I'm organising a trans history workshop session as part of the @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social conference in July. Details below. Do get in touch by end of next week if you have any questions or would like to register your interest, and pass on to anyone you know who might be keen to participate.

Dull terminological nit-picking like this is basically the reason 'fascism studies' is such a dormant field despite us living through fascism's 2nd ascendancy. We need to think a bit more expansively & look to the work of black thinkers (many African American) almost never cited by pieces like this.

📖 New article online! 'Decadents and Saboteurs: Homosexuals on Trial in Post-War Socialist Yugoslavia', by Franko Dota www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Neat. That'll be a fun list to cross reference.

Queue tedious Michael Knowles style 'debate' over whether the language of killing and extermination is actually violent etc etc

Fabulous newly digitized collection at the Transgender Archives at @uvic.ca - the Reed Erikson scrapbooks. #transmasc #trans #transhistory vault.library.uvic.ca/collections/...

Null faglighet. 100% ideologi. Pluss at den eksplisitte oppfordringen om at Norge må "se til Storbritannia" er urovekkende, gitt hvor ekstremt anti-trans og anti-LHBTQ+, lovverk og offentlig ordskifte, har blitt nå. Forventer at alle andre partier uttrykker eksplisitt støtte til Bufdirs råd.

welcome to everyone who understands “did feminism fail women” “debate” is a bad faith waste of time, see also the “is sex work exploitative or empowering” “debate”

🔔 Neue Publikation: Mein Text setzt die zunehmende queerfeindliche Mobilisierung auf die Agenda der Bewegungsforschung und formuliert einige dringende Forschungsaufgaben Open access bei @protestinstitut.bsky.social

The legal challenge to the NHS’s clinical trial of puberty blockers is funded by a pressure group backed by Russian oligarchs and linked to the far right. goodlaw.social/1jop

Vi har vunnet en ny, stor seier i forskningssaken! De regionale forskningsetiske komiteene slår fast at forskerne har forsket ulovlig og nekter dem ettergodkjenning av prosjektet!

Although the findings are discouraging, I am happy to share that the article that @oyvindbs.bsky.social and I have written about the consequences of the Pride terrorist attack in Oslo on 25 June 2022 for LGBTIQ+ people in Norway has now been published open access: doi.org/10.1080/1943...

🌈 Very excited to share my new article with @barrieshannon.com in the Australian Journal of Political Science ‘Mainstreaming LGBTQIA+ hate: the far right’s anti-gender countermovement in Australia’ url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/q4GHCROND2...

My latest is out doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Meta told the Guardian “The disabled accounts were correctly removed for violating a variety of our policies including our Human Exploitation policy.” Here’s that policy:

I love being non-biological tbh

📣 New Voices continues with a blog from Lewis Willcox, @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Lewis's article explores the unlikely connection between the Scottish Farm Servants' Union and the 1920 Kapp Putsch in Berlin. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

'reference to legal challenge' is such a cringe pathetic excuse

📣New interview📣 'Terms like “detransitioner,” like “transitioner,” reduce people to the act of transitioning and frame transitioning as an extremist act or impulsive decision' @katfuller.bsky.social discusses transphobic moral panics on the far right. reacpol.net/moral-panic-...

Get me out of here

Interested in gender & military? Check out the Advances in Critical Military Studies series, ed by @victoriambasham.bsky.social & Sarah Bulmer. I am delighted that Sex & the Nazi Soldier appeared there. This WE books are 50% off @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sex-and...

This feels like the logical conclusion of that liberal trans rights nonsense: you are free to identify as you wish! Don't expect any material recognition of your changed sex though, no substantial rights for you!

With the Observer yesterday in its Glinner interview describing Derrick Jensen as 'an environmentalist who has been ostracised for his views on trans issues', this is worth a read to know what Jensen and DGR are actually about.

For a small fee, I will go to your historian enemy’s seminar presentation and say “I guess I’m just wondering what the “so what” of this paper is?”

📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964... It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD Key findings: Antifeminism ✅ Radicalization ✅

Important insight from Dagmar Herzog on the New Fascist Body venerated by today's right. publicseminar.org/2025/11/new-...

More publication news: "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by @drhelenroche.bsky.social and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social, is now available for pre-order from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social. www.bloomsbury.com/us/abusing-a...

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 I'm pleased to say my article 'Cis-Supremacist Pasts: Constructing a History Against Contemporary Trans Equality' has been published today with International Public History and it is fully open access! Check it out here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

'Im Zentrum stand nicht die Angst vor bestimmten Identitäten, sondern vor „überschrittenen“ Geschlechtergrenzen. „Die heutige Anti-Trans- oder Anti-Drag-Rhetorik kann als Fortsetzung dieser seit langem bestehenden Angst vor gender-crossing gesehen werden“'. Nicely put!

The latest Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies is out, and it's a doozy: a special issue on "Dynamics of Transphobic Content and Disinformation". With topics including Youtube, Mumsnet, LGB Alliance, Chinese TERFs, and transvestigators, this is an vital read! bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org

'Racist and transphobic tropes thereby fulfil distinctive, but also complementary functions: both operate via projected scenarios of biological contamination and criminal transgression.'

Oslo medical researchers recently judged to have unlawfully done research on trans patients, turn out to have been denied access to patient records without consent on ethical grounds three times for a previous research project.

Who's Funding the War on Trans Inclusion? “The stated goal of strategic litigation is rarely to win every case. It’s to make the target behaviour—in this case, implementing trans-inclusive policies—expensive, risky, and exhausting”

My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall. bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...

Visible, yet vulnerable: What journalists can learn from how we covered the attack on trans rights in Trump’s first 100 days. One big takeaway: Based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote trans people. bit.ly/TJA_visible

It's new article day! So excited that this piece with @luccousineau.bsky.social and @iamryanhopkins.bsky.social is out in the world. In it we work through our experiences studying the far-right & propose some ways universities can better support students. journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SS...

New article! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... am terrible at being on mat leave but ok at writing about tradwives

Funny that trans people would be affronted by willy nilly being excluded from social activities overnight.

Did you know that the first international antifascist news bulletin was called "Chronik des Faschismus", published in Berlin - below the cover from the very first issue, August 1923. For the full background story, see: www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...

We are hearing some very troubling stories about trans exclusion, supported by the University, at Cambridge. We are making contact with affected societies and individuals and will fiercely protect the legal rights of trans students to live with respect and dignity.

And this has now also come to college rowing, as the Boat clubs have now had the exact same experience, and yesterday voted to exclude trans people from participation.

New paper on how far-right and adjacent actors on Swedish YouTube channels disseminate transphobia under the guise of child protection – blending moral concern, pseudo-science, and conspiratorial narratives to stigmatise and spread fear of transgender people. lnkd.in/dfF4SGjm

This text started out as a country presentation at the @antigenderpolitics.bsky.social kick-off meeting. So excited it found a home as an EPJG gender update!

Link here to my contribution to a symposium on Lynn Tesser’s book, Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics (Stanford, 2024): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DNE8Z...

My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...

Laurie Marhoefer delves into the impacts of the queer press and censorship in Weimar Germany, revealing that print media is historically key to self-discovery and finding community Read free in @jwomenshistory.bsky.social at @ProjectMUSE tinyurl.com/3ycehye4 #BannedBooksWeek #AcademicSky

we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers

CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social Deadline: 6 February 2026 More details: @sslh.bsky.social sslh.org.uk/2025/10/13/c... sslh.org.uk/wp-content/u... Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk #GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018. bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Staten og Legeforeningen bør be om unnskyldning for overgrepene begått mot transpersoner. Folk som ble tvunget til kastrering for å skifte juridisk kjønn, må få oppreisning. I boka «Standardizing Sex» viser jeg at staten vel vitende ofret folks reproduktive helse for å beskytte en binær kjønnsnorm.