Because there are so few of us, it's always a thrill to discover others interested in the Early #GermanGayRightsMovement, in Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and Magnus Hirschfeld (#MagnusHirschfeld) #lgbtqHistory #QueerStudies #Intersexuality & #TransgenderStudies www.amazon.com/dp/B0F79P8YVJ

My interview with Notches blog about my Urning book - check it out!

In case you haven’t seen it, today we posted our fascinating interview with Douglas Pretsell on Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century. Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px 1/3 #historyofsexuality #Germanhistory

Academic friends! My Urning book- e-book available in uni libraries -deals with a critical nexus betw. queer identity & psychiatry in C19th Germany & is an ideal syllabus book for student teaching in: * History of Sexuality * C19th Germany * History of Psychiatry www.jstor.org/stable/10.31...

Delighted to have received my copy of “The First Homosexuals”. - catalogue of an exhibition of the same name at Wrightwood 659, Chicago. This beautiful book, published by Phaidon, includes an essay by me on same sex identity formation in late 19th century Germany. www.phaidon.com/monacelli/ar...

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

NOTCHES is a collaborative and international history of sexuality blog that aims to get people inside and outside the academy thinking about sexuality in the past and in the present. We’ve left Twitter so do follow NOTCHES on Bluesky at @notchesblog.bsky.social Please share widely!

This is bleak reading

Pals in the EU! Europe does not need "conversion therapy" and it's time this horrific abuse of human rights was stamped out once and for all. If you can, please put your name to the Citizens' Initiative petition.

My article entitled “In the Beginning Was the Word” has just been published in the May-June 2025 issue of Gay & Lesbian Review glreview.org/article/in-t...

I hadn’t realised until today that the Hannah Barnes who presents the new statesman podcast is actually the hugely transphobic journalist responsible for destroying the Tavistock. I have unfollowed forthwith

The penny finally drops for Boris Johnson – Trump is no friend of Ukraine www.theneweuropean.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House. Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House 27th March and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Trump bragged about how he uses transgender people as political pawns to rile up his base before elections, saying Republicans should “bring it up a week before the election” to win votes. In other words, he openly admitted he sees cruelty and manufactured culture war nonsense as a campaign strategy

Social media seems to be filling up with content calling on USA to treat Europe as the arch enemy. Is this really what US voters want?

I’ve been avoiding the news. Has anything happened?

In advance digital access, here is my review for @history-doug.bsky.social’s excellent book “Urning”, about early queer activism and Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. It’s a lovely, rich book, combining rigorous analysis with real empathy. academic.oup.com/jsh/advance-...

Make no mistake: the United States government is openly signalling for the Russian Federation to escalate.

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

AC labels this the Frans Ferdinand moment. USA under Trump is morphing into a direct threat to European interests. How long before we are in direct military conflict www.youtube.com/live/P07-8ZL...

Just received my copies of the newly published “Invictus - Unbesiegt” - my character typology essay is in this book

Seems AfD have underperformed. Thank fuck for that. So it will be a CDU led coalition

Alaudae (The Larks or Songbirds) by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. An entertainment journal for classicists, Latin learners & Ulrichs' fans. Edited by Llewelyn Morgan & Lombardi-Nash, forthcoming June 12, 2025. Pre-order in various formats. #LGBTQhistory www.bloomsbury.com/uk/alaudae-v...

Just as was the case with Matthew Shepard, the case of Sam Norquist is the direct consequence of prevailing bigoted discourses. Given that the UK is also awash with even middle of the road people publicly voicing anti trans rhetoric, how long before cases like this start happening here too?

Why not preorder this beautiful art book, perfect for your coffee table and with an essay by me in it 😀. www.phaidon.com/monacelli/ar...

‘Two men have been granted compensation by the federal government's National Redress Scheme for abuse by the late Cardinal George Pell (Tony Abbotts friend and confessor) including one who was raped by Pell when the Cardinal was a young priest in Ballarat in the 70s.’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

"Mehdi, I think we get it! It's a lot!" Naomi Klein had to interrupt me on 'Unshocked' after I went on a rant about all the crazy stuff Trump has "overwhelmed" us with in just 10 days! Naomi, author of 'The Shock Doctrine', unpacked Trump's 'Shock & Awe' strategy. Watch/share/subscribe:

Trying not to doomscroll the horrors in world news . . .

Trans rights are human rights. #TransPride #NonbinaryPride Credit to u/Thelordofbeans1. Trans and enby Reddit are on fire today. www.reddit.com/r/NonBinary/...

Dismayed that Trump has declared “there are only two genders”. To all my trans, non-binary and gender queer friends in the USA and beyond please know that you are loved and supported by many many allies and family internationally and that trump will be gone in 4 years.

To my nonbinary, agender, genderqueer, and otherwise off the binary friends & siblings: You are loved, you are valued, you are important to our community, you've been here longer than the tyrants, and you will still be here when their bones are dust and the names of their false gods are forgotten.

Our first 2025 issue has arrived! Journal of the History of Sexuality 34:1 is full of interesting articles (including one by @history-doug.bsky.social). To order your copy, visit utpress.utexas.edu/journals/jou...

Torturing Palestinians in Israeli prisons won't bring my brother back to life | Opinion | @dovmorell.bsky.social

The Jewel Singapore is just spectacular when seen in tge flesh

Singapore has been experiencing a consequence of Climate change: an unprecedented tropical storm that has been going on for three days depositing huge amounts of water and causing flooding.

Quokktastic! Loving the friendly Quokkas on Rottnest Island, WA

At a New Year’s Eve concert in the Quarry Amphotheatre, Perth, Westernn Australia. Lovely hot evening with my husband on the way to the next stage in our lives

Can’t wait for my husband to join me in Perth. We’ve been apart over Xmas (me in Adelaide, him in melb). He has just landed (squeaks with delight)

IMPORTANT: The Magdeburg Christmas market attack could have been prevented if German authorities had responded to the Saudi woman who made numerous attempts to inform them that the attacker, an ex-Muslim extremist and stanch AfD supporter, had pledged to kill innocent Germans.

Just a reminder that our leaving Melbourne drinks will be in the garden at Buck Mulligan’s  pub in Northcote from 4pm onwards on Sunday 22 December. The address is 217 High Street, Northcote.

“[Lombardi's] Urania Manuscripts translation series offers some relief to the lack of historicity in the gay movement...and deserves the enthusiasm of all of us.” ─L. Rice #MemoryStudies #LGBTbooks Magnus Hirschfeld #MagnusHirschfeld Karl Heinrich Ulrichs www.amazon.com/dp/B085W7JCW9

It’s a wee bit warm here . . .

Educate the uninformed and advance the knowledge of all. Understand the past, what is achievable, and the potential for disaster. Translation is a key. Magnus Hirschfeld #QueerStudies, #lgbtqHistory, #TransgenderStudies #GermanGayMovement #MagnusHirschfeld www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7T5TJ77

As I am leaving Australia my contact details will all change. My bigpond email address has already been wound up and next week my Latrobe email will also stop working. I have set up a new gmail account that I will be using until I get a Keele email address. DM me if you want the gmail details.

Dutton opines: “how can you be united as a country if we’re asking people to identify under different flags? No other western democracy does that.” Hmmmmm, the uk has five official flags, the Union flag and then the flags of Scotland,NI, Wales and England

North American friends: if you haven’t already bought it, my book is available this month with 75%off the sales price if you use this code: WINTERSALE75 The book is about the first modern queer identity, which flourished in late 19th C Germany: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

So I have had to block an old friend on FB whose recent rabbit hole into Israeli nationalism meant she pronounced the Aussie government and the two state solution both potently antisemitic. I mean WTF?!!!!!