My first journal article has officially been published! If you want to know more about trans museology and especially the Museum of Transology, check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Working on article corrections 💪

WAR! What is it good for? Absolutely this week's new episode! We were joined by @hdabrown.bsky.social to discuss "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz . We discuss politics, Napoleon, and Battlestar Galactica! Listen on anchor.fm/theoryish

War is a continuation of podcast by other means… Had a blast talking with @paolamedgonz.bsky.social and @hannahva390.bsky.social about CvC and Crimson Tide among other things!

I passed the PhD Viva and am now Dr Hannah Ayres 🥳🥳🥳 Thank you to @richardsandellrcmg.bsky.social and Igi Moon for examining the thesis and making the experience thoroughly enjoyable and encouraging ☺️

We are back this week with another excellent book from ‪@manchesterup.bsky.social‬ ! We interviewed Rustam Alexander on his monograph, The Red Closet:The hidden history of gay oppression in the USSR. Listen on anchor.fm/theoryish

Playing round with Obsidian for my first book proposal 📚🕸️

We reaching 2000 followers on Spotify @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social 🥳🥳

I am co-editing an issue of Puncta with Chris Jingchao Ma on Critical Trans Phenomenology! Submissions are due July 15th. Here is the CFP with full details: puncta.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/pu...

We are finally back from our mid season break 🥳 Check out our episode on Carmilla here: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

I researched the Museum of Transology for my PhD, and it’s so incredible to see the growth of this project at their 10-year anniversary at the Lethaby Gallery 🥰💜

Toronto job posting: Museum Collection Specialist at The ArQuves: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives. Salary: $60 000/year + healthcare benefits Deadline: 21 April 2025 More info and to apply: arquives.ca/museum-colle... (Please share, thanks!) #Toronto #GLAM #MuseumStudies🌈🎓 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

It's that time again! The Call for Papers for the 2025 ROLES Sexuality and Gender Studies Conference is now open! More info below, and visit rolesbham.wixsite.com/home/confere... for more info/to submit! Welcome to all researching in Gender and Sexuality Studies!

I'm pleased to announce that my paper 'Trans* people’s perceptions of political participation in the wake of voter identification requirements: evidence from the UK', co-authored with Ash Stokoe, is now available Open Access with the European Journal of Politics and Gender doi.org/10.1332/2515... 🌈🎓

Don't forget the deadline to apply is approaching! APPLY TO PRESENT>> forms.office.com/e/wCQ7W9CyaD Applications close on 28th April 2025 #AcademicSky 🌈🎓 #Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity #Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT #Trans #TransLivesMatter #Trans+ #TVCE

Just a reminder I've created a queer and trans studies feed to collate discussions, publications, news and academic jobs relevant to our field. Please like and pin it for easy access, use the 🌈🎓 emojis together to post to it, and share it with your colleagues!

OUT NOW! My chapter 'Toward Asexual Geographies' features in the 10-yr anniversary edition of Asexualities. Feels like a full circle moment! In it, I ask how asexuality studies and geographies of sexuality can enrich the other + think space asexually. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Submitted my first journal article 🤞🤞

Update: the Viva has been rearranged, it's going to be a little while to wait but looking forward to it! Also I'm feeling a lot better than I was - finally off the painkillers 🌞

Working on my first journal article today! I think I'm almost there with it 🥳 (still have to format and proofread but the bones are there)

I have just signed the contract to publish the book based on my PhD thesis, with R outledge books!! Titled "A Sociology of Institutional Banking Power: Elite Power at the Heart of British Banking" which I need to submit in October 2026. I am both excited and terrified!!

I was meant to have my Viva today (it would have started 15 minutes ago!), and had been looking forward to it for a few months. Unfortunately I've been dealing with a long term health condition, and it reared its head last week and landed me in A&E.

We're delighted to open the Call for Papers for the sixth Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference: Globalities and Regionalities (3-6 June 2025). The themes are 'Globalities' and 'Regionalities' with deadline 3 May. Details below and here: middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...

New episode 🥳🥳 listen here: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/the... Or wherever you get your podcasts

Editing for @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social between teaching classes 💅💅

Editing for @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social 😌🧹🌕

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...

If you're not involved in disability activism in the UK you might not be aware of John Pring's incredible and long standing journalistic work covering failings and outright lies from successive British governments about welfare cuts.

Why has it taken me so long to trip over this podcast series; Theoryish- take a look #PhDSky open.spotify.com/show/2qDMP6A...

I’m so excited for this episode to finally be out in the world! Please check out and spread the word, we’d really appreciate it 🥰 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/the...

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester.

What do YOU know about art? This week we discuss the seminal1939 Clement Greenberg essay "Avant-Garde and Kitsch." We discuss flatness, art, and political kitsch. Listen on your fave podcasting platform via anchor.fm/theoryish !

Myself and @paolamedgonz.bsky.social were interviewed for the Exchanges Discourse podcast about @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social 🥰 If you fancy a listen you can check it out here: open.spotify.com/episode/1EMr...

New episode 🥳🥳: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/the...

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We are back 🥳🥳

New episodes of the podcast soon 👀 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/the...

JOB (pls share!) you still have some days to apply for this Impact Coordinator role to join the Vulnerable State Project team at Warwick. For details please see here: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

Back to teaching ☀️

Call for conference contributions to ‘Queer Pasts: What’s Queer in Queer History?’ taking place in Copenhagen in May 2025. CFP deadline is 10 January 25.

Analog Game Studies doing a queer-focused issue! CFP here, full essays due in April: analoggamestudies.org/cfp/cfp-quee...

Amazing conference theme alert! CFP examining, from queer/trans studies perspectives, how "individuals, groups, and organisations can be said to make, un-make, and re-make texts"

I FINALLY SUBMITTED THE PHD 😭😭😭

We got the Spotify Wrapped for @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social 🥰 very thankful that so many people enjoyed our podcast! We can’t wait to bring you all Season 3 in January 💖💖

We are now advertising a funded PhD connected to our Wellcome Trust project "Carbon Bodies" at Northumbria University. Will be good for those interested in the intersection of energy/health or wanting to explore histories of hygiene. Deadline is the 24th January. tinyurl.com/b9h9adfc

Less than a month till I finally hand my PhD in (after 6 years!) - I’m feeling good about where the thesis ended up ☺️ I’m not certain what will happen after this but, for now, I’m trying to stay with the feeling that I achieved something monumental by completing the PhD 💜

I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! I will be adding to it; do comment or message if you would like to be added - & share! go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq

Not sure how these starter packs come to be but here you go food studies friends. go.bsky.app/Evp1Stc

Join the super friendly and supportive LGBTQ+ Research Network for people researching LGBTQ+ topics. We meet regularly online to share ideas and research. Share your username in the comments to be added. @dradambrett.bsky.social go.bsky.app/S2RmnYf

New funding opportunity for LGBTQ+ Creative Projects in Scotland! 🌈 Find out more about the funding offered by Museums Galleries Scotland through the Small Grants Fund here: www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/funding/smal... The project will be able to join the QHCN Development Programme 2025-26