Frankfurt's last (and Europe's oldest) lesbian bar may have to close - please sign the petition to help keep it alive! 🏳️‍🌈♀️ #queerspaces #womensspaces c.org/PpKcWVC62P

Eilmeldung! AfD in Niedersachsen als gesichert Rechtsextrem eingestuft! #afdverbotjetzt #niewiederistjetzt #keineausredenmehr

Wenn sich jemand fragt, was ich mache, um den Winter abzuschütteln 😉 Heute letzter Tag bei @realscientists.de, habe ein bisschen über Fasnet, Verkleidung und närrische Freude berichtet - dieses Brauchtum lassen wir uns nicht von rechts verhunzen! 🧙👹🧌

38 years of GCN as seen through 20 iconic covers. Did you know we've launched a fundraising campaign to support our work as Ireland's free, independent LGBTQ+ media? You can donate here 👉 buff.ly/Ca08GFj. See the full album of covers here 👉 buff.ly/uNbQeuA

Queer history lesson heute auf @realscientists.de. Folgt dem Account für spannende Einblicke in wöchentlich wechselnde Forschungsfelder!

Diese Woche auf @realscientists.de unterwegs, um über Theater, queere Literatur und Promotion in der Anglistik zu berichten. Schaut vorbei!

Waiting for the "Speculative Cultures" Workshop by @aylinwalder.bsky.social Uni Braunschweig to start, and for us to "to contemplate what it means to be human in times of epistemic uncertainty". www.tu-braunschweig.de/en/anglistik...

queer movie find of the week from Wales! m.youtube.com/watch?v=-pPF... @bexxi.bsky.social have to recommend to you and students: no stereotyping, great dialogues/ visuals/music <3

home office support cat - can recommend, heat and hair will be distributed purrfectly in your lap. #academicwriting #catcademia

Protest zum #Hochschulaktionstag in Frankfurt. Niemand hier hat eigentlich Zeit, gerade deswegen wichtig, da zu sein.

dear theatre, we cared once

Blackmail, murder, love letters and 'queens': The secret queer history of UK palaces https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/20/blackmail-murder-love-letters-and-queens-the-secret-queer-history-of-uk-palaces/?utm_content=1769329200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Abiy Ahmed Ali, was given a Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, then launched a war in 2020 on Tigray.. today, we are still receiving reports and first-hand testimonies of the atrocities committed to the people of Tigray, especially the women, girls and infants.. #Tigray #Ethiopia #Genocide #Africa

Free e-book of selected writinges by Virginia Woolf citapress.org/a-luminous-h...

Current view of last dissertation chapter and emotional support person <3 #writing

Since it‘s getting colder, if you can, please consider donating to help people who don’t have a warm place to come home to! 🌟 For example: www.diakonie-hessen.de/spenden/waer...

Wir kennen das alles: die Ignoranz gegenüber der #Polizeigewalt, die Gleichsetzung von rechts und links, die öffentlichen Diffamierungen von Menschen, die sich den Nazis entgegenstellen. Esther Bejarano hat recht: "Wer gegen Nazis kämpft, kann sich auf den Staat nicht verlassen."

#britcult2025 on queering religion, menstruation and literary reception; on being haunted by the ghosts of our past and taking strength in community for what lies ahead of us; on reading reparatively and listening to each other - thank you so much to everyone for these past 2 days!

sich Strom-&Gasschulden angehäuft. Das Jobcenter hat Darlehen abgelehnt, obwohl ein Kleinkind von der Energiesperre beroffen ist! Wir haben den Anwalt eingeschaltet und die Strom- und Gasschulden i.H.v. 800€ übernommen. Wer unsere Arbeit unterstützen kann, hier entlang: sanktionsfrei.de/support.

Celebrate Transgender Awareness Week with this collection of plays focusing on trans life and gender diversity. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3IY2bDV #TheatreSky #Theatre @methuendrama.bsky.social

Soldier F found not guilty of murder on Bloody Sunday. What can one expect when the British state doesn’t adequately investigate at the time, blames the dead for their murders, drags out justice processes for >50 years and then imposes a legacy act. Ensures this outcome www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

Protestors arrested after standing on rainbow Pride crossing to stop its removal

Listening to a lady from Yorkshire talk about a play: "oh lordy, we were so close and we were just like, oh crikey, audience participation" but when she came out of the play she was "gobsmacked" by how much she liked it 😄 #theatre

Someone in our house is practicing the recorder and…good grief…I’m sorry mum, all the way through primary school plus year 5 and 6!!

Good insights into maintaining friendships by being forgiving of unresponsiveness, and how loneliness impacts negatively on our health.

The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally

Israel intercepts aid flotilla but one ship reported to have escaped blockade

Hey #booksky #academicsky : Does anyone have or know where to get bell hook‘s little volume of poetry In the Temple of Love: the Female Buddha?

Petition von @msf.de, gesehen am Tag der Kinderrechte beim Stand von Free Palestine, die heute der knapp 20.000 getöteten Kinder in Gaza gedenken. www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de/sich-engagie...

#academictwitter help! Does anyone have access to Henry Abelove’s "The Queering of Lesbian/Gay History" from 1995? read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

Things are getting real! The website for #britcult2025 has gone live: www.britcult.de/conference20.... Check out our exciting programme, register until October 20, then join us for a 3-day conference on the Re-Orientation of Gender (Studies) in the 21st century. #AcademicConference #GenderStudies

📣 Schauspiel Köln und CORRECTIV bringen #Journalismus auf die Bühne! Am 10. September feiert das Theaterstück „GEHEIMPLAN GEGEN DEUTSCHLAND – Ein Nachspiel“ Premiere am Schauspiel Köln. Das Thema: Die CORRECTIV-Enthüllung über das geheime Treffen rechtsextremer Akteure in Potsdam und seine Folgen.

Research Assistant - School of English, Media and Creative Arts, University of Galway full-time, two-year position as a Research Assistant with Professor Marie-Louse Coolahan universityvacancies.com/university-g...

Ich weiß, den Entscheidern in unseren Mainstream-Medien ist das völlig egal, aber wir werden trotzdem nicht müde, die Fakten zu wiederholen: Eine brandneue Studie hat gezeigt, was schon etliche davor gezeigt haben: Rechtsextreme zu interviewen steigert Rechtsextremismus. WANN LERNT IHR ES ENDLICH!

CFP! Anne Rüggemeier and I are organizing a FRIAS conference on silence in literature and culture from April 15-17, 2026. Please consider submitting an abstract by September 15 ✍️ (link below) @uni-freiburg.de @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social

"A play is not ONLY its themes and supposed “content” but its shape, its sound, its rhythm, its music, its playfulness (…) Immediacy (see Anna Kornbluh’s book on this) is the presentism trap in which society has fallen in this stage of accelerated lazy capitalism in the West."

Ch 3 is as drafted as it can get until audience research data starts coming in. Currently just over 19K words. Please fill out/share? #19-2: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #DaVincisInquest: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #RepublicofDoyle: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Great Alison Bechdel exhibit at the comic museum #Basel. These dykes loved it! #graphicnovels #comics #AlisonBechdel

Creative strategies to get students into reading - I will definitely try these, students often love a book *after* they’ve read it but to get them excited about the process is often difficult! #teaching #EnglishLit #reading

The V&A exhibition showcases the radical contributions of people with disabilities to design history and culture, and calls for greater visibility, equality and consideration.

Ist die Juristin unbequem, diffamiert man sie als linksextrem.

If you can, help finance the first internationalist queer pride Frankfurt. Many big prides have become commercial, capitalist events - may we never forget that the first pride was a riot! www.paypal.com/pool/9grfFjS...

Lovingly curated queer book table at the English and Romance Languages‘ department library!

#CDE first panel on Staging Queerness with 3 awesome presentations on recognition, re-directing, glitches, pleasure...🎭💜💫👢

Charlie Josephine speaking about his work, the body and queer joy at #CDE2025 Konstanz. Very eloquent, very inspiring!

Mostly disappoofed and assoured at the moment but sure there’s the odd day of energietic or saccesolul

Queer performance makers - apply now to the 2026 Dublin Gay Theatre Festival @gaytheatre.bsky.social to have your show be part of this lovely event! www.gaytheatre.ie/getinvolved/submissions

Since a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020, the number of people killed by the police each year has continued to rise — and Black Americans are still killed in disproportionate numbers. Our data reporter explains his findings. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books