Afgelopen vrijdagavond sprak ik in het Leidse Academiegebouw de Annie Romein-Verschoorlezing uit. Lees de tekst hier terug:

💥 Most-read this month: #anti-gender #mobilisations in #Belgium 🗨️ Research by Rylan Verlooy shows how anti-gender activism increasingly targets #transgender identities and gender-affirming healthcare - challenging the idea of Belgium as an 'LGBTQ+ paradise'. 👉 Read more: lnkd.in/eSAkChuQ

💭 In een nieuw #essay ontleedt Ruben Hordijk 'Dochters van Lucy' van Jan Van Zanden - een drie miljoen jaar #gendergeschiedenis samenvat in 187 pagina's, zonder #feminisme, #kolonialisme of klassenanalyse. 💥 Tijd voor feministische #counternarratieven! 👉 Lees het essay: lnkd.in/e6UNeCGa

💥 Birth is not meant to be violent In their PhD research, Rodante van der Waal examines obstetric violence and the fight for reproductive justice - calling for abolitionalist care that dismantles harmful healthcare systems. 👉 Read the full #PhD summary: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

🎓 #Diversiteitsmanagement belooft verandering - maar kan ook ongelijkheid versterken. In haar #proefschrift onderzocht Nina van Douwen het doen van #diversiteitswerk binnen het Nederlandse leger. 👉 Lees haar inzichten en aanbevelingen op onze website: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

Ik mag dit jaar de Annie Romein-Verschoorlezing verzorgen. Wees welkom!

💥 How can male femininities disrupt gender norms and power structures? ✨ Albert Solanes Valldaura reviews 'Male Femininities' - a critical collection on gender, embodiment, and resistance beyond the binary. 👉 Read more: www.aup-online.com/content/jour... #bookreview #genderstudies #queertheory

🤘Metal and Feminist Resistance 💥 Ilse Claassen explored how Indonesian metal band Voice of Baceprot challenges colonial power and gender oppression through sound and style. 👉 Read more: www.aup-online.com/content/jour... #DecolonialFeminism #GenderStudies #MetalStudies #Indonesia #VoiceOfBaceprot

🤳 How do hijab fashion influencers reshape #Muslim #femininity online? 💡 In her new article, Laura Mora shows how #Instagram visibility both challenges Islamophobic stereotypes and reproduces other inequalities through entrepreneurial and hyper-feminine ideals. 👉 Read it here: lnkd.in/e-VFywMS

💥 Our new issue is out - perfect for some holiday reading. It brings together a range of timely, thought-provoking research topics. A good moment for fresh insights as we head into the new year! ✨ 👉 Discover the issue: www.aup-online.com/content/jour... #genderstudies #feministresearch #academia

📖 #Boekentip: 'Handicap: Een Bevrijding' van Anaïs Van Ertvelde. Dr Laura Mora noemt het “een boek dat confronteert en de ogen opent” 💭 Een aanrader voor wie kritisch wil nadenken over culturele constructie van handicap, in relatie tot gender en seksualiteit. 🔗 Lees de review: lnkd.in/e7YXWkXH

✨ 30-urenwerkweek getest bij Femma! ✨ Francisca Mullens onderzocht de effecten van zo'n verkorte werkweek: meer #werk-privébalans en tijd voor zelfzorg, maar ook nieuwe werkuitdagingen. 👉 Lees meer: www.aup-online.com/content/jour... 💭 Zou jij een kortere werkweek willen? @femmavzw.bsky.social

✨ Throwback to our Singlehood Special Issue launch! Single people still face barriers in housing, finances, and everyday expectations. Singlehood activism means engaging policymakers, challenging stigma, and valuing the social families we create beyond coupledom. 👉 Read the issue: lnkd.in/eiTirTwe

❣️ Singlehood is far more complex than we often think A new study by Van Gasse, Claessens and Mortelmans shows how gender and migration background shape young adults’ experiences and expectations around singlehood. 👉 Read more: lnkd.in/ePc3aide #GenderStudies #Singlehood #Intersectionality

📢 Call for Papers! What stories of HIV/AIDS remain untold? For our special issue, we are looking for intersectional narratives of HIV/AIDS in literature and media. ✔️ Interested? Submit your abstract by 21 Nov 2025 👉 Read the full call: lnkd.in/eyTAKM35 #CallForPapers #GenderStudies #HIVAIDS

🔮 On Halloween, our TikTok feeds are full of witches, goddesses and femme fatales - showing how femininity goes dark and divine. Laila van Berge explores TikTok trends like #darkfemininity, revealing how empowerment and stereotypes intertwine. ✨ Read all about it: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

💜 The politics of asexual grief 💜 In her latest essay, Kathi Ammann reclaims asexual grief as a queer political affect - arguing how feeling ‘out of place’ can resist norms of compulsory sexuality. 📖 Read more: www.aup-online.com/content/jour... #Asexuality #QueerTheory #GenderStudies #Queer

📢 Belgium’s Welfare Minister proposed allowing supervision of pregnant women - even involuntarily - if seen as a risk to their unborn child. The debate raises urgent questions about #autonomy and #care. ❗ Time to revisit this TvG article on reproductive justice: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

🌈 How do queer Iranians find love & solidarity under a restrictive regime? In “Queering Iran, Digitally”, Ladan Rahbari shows how a Telegram dating channel can be a space for activism, community & resistance. 👉 Read more: www.aup-online.com/content/jour... #GenderStudies #Iran #Queer #Activism

💥 In her new essay, Ea Utoft (@eautoft.bsky.social) calls for integrating feminist and anti-racist activism into singlehood research, uncovering how singles actively resist stigma and reclaim agency. 👉 Read the full essay: www.aup-online.com/content/jour... #Singlehood #Feminism #GenderStudies

🎬 How are single women represented on screen? A study of Dutch films & TV by Sandra Becker and Willemien Sanders shows single female characters are mostly young, white, middle-class & heterosexual - revealing a stark lack of diversity. 👉 Read the full article: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

✨ Singlehood isn’t just personal - it’s political. In our latest issue, Mante Vertelyte interviews Kinneret Lahad on researching singlehood, connecting it to affect theory and intersectionality. 👉 Read the interview: www.aup-online.com/content/jour... #Singlehood #GenderStudies #Feminism

Open access‼️ A bit personal for me, but here I am, writing for @tvgenderstudies.bsky.social about my experiences as a WoC with a PhD, navigating both the academia and the dating scene. www.aup-online.com/content/jour... @uoe-sps.bsky.social @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social

✨ Singlehood is on the rise - but what meanings do we attach to it? Mio Birk's new article explores how cultural narratives frame singlehood: as concern, opportunity, and protest, revealing the politics behind what might seem like a personal choice. 👉 Read more: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

🚨 Trump’s recent remarks on autism reduce it to harmful stereotypes. We counter this by highlighting research in gender & disability studies, recognising the complexities and lived experiences of neurodivergence. Read these articles: 👉 lnkd.in/ejtATVsJ 👉 lnkd.in/ekPP6qQh 👉 lnkd.in/erSgcudP

💭 In her new work, 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗻-𝗝𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗵 𝗟𝗶𝘂 reflects on being a single, childfree woman of colour with a PhD. Through autoethnography, she explores the triality of race, gender & singlehood in academia - a highly neoliberalised and often hostile workplace. 🔗 Read here: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

✨ 'Planning Trips, Not Weddings' by Kimberly Martinez Phillips explores how single, childfree women of colour are redefining singlehood, creating their own identities, and resisting the idea of damsels in distress waiting for Prince Charming. 👉 Read full article: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

What do cat ladies, herbivores and incels have in common? They all feature in my newly published essay on the competing meanings of Global Singlehood. Read it in the special issue 'Towards Intersectional Feminist Singlehood Studies' in @tvgenderstudies.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.5117/TVGN...

New article. Open access. www.aup-online.com/content/jour... @tvgenderstudies.bsky.social @belladepaulo.bsky.social

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✨ As #singlehood is rising, it deserves more scholarly attention - moving beyond its framing as a byproduct of coupledom. 📚 Our new issue therefore explores #intersectional singlehood and what it teaches us about power, identity, and belonging. 📖 Read now: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

⚠️ Protests and debates on #femicide in the Netherlands have put violence against women back in the spotlight. But this is more than debate - it’s a #crisis demanding urgent reflection and action. 📖 Revisit our issue on intimate partner violence: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

📢 A final reminder that you can still submit your thesis until the 11th of September!

📝Read Nella van den Brandt’s article on the gendered dimensions of religious exit in the Netherlands in her article titled “Dissenting Daughters”. ➡️Curious to read more? Find the article using the link below doi.org/10.5117/TVGN... #gender #sexuality #TvGS #academia #genderstudies

📝 Read Giulia Monteverde’s review of ‘Gender without identity’ by @avgi.bsky.social & Ann Pellegrini. The book addresses gender-queerness through a psychoanalytic framework ➡️Curious to read more? Read the article using the link below! doi.org/10.5117/TVGN... #Gender #TvGs #OA #Psychoanalysis

📌 Have you recently finished your BA or MA thesis at a Dutch/Belgian institution, and would you like to publish it as an academic article? This is your chance! ⚠️You have until the 11th of September to submit an abstract. ➡️Click the link below to find out more! www.aup-online.com/upload/TvGen...

📝Read Floris Burgers’s book review of @uroskovac.bsky.social's book: The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon. ➡️Curious to read more? Find the article using the link below! doi.org/10.5117/TVGN... #Gender #Maculinity #Cameroon #TvGS

📝Read Rylan Verlooy’s article “Anti-Gender Mobilizations and Transgender Rights”, on the rise of violence against women, LGBTQ+ and racialised people within the Belgian context ➡️Curious to read more? Read the article using the link below: doi.org/10.5117/TVGN... #Gender #Genderstudies #TvGS

📝 Anna Barquino Campodarve, Suzanne Täuber and Bibiana Armenta Gutierrez collaborated on an article in our most recent publication, diving into the relationship between LGBTQ+ people and their relationship to healthcare systems. ➡️Read the article using the link below: doi.org/10.5117/TVGN...

📢 Please follow us on Instagram! ➡️ Find us at @tvgenderstudies, or using the link below: www.instagram.com/tvgenderstud... 📌 Please share this post and tag people you think might be interested in us, too! #Gender #Genderstudies #TvGS #Sexuality #academia #sexuality #oa

📝 Find a summary of Ben de Smets's dissertation on the way music streaming mediates the relationship between music and gender and sexual identity. ➡️ Curious to find out more? Read the article using the link below! doi.org/10.5117/TVGN... #Gender #Sexuality #TvGs #Genderstudies #Identity #OA

📝 Read the article 'Duo Penotti Feminism' by Mille van der Spoel and Donya Ahmadi, where they theorise the power that strategic white womanhood holds as an identity category through the intersection of race and gender. ➡️ Curious to read more? Click the link below! doi.org/10.5117/TVGN...

📝Read Greta Gashi's book review on two books on Intersectionality in Sports in our recent edition! The article can be found using the link below! ▶️ lnkd.in/ezB6c8hg ‼️ We are giving away a copy of Kathrine van den Bogert's book on our LinkedIn page: www.linkedin.com/.../tijdschr... #TvGS #Gender

📌Note that we are looking for theses from the Netherlands and Belgium

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! Want to publish your Gender Studies BA/MA thesis as an academic article? - This is your chance. Curious to learn more? Find all details using the link below. ▶️ www.aup-online.com/upload/TvGen... #GenderStudies #TvG #Academia #AUP

📝 Read the article by Amal Miri, Lore Van Praag and Kaya Klaver on the use of the term "gender empowerment" concerning migrantised women in Belgium in our latest issue! ➡️ Access the article with the link below! doi.org/10.5117/TVGN... #gender #genderstudies #TvGS #Femisnisme #Feminism

📝 Read Marina Sanchez Guidotti's book review of Eugenia Tarzibachi's book, highlighting the sociocultural construction of menstruation and the commodification of menstrual products. Curious to read more? Find the article with the link below! ➡️ doi.org/10.5117/TVGN...

📢 Have you seen our new issue yet? ➡️ Find it open to access using the link below! www.aup-online.com/content/jour... Curious to read more? Find the editorial using the link below: doi.org/10.5117/TVGN... #Genderstudies #Gender #Sexuality #Academia #OA #TvGS #GenderAndSexuality #Feminism #AUP

📝 Find Margot Thewis's article "The Gender Sensitivity of Parliament through its Symbolic Function", where she stresses the importance of integrating women's lived experiences into parliamentary spaces. ➡️ Find the article using the link below! doi.org/10.5117/TVGN... #Academia #TvGS #Genderstudies