My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

Another year around the sun 🌞

Look who’s a cover girl for a really cool book 👀

Mark your diaries - January 2026. Available to pre-order now. 🤜🎤 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-cra...

*first year lecture, academic strides in* “right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION” *students wail, gnash teeth, vomit* www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just had a notification that The Metropolitan Museum of Art have aquisitioned my book Crafted With Pride, and it’s now pride of place (pun intended!) in their research library! 📚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Huge congrats to my amazing doctoral student Chloë Edwards on passing her PhD viva today with an incredible thesis titled "Listen Without Prejudice: Queer Masculinities in the Popular Music Cultures of Thatcher's Britain". Photo: Sunil Gupta, Heaven, 1980.

The UK has dropped to its lowest position ever (22nd) on the @ilgaeurope.bsky.social ranking of the best and worst places to be LGBTQ+ in Europe. Ten years ago, it ranked in first place. Our government must reverse, not further, this shocking decline in LGBTQ+ rights.

The landscape for LGBTQ+ research is so bleak. Still fuming that UKRI decided this review was acceptable and didn't undermine EDI policy. Highlights: no relevence to LGB cuz trans inclusive, no hostile climate cuz Pride and gay marriage, no need for declonisation cuz Tate did it 24 years ago (?) 🤷‍♀️

Apropos of nothing that has happened this week…where is the best place to look for academic jobs in the EU? The UK no longer feels like a place my community is welcome and I am genuinely scared.

Today’s news is so bleak. What a horribly hostile place the U.K. continues to be. Check on your trans siblings. Lives are on the line here. 🩷🤍💙

Categories used by the state to sort people into boxes are never neutral. Some thoughts on the UK Supreme Court case ruling and the wider anti-trans campaign to narrow sex and gender categories in policy, data and law. 📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/04/16/t...

Absolutely wonderful review of my edited collection Crafted with Pride in the Journal of Design History! 🙏

“Research into sexuality and gender is vital for identifying social, cultural, and medical needs of populations, and addressing inequalities across populations.” It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship. 🌈🎓

My ceramic cake/jelly collection is getting seriously out of hand…

Yet another scandal brewing within UK Higher Ed: universities can get research money for everyone they've sacked. Big ghost fleets of lecturers who don't exist will be launched into the next Research Excellence Framework. Unis will laugh and cash in (1/2). englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...

Cover reveal for the new book hopefully dropping soon 😉✍️📚🏳️‍⚧️

Hugely engaging and insightful event with @danielfountain.bsky.social this evening! 🌈🧵 Crafted With Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain @intellectbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social is highly recommended! #LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay

Join us! Online public lecture. Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with Dr Daniel Fountain Wednesday 12 February 2025 6.00pm to 7.30pm Online Sign up to the lecture here 👉ow.ly/3t0G50UYr3v @danielfountain.bsky.social

Super event at my uni (Oxford Brookes) for LGBTQ+ History Month . . . Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with @danielfountain.bsky.social. 12 February, 6-7pm. Free. Online. Everyone welcome. 🌈🧵 Register here: www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke... #LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay

Another day, another PI asking me to work for free on their funded project to do ‘important diversity work’. When will this exploitation stop? 😅

2024 was shit. 2025 is starting off with a trompe-l'oeil ‘wine goblet’ that looks like a camply decorated cake. #winning

I listened to this garbage so you don't have to. It is a horrifically one-sided, un-nuanced hit piece on international students that will do damage to universities & pile on racist abuse of vulnerable students. Shame on Jo Grady & @ucu.org.uk for contributing to this & adding to negative tropes 1/8

Lavender Menace, Gays the Word, Book Woman…I’ve fallen in love with so many LGBTQIA bookshops. They’re places of joy and resistance, good coffee and even better books. Support 🌈 stories and businesses by sharing this Starter Pack. go.bsky.app/G321HCf

To celebrate my book being a 2024 best seller, my publisher is offering 20% off with code INTELLECT20. A perfect festive gift for those interested in queer history, activism, art and crafting! Thanks to everyone who has supported! intellectdiscover.com/content/book...

We are advertising for a full time permanent Lecturer in Contemporary Art and Curation (Education and Research), deadline 9 Jan jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

An editor just got back in touch about a chapter I submitted in *checks notes* 2019. Glad to hear I have a forthcoming publication which I forgot even existed. Anyone else have these moments? #academicpublishing

Made one of these starter packs (interesting concept) and surely have not included many that should be here so please do comment and share to be added. go.bsky.app/985g3hA

since all the "gender critical"/TERFs are migrating here, thought I'd share this primer explaining their history, dissecting their beliefs, & debunking their talking points. no-paywall links, pls share! Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/a-gender-c... Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/a-gender-cri...

It’s PhD application season, so just a reminder that I have supervision and examination experience and am happy to discuss projects relating to gender; sexuality; modern and contemporary art and visual culture; LGBTQ+ history. Keen to support fellow first gen scholars!

Hello #academicsky! 👨‍🎓 I am a curator, practitioner and historian of modern and contemporary art, specialising in gender, sexuality, LGBTQ+ culture and activism. 🧵 Most of my work has been on queer/trans practices that fall between art/craft. 🐶 Come for scholarly content, stay for Evie content…

Hi new followers! Using this as a shameless plug to (re)introduce my book ‘Crafted with Pride’ which includes contributions from academics, activists, artists and curators on LGBTQ+ material culture 🏳️‍🌈🪧🪡 Published with Intellect and Uni of Chicago Press. www.intellectbooks.com/crafted-with...

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If you see your handle now says “Invalid handle", here's the fix... Share this so that everyone knows 😊☺️

Right I made my own dang starter pack for art historians and art-adjacent people, lmk if I missed anyone off go.bsky.app/VLoexp2

Hi new followers! Using this as a shameless plug to (re)introduce my book ‘Crafted with Pride’ which includes contributions from academics, activists, artists and curators on LGBTQ+ material culture 🏳️‍🌈🪧🪡 Published with Intellect and Uni of Chicago Press. www.intellectbooks.com/crafted-with...

Hi all! There’s some amazing starter pack lists to help build networks, I thought I’d make one for those engaged with trans studies. Please let me know if you want to be added along with a brief summary of your interests/research! go.bsky.app/BdMEQoC

As we’re all starting out, here’s a Starter Pack of LGBTQIA+ writers to enrich your life and feed. Will update as more folk arrive. 🌈 📖 ❤️ go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7Wa

Hello current and possible friends! I’ve had a go at creating a “starter pack” of queer scholar activist types who I know (so forgive all the omissions). It’s a small and growing list. Let’s build a fab and fun queer scholarly-activist community! 🌈✨ go.bsky.app/Ke4Ctey

Hello, Bluesky! Is this thing on? Giving this a go... I'm a researcher, curator and artist w/interests in gender and sexuality in modern and contemporary art, craft, LGBTQ+ culture, and visual activism. Also on Instagram as danielfountainart, if that tickles your fancy.