The sad thing about once promising politicians like Zara Sultana is that, because they were made on Twitter, they go through the rest of their life on social media mode, whether online or IRL. Zara Sultana, we love you; put your phone down.

Thanks @noisybits.bsky.social! For anybody interested; here's an OA article: publicera.kb.se/tgv/article/.... There's also a book coming: "Beyond Queer Cold Wars: Troubling Geopolitical Visions of Gender and Sexuality" (Palgrave 2026, edited by Klepikova, Shevtsova and Edenborg)

I still remember when queer feminist historian colleague blocked me on socials and proceeded to bad mouth me to other people because I told her in late 2023 that, while the accounts of Hamas sex violence were still unverified, there was ample research showing Israel deploys against Palestinians.

My brilliant colleague in Sweden, @katkehl.bsky.social, has been doing truly groundbreaking work on the security and defence reframing of queer politics in recent decades that moves our understanding of it well beyond overused and overrated (because rather limited) framework of homonationalism.

Stonewall’s priorities moving away from gender self-ID to “veterans” is a textbook example of the what-the-fuck-ness of a world where national security and defence paradigms seem to have become the only way through which centrists can possibly conceive queer rights and politics.

The state of British academia: my partner was made redundant from one uni after 14 (14)yrs on fixed-term contracts, & has now begun a short-term fixed contract at another that is threatening to put all (all) its academic staff at risk of redundancy in a “fire & rehire” www.ucu.org.uk/article/1445...

How life turns 😭

It’s too on the nose 😭

Call for abstracts, special issue of Kvinder, Køn & Forskning / Women, Gender & Research, “The Lesbian Issue” tidsskrift.dk/KKF/announce...

Classic Vinaigrette Faggot (which is 100% correct, and you can use it to address me in all situations, including but not limited to the bedroom or play area)

7/5: @noisybits.bsky.social and Liz Rosenfeld on Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising, with UOM's Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crossings-...

if you work in a UK uni, drop everything and read this (not news to many of us, but sobering to have the dots joined up; the stories are outrageous and heartbreaking)

Happy 50th anniversary of the Portuguese Constitution of 1976, which the far-right has been gagging to re-write. If there was a time to truly get being this fundamental text, protect it, and work towards its ambitions, that time is now.

Next week in Bergamo, after dutifully doing Easter in Berlin, as the good Jesus boy that I am! dllcs.unibg.it/it/eventi/ho...

She’s gonna be in Bergamo in April and she’s gonna get sassy.

Just give Andrew O’Hagan the ultimate prize. I’m deceased. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

We are solidly back to the days of "WE are the civilized, makers and beneficiaries of the rules, and THEY are the uncivilized, entitled to no protections" That mindset never really went away, some of just pretended it did. No denying it anymore

Dublin! 👀 www.ucd.ie/humanities/r...

Live-streaming today, 12:15 CET, from @liu.se vimeo.com/event/5628215

Guys, my old UCU comrade @hagenilda.bsky.social knows me too well!

Some exciting upcoming events from EACW's Centre for the Study of Sexuality & Culture! Venues across Manchester, throughout the semester. Speakers include @naoisemurphy.bsky.social, @jamiejhagen.bsky.social, @katiehbarnes.bsky.social, @lizrosenfeld.bsky.social & @noisybits.bsky.social

There has long since been no ethical argument for using OpenAI software or services. This just goes to further underpin what was already obvious.

Straight from Shrek

The second stage of Trump’s peace plan: War with Iran!!

C CFP for EGSC2026 🚨 Rieke and Jay invited to be on their panel. Wanna join us in Maribor?

Went to my local boy aquarium today!

Coming up on the 3rd of March, and you can watch it via livestream here vimeo.com/event/5628215

The French death drive won American Jesus. Brace yourselves; Trump is gonna invade Europe.

Like, girlies, it’s 2026.

Ok. Britain is clearly a country desperate to cling on to something

Ottawa: a talk was given to a really engaged audience, a PhD on chemsex was examined, great food and cocktails were had, friends old and new were met, and came back to Europe with a page of Jean Cocteau’s 1923 Dessins, and two C-prints of Eve Fowler’s series Hustlers (1993-1998). 🥵🥵

Guys, it’s very cold in Ottawa and people ice skate on the river.0 p

Packing for Canada and no homophobic -20°C will stop me from wearing a few thirsty fag looks! Come see it for yourself, Ottawa! 😈👀🍆

Amazing stuff! #UCU members, please vote for @markpendleton.bsky.social and @suzitoole.bsky.social for the joint HE and FE VP roles, and the other amazing candidates on the slate. We can do this!

Thank you Glasgow, thank you @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social! You’ve been amazing! 🖤

Who’s in Glasgow on Friday and gonna invite me for a deep-fried mars bar, please? 😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Do me a favour and hear @reproutopia.bsky.social out! 🖤 doi.org/10.1353/sor....

This was first delivered last year to someone not at my old Exeter address but on the same street. They looked me up and called the Uni of Exeter, my previous employer, to tell them they had a parcel for me. Exeter then contacted me and I got an ex-colleague to pick it up & post it to me in Sweden.🤣

I was re-reading Guattari’s The Three Ecologies, written in 1989, and found this incredibly prescient passage about the DJT

Hi London! Sharing this on behalf of a colleague.

This beautiful thing is out in the world next month with Aperture, and available for pre-order, and I’m delighted to have my essay “Attack of the Clones: Sampling, Seriality, and Queer World-Making” included in it. aperture.org/books/hal-fi...

February 4 in Ottawa! cuag.ca/event/imagin...

I’ve just realised that the 1st English edition of Foucault’s The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 shares its publication year (1978) with Stuart Hall et al.’s Policing the Crisis, and I find that incredible, magical, and heartwarming.

I’m gonna put it out there: I tried watching Heated Rivalry earlier today and couldn’t get through the first episode. Abolish “LGBT” fiction.

O Canada! (Come hang out in Ottawa next month!)

This is VERY good, @newyorker.com! How Consent Can—and Cannot—Help Us Have Better Sex www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Merry Gay Christmas to all who celebrate! youtu.be/VhxIcmhydos?...

More Glasgow, in the evening this time www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crossings-...

Glasgow, come hang out with us and think cruising as creative practice! Register by 15 January. tockify.com/sgsah/detail...

Not a documentary about the history of the Portuguese Communist Party on morning TV! ❤️🖤✊☭