"Melodrama as Provocateur," edited by Christine Gledhill, Laura Horak, and Elisabeth R. Anker, showcases the final project of influential film scholar Linda Williams, along with responses by a diverse collection of scholars. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/PkD02nj

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Special issue alert from @catherinehapper.bsky.social and Hayes Mabweazara! Glasgow University Media Group (GUMG) is also now on Bluesky! @gu-mg.bsky.social 👇🏼

1/2 Check out Lluis de Nadal's new article on social media's role in the growing backlash against climate action. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

With the start of the latest round of the Ashes, Andy Smith reflects on the extent to which English cricket has become a game for the elite. 👉 Read our latest Sociological and Cultural Studies blog piece here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

What challenges do you face as a PhD student working in the field of arts and culture? Discuss at ‘Meeting Emerging Sociologists of the Arts and Culture: A PGR Online Tea Chat’ – a free online event by the BSA Sociology of the Arts Study Group, 12 December tinyurl.com/47hw76h6

The first in our new TTiN podcast series of interviews with academics and artists working on infrastructure is now live! In this episode, Nicola Kirkby discusses her new book, Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel. Listen on your usual podcast platform! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Thanks to everyone who came to the GLINTS launch yesterday. Great to see so many academics, students & supporters. Excited for the possibilities of this new space. Thanks to @echomikeromeo.bsky.social @notrightruth.bsky.social @kenglish.bsky.social @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & co-directors not on here

it is the age of the crybully

Happy Monday to UK academics politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

If you are a @uofglasgow.bsky.social staff or student interested in intersex, non-binary and trans studies join us for our GLINTS launch event later this month on October 21st: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glints-lau... also enjoy this image of some our publications (books and zines!) from our stall.

2/ '...one that seeks to explore and celebrate the connection between our capacity to engage in critical resistance and our ability to experience pleasure and beauty'. From 'An Aesthetic of Blackness - Strange and Oppositional'.

1/ Here, to close out the week, is a word from bell hooks, whose 73rd birthday would have fallen yesterday: 'I remain passionately committed to an aesthetic that focuses on the purpose and function of beauty, of artistry in everyday life, especially the lives of poor people...'

If you are an academic based in the UK, please consider signing and circulating this letter. It's important. cc @ophiragamliel.bsky.social @cairsti.bsky.social @erdemavsar.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social

"I trust that the UK Government will take the right decision. Please, don't let me choose between my family and my education, because it's impossible for me to be separated from them." www.thenational.scot/news/2548316...

"Italian labor unions led a massive 24-hour general strike on Monday to protest Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, with estimates of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators rallying in dozens of cities across Italy."

Dawn Today we inaugurate the Peace Bench, round the Peace Tree @uofglasgow.bsky.social Reflections with and for the whole University Community - from the youngest in our Nursery to those serving the longest. A yearning for peace in our heart, lives and universe. @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

Still time to register for our next #IdentitiesEvent! 'Race, Gender and Misogynoir Stereotypes within the Constructions of Digital Women Footballers​' 23 Sep, 1-2.30pm (Online) @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk...

Really touched by all the messages and comments from colleagues and friends who have read (or attended) our BERA plenary, also by the academics and academic associations choosing to share the text. 🙏🏾 #KeepTellingOfGaza #AntiPalestinianRacism @khawlabadwan.bsky.social @hyabyohannes.bsky.social

Just City by the Med Research Network connects researchers investigating social justice and inequality in cities and exploring pathways towards just urban futures, through the context of the Mediterranean. Check justcitymed.org for details 👇

Perhaps I live closer to death than many, but I also live closer to life, real life, joyful moments and the things that at the end of the day really matter. www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

In Paris next week for @unesco.org's Digital Learning Week. I'm especially looking forward to conversations on the speculative and imaginative uses of AI. Grateful to @uofgunescorila.bsky.social for the opportunity to join as a delegate and affiliate artist-researcher! @uofgsociology.bsky.social

Here's something a bit special and a bit different - with thanks to @awtsn.bsky.social for facilitating these exciting engagements, and featuring @mindyptolomey.bsky.social, @academicdiary.bsky.social, @kenglish.bsky.social, @erdemavsar.bsky.social, @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social and more...

The new special edition of So Fi Zine is live! A beautiful collection of sociological fiction - HUGE thanks to the legend that is Ash @awtsn.bsky.social for making this possible and including my piece, and to everyone involved. Read here: sofizine.com/latest-editi...

Just City by the Med brings together researchers interested in investigating social injustice and inequality in a contemporary urban context; and exploring actions, approaches, and pathways towards just urban futures, specifically within the fast-evolving context of the Mediterranean.

If you'd like more info about resources, drop me an email at [email protected]

Save 30% on #NewBook "The Disturbing Profane," Joseph R. Winters's look at religion and hip hop. buff.ly/MdwHj1M

Happy 40th Birthday @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social Here’s to an end to the need for another 40 years and the full institution of dignity, fairness and equity as restored lives and restored communities flourish thanks to your years of tenacity. #refugeeswelcome @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

looking forward to this conversation next week with wonderful friends + colleagues for the Voices of Change roundtable at #ATHE2025. we’ll read from new work + talk all things playwriting, identity, and cultural resistance. come join us! july 30, 1:30-3PM MET @uofgsociology.bsky.social

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

This project has been so radical for me, full of joy and critical possibility. I love the world that queer theory and practice opens up. Queeringthemap.com is a unique gift

I have a paper in this co-authored by the excellent Ned Coleman-Fountain, David Abbott & Alex Toft. It’s a piece of work I’m really proud of. It gets at some nuanced complexities of gender &sexuality in PA. Great to see it out with all its paper pals in this special issue. Excited to read the others

"Memory over Forgetting: Monuments, Memorials, and Intangible Heritage," a special issue of Radical History Review, is now available. View the TOC and read the editors' introduction and "The Political Lives of Haiti's Marron Inconnu," both made freely available: buff.ly/LX4w4ac

Live Methods was partly responding to the ‘crisis in empirical sociology’. Writing this special issue we were in another crisis- the brutal destruction of the social sciences– inc Goldsmiths, the intellectual home of the collection. It makes Live Methods, its spirit and aims more important than ever

Panel 2: Reimagining Research connects papers introducing alternative ways of making knowledge with and about communities beyond the university. Panel 3: Utopia & Repair connects papers interested in the future of the university, through small acts of salvage and much larger speculative designs.

The @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social's Knowing Infrastructures workshop programme is here! Delighted to be part of this - come and join us on 13 June. Special thanks to @drdomdavies.bsky.social

It's finally in print! Got my author copies of Graphic Refuge: Visuality & Mobility in Refugee Comics today (Pepper loves the packaging. Pub date June 10 but can pre-order now www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/G/Grap... @wlupress.bsky.social @drdomdavies.bsky.social @cssc

Come, walk with us! architecturefringe.com/festivals/20...

You and me both, Libcat. You and me both.

🌿 Sexual Ecologies: Space, nature and queer cinema 30 May 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP buff.ly/vGOH36U This workshop aims to reassess Eco-cinema from the specific vantage point of contemporary queer cinema, and to collaboratively explore the nexus of queerness, landscape, and lens-based art

Shout out for Graphic Novel Builder by @edwardross.bsky.social ! An excellent guide to making comics. We like how it also cover the basics of writing stories (applicable to any media) rather than just focus on the nuts and bolts of comics. #KidsGN📚💬

That feeling when you call your co-author in Aotearoa New Zealand in your sleep-deprived state, and she is full of the joys of the morning …. and you say “It’s done!” Just one final check then our beautiful 🔥 anthology of Restorative methods is winging it’s way to @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social

Melanoma patients in England get fast-track access to cancer vaccine

Miray çok acayip bir şey yazdı, her gün okuyasım, yastığımın altında saklayasım var. 🤍

📢 Yeni Kitap Duyurusu 📚 Miray Çakıroğlu’nun “Annem” adlı kitabı, 11 Nisan’da tüm kitapçılarda!

söylenebilecek onca şey varken (hele de umudu ve cesareti çoğaltacak cinsten) meşhur yazarımızın "demokrasi bitiyor" demeçlerinden gına geldi. guardian'ın da canına minnet tabii. "madem sordunuz, ben size insanlar nasıl direniyor onu anlatayım" demiyor. "demokrasi bitiyor" diye diye demokrasi biter.

My first blog for a while! 'Killjoys in Translation' a slightly edited version of the lecture I gave yesterday, dedicated to all the killjoy translators out there. Thank you! feministkilljoys.com/2025/02/27/k...

This was our icebreaker with Glasgow PhD students yesterday and the thrive and connect workshop - a portrait of the world worst PhD supervisor and student! Lots of deep playful insight.

Beautiful occasion with the UofG Phd students yesterday a very inspiring way to end the week entitled ‘thrive and connect during your PhD’!