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.

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....

@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

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.

📣 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

“There’s been a reluctance to name this moment as fascism,” says cultural historian Tiffany Florvil, yet extreme authoritarian dynamics can be clearly seen in the American right today.” Also in this sharp take on the reliance on women to prop up fascisms old and new: German historian Claudia Koonz.

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...

Well this is an exceptionally good history job. Wonders never cease. www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

We’re very honored to announce that the editorial office of TSQ, the leading scholarly journal in trans studies, has found its new home at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research! gender.stanford.edu/news/leading...

The new must-have in critical neurodiversity studies!

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

How exciting!

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.”

It's 650 now. And darn right we have. Keep sharing and signing! tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

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.“

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...

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. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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

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."

‘Smart, who has a disability and is queer, has decided it’s too risky to travel to Seattle for the social sciences conference in September. … “As an openly disabled person, I would be very hesitant to be entering right now.”’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

www.cbsnews.com/news/dei-pur... Feeling oddly proud to have a book on this list of ones pulled from the US naval academy - I see I’m in excellent company! What scary, turbulent times we are in….sending solidarity to those in the US right now in the thick of all this

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

Great postdoc!

So in a sea of bad news out there, this is a pretty worrying development www.abc.net.au/news/1050689...

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

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...

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!

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...

Exciting news!

"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...

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

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

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...

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 🧵.

Can’t wait to read this!

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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www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... Unreal to see NZ cutting all govt humanities and social sciences funding through the Marsden scheme

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

📢🎉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...

I’m definitely in the no platform camp, but this is such an crucial action given the current state of US - and worldwide - transphobic attacks at all levels #LGBTQ+NotGoingBack

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

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!

The Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham is offering scholarships for PhD students to attend the Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities International PhD school - do check it out and share with your grads, esp. if from low- and middle-income countries: medhumsplatform.org/queer-method...