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tunayaltay.bsky.social

@tunayaltay.bsky.social
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Sociologist at the Humboldt University of Berlin, writing on #QueerMigration, #racialization, and sexual politics in #MENA #Europe 🏳‍🌈 Dr. WiMi ✍️ Queer and Trans Life (2024)& Resisting Far-Right Politics (2024)

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Apostolos Andrikopoulos @andrikopoulos.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
If you’re in London this Thursday, you’re very welcome to join us for a talk by @tunayaltay.bsky.social on migrant drag performers in Germany.
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Performing Politics: Drag, Queer Migration, and the Aesthetics of Postmigrant Survival
This talk explores migrant drag as a queer world-making practice amid rising anti-migrant and anti-trans politics.
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
We are thrilled to announce that nominations—including self-nominations—are now open for the Gender and Sexuality Research Network's Best Article Prize. This award is an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the outstanding and innovative research contributions of our members.
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Excited to share the program for this year’s lecture series in Queer Feminist Issues in Methodologies! Following last year’s format, we will use the classroom as a space to discuss research as a process, focusing on the decisions we make during research design, data collection, and analysis.
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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Have you read "Translating difference: Whiteness, racialisation, and queer migration in Berlin" 🤔 The paper by @tunayaltay.bsky.social was selected as the EJPG's Best Article of 2025 🤩 👀Read the award-winning paper here: doi.org/10.1332/2515...
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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🤩 New year, new award ✨ The EJPG team are absolutely delighted to announce that @tunayaltay.bsky.social has been award the 2025 Best Article Award for their paper on "Translating difference: Whiteness, racialisation, and queer migration in Berlin" 🏆 doi.org/10.1332/2515...
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
📢 Reminder: The Gender & Sexuality Research Network (GSRN) looks forward to seeing you at the next CES conference, June 16–18, 2026, at University College Dublin 🇮🇪. Don’t miss the Call for Papers!
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The Gender and Sexuality Research Network (GSRN) is excited to invite you to the next annual CES conference, which will take place at University College Dublin, Ireland, on June 16–18, 2026. Full details for the conference and the Call for Papers are available here: ces-temple.secure-platform.com/a
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EASA @easainfo.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
✨ OUT NOW! ✨ 📚 From our book series with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social Queer and Trans Life: Anthropological Futures ⌲ Edited by @silviaposocco.bsky.social, @ej-gp.bsky.social, Lars Aaberg & @tunayaltay.bsky.social Find out more: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Posocc...
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
New paper out! ✨ We critically examine Germany’s 2024 citizenship reform and call for a shift from one-dimensional migration discourse to a postmigrant perspective—viewing migration as a dynamic, multilinear force shaping broader societal transformation w @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social & Naika Foroutan!
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Undoing one-dimensionality: reforming German citizenship through the postmigrant framework - Comparative Migration Studies
This paper critically examines Germany’s 2024 citizenship reform, designed to promote integration and pluralism through legal and societal transformations. We argue that the prevailing migration disco...
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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
For #PrideMonth, we're highlighting books with free introductions! Browse our site #GenderStudies & #SexualityStudies: bit.ly/3Fs37yw Check out QUEER & TRANS LIFE by Posocco @silviaposocco.bsky.social, Gonzalez-Polledo @ej-gp.bsky.social, Aaberg, Altay @tunayaltay.bsky.social: bit.ly/40Rr228
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
UvA Media Studies has some fully funded PhDs in governance and data infrastructure www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3517...
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Three Fully-funded Interdisciplinary PhD Positions on Governance by Data Infrastructure
Are you passionate about interdisciplinary research on data infrastructure, governance, and democracy? Do you have a strong interest in citizen science and methodological innovation? The Department of...
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
People are being kidnapped off the street for their political views, sent to holding centers due process and in defiance of judicial orders, sent to camps overseas, and still progressives and liberals are painted as the real tyrants. These editors aren’t prepared for when it happens to them.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
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Aleks Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
OUT NOW – ‘Sex, care and the working body: ambiguities of the gendered racialisation as “Eastern European”’ by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & @probursula.bsky.social: A short summary 🧵 (1-11): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Sarah Bracke @antigonesdream.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Video of PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk being snatched from the streets in Somerville, MA, by unidentifiable people (& unmarked vehicle), claiming to be police. Last year, she co-authored an op-ed critiquing Tufts' response to students calling upon the uni to condemn genocide in Gaza. #fascism
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
By forcing the Istanbul mayor out of politics, Turkey has crossed from competitive authoritarianism to full-blown autocracy. A must-read analysis: www.foreignaffairs.com/turkey/turke...
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Turkey Is Now a Full-Blown Autocracy
Erdogan may come to regret his latest power grab.
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Deeply concerning: The Trump admin is revoking legal status for 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua & Venezuela. Meanwhile, a journalist captured the treatment of the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador. Horrific. time.com/7269604/el-s...
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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I’ve launched my Substack, Footnotes, where I share my journey of writing my first monograph while navigating postdoc life in Germany. If you’re a researcher, writer, or just curious about the behind-the-scenes of academic work, come join me! tunayaltay.substack.com/p/what-makes...
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What Makes Up a Writing System?
Building a Writing System: The Tools and Habits That Keep Me Productive as an Academic Writer
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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Amazing new release from #TVCE member @silviaposocco.bsky.social, alongside colleagues @ej-gp.bsky.social and @tunayaltay.bsky.social #AcademicSky 🌈🎓 Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
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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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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
QUEER AND TRANS LIFE: Anthropological Futures, edited by Silvia Posocco (@silviaposocco.bsky.social), EJ Gonzalez-Polledo (@ej-gp.bsky.social), Lars Aaberg, Tunay Altay (@tunayaltay.bsky.social) has now been published! Find out more here: bit.ly/40Rr228 #Anthropology #GenderStudies
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
📢 We’re thrilled to open nominations (incl. self-noms) for the Council for European Studies- Gender and Sexuality RN's Best Article Prize! 🏆 Submit your nomination to tunay.altay@hu-berlin.de by March 14. The paper must be peer-reviewed, published in 2024, and authored by a network member.
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Heading to #BrownUniversity tomorrow for our book launch on Jan 30. I've been following the deportation news since I arrived in DC three days ago. Borders are not only about the physical exclusion of certain members of society but also methods to normalize mistreatment and violence.
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
A big thank you to everyone who joined us at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of our book! Special thanks to Dina Wahba for making us feel at home at FU, and to @naikaforoutan.bsky.social for chairing the HU event! The book is #open-access!
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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
"Translating difference: whiteness, racialisation and queer migration in Berlin" 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇩🇪‍ Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Berlin, @tunayaltay.bsky.social's paper shows how racism is ambiguously attached to migration and sexual difference.
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Translating difference: whiteness, racialisation and queer migration in Berlin
This article explores how the experiences of queer migration shape and inform racialisation, and how racial categories, such as ‘whiteness’ and ‘non-whiteness’, are employed by queer migrants from…
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Join us for the launch of Resisting Far-Right Politics in the Middle East and Europe, published by @edinburghup.bsky.social! The event will feature a great lineup of speakers, including my co-editors, Nadje Al-Ali and Katharina Galor. 📅 Thursday, January 16 at @humboldtuni.bsky.social 👇
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Excited to bring a playful twist to queer sociology this week for SOWI Fachschaft @humboldtuni.bsky.social! Inspired by the viral "What's in my bag?" trend, I’ll unpack my academic bag to explore how the items* I’ve collected over the years shape my practice and identity as a researcher.
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Designing a syllabus for Queer Transnationalism next semester! I will include readings on queer liberalism, globalization, and their impact on sexual politics. I will also explore migration, war, and far-right politics to discuss tensions & transformations. Suggestions are most welcome! ☺️
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Had so much fun participating in the queer life writing workshop led by Nikolaj Tange. Exploring queer autobiographies as a genre has been truly inspiring. I'm even thinking about starting a reading group in Berlin centered on this theme. If anyone has book recommendations, I’d love to hear them!
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
📢Resisting Far-Right Politics is available for pre-order @edinburghup.bsky.social! The volume presents case studies that highlight how far-right politics intersect with gender and sexuality in authoritarian, illiberal, and radical movements in the Middle East and Europe.
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tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Couldn't stand to see my "for you" page promoting conspiracy theories, anti-woke, anti-intellectual, anti-LGBTQ, and blatantly racist content... It is sad to see how a platform can change this much and be used as a tool to mainstream and normalize hate. Anyways, hi @bsky.app!
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Queer Politics Webinar @queerseminar.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
📌 Up next in the Queer Politics Webinar Series: Join us on Thursday to hear from stellar @tunayaltay.bsky.social (Humboldt University Berlin). Dive into his fantastic work on "Revisiting queer migration in Europe." A vital topic in today's world! 🕑 12pm Eastern (9am Pacific/ 4pm GMT)
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