New blog on our edited collection is up @mmbuob.bsky.social check it out migration.bristol.ac.uk/2026/05/11/w... and come to our cross book talk happening this Wednesday in person and online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-and-...

20th of May in person and online, a book event on what does justice look like for queer refugees. Hope to see you these! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-and-trans-mobilities-and-the-search-for-refuge-tickets-1987323413828

What does justice look like for queer & trans people searching for refuge? Join us 20 May for a book panel with scholars from Bristol, Oxford, CUNY & Leicester. Free, hybrid. Register 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-and-...

What does justice look like for queer & trans people searching for refuge? Join us 20 May for a book panel with scholars from Bristol, Oxford, CUNY & Leicester. Free, hybrid. Register 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-and-...

See you today Edinburgh!

Thanks to everyone who came to the Glasgow launch of my book! Humbled by the generous and sharp witted reflections from @obsqueer.bsky.social, @kamauwairuri.bsky.social & Kate Botterill—such an honour! 🙌 Upcoming events in Oxford, London, Nairobi, Bristol & North America to be announced very soon!

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

Excited to be launching East African Queer + Trans Displacements (Bloomsbury) with incredible contributors. 📅2 March, 15:00 (UK)| 💻 Online Open Access from 25 Feb 🎉 A chance to celebrate collective labour & reflect on what a regional lens brings to queer/trans displacement Reg: tinyurl.com/wyx6z9h4

🎉 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

Out today with @iciberlinpress.bsky.social in Breaking & Making Models: my chapter ‘Persistence: Model Asylum Narratives & a Recognizable ‘Transgenderness’. I explore African trans asylum memoirs & the ‘unsafe return’ in the trans travel narrative. Open access: tinyurl.com/36fmacec

In Kalamazoo for ‘Resisting Harm, Building the Future’, hosted by the Arcus Centre for Social Justice Leadership. Going to be talking about what nearly 20 years of the ‘Proudly African + Transgender’ portraits has offered the world 🏳️‍⚧️

Save the date! 📅 On April 3rd, I’ll be talking (also, let’s be real—fangirling) with an amazing group of scholars. Can’t wait! ✨

Sociologists working on inequality: Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required) EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f... Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials

Wonderful panel discussing our edited collection Queer + Trans African Mobilities at the African Studies Assoc Conference. Gratitude for Naminata Diabate, Ola Yacob-Haliso, Z'étoile Imma & Brenna Munro and the Queer African Studies Association

A great way to end the semester. Presented what will hopefully be the intro to my forthcoming monograph at SOAS Gender yesterday. Had the best time! Grateful for generosity in environments that want us to operate from a space of scarcity!

It's been a few months in the making... & it's now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.org