Not many work updates this week, but a film recommendation from Finland: Jossain on valo joka ei sammu (Somewhere there is a light that never goes out), 2025 First Feature from Lauri-Matti Parppei - brilliant small town/coastal vibes, sonic geographies and transformative platonic intimacies 🖤

Our book with @jenmadelene.bsky.social and @kattiid.bsky.social is not only out, but available for OA downloading. Voilà!

Last day to submit to our CfP: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality and space

Exciting things ahead!! I call this photo-series Finnish Fridays, it’s a cute academic diary for me 🌸

At Utrecht no less!!

The Journal of the Finnish Society for Queer Studies (SQS) is welcoming abstracts for a Special Issue on: 📍QUEER SPACES AND CARTOGRAPHIES🌍 Submissions can be in Finnish, Swedish or English. Deadline 4th May! More info (in FI and EN): sqsseura.fi/cfp-queer-sp...

NEW CfP! 🌈🎓 📸 VISUAL HISTORY NOW: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality, and space 8-9 Oct, Tampere Uni, Finland If you research gendered, sexual, queer or trans histories using visual materials, this is the conference for you! Deadline 31 March www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

Spent most of this week on an archival visit and looking through A Lot of photographs. including this one 😳

Come work with me and @rvytniorgu.bsky.social on this Mapping Queer Hertfordshire Project! ce0997li.webitrent.com/ce0997li_web...

Can't give any spoilers, but the European Geographies of Sexualities Conference 2026 is gonna feature some of the most exciting sexualities research I've seen in ages! Registration is open & the deadline for abstracts has been extended - see you in Maribor? 🇸🇮 😁 sites.google.com/view/egsconf...

Our first collective conference outing with a panel session on Queer Visual History - we’re on to something special here! 💜

Abstract deadline has been extended until 20 April fyi ;)

Atlantic article about the Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I'm recruiting for TWO sessions at European Geographies of Sexualities Conference 2026! First - WHO'S AFRAID OF GIS? A friendly, no-stakes show-&-tell. Zero experience needed - produce 1 simple GIS output before the conference, then come & tell us about it! sites.google.com/view/egsconf...

My 2nd session at European Geographies of Sexualities Conference 2026: EPHEMERAL, EPISODIC & EVENT SPACES FOR SEXUALISED COMMUNITIES Looking for research on temporary spaces & events used by LGBTQ+, cishet, kink, asexual groups, sexual subcultures & more! sites.google.com/view/egsconf...

NEW CfP! 🌈🎓 📸 VISUAL HISTORY NOW: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality, and space 8-9 Oct, Tampere Uni, Finland If you research gendered, sexual, queer or trans histories using visual materials, this is the conference for you! Deadline 31 March www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

Less than 1 week to submit an abstract to the European Geographies of Sexualities Conference! 📣 Deadline: 16 March. If you research sexualities/LGBTQ+ and space/place, you're more than welcome! MORE INFO and to submit: sites.google.com/view/egsconf... Pic: EGSC in Brighton 2024. 🌈🎓

Exciting keynote on Narrating Queer Experiences by Benno Gammerl at the History to Experience conference, which kicks off today! Equally exciting; it’s just 4 floors down from my office 😅

East African Queer + Trans Displacements (Bloomsbury, 2026) is now Open Access and fully downloadable from today 🌍✨ A collective exploration of movement, borders, belonging, and survival across the region. Read and share widely. tinyurl.com/4bvknnwv #QueerStudies #TransStudies #QueerMigration

Our 'Picture Me' research project now has a write-up on the German Visual History network's website! We are developing new methods for queer visual and historical research. If you're interested in what I am working on at the moment, check it out: visual-history.de/en/project/j... 🌈🎓

The long 2010s are finally over

1/3 CFP: Islandness in Contemporary Critique Online Conference | 1–2 Feb 2027 We invite 15-minute papers advancing one clear conceptual provocation about how islandness is generative for contemporary critical thought 500-word abstracts due 1 May 2026

If you're researching queer history in England, farm records might be one of the last places you'd check. Yet for #LGBTQHistoryMonth, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares how he's tracing queer histories within our farm archives, and gives tips for future research. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Brilliant to see this research out + open access! On how LGBTQ+ researchers may put themselves at risk whilst researching in neoliberal HE institutions. “On the edge of sustainable”: LGBTQ+ researchers’ experiences of harm, fear, and community: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The European Geographies of Sexualities Conference (EGSC) is held in Slovenia this year! If you work w/ space & sexualities, consider registering and submitting an abstract. Theme - 'Discussing from Queer Peripheries: (Un)Desiring the Centre.' See you there! 🌟 sites.google.com/view/egsconf...

Pulling together a new article from my current project on queer space in and through the archive; thinking about what happens to ’lived experience’ when spaces and times are brought to touch in a little box of archival treasures…

I currently work outside of the UK in Gender Studies, not Geography. But geography is nonetheless what my research 'does'. It's so disheartening to see the erosion of UK Higher Education doggedly continuing. As an ECR, I wonder if the discipline will ever be able to accommodate my work, and others'!

I presented a new PhD output at the Marginalised Ruralities conference today. Queering the trope of ‘settling down’ in the countryside by thinking about the lesbian home-making (and home-sharing!) practices I encountered during fieldwork & putting forward the concept of ‘queer rural domesticity’.

This is so grim and it happening under a so-called Labour government is unforgivable www.theguardian.com/environment/...

U Glasgow has covered Jay Todd's @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & my critical paper on the 'Sullivan Review' rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Many social scientists whom Jay & I talk to are (still) unaware of the Sullivan Review and its potential implications. Our paper aims to change this

New paper, led by @jngardiner.bsky.social. We look at queer & trans visibility on social media and negotiations of safety for LGBTQ+ young people - drawing from interviews with young people, service providers and LGBTQ+ creators. Reach out if you'd like a copy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

📢 New peer-reviewed academic response to the Sullivan Review into sex and gender in research and data. @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and @felicitycallard.bsky.social have published a critical response to the Sullivan Review. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Still seeking participants for my PhD research on neuroqueer youth digital resistance practices! (ERGO: 103967) Know someone who’d be interested? All info is at linktr.ee/nqresearch.s..., or email me with any questions at ✉️[email protected]

Channelling Aquarius season this week by getting some non-Fellowship projects off the ground.… hopefully more to share soon!

Two fully funded studentships at Manchester to support research in queer and trans healthcare and creativity www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgr...

🎉 Big news! Our new collection, East African Queer and Trans Displacements, is out Open Access 5 Feb. Bringing together diverse case studies + interdisciplinary perspectives, this collection offers the first in-depth examination of queer and trans displacement in East Africa. tinyurl.com/4fz2rk5v

Finland Friday this week is sharing that we took some DIY headshots this week for our project website (coming soon). I look like an academic lol! A cold one!

See my thesis for research evidence of why a social media ban would be terrible for LGBTQIA youth. TLDR- when you belong to a geographically dispersed minority that your family don’t belong to, might even be hostile to- social media is likely your only lifeline for identity work and community.

My article “Particularly Vulnerable. Negotiating Intersections within the ‘Berlin Model’ of Queer Refugee Support” has now appeared in the latest issue of Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography! 🌍✨ Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Brought some West Country tradition to my local park here in Finland and held a jolly Wassail with friends and colleagues - auspicious timing with Old Twelfth Night falling in a Saturday!

"84.9% of colleagues on FTCs reported that their contracts had negative impacts upon their wellbeing" ^ As long as fixed-term contracts (FTC's) are the norm for early-career scholars + many others, then our workplaces are structurally screwing us.

Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography. Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work. Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change. Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT): www.rgs.org/events/upcom... Read report: www.rgs.org/research/hig...

Introducing: Dr Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social is a cultural geographer and queer theorist at Tampere University, Finland. They work on queer and film studies, platonic relations, ‚nonsexualities‘, emotion and affect, and geographies of sexualities.

That's me!

"Halfway between local studies, which have been confined to large western cities for a long time, and national studies whose results struggle to overcome the biases induced by urban hierarchies, the region stands out as a significant area of study as well as a relevant object of research" Tea!

Fantastic & highly relevant article from Theophile Plouvier on rural/regional LGBTI geographies in France. I appreciated Theo's call for more regionally-specific approaches in geog's of sexualities & the in-text maps are great for visualisation. In FR and EN: journals.openedition.org/belgeo/85933

On Tuesday, the Israeli military invaded Birzeit University, attacking students with live ammunition. Israel's scholasticide is a core part of its attempt to obliterate the collective life of the Palestinian people. We have written to Yvette Cooper urging the British government to take action.

Submitted a big paper to a big journal (in my field at least) this week. Very proud of it! Hope the reviewers agree lol ✨🙏

📢Call For Papers📢 Sociability & Political life Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements? Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!