Feeling the Archive: Affect as Method in Feminist Queer Research — Gendercampus Gender Campus ist die Plattform für Gender Studies, Equality und Diversity im Schweizer Hochschulraum. Die Redaktion informiert über Aktivitäten und Neuigkeiten zu diesen Themen und vernetzt Personen ...

CfP "Feeling the Archive: Affect as Method in Feminist Queer Research" in Münster, Germany. Deadline: 30 April 2026. #QueerHist #GenderHist
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The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.

This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

Two misinterpreted insights in the history of heredity I am currently writing a book called THE IDEA OF HEREDITY, in which I explore why it took so long for humanity to realise that there was such a thing as heredity and what happened next.

Here's something I have been writing for my next book, about two insights into heredity from the seventeenth century that were misinterpreted.

BBC Sounds - Start the Week - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of Start the Week on BBC Sounds.

Easter is a time for reproduction, new life and sexy times, and we got down and dirty with the science of sex, and the history and future of zoos on Start the Week. For the sensitive souls it’s PG-13, mostly.

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Very happy to announce the Call for Papers – Forecasting the Weather between Divination & Science (Antiquity to the Present)

Submission deadline: 31 May 2026. Feel free to share.

A screenshot of the British Journal of Healthcare Management website with the abstract for the comment piece, 'The multispecies hospital: how the past can inform the future'

Exciting to see this comment piece written by myself and @victoriabates.bsky.social out in the British Journal of Healthcare Management! Unfortunately it is paywalled but hopefully there will be more on this subject coming from us in the future... #MultispeciesHospital

Yuki Kihara's inspirational, and evolving, exhibition Darwin in Paradise Camp will next be shown at Wereldmuseum Leiden (from 7 May). I'm looking forward to seeing it there later this year . . .

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leiden.wereldmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/... #drag #queer #art #artist #exhibition #Leiden #Netherlands

And taking No.1 in the Classic FM Hall of Fame is... 'The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace' by Sir Karl Jenkins! 🎉🥇

This is the first time in 3 years that Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2 has been dethroned, and the first time in the chart's history that a living composer has taken No.1.

If you’ve been cheering people at Boston University for putting up pride flags in defiance of the administration’s prohibitions, you should know that you can donate DIRECTLY to the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality program!

100% of your gift goes to WGS (not some random uni account)

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B&W plate (with considerable age tanning) of what looks like a cockerel, but the caption reveals that it is a 'Domestic Hen with Male Plumage.'

It's #Easter Sunday! 🌱

No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. But I do have a *lot* of queer chickens. 🥚🏳️‍🌈🐤🏳️‍⚧️🐔

Here's a domestic hen with male plumage, described in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society in 1821.

#queer #birds #histbio #histsci #sts #HappyEaster 🗃️

An image showing a mosaic of the 10 winners of our awards.

Pride in STEM is 10 this month, and we are so proud to celebrate these 10 change-makers who were proposed and voted in by the community.

Read about their work, their impact, and their commitment to improving the lives of LGBTQIA+ people in STEM and beyond, here:

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The front cover of Queer in a Wee Place.

Text reads: Hate crime in Scotland and the classification of queer lives: Doors, data and definitions. A razor-thin line exists between safety and danger for LGBTQ people in Scotland. One misstep a glance at the wrong person, a flamboyant hand gesture, a lilt in your speech can mark the moment when everything changes for the worse. Smiles turn to tears, blood and bruises. When the switch happens, as it so often does, the response of the police and courts depends on who you are or are perceived to be. The process of classifying you as 'something' reflects societal assumptions about categories of gender, sex and sexuality: the lifestyles that count as lives, the practices deemed possible and where these decisions locate you on a hierarchical ladder stretching between protection and harm.

✨ Happy publication day to Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality & Scotland!

In my chapter, I use hate crime as a starting point for a broader discussion of the cracks in Scotland’s liberal and inclusive imaginary as a queer, wee place.

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Michael Hall A Queer Inheritance | National Trust LGBTQ+ histories | LGBTQ+ History Month books Within A Queer Inheritance, LGBTQ+ histories and identities come out of the National Trust's properties in these touching, poignant and revealing stories from author, Michael Hall.

“I hope that identifying the existence of LGBTQ+ people... will encourage us to think more deeply”

A Queer Inheritance explores the LGBTQ+ histories and identities behind @nationaltrust.org.uk properties.

Read our interview with author Michael Hall ⬇️
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Women in the Private Asylum Business in Nineteenth-Century England - Economic History Society This blog post by Rebecca Wynter (NIAS-KNAW and University of Birmingham) and Len Smith (University of Birmingham) is based on a paper presented to the ‘Women & Entrepreneurship: Agency, Experience, a...

🔔Hear ye, hear ye🔔

New blog post by me & Len Smith: 'Women in the Private Asylum Business in Nineteenth-Century England'. Hosted by the Economic History Society's The Long Run, we argue that these women open up mental health histories in a whole new way.

#HistPsych #HistSTM #HistGender #HistMed 🗃️

I have my Boarding Pass ready, I'm off around the moon - my name carried with 5.6 million others on a micro SD card! 🚀👩‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀 #ArtemisII #NASA

Nice night for it . . . 🌕 🔭 #fullmoon #pinkmoon

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LGBTQ+ history in the archives, part 1: the diaries of Judith M. Ferrier Finding the lives of lesbian and bisexual women brings challenges to historians. In Britain, sex between women was never criminalised in the same way that it was for men. It’s because of legal reco…

My first blog post in a series of three sharing some of my research from @norfolkro.bsky.social. This is about friendship and intimacy between women in the 1920s - from Great Yarmouth to Paris!

Not an #AprilsFools! My book Lavender Sounds: From Lesbian Radio to Queer Feminist Soundwork (July 2026) is now available for pre-order through @uofmpress.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social 💜

#feminism #mediastudies #queerhistory #podcasting www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

I have my Boarding Pass ready, I'm off around the moon - my name carried with 5.6 million others on a micro SD card! 🚀👩‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀 #ArtemisII #NASA

Nice night for it . . . 🌕 🔭 #fullmoon #pinkmoon

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my I add another to this excellent list of queer natural history books 🙏🏻🌈🐧

A collage-style image with a baby blue background shows a bunch of pink, light blue, and white magazine cutouts of various animals and plants, including a penguin, swan, fish, lizard, snails and slugs, and a seahorse. Title page reads “Cal Academy’s Queer Ecology Reading List.”

Page titled “Queer Ecology 101” shows a bunch of similar magazine-style cutouts at the bottom of the page, all of which are tinted pink. Text reads: “Queer ecology interrogates how binary thinking influences scientific study and environmentalism. Examples include: Highlighting non-heterosexual, non-cis characteristics in nature; Breaking down human-nature divides; Studying alternative social structures.”

This #TransDayOfVisibility, we’re highlighting our favorite queer ecology reads. These books, essays, and memoirs break down binaries and explore the expansiveness of gender & identity in nature.

I love when he accidentally tells the truth!

This Kansas-born transgender doctor made a lifesaving tuberculosis breakthrough On International Transgender Day of Visibility, Kansas should remember the accomplishments of Dr. Alan L. Hart, a doctor and author born in Halls Summit in the late 19th century. In 1917, he made history by becoming one of the first known trans men in the country to undergo gender affirming surgery.

On International Transgender Day of Visibility, Kansas should remember Dr. Alan L. Hart, a Kansas-born doctor who helped pioneer a lifesaving tuberculosis treatment, was also one of the first known transgender men in the U.S. to undergo gender-affirming surgery.

Trans-ing History on the Web – AHA The DTA, which continues to grow, currently contains some 1,400 items, ranging in genre from community newsletters and conference programs to periodicals.

From #AHAPerspectives in 2016: The Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) provides "accessible digitized materials related to transgender history gathered from collections across the world." Read more on its scope by Sadie Bergen. 🗃️ #TransDayofVisibility

Publishing today! A beautifully illustrated compendium of LGBTIQ+ life.
'A queer scrapbook' is a rich archive of histories from across Britain & Ireland. Featuring interviews, photographs & flyers, it captures the diversity of queer & trans lives since WW2.
Out now. #booksky

Selfie taken outside the Royal Albert Hall in London this evening. I'm wearing a checked shirt and purple jumper.

When I was younger, my mother took me to the Royal Albert Hall to see her favourite stars, among them Shirley Bassey, Liza Minnelli, and Frank Sinatra. I'm so happy to return this evening to see *my* favourite stars, the brilliant Stornoway (@stornowayband.bsky.social)! 🎸🐦🎹

#livemusic #London

Looking forward to it! 🎸🐦🎹

Starting work soon on a new 3 year book project. People keep asking me if I’ll use AI to help me? I would rather wear a hornet’s nest for underpants than ever delegate thought to a plagiarism engine

Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago

Wonderful! Plant illustrations by Charles Darwin’s botanical mentor Rev. John Stevens Henslow (a thoroughly good egg) have been rediscovered in Cambridge. #histsci

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Pride flag in the window

Pride flag in a window

Good morning from Boston University. Pride flags EVERYWHERE