Charlotte Galpin (University of Birmingham), Gina Gwenffrewi (University of Edinburgh), and Ash Stokoe (University of Birmingham)

Submission of Abstracts: 1-15 March 2026
Submission of Full Papers: 15-31 August 2026
Publication of the Issue: January/June 2027

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Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Amidst all the sadness and violence as the old year drew to a close and new one begins, I was excited to get a mention in this Spiegel article on the sexual politics of the Weimar Republic by the super well-informed @christophgunkel.bsky.social A good time to be reflecting on this past.

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(S+) Goldene Zwanziger in der Weimarer Republik: Lust, Rausch, Untergang

Vor hundert Jahren zelebrierte die junge Republik demokratische Freiheit und feierte wildeste Partys und das Queersein – sogar in der Provinz, wie neuere Forschungen zeigen. Und dann kamen die Nazis. ...

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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Hot off the presses and available now in English. A major contribution from @ankahajkova.bsky.social. I was honoured to write the forward. utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

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People without History are Dust - University of Toronto Press

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Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

@brangwenstone.bsky.social and I are giving a talk next week in the Aus German Studies seminar online at 3.30pm AEDT - "Bad Feelings to Utopian Promises: Non-Binary Dissociative Poetics in Strubel’s Blaue Frau and Salzmann’s Außer sich" - trans studies/German lit, DM for a zoom link

Image of author Antje Rávik Strubel and the abstract pink cover their 2021 novel "Blaue Frau" (Blue Woman)

Image of author Sascha Salzmann and their 2017 novel "Ausser sich" (Outside/Beside oneself)

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 23/09/2025

Neurodivergent people have a different way of thinking. Different is good. Diversity is good. It’s why life evolved in webs of diversity. The current regime wants to stamp that out and make copies of themselves in some sort of clonic inbred way that would have spelled extinction for most species.

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

📣 Only 1 month to go until the first event in our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Series! Join us for a lecture by Benno Gammerl (@eui-eu.bsky.social) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?' on 21 October at 5:30 pm (BST), either in person at Swedenborg House or via Zoom. 1/6

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Monique Botha @drmbothapsych.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Don’t miss it and grab some of the last remaining online and in-person spots now for my public lecture at the end of my fellowship! 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...

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Centre for Neurodiversity and Development Public Lecture

Why autism isn't what you think it is (and why that matters) - end of fellowship Public Lecture by Dr Monique Botha

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Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The new must-have in critical neurodiversity studies!

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Dr. Daniel P. Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Day 3 of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference at @durhamimh.bsky.social is underway! We’ve got a call for papers (+ more) open at the moment for a special issue on critical ND studies, why not check it out? 👏 💫 @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @ndhumanities.bsky.social

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Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

And wonderfully provocative Roundtable powerfully interrogating what it means to do critical neurodiversity studies from a truly intersectional standpoint, and the limits of institutional-based knowledges. Learnt a lot.

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Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Brilliant keynotes by @remiyergeau.bsky.social and @ainokash.bsky.social on day 2 of the critical ND studies conference have my head spinning about the many potentialities of neurotrans theories and kitchen appliances and of madness as a form of incisive clairvoyance in times of political attack

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Jonah I. Garde @jonahgarde.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Feels a bit surreal but Trans* Geschichten der Moderne is now available for preorders and available open access after June 30: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

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Trans* Geschichten der Moderne

Auseinandersetzungen in Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Medien: warum Trans* Geschichte und Kolonialgeschichte nicht isoliert voneinander betrachtet werden können.

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Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Fantastic session on neuroqueer aesthetics with an intersectional German Studies slant featuring Catherine Smale, Denise Henschel and Liselotte Van der Gucht on day one of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conf #cnds25 @durhamimh.bsky.social

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LGBTQ+ History Association @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Learn more and how to submit your proposal at: drive.google.com/file/d/1Vgth...

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Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

open.substack.com/pub/jeanette... Jeanette Winterson’s reflections post Sydney writers’ festival, on AI, lies, and the state of things. “I am a fiction writer, so it makes me mad when people call lies ‘fiction’. Fiction is what gets us closer to the truth, not running in the opposite direction.”

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It's difficult

I am back from my travels in Australia.

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Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Excellent critique by @ainokash.bsky.social „The Cass Review, in much the same way as ongoing transphobic trends in current political and cultural discourse, insidiously mobilises neurodivergence with dehumanising and agential consequences for disabled and trans people.“

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Dr Dyi D. Huijg @drdyidhuijg.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia' Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29 Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

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Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia

We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...

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Neurodivergent Humanities Network @ndhumanities.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

In light of the news today in the UK, we want to state that the Neurodivergent Humanities Network is - & will always be - a trans-inclusive space. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary folks are non-binary folks. Solidarity to our trans and NB friends, today and forever. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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Jonah I. Garde @jonahgarde.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Check out the website of this student-led trans* public histories project: transgeschichten.de

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Trans* Geschichte(n) – Wenn sich Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit treffen

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The African Studies Association has been dealing with this forever. Example: the case of Christiana Ejura Attah in 2017: "British embassy officials decided Attah was likely not to return to Nigeria, because her husband, also an academic, had been granted a visa to the same three-day conference."

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University conferences at risk as academic speakers refused UK visas

Warnings Britain is closing the door on academic collaboration after a Nigerian lawyer and at least 14 overseas experts are denied entry for one event

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

seeing people post about #TransRightsReadathon – you can find links to all my books, plus no-paywall links to all my online essays (stretching back to the 00s!), on my writings webpage: juliaserano.com/writings.html

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Julia Serano's writings

a comprehensive bibliography of Julia's books, anthology contributions, essays & articles, fiction, slam poems, academic papers, and chapbooks

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Reka Krizmanics @rekakrizmanics.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Looking forward to getting a hold of The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe. It's available for pre-order already.📚 🗃🗃🌈

Book cover: The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe

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Dr Louise Creechan @louisecreechan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Overwhelmed by the response to the CFP for the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference in June - over 200 abstracts! An amazing sign for the development of the field! I guess we've got some reading to do...

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Alternating between these proofs and the news is making me very emotional. “Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory” is a conversation long overdue and at the same time seems almost too late. I can’t wait to share this special issue & talk trans-crip activism, theory, film, and art with y’all 🥹 Out in May!

An image of a proof page on a laptop that reads TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly Volume 12, Number 2, May 2025
"Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory"
Edited by J. Logan Smilges and Slava Greenberg
147 General Editor's Introduction: Bracketed Sites Dylan McCarthy Blackston
152 Toward a Trans[]crip Theory: Introduction J. Logan Smilges and Slava Greenberg

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Susan Stryker @susanstryker.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I joined more than 350 LGBTQIA+ historians in signing this letter protesting the government attempt to erase trans people from history by censoring the Stonewall National Monument website. Erasing a word does not erase our existence--now or in the past. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Letter on Modifications to the National Stonewall Monument Web Pages

Letter on the National Park Service Modifications to the Stonewall National Monument Web Pages Signatures closed at 5 P.M. EST on February 19, 2025. If you are a journalist writing about this issue o...

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Nikolaos Papadogiannis @npapadogian.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Exciting news!

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RK @krtzsche.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

"Die Naivität derjenigen, die bei der CDU uns erklären wollen, dass das alles ja nicht gewollt war, dass man deren Stimmen gar nicht haben wollte, ist so unterkomplex, dass man da gar nicht mehr hinhören kann". www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...

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Michel Friedman tritt aus der CDU aus

Nach der gemeinsamen Abstimmung von Union und AfD im Bundestag verlässt Michel Friedman die CDU. Der Publizist jüdischen Glaubens sprach von einer "katastrophalen Zäsur" und einem "unentschuldbaren Ma...

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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Advanced grad students in German Studies/History consider applying to this summer opportunity: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

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Neurodivergent Humanities Network @ndhumanities.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A pivotal intervention for critical neurodiversity studies and health humanities scholarship is heading our way later this year!

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Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Fantastic new CfP in critical neurodiversity studies for fully hybrid conference at Durham in late June: Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions (24-26 June 2025). medhumsplatform.org/call-for-abs...

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Call for Abstracts: Critical Neurodiversity Studies, 24–26 June 2025, Durham, UK

Submissions for Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions close 28 February 2025.

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Ethan @drbeef.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Fascinated by the sociogeny of madness and "mental health”? Compelled by the affective turn? Want to burn down the house neurodivergence research currently resides in and build something much better from the ashes? Consider submitting a proposal to join the 4S Panel I’m organizing! Link in 🧵.

We have yet to see “the affective turn” genuinely embrace the world of neurodivergence and mental health. Scholars of disability
and physical “health” are expanding notions of what it means to be disabled, and critiquing the interrelated necropolitical
systems of incarceration, policing, public health, Capitalism, white supremacy, fascism, and others, that impact debility,
wellness, and flourishing. Sadly, scholars of neurodivergence and mental health have largely not followed suit. This open panel
aims to change that. We invite submissions that explore the complex interrelations of discursive practices, the human body,
social and cultural forces, and individually experienced but historically situated affects and emotions of madness and/or mental
health. Explorations might include: sanism and its discontents; critical psychopathology and/or emerging alternative approaches
to mental health and wellbeing (e.g. somatic approaches, neo-pharmaceuticals/medicinals); historical-comparative case studies
of madness and mental “illness" (including papers that explore the appropriation of indigenous and First Nations methods and
modes of care/treatment and/or the exploitation of Black and Indigenous peoples themselves); critiques of the DSM (and/or other
diagnostic tools and psychometrics); narratives and first-person accounts of diagnosis (including self-diagnosis) and/or coming
in/to disability/madness (particularly those that decenter whiteness and cisheterosexuality, and/or that are global/transnational);
visions of neurodivergent and/or mad futurity; stories of mad/crip thriving and kinship/care networks during the crumbling of
empires; and many others not named here.

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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Three titles in queer history among the shortlist for Best Book Prize from the Waterloo Centre for German Studies!!!! uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-g...

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WCGS Book Prize | Waterloo Centre for German Studies

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies promotes research into any and all aspects of the German-speaking world.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

🧵 no-paywall links to all my writings are found here: juliaserano.com/writings.html if you appreciate that I make these free, please consider supporting my work on Patreon (for as little as $1/month): www.patreon.com/juliaserano or subscribing to my Substack (paid or free): juliaserano.substack.com

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creating Writings!

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Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Horrific news of fire bombing of synagogue yesterday in a part of Melbourne I know well - it seems unthinkable, and yet.

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

📢🎉Calling critical medical humanities researchers! The University of Hong Kong is searching for one or multiple Assistant / Associate Professors (tenure-track) in critical medical humanities to join their energetic & expanding team. Apply by mid-Jan mehu.hku.hk/opportunitie...

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Opportunities and Job Openings – HKU MEHU

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Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Fab sounding queer history conference in Copenhagen next year nors.ku.dk/english/rese....

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Queer Pasts: What’s Queer in Queer History?

International conference.

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Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Been doing some invigorating thinking around the visual medical humanities these past days thanks to a great reflections workshop run by Keren Hammerschlag @ANU - great to reconnect and meet some new people!

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