This awesome book is out now!! My work is on the cover!! Go get one, Daniel is a legend. Feels so special to have my work featured in a serious academic art book, on the cover no less!

Wow that’s quick! I was told potential delays for non UK orders but it seems people are already receiving!

A copy of a book called Queer Crafts. It is a pink cover with images of blue and white ceramic vessels on it.

Out now! Queer Crafts: Material Practices and the Making of Identity available via the Bloomsbury website and all good bookstores! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-cra...

a drag queen is making a funny face and saying not this . ALT: a drag queen is making a funny face and saying not this .

First he pretends he’s an art expert and now that?

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

Another year around the sun 🌞

Look who’s a cover girl for a really cool book 👀

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Mark your diaries - January 2026. Available to pre-order now. 🤜🎤 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-cra...

Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told Guidance has been published by the Office for Students on new free speech rules coming into force this year.

*first year lecture, academic strides in*

“right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION”

*students wail, gnash teeth, vomit*

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ikr! You too! Xx

Just had a notification that The Metropolitan Museum of Art have aquisitioned my book Crafted With Pride, and it’s now pride of place (pun intended!) in their research library! 📚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Huge congrats to my amazing doctoral student Chloë Edwards on passing her PhD viva today with an incredible thesis titled "Listen Without Prejudice: Queer Masculinities in the Popular Music Cultures of Thatcher's Britain". Photo: Sunil Gupta, Heaven, 1980.

The UK has dropped to its lowest position ever (22nd) on the
@ilgaeurope.bsky.social ranking of the best and worst places to be LGBTQ+ in Europe.

Ten years ago, it ranked in first place.

Our government must reverse, not further, this shocking decline in LGBTQ+ rights.

The landscape for LGBTQ+ research is so bleak. Still fuming that UKRI decided this review was acceptable and didn't undermine EDI policy. Highlights: no relevence to LGB cuz trans inclusive, no hostile climate cuz Pride and gay marriage, no need for declonisation cuz Tate did it 24 years ago (?) 🤷‍♀️

Sorry I should have specified - as in, what job sites etc should I be looking at? Netherlands and Sweden are high on my list!

Apropos of nothing that has happened this week…where is the best place to look for academic jobs in the EU? The UK no longer feels like a place my community is welcome and I am genuinely scared.

The icon that is @roseschmits.bsky.social has legit done this with a piece called ‘Emergency Trans Toilet’

Today’s news is so bleak. What a horribly hostile place the U.K. continues to be. Check on your trans siblings. Lives are on the line here. 🩷🤍💙

A pink background with a speech bubble that reads: The Politics of Categories

Categories used by the state to sort people into boxes are never neutral.

Some thoughts on the UK Supreme Court case ruling and the wider anti-trans campaign to narrow sex and gender categories in policy, data and law.

📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/04/16/t...

Absolutely wonderful review of my edited collection Crafted with Pride in the Journal of Design History! 🙏

Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research Published in The Journal of Sex Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

“Research into sexuality and gender is vital for identifying social, cultural, and medical needs of populations, and addressing inequalities across populations.”

It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship.

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My ceramic cake/jelly collection is getting seriously out of hand…

REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.

Yet another scandal brewing within UK Higher Ed: universities can get research money for everyone they've sacked. Big ghost fleets of lecturers who don't exist will be launched into the next Research Excellence Framework. Unis will laugh and cash in (1/2). englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...

Cover reveal for the new book hopefully dropping soon 😉✍️📚🏳️‍⚧️

Oh I didn’t know you were there! 😘

Hugely engaging and insightful event with @danielfountain.bsky.social this evening! 🌈🧵

Crafted With Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain @intellectbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social is highly recommended!

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Great to ‘meet’ you virtually and thanks for your great question!

Join us!
Online public lecture.

Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with Dr Daniel Fountain
Wednesday 12 February 2025
6.00pm to 7.30pm Online

Sign up to the lecture here 👉ow.ly/3t0G50UYr3v

@danielfountain.bsky.social

Crafted with Pride: queer craft and activism - LGBTQ+ History Month lecture - Oxford Brookes University This lecture delivered by Dr Daniel Fountain explores how LGBTQ+ communities have utilised craft processes to explore identities, bring communities together, and encourage social and political change.

Super event at my uni (Oxford Brookes) for LGBTQ+ History Month . . .

Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with @danielfountain.bsky.social. 12 February, 6-7pm. Free. Online. Everyone welcome. 🌈🧵

Register here: www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...

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