Join us for this Politics and Sociology seminar with @levitanus.bsky.social, who will examine the ethical complexities and questions of positionality involved in researching #queer, #trans, and gender-diverse people in Central Asia. 🗓️ 19 March at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

New episode of Ground Level, the new series I host for @sperishefuni.bsky.social. We discuss queer globalisation and queer everyday lives from #Kazakhstan to #Brasil passing through #Italy’s Veneto. With: @levitanus.bsky.social @heltonlevy.bsky.social! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

This is an invitation to sit with stories that don’t often get told. Join me on 21 Oct for an online seminar: Learning not to Breathe the Poison: Decolonial Queer Approaches to Research in Central Asia 🕟 4:30 PM BST | 🔗 Register: events.bookitbee.com/university-o... Hosted by Queer Minds Scotland

Join us for an evening with CN Lester, hosted by QUEER.ED!

Come and join us at QUEER.ED for the event on LGBTQI+ inclusive education!

The Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence invites you to apply to present at our first annual Symposium on 8th July: www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/tra... Deadline for submissions 28th April #AcademicSky 🌈🎓 #Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity #Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT

Last week in Lisbon, I presented two papers: our queer Central Asian art book project with Mohira Suyarkulova & Russian queer migration to Central Asia with Polina Kislitsyna. It was a privilege to join the panel on queer cultures with the wonderful Saltanat Shoshanova & Georgy Mamedov

Dear academic friends and colleagues, please join us in signing our open letter with the RUTA Association and expressing our support and solidarity with Georgian students and scholars in their ongoing fight for academic freedom, sovereignty, democracy and justice ruta-association.org/news/open-le...

‘Staff are not a burden on the University—they are the core of its educational mission….’ Really important piece of work from UCU Edinburgh critically evaluating the Uni’s statements about its financial position (tl;dr there is money in the banana stand) www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/2eppzf7...

Dear #CentralAsia crowd. Here is a first "starter pack". Please reach out if you want me to add you ! go.bsky.app/LXZM1qx

Starting Central Asian Starter Pack! Please write in comments if you want to be added/want to add someone! go.bsky.app/NGfwkUA

Just joined Bluesky and eager to explore this new platform. I'll be sharing my thoughts and writing on LGBTQ+ lives in Central Asia, queer migration, psychotherapy, and other topics that inspire me. Looking forward to engaging conversations and new connections! 🌈