Bitte lesen. Nicht nur, aber vor allem #FirstGen |s werden aus dem System gedrängt, u.a., weil auf sie i.d.R. kein dickes Erbe am Horizont wartet & sie für ihre Altersvorsorge selbst verantwortlich sind. #Altersarmut Wissenschaft muss man sich leisten können. #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #PDprekär

Soeharto being granted the title of National hero in Indonesia is a betrayal of all those killed by his regime. His actions & that of the forces under his control caused death & suffering all across Indonesia & beyond. Whitewashing history by the gov't. #SoehartoBukanPahlawan

CfP: "Feminism and the making of the built environment: from past to present". The YWH is now accepting submissions for issue #44 about feminist architectural practices! yearbookwomenshistory.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/c... #skystorians #architecture #feministarchitecture #academia #CfP

The Centre for Empire Studies at the University of Muenster is now offering 6-month fellowships to PhD candidates and postdocs! You'll work on your own project, application deadline is 31 March. #bluestorians www.uni-muenster.de/Geschichte/e...

In 1913, suffragettes used this poster to protest the so-called 'Cat and Mouse Act'. Under this Act, weakened hunger-strikers were let out of prison, only to be arrested again once they had regained their strenghts. Awesome and terrifying all at once!

Work with me and Karen Hiestand! This Bloomsbury Colleges Doctoral Studentship is the 1st collaboration between Birkbeck humanities & the Royal Veterinary College. A great opportunity for candidates interested in innovative approaches to human-animal relations! bloomsbury.ac.uk/2025-project...

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM

Starting today, same-sex marriage is officially legalized in Thailand. It’s the first country in Southeast Asia to recognize marriage equality.

Berlin has an abundance of notable twentieth-century coats of arms. Like the coat of arms of the East Berlin borough of Hohenschönhausen that was in use from 1987 to 1993 and reflects how central the GDR's Plattenbauten are for the borough.

Het KNHG, de beroepsvereniging van historici in Nederland, bracht een handig dossier uit voor mensen die het CABR-archief willen raadplegen. Het dossier is een aanvulling op de website Oorlog voor de rechter en heeft speciale aandacht voor de historische onderzoeksmethode: knhg.nl/dossier-oorl...

Found this gem in my files — a Third World feminist power-troika at the UN: Artati Marzuki (Indonesia), Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan (Pakistan) and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (India) engaging in discussions at the 7th Session of the UN General Assembly, 1st October 1952. Credit: Alamy photos

Tune in to the inaugural lecture of Matthias van Rossem at RU on global histories of labour and colonialism! Fits well with our new @womenshistory.bsky.social Yearbook on women and ports, too. We'll have stevedores, labour activists, fisherwomen and more! www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

The best book on communist family life in NL: 'Mama las Marx' by Elke Weesjes. Also available in English, with an additional focus on the UK. Amazing source material, like communist children's mags! And that cover 😍 www.walburgpers.nl/nl/book/9789...

Out now: 'Verbotene Beziehungen: 'Forbidden Relationships: female Homosexuality in National-Socialist Austria' by Dr. Natascha Bobrowsky. Great to see new attention for queer history in national-socialism recently, eg. @ankahajkova.bsky.social and others. www.mandelbaum.at/buecher/nata...

Submit a proposal in Queer Studies - calling all emerging scholars and especially Germanists! The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group at Peter Lang Publishing is delighted to announce the 2025 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Queer Studies. www.peterlang.com/2025-emergin...

While the lower back tattoo or the barbed wire on the bicep may feel like recent trends, women have been getting inked for centuries. From initials to butterflies, Nastasha Sartore explores Victorian women's tattoo choices. ✊🗃️ www.historyworkshop....

So, liebe #IchBinHanna, jetzt musst Du Dich entscheiden! Willst Du (a) die Professur als einzig respektable Position in der dt. Wissenschaft oder (b) Dich völlig ambitionslos gemütlich im Mittelbau #einkuscheln, wo die Arbeit auf Dauerstellen nur was zählt, wenn Du weiterhin Prof werden willst?

The allure of Presses universitaires de France books in the late 80s/early 90s 🗃️

"To better understand denialism’s transnational nature, it is important first to contextualize this phenomenon as a continuation of the imperial project itself." Sean Carleton, Alan Lester, Adele Perry, and Omeasoo Wahpasiw's essay is live today. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/12...

Liebe Kolleg*Innen, was wird an der Uni eigentlicht gemeint mit der mysteriösen Phrase "Ihre Bewerbung mit den üblichen Unterlagen"? Klar, Lebenslauf und Anschreiben, aber sonst? Referenzen, Projektvorschlag, Katzenfotos? 🤔 @isalischewski.bsky.social @renggli.bsky.social, weisst ihr Bescheid?

"Mijn normen en waarden kunnen niet hard genoeg botsen met die van de huidige coalitie, die zonder schaamte de wetenschap afbreekt, de onafhankelijke rechtspraak bedreigt en de aanval op de vrije pers heeft ingezet." +1 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...

Fingers crossed for my research proposal on the Cold War contacts between leftist activists in the GDR and Indonesia. Yes - they existed and were even INTENSIVE 🙂

Willen jullie er mee voor zorgen dat "transitiespijt" niet woord van het jaar wordt? Fuck transphobes (maar dan niet op de fijne manier) woordvanhetjaar.vandale.nl/nl?fbclid=PA...

Women in the History of Political Thought Conference 2025 in Ghent's Call for Papers is here! womeninhpt.com/call-for-pap...

Extreemrechtse #Georgescu is bevoordeeld door #TikTok, zeggen Roemeense veiligheidsdiensten www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/... in @nrc.nl

New on Digital Childhoods: an interview with Chiara Candaele about her SHCY award-winning dissertation, "Exceptional Childhood: Legitimising Transnational Adoption in Postcolonial Belgium": shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/transnat...

Marwani Pardede, vice-president of the Indonesian leftist women's org Gerwani, speaking at the VII. Bundeskongress of the Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands (DFD) in East Berlin, 1960. suedostasien.net/indonesien-f...

Hi everyone! I'm a feminist historian of gender, empire and decolonization, with a focus on the Netherlands and Indonesia. My new obsession = leftist women & their postcolonial activism. I look forward to not feeling dread every time I log in to social media!

You can read the last edition of the yearbook, 'Gender and Animals in History' in #OpenAccess via our website! 🔗 www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... #AnimalsinHistory #GenderHistory