It will also disconnect students from each other—and in a world fractured by various flavors of technofascism, I cannot think of a more disastrous thing (which is likely partly why AI fetishists are pushing for AI in schools and universities)

Our next #IdentitiesEvent! 'From Colonial Subjects to #Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness' @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

A great new post on researching the history of former Ascari in Eritrea by our own @camilleriana.bsky.social. colvet.eu/338-2/

This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media

We're starting a new 'ArtsLab' (research network) in trans studies at Glasgow! It's very exciting and I hope that in time we can become a real centre for research in this field. Find out more - including details of our upcoming launch event - on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...

I wrote something quite personal about what use trans history In These Times:

I am saddened and angered to hear this news. “Indian Sex Life” is a game-changing book in the history of sexuality, and Mitra deserves a secure place from which she can continue to develop her already-field-defining scholarship.

Really great conference opportujnity in Bergen, Norway by the Queerdom research initiative. www4.uib.no/en/research/...

The Trump administration’s decision to remove depictions of slavery from National Historic Parks isn’t just about revising history. It’s about reshaping America. Read my latest at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/maga-is-revi...

I wrote this short blog on the discriminatory demobilisation of French colonial troops for the Returning Soldier network: returningsoldier.co.uk/2025/09/18/n...

Bumping this up again. Deadline for applications is October 3rd.

🚨Call for Papers🚨Delighted to share the CfP for next year's meeting of @frenchcolonial.bsky.social which we will be hosting in Maynooth June 25-27. The theme is "Après la tempête: Afterlives of Colonial Crisis and Conflict". Deadline for submissions is November 14 frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...

Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...

My review of @carolinesequin.bsky.social's excellent, award-winning book Desiring Whiteness is out! www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... @berghahnbooks.bsky.social

It is twenty years today since my first book Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-57 was published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social and I am feeling contemplative. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The latest issue of French Politics, Culture & Society has been published! View the TOC and more for Volume 43, Issue 1 here: bit.ly/42lnGVo Featuring book reviews by @micahalpaugh.bsky.social and @sjvigneault.bsky.social!

🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Do I know anyone on here currently working at ANOM in Aix-en-Provence who might be willing to photograph some documents for me? Please send me a DM if so!

If you make a mistake 83% of the time the mistake is what you wanted

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!

Spent the last two weeks travelling between London & Paris for the Occupation Studies Research Network and the #GCFHSResist Conferences. Lots of stuff & sleep to catch up on, but l am incredibly grateful to have heard from and connected with so many kind and dedicated scholars doing excellent work!!

The rumours are false! The lying media are saying I spent the @sfhs.bsky.social conference in Paris drinking spritzes in the sun. An incredible few days learning so much from my colleagues, some truly wonderful papers from @sjvigneault.bsky.social @carolinesequin.bsky.social this morning

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

It's pub day for Between the Sheets! So excited for this book to be officially out in the world. Looking forward to getting the chance to talk about it over the coming months! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Join our Associate Editor @jean23bean.bsky.social at this afternoon's talk in Cambridge: Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies 21 May, 3pm BST, ‪@crasshlive.bsky.social‬ www.crassh.cam.ac.uk...

Join us tomorrow to hear @jean23bean.bsky.social's talk titled "Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies" @crasshlive.bsky.social www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/46594/

Empty words if they’ve spent 3 years and still can’t figure out how to let everyone, let me say that again—EVERYONE, vote. They have ONE job. They failed. Not just in Nunavik, though that was the most egregious, but all across the country. #cdnpoli #reconciliation #IndigeniousRights

Completely unacceptable to blame weather and staffing difficulties (both reasons I've seen given) for what happened in Nunavik. Plan ahead, COMMUNICATE, figure it out, and if you really can't staff a polling place, send in enough special ballots for the whole community if it comes down to it.

"Trump is merely taking liberalism up the ladder. As I have written about many times before, none of what we’re seeing started with Trump." PLEASE READ: Liberalism Has Drowned In The Blood Of Gaza's Children www.donotpanic.news/p/liberalism...

#BlackFranceNoire inaugural symposium. Join us on 21-23 May 2025, in Paris. More info: blackfrancenoire.my.canva.site/collectif-bl...

Paperback's out! Please spread the word! @cambridgeup.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social

Keep in mind: the NEH’s budget is 0.01% of the entire federal budget. This is not about savings - it is about the destruction of the Humanities and the critical thinking abilities that they teach. 🗃️

They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30. “Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government” They are so afraid of us.

Ich müsste eigentlich Archivrecherchen in den National Archives Washington und anderen Archiven durchführen. Werde ich jetzt definitiv nicht machen, das ist mir zu gefährlich, zumal als Historikerin, die zu Frauen und Krieg forscht.

I had the pleasure of coming onto this feminist student podcast to talk about france, black feminisms and worldmaking! Have a listen 😊 open.spotify.com/episode/4Lhi...

Mixed couples torn apart by the colonial state? Arrested by colonial police? Letters written to the sultan for help? My new article on marriage visas for Moroccan soldiers and white women after WW2 in a special issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

L'étau se resserre. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Looks like @npr.org has caught up to the federal purge of marginalized Americans. As we've been saying, it's not just the Ts and Qs being targeted! @wendylrouse.bsky.social is quoted, saying her article was axed when she (rightfully) asked that it be restored. Shameful! www.npr.org/2025/03/19/n...

PLEASE REPOST: I'm looking for someone to do one to two days (possibly more) of (paid) research assistance in Los Angeles for my current book project. I need someone who is experienced with archives, careful, and discreet. Ideal work for a grad student in history. ben [at] ben writes things dot com

Now more than ever

Our Palestinian colleagues and their students in Gaza slaughtered, those in the West Bank harassed and detained, those who protest against this expelled and their degrees revoked. Academic freedom is under siege. The Palestine exception is opening the way for generalised repression.

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"Maybe they should save us from our political dysfunction and imperial suicide by surrendering to our conquest" No they shouldn't, even if it worked that way, which it doesn't. This type of silliness is conquest normalizing.

"Car dealership that disappears political dissidents" really does feel like the form America has been building to this whole time.

AI shills in "academia" are the fkn worst

Do not blame Musk for this political outcome in Germany. His endorsement only reveals the interconnected networks of fascists. In fact, we should consider how Germany's turn further right is connected to its racist historical past and present. But what do I know?

Do come, it will be fun!!

I wrote something for Tank magazine’s latest, a special issue on “community.” tank.tv/magazine/iss...