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ISA RC31 Sociology of Migration @isa-rc31.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#ISA_RC31_New_book Congrats! John Marnell , B Camminga , Barbara Bompani and Kamau Wairuri (eds) (2026). East African #queer and #trans displacements. Bloomsbury Academic. doi.org/10.5040/9781... The first dedicated #OpenAccess collection examining #LGBTQI+ displacement across #EastAfrica.

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B Camminga @obsqueer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Join us on 10 September for a conversation on Queer and Trans Displacement in East Africa, hosted by GenSem IMISCOE. Register here: gensem_queer_eastafrica.eventbrite.co.uk Drawing on the new open-access collection East African Queer and Trans Displacements - tinyurl.com/mr22b55h

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B Camminga @obsqueer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

New blog on our edited collection is up @mmbuob.bsky.social check it out migration.bristol.ac.uk/2026/05/11/w... and come to our cross book talk happening this Wednesday in person and online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-and-...

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Why East Africa? Why now? On ‘East African Queer and Trans Displacements’ – Migration Mobilities Bristol

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B Camminga @obsqueer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

20th of May in person and online, a book event on what does justice look like for queer refugees. Hope to see you these! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-and-trans-mobilities-and-the-search-for-refuge-tickets-1987323413828

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Queer and Trans Mobilities and the Search for Refuge

Mengia Tschalär (CUNY), Samuel Ritholtz (Oxford), Rebecca Buxton and B Camminga (Bristol) in conversation with Diego Rodriguez (Leicester).

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B Camminga @obsqueer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

What does justice look like for queer & trans people searching for refuge? Join us 20 May for a book panel with scholars from Bristol, Oxford, CUNY & Leicester. Free, hybrid. Register 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-and-...

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Queer and Trans Mobilities and the Search for Refuge

Mengia Tschalär (CUNY), Samuel Ritholtz (Oxford), Rebecca Buxton and B Camminga (Bristol) in conversation with Diego Rodriguez (Leicester).

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B Camminga @obsqueer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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Queer and Trans Mobilities and the Search for Refuge

Mengia Tschalär (CUNY), Samuel Ritholtz (Oxford), Rebecca Buxton and B Camminga (Bristol) in conversation with Diego Rodriguez (Leicester).

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Thanks to everyone who came to the Glasgow launch of my book! Humbled by the generous and sharp witted reflections from @obsqueer.bsky.social, @kamauwairuri.bsky.social & Kate Botterill—such an honour! 🙌 Upcoming events in Oxford, London, Nairobi, Bristol & North America to be announced very soon!

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B Camminga @obsqueer.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

East African Queer + Trans Displacements (Bloomsbury, 2026) is now Open Access and fully downloadable from today 🌍✨ A collective exploration of movement, borders, belonging, and survival across the region. Read and share widely. tinyurl.com/4bvknnwv #QueerStudies #TransStudies #QueerMigration

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B Camminga @obsqueer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Excited to be launching East African Queer + Trans Displacements (Bloomsbury) with incredible contributors. 📅2 March, 15:00 (UK)| 💻 Online Open Access from 25 Feb 🎉 A chance to celebrate collective labour & reflect on what a regional lens brings to queer/trans displacement Reg: tinyurl.com/wyx6z9h4

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Virtual Book Launch of East African Queer & Trans Displacements

Join us for the online launch of East African Queer and Trans Displacements, a new open access edited collection published by Bloomsbury

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B Camminga @obsqueer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

🎉 Big news! Our new collection, East African Queer and Trans Displacements, is out Open Access 5 Feb. Bringing together diverse case studies + interdisciplinary perspectives, this collection offers the first in-depth examination of queer and trans displacement in East Africa. tinyurl.com/4fz2rk5v

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B Camminga @obsqueer.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Out today with @iciberlinpress.bsky.social in Breaking & Making Models: my chapter ‘Persistence: Model Asylum Narratives & a Recognizable ‘Transgenderness’. I explore African trans asylum memoirs & the ‘unsafe return’ in the trans travel narrative. Open access: tinyurl.com/36fmacec

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Persistence: Model Asylum Narratives and a Recognizable 'Transgenderness'

In recent years, autobiographical narratives by transgender migrants and refugees from Africa have emerged, such as Farah Abdi’s Never Arrive, Neo Sandja’s Right Mind, Wrong Body, and Rizi Xavier Tima...

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B Camminga @obsqueer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

In Kalamazoo for ‘Resisting Harm, Building the Future’, hosted by the Arcus Centre for Social Justice Leadership. Going to be talking about what nearly 20 years of the ‘Proudly African + Transgender’ portraits has offered the world 🏳️‍⚧️

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B Camminga @obsqueer.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Save the date! 📅 On April 3rd, I’ll be talking (also, let’s be real—fangirling) with an amazing group of scholars. Can’t wait! ✨

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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Sociologists working on inequality: Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required) EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f... Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials

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B Camminga @obsqueer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Wonderful panel discussing our edited collection Queer + Trans African Mobilities at the African Studies Assoc Conference. Gratitude for Naminata Diabate, Ola Yacob-Haliso, Z'étoile Imma & Brenna Munro and the Queer African Studies Association

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B Camminga @obsqueer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

A great way to end the semester. Presented what will hopefully be the intro to my forthcoming monograph at SOAS Gender yesterday. Had the best time! Grateful for generosity in environments that want us to operate from a space of scarcity!

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Caroline Lenette @carolinelenette.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

It's been a few months in the making... & it's now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.org

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Anti-Colonial Research Library

Welcome to the Anti-Colonial Research Library This Library holds a collection of open-access articles and books, websites, and YouTube…

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