🤩 New year, new award ✨ The EJPG team are absolutely delighted to announce that @tunayaltay.bsky.social has been award the 2025 Best Article Award for their paper on "Translating difference: Whiteness, racialisation, and queer migration in Berlin" 🏆 doi.org/10.1332/2515...

📢 Reminder: The Gender & Sexuality Research Network (GSRN) looks forward to seeing you at the next CES conference, June 16–18, 2026, at University College Dublin 🇮🇪. Don’t miss the Call for Papers!

The Gender and Sexuality Research Network (GSRN) is excited to invite you to the next annual CES conference, which will take place at University College Dublin, Ireland, on June 16–18, 2026. Full details for the conference and the Call for Papers are available here: ces-temple.secure-platform.com/a

✨ OUT NOW! ✨ 📚 From our book series with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social Queer and Trans Life: Anthropological Futures ⌲ Edited by @silviaposocco.bsky.social, @ej-gp.bsky.social, Lars Aaberg & @tunayaltay.bsky.social Find out more: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Posocc...

New paper out! ✨ We critically examine Germany’s 2024 citizenship reform and call for a shift from one-dimensional migration discourse to a postmigrant perspective—viewing migration as a dynamic, multilinear force shaping broader societal transformation w @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social & Naika Foroutan!

For #PrideMonth, we're highlighting books with free introductions! Browse our site #GenderStudies & #SexualityStudies: bit.ly/3Fs37yw Check out QUEER & TRANS LIFE by Posocco @silviaposocco.bsky.social, Gonzalez-Polledo @ej-gp.bsky.social, Aaberg, Altay @tunayaltay.bsky.social: bit.ly/40Rr228

UvA Media Studies has some fully funded PhDs in governance and data infrastructure www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3517...

People are being kidnapped off the street for their political views, sent to holding centers due process and in defiance of judicial orders, sent to camps overseas, and still progressives and liberals are painted as the real tyrants. These editors aren’t prepared for when it happens to them.

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

OUT NOW – ‘Sex, care and the working body: ambiguities of the gendered racialisation as “Eastern European”’ by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & @probursula.bsky.social: A short summary 🧵 (1-11): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Video of PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk being snatched from the streets in Somerville, MA, by unidentifiable people (& unmarked vehicle), claiming to be police. Last year, she co-authored an op-ed critiquing Tufts' response to students calling upon the uni to condemn genocide in Gaza. #fascism

By forcing the Istanbul mayor out of politics, Turkey has crossed from competitive authoritarianism to full-blown autocracy. A must-read analysis: www.foreignaffairs.com/turkey/turke...

Deeply concerning: The Trump admin is revoking legal status for 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua & Venezuela. Meanwhile, a journalist captured the treatment of the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador. Horrific. time.com/7269604/el-s...

I’ve launched my Substack, Footnotes, where I share my journey of writing my first monograph while navigating postdoc life in Germany. If you’re a researcher, writer, or just curious about the behind-the-scenes of academic work, come join me! tunayaltay.substack.com/p/what-makes...

Amazing new release from #TVCE member @silviaposocco.bsky.social, alongside colleagues @ej-gp.bsky.social and @tunayaltay.bsky.social #AcademicSky 🌈🎓 Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Happy to announce an exciting new beginning at @humboldtuni.bsky.social — a new department within BIM dedicated to gender, sexuality, and migration! I am thrilled to serve as co-head of the department alongside @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social! More information: bim.hu-berlin.de/de/abteilung...

QUEER AND TRANS LIFE: Anthropological Futures, edited by Silvia Posocco (@silviaposocco.bsky.social), EJ Gonzalez-Polledo (@ej-gp.bsky.social), Lars Aaberg, Tunay Altay (@tunayaltay.bsky.social) has now been published! Find out more here: https://bit.ly/40Rr228 #Anthropology #GenderStudies

📢 We’re thrilled to open nominations (incl. self-noms) for the Council for European Studies- Gender and Sexuality RN's Best Article Prize! 🏆 Submit your nomination to [email protected] by March 14. The paper must be peer-reviewed, published in 2024, and authored by a network member.

Heading to #BrownUniversity tomorrow for our book launch on Jan 30. I've been following the deportation news since I arrived in DC three days ago. Borders are not only about the physical exclusion of certain members of society but also methods to normalize mistreatment and violence.

A big thank you to everyone who joined us at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of our book! Special thanks to Dina Wahba for making us feel at home at FU, and to @naikaforoutan.bsky.social for chairing the HU event! The book is #open-access!

"Translating difference: whiteness, racialisation and queer migration in Berlin" 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇩🇪‍ Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Berlin, @tunayaltay.bsky.social's paper shows how racism is ambiguously attached to migration and sexual difference.

Join us for the launch of Resisting Far-Right Politics in the Middle East and Europe, published by @edinburghup.bsky.social! The event will feature a great lineup of speakers, including my co-editors, Nadje Al-Ali and Katharina Galor. 📅 Thursday, January 16 at @humboldtuni.bsky.social 👇

Excited to bring a playful twist to queer sociology this week for SOWI Fachschaft @humboldtuni.bsky.social! Inspired by the viral "What's in my bag?" trend, I’ll unpack my academic bag to explore how the items* I’ve collected over the years shape my practice and identity as a researcher.

Designing a syllabus for Queer Transnationalism next semester! I will include readings on queer liberalism, globalization, and their impact on sexual politics. I will also explore migration, war, and far-right politics to discuss tensions & transformations. Suggestions are most welcome! ☺️

Had so much fun participating in the queer life writing workshop led by Nikolaj Tange. Exploring queer autobiographies as a genre has been truly inspiring. I'm even thinking about starting a reading group in Berlin centered on this theme. If anyone has book recommendations, I’d love to hear them!

📢Resisting Far-Right Politics is available for pre-order @edinburghup.bsky.social! The volume presents case studies that highlight how far-right politics intersect with gender and sexuality in authoritarian, illiberal, and radical movements in the Middle East and Europe.

Couldn't stand to see my "for you" page promoting conspiracy theories, anti-woke, anti-intellectual, anti-LGBTQ, and blatantly racist content... It is sad to see how a platform can change this much and be used as a tool to mainstream and normalize hate. Anyways, hi @bsky.app!

📌 Up next in the Queer Politics Webinar Series: Join us on Thursday to hear from stellar @tunayaltay.bsky.social (Humboldt University Berlin). Dive into his fantastic work on "Revisiting queer migration in Europe." A vital topic in today's world! 🕑 12pm Eastern (9am Pacific/ 4pm GMT)