Amazing week spent at the University of Macerata as an invited keynote speaker for the #SOCIN2025 conference with #ERUA. So much food for truly interdisciplinary thought. And listening to @inekesluiter.bsky.social keynote... what a treat!

Once upon a time, the beginning of the world. 🥹 National Park Timanfaya, Land of Fire, Island of the 1000 🌋🌋🌋 #timanfaya #lanzarote

Take your rosaries from my ovaries (again) Protect LGBTQI youth (again & again) Please join the Public Consultation this week before it's too late for Portuguese schools. The input from the international community is precious. Here: dge.mec.pt/noticias/con... #StopTERFs #notinmyname #sexeducation

⚠️Attention prospective PhD students - last Call for Applications! 🇬🇧PhD programmes taught in English (check which before applying) 🫣Deadline: 15th July 📚Join us in a vibrant community of engaged scholars at the @ces-uc.bsky.social , Univ of Coimbra, Portugal +Info: www.ces.uc.pt/en/doutorame...

📣 O projeto ‘PULSAR | O papel de profissionais LGBTQ+ para uma saúde inclusiva’ (CES-UC) apresenta um questionário sobre experiências de profissionais de saúde LGBTQ+ em Portugal 👉 O objetivo é identificar desafios, necessidades e promover ambientes de trabalho inclusivos

📣 LGBTIQ equality academics and experts: #HaveYourSay in the EU's consultation on the new LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 👉 buff.ly/YJXpmlr On #LesbianVisibilityDay, we mark the strength and stories of lesbian women, plus research from @anacristinasantos.bsky.social @ces-uc.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/QsbOcvF

Tools to think critically about how we live and what we aim for. The #RainbowMap 2025 is out 🌈 With #ILGA-Europe, discover how 49 European countries are performing when it comes to LGBTI human rights. 🔗 rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/

These boots were made for walking. I'm grateful to the ERC for this honor and responsibility I share w/ incredible colleagues and the institution that has always been my home of academic freedom. Much more to come soon... Onwards! TRACE - Queer Citizenship over Time @ces-uc.bsky.social #trace_ces

Sociologists of sexualities and gender, attention to this⤵️ Deadline extended: 30th April. 🔥 And don't forget to follow the ESA Sexuality Research Network on BlueSky! Together we're stronger. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✊🏽 @esasexuality.bsky.social W/ European Sociological Association

The attacks on knowledge and academic freedom are targeting LGBTQI+ issues mostly. We must stand together, use all platforms, demand for more visibility and funding for LGBTQI research. Sexual and gender diversity remain powerful indicators of the quality of Democracies. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚧️♀️

Trump asks? We answer. Academic freedom is non-negotiable. We'll respond to Trump's anti-DEI obsession w/ more & more research on each of the forbidden words, more & more books to fill the shelves emptied by force, more & more transfeminist & queer PhD programmes. 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏽🏳️‍🌈⚧️♀️ @ucoimbra.bsky.social

Madeira offers such a powerful statement of tropical wilderness just a stone away from Lisbon. 1h30 on the ✈️ and - bang - an endless gift of colour, ocean and amazement. #Madeira #islander

🔥Attention, queer EU early career researchers! Enjoy academic freedom & excellence in a prestigious institution w/ longstanding work on LGBTQI+, ageing, gender, diversity, citizenship & democracy. 🌈✊🏽 ⚠️PhD up to 8 years; not in Portugal for over 1 yr in the past 3 yrs; etc. ➡️Check & apply bf 30 June

Resistance is only possible if we come 2gether, because attacks on freedom are tentacular. #IWD is transfeminist & more. Just read the list of forbidden words released by the ElonTrump Admin. Not all politicians are the same. Fight against populism, join the Left, bring another friend w/ u. Now. ✊🏽⚧️♀️

Respect! And gratitude. We should all be doing this and whatever we can, standing up for human rights and for our collective dignity. Hell, yeah. A big shout-out to brave Maine leaders and to our trans family and friends 🏳️‍⚧️ #dontpanicorganize

We hosted a special surprise proposal at the bookshop this morning before we opened. It was a few months in the planning… They said yes!

🌈 On day 16 of LGBTQ+ History Month, we honour Lili Elbe, a Danish trans woman and one of the first known recipients of gender-affirming surgery. Her story, later told in The Danish Girl, highlights both the risks and resilience of early trans pioneers in their fy for authenticity.

I've just heard about the sudden death of one of the greatest. Without #MichaelBurawoy, we wouldn't have the public and engaged sociology I believe in. This is a hard blow at a time when his courage, intelligence and irreverence, all of which absolutely brilliant, will be sorely missed. RIPower ✊🏽💔

At the Grammys, Chappell Roan said: “It’s brutal right now, but trans people have always existed and they will forever exist and they will never, no matter what happens, take trans joy away.”

📸 Will Martinez

"The Hill We Climb". Remembering precious words by Amanda Norman, at Joe Biden's, 2021. And more: Stay focused, stay strong, stay together. This too shall pass. ✊🏽🏳️‍⚧️♀️⚧️🏳️‍🌈

📢 Reminder: The call for submissions to the ESA PhD Summer School in Sicily is open until January 31! *Funded positions for all selected students!* A precious opportunity to connect, learn & grow. Apply/ Encourage your students to apply now! #ESASummerSchool #PhDLife #SociologistsDoItBetter

If you are interested in the intersection of #queer #aging and #sexuality, check out the new paper published in the Journal of Women and Aging titled 'Unruly Temporalities: Older Queer Women and Non-Binary People Narrating Later-Life Sexuality. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It isn’t racism to point out that another country has laws criminalising homosexuality or that it enables violence against women. It is racist, however, if you only “care” about these issues when you want to vilify migrants from that country while excusing homophobia and misogyny closer to home. 🌈🎓

🎂78th b-day of David Bowie⚡ 💝15th anniversary of same-sex marriage in Portugal🌈 Remember. Celebrate. Honour.

May we find strength to reject offers, postpone deadlines & refuse yet another endless, pointless meeting. May we rejoice in doing nothing. May we get more reading & napping time on our sofa, and remain enchanted with poems, kindness and new places. May we love and be loved. Happy New Year, folks! 🥂

20 years after Susan Sontag's death and the amazement just keeps piling up. One of my most important references. And the living proof that your life is actually just a tiny part of your legacy. Note to self (& others): write, write, write. 📚 #SusanSontag

Just passing by to wish you a joyful and peaceful time. Remember: your life matters, so does your life story. It shall not be forgotten. 🏳️‍⚧️❄️🏳️‍🌈 #trace_ces #LGBTQIageing #oldisgold

One of the most astonishingly beautiful and breathtaking sports: big waves surfing. 🌊 I am certain there's a paper to be written about queer affect and surviving the roughest of seas. Hope & pride is what you get as you return home, shaken but not broken. #100footwave #Nazare #lastbigswell2024

How does @ilgaeurope.bsky.social Rainbow Map look like when you throw in stats on corruption per country? Now here's a very important tool for those of us investigating the role of queer citizenship in sound democracies over time, as we're doing with TRACE trace.ces.uc.pt/pt-pt/ W/ @ec.europa.eu

🌈🎄 End-of-Year News! New publication, free download!🎅📚 "Guide for Health Professionals and Carers - Ageing as LGBTQ+ in Portugal" This guide provides precious insights into experiences of LGBTQ+ people 60+. 👉 In English: tinyurl.com/ympepp37 In Portuguese: tinyurl.com/3wdtk699 #lgbtqiageing

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

It's the most wonderful time of the year 🍁🍁🍁 @ Coimbra, PT 🇵🇹 #SelfCareSaturday

These boots were made for walking 💚🩵🍁 #SelfCareSunday #breathing

Microfeminism, a step by step approach against sexism focused on small daily acts of defiance. What so many of us have been practicing, perhaps unaware of the concept & its nuances. Oh, and yes, feminism is alive, diverse & for all genders. Definitely a good read! ♀️⚧️💪🏽 www.npr.org/2024/12/04/g...

1964: Eight men, among them Nelson Mandela, with their fists raised in defiance through the barred windows of the prison car, leave the Palace of Justice in Pretoria, just after having been sentenced to life imprisonment. ✊🏽

And I think to myself... (If only we could keep it a wonderful world) 🍁💛🍁

Dear Aging Studies community: the European Network in Aging Studies now has a bsky account and hopes to connect with researchers, students, practitioners, and folks who hope to grow older. Check out: www.agingstudies.eu

December 1st: World AIDS Day. Remember, as not to forget. 🕯️🌈

Yup, it's that time of the year... Top 100 📚, a list by The New York Times. Enjoy! ❄️

For anyone interested, I have written a review essay of Judith Butler’s latest book, Who’s Afraid of Gender? in Law and Critique. It is open access. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

And it's a wrap! Another successful Human Rights PhD Retreat comes to an end. So inspired to hear what our great students of CES-UC are up to next! 💙💪🏽

On my way to the PhD Human Rights Retreat at this amazing, magic place: Curia Thermal Baths. 🍁 Looking forward to discussing with our CES students their insightful thesis projects and ongoing fieldwork. 📚 #CentroDeEstudosSociais #ces @ucoimbra.bsky.social #HotelTermasDaCuria

Gay is Good Excellent sociohistorical piece by @theguardian.com ✊🏽🌈

Freddie Mercury 🖤 33 years ago the world got smaller. RIPower 💪🏽 5 Sept 1946 - 24 Nov 1991 #FreddieMercury #Queen

Home, sweet home 🇵🇹 (21⁰C by the sea at sunset in late November ☺️ How can you beat Portugal?!?)

Definitely something not to be missed 🔥 #WendyBrown