In Turku at Åbo Akademi today for Gender Studies Day. So many great discussions circulating around crip-queer-feminisms, and archival time-travelling with a keynote from Eliza Steinbock. Thanks to the organisers for bringing us together!

Laurin Tirpitz and Ela Przybyło are organising a workshop "On Asexualities. Crossdisciplinary Perspectives" in Berlin. Registration is now open! Register here: laurin.tirpitz.me/event/aceworkshop25

‘Similar Ground‘ exhibition of trans+ art in Helsinki 💙

Genuine pleasure to be an absolute unit once more! Curious to hear listeners’ opinions on the speculatory nature of this research, and how that might clash with archival neutrality.

weekly finland: a rainbow installation

Finally deleted by academia .edu account because of its suspect data usage policies! Would urge others to do the same. My research is still collated on ResearchGate & Google Scholar. Perhaps we don't need 3rd-party platforms now our profiles are mostly on Pure? www.researchgate.net/profile/Joe-...

Btw, you can read that article open access (for free) here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... "Asexual geographies promise to both respond to the identitarian richness of ace, and other, lives, as well as attend to the space around, ground below, & possibilities beyond identity alone. Join us."

We are thrilled to introduce the Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network this #AceWeek! The network is based at @clsrleeds.bsky.social in the UK and brings together researchers who are working on #asexuality and #aromanticism. 🔗Find out more at aroaceresearch.com

I have the pleasure of being a member of this exciting research network! Check it out 👇

now featuring real sun!

wrapping up my first week in sunny Finland! 🌞

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏 Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections. In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues. 1/2 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

It’s easy to respond to this consultation, and important to protect the inclusive culture of these beautiful spaces!

Had a fun time co-facilitating this workshop for LGBTQ+ people from rural Somerset with my friend @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social ❤️ Grateful also to Flo Fitzgerald for extending the invitation, to Spike Island Bristol for the support, and to Hauser & Wirth Somerset for hosting!

On a high after presenting with my friend and collaborator, Daniel, at the @esasexuality.bsky.social conference in Palermo! We shared progress on our side project, which concerns the queer and bisexual geographies of cruising spaces in Bristol. What better way to kick off bisexual visibility week?!

Interested in queer and trans ecologies? Critical geographies of nature and the natural? I’m so pleased this graphic format article finally published and free to read (or better yet - download) at doi.org/10.1080/0966...

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In Sicily for the European Sociological Association‘s Gender and Sexuality group’s conference! Daniel (R) and I will be presenting on bisexual spaces and queer futures tomorrow, where we will think the marks and ephemera in a Bristol cruising space. Colin (L) completes our mini Bristol delegation!

Last week saw the Royal Geographical Society's inaugural Asexual Geographies panel! @rachelbayer.bsky.social & I were delighted to present alongside Wenmei and Zofia, following our previous article's invitation for scholars to #joinus in this new field of inquiry. Thanks to the 20+ attendees too!

New open access article out in Gender, Place & Culture: Particularly vulnerable. Negotiating intersections within the ‘Berlin model’ of queer refugee support. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Last week saw the Royal Geographical Society's inaugural Asexual Geographies panel! @rachelbayer.bsky.social & I were delighted to present alongside Wenmei and Zofia, following our previous article's invitation for scholars to #joinus in this new field of inquiry. Thanks to the 20+ attendees too!

Today I presented at the #RGSIBG25 conference in the very first panel on asexual geographies! Such an honour to share my work alongside brilliant (and lovely!) colleagues and contribute to making space for asexuality within geography. Really excited to see what’s coming next!!! #asexualgeographies

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

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Bloomin’ amazing personal news: I will begin a 2+ yr Postdoctoral Fellowship at Tampere University in October! My project ‘Queer Rural Exposures’ will work through 4 rural queers’ photo collections + use affect theory to understand how queer spaces are ‘conveyed’ through visual historic material.

Bloomin’ amazing personal news: I will begin a 2+ yr Postdoctoral Fellowship at Tampere University in October! My project ‘Queer Rural Exposures’ will work through 4 rural queers’ photo collections + use affect theory to understand how queer spaces are ‘conveyed’ through visual historic material.

And that’s a wrap! My heart is very full by how caring, gentle and connected our group was able to become over 3 short days. Thanks to everyone for co-creating this event with us! I hope that this network of collegiality, care and consideration can serve us into the future too 💛

I can hardly believe the @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference is already upon us! I’m so excited to be heading off to Birmingham today, and even more excited to be convening the inaugural Asexual Geographies session at the RGS with @joejukes.bsky.social on Thursday!! 💜 🌍 🌈 ✨

This is a 5-year postdoc position! One for the queer STS / medical humanities and other scholars out there. What a cool opportunity

Online event: 'Embracing Queer and Trans Frameworks in Qualitative Educational Research: Showing Our Work', Dr Sam Stiegler (University of Melbourne) @samstiegler.bsky.social in conversation with Dr Barrie Shannon (UniSA) @barrieshannon.com 🌈🎓 ⏰ Tue Sep 16, 4:00PM AEST, 6:00PM NZST, all welcome!

Almost ready … 90+ entries, open access … the promises of cultural geography with Vickie Zhang

And that’s a wrap! My heart is very full by how caring, gentle and connected our group was able to become over 3 short days. Thanks to everyone for co-creating this event with us! I hope that this network of collegiality, care and consideration can serve us into the future too 💛

Day 2 of the Queer Geographies writing retreat: more somatic and creative workshops, and a whole lot of writing time ofc.

The first day of the Queer Geographies writing retreat was a success! So lush to see the group gathered in circle and sharing so readily 💛 Onto the next! Thanks again to SSQRG, the RGS, Leeds’ School of Geography and LBU’s SSSH! research group for their generous financial support.

Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...

Blue Jean (2022, dir. Georgia Oakley) A rewatch as free to stream on iPlayer! I maintain it’s the most affecting and effective mediation of Section 28 I’ve seen. Recommend if you’re interested in the politics of emotions and sexuality.

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Young Hearts (2025, dir Anthony Schatteman) It's rare for a queer-rural film to be great in my experience. Yet this one is. It handles an age-old small-town coming-out narrative with expert hands. Told through personal places and rural fringelands, + shows that kindness will always open others up.

Resolving to post more about the films I watch, more anon >>>

The Uni LGBTQ+ network produced a series of flyers highlighting staff members' research, including mine! I think the flyers look great - and it's nice to have the institution shout about its queer and trans researchers in times like these. So, thanks to Sindy and Rowan for organising this 💜

#OpenAccess in Transactions: 'Postimperial melancholia and the English North-South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London' by @sazpaps.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

“The only way to make Southern Italy hospitable to queerness is to work through the stereotypes and nurture spaces of queer joy that already exist.” @frammaturo.bsky.social @londonmetuni.bsky.social on heteronormativity, essentialism and lost queer histories. #OnlineFirst buff.ly/wfarPjw

I'm running the Athens Marathon to raise money for @switchboard.bsky.social 😁🏃‍♂️🎽🏅🇬🇷 Chuck us a few quid? www.justgiving.com/page/keep-ru...

I've been working on a queer history walking tour with OutStories this past year and we're almost ready to launch it! If you're in Bristol, Bath and surroundings - watch this space 💙

Can’t help but reflect on the *5 years of strikes* we did to defend our pensions, on this, the day USS announce their £10 billion surplus.

Does anyone have any sources or reading suggestions for the following nugget of queer history? "ABOLISH MARRIAGE" was a slogan that circulated around 2013/2014 as far as I remember (I used it!). It brought radical queers together in resistance to the trend towards marriage equality. Any leads? xxx

Congratulations to my colleague @cescatp.bsky.social on her recent publication! Cesca's environmental scan of 50+ online sperm donation sites will support our ongoing research here at LBU. Interested in family-making beyond the fertility industry? Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

when i'm asked to review the revised version

CfP for an exciting workshop I'm co-organising at the Uni of Sheffield - Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling Times. (More info below but workshop 10th sept, deadline for EOI 6th aug) tinyurl.com/qstorytelling