(In)formal Sexuality and Civics Education Pedagogies of LGBTQ+ Youth Dr Barrie Shannon When: 17 March, 1pm AEST (12.30pm ACST) Where: Online via Zoom Registration (free): https://lnkd.in/gDGYS9aj OR email kate.manlik@jcu.edu.au Abstract: Sexuality education and civics education that are inclusive, relevant and useful for LGBTQ+ students remain elusive in Australia. School-based sexuality education maintains a focus on heterosexual relationships, reproduction and risks, while civics education overlooks the histories and perspectives of LGBTQ+ communities. These issues are compounded by ‘anti-gender’, anti-‘woke’ politics that target trans people, their educators and healthcare providers. LGBTQ+ young people seek alternative sources of education using internet and social media, but these practices are rarely taken seriously as legitimate pedagogy. Further, access has been complicated by the 2025 social media ban. This presentation will outline the barriers to LGBTQ+ curricular inclusion, theorise the online pedagogies of LGBTQ+ youth, and propose the concept of ‘leisurescape discourses’ to explain how these are overlooked in favour of populist framings of their cultures as trivial or insubordinate. The presentation will introduce Dr Shannon’s ARC DECRA project which is designed to intervene in these vexed educational issues.

Join us for our third JCU Gender and Sexualities Seminar for 2026! Dr Barrie Shannon will be presenting on their recent research, entitled '(In)formal Sexuality and Civics Education Pedagogies of LGBTQ+ Youth'.

When: 17 March, 1pm AEST
Where: Online via Zoom
Registration (free): lnkd.in/gDGYS9aj

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Title of the presentation: To store you is to know you — the politics of intimacy in archiving Dalit-Bahujan resistance music in India. Abstract: Inspired by components of my thesis, I started creating a part physical, part digital archive of Dalit-Bahujan music troop Kabir Kala Manch (KKM), post their dissolution by the Indian government. KKM musicians were arrested for their radical anti-fascist and anti-casteist music in the face of rising Hindutva nationalism. Archive building and referencing became my primary research praxis as I was based in the 'first world' throughout my thesis writing process. Goorie and Koori poet and educator Dr Evelyn Araluen Corr refers to archives as a site of colonial violence and blood memory of the erasure of oppressed peoples around the world. My research reimagines archive building and preservation as an academic and political praxis of digressing Brahminical and colonial thinking, centralising cultural knowledges awakened from the margins. How can archives become a form of political resistance? What are some ethnic hierarchies that exist in your communities, especially if you're not from the Western world? How do marginalised and Indigenous peoples from your lands resist against oppressive systems? These are some questions that we will explore together. For attendees: You can reach out to me at amisbah838@gmail.com if you would like to share ideas for this session or require me to clarify something! If English isn't your first language, please let me know how I can make this content more accessible (e.g., by translating certain concepts, referencing external ideas, etc.).

Join us for our second JCU Gender and Sexualities Seminar for 2026!

When: 13 March, 1pm AEST (2pm AEDT)
Where: Online via Zoom
Registration (free): lnkd.in/gRFYaBGC OR email kate.manlik@jcu.edu.au

It’s shocking how quickly medicine & public health in the US have been taken over & undermined by quacks. #IllnessPolitics

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Seminar advertisement. Text reads: Title: Beyond cisnormativity, compulsory heterosexuality and binary-based gender: reimagining menopause for trans and gender diverse people Presenters: Dr Kerryn Drysdale and Mx Yeşim Karasu Time: 20 February, 1pm AEST (QLD) Abstract: While many areas of reproductive health have been radically transformed by social and medical progress, menopause has remained stubbornly attached to conventional scripts and social norms about gender, sexuality, and the life course. This attachment does a disservice to cisgender heterosexual women who may have experiences that do not conform to dominant assumptions about menopause, let alone how such assumptions can serve to entrench ongoing and systemic inequities in healthcare among trans and gender diverse people. Given the increased political, social and commercial visibility that is widely described as contributing to a contemporary ‘menopause moment’, now is the time to collectively and comprehensively approach menopause beyond cisnormativity, compulsory heterosexuality and binary-based gender. Drawing on a series of stakeholder workshops, community consultations with trans and gender diverse people, and widespread discussions towards a sociology of menopause, this seminar tackles the question of how menopause can be reimagined in ways that accommodate a diversity of experiences and expectations associated with acute hormonal fluctuations. Register: bit.ly/jcugenderseminar JCU Gender and Sexualities Seminar Series

Join us for our first Gender and Sexualities Seminar for 2026, held at 1pm AEST (2pm AEDT) on 20th February via Zoom! Register: bit.ly/jcugenderseminar OR email kate.manlik@jcu.edu.au

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Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...

“AI returns to the university as part of a broad effort to further corporatize universities, vocationalize higher-education instruction, and diminish both research and research-based pedagogy”

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Congratulations, Jeannine! So well deserved!

Collage of AIDS-related magazine titles from Lesbians on the Loose.

Always thrilled to be able to talk about AIDS activism in the Australian lesbian press.

4 black and white photos from David Wojnarowicz's Rimbaud in New York series. Clockwise from top left: Rimbaud lying on a tile floor in a black t-shirt with a small pistol in his right hand raised above his head; Rimbaud in front of a drawing of a naked figure from behind on a door next to the spray-painted words, "THE SILENCE OF MARCEL DUCHAMP IS OVERRATED"; Rimbaud with a bandage right hand with cigarette against a wall derelict-looking sheetrock wall; Rimbaud on the NYC subway headed to Flatbush Ave.

Do not miss the powerful & poignant show David Wojnarowicz: Arthur Rimbaud in New York at the Leslie-Lohman Museum. After returning from France, Wojnarowicz created the "photo-performance" series in 1978-79, documenting NYC before the onslaught of AIDS & gentrification.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics. Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and mos...

These cuts are targeted and political - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

QTRG Conference Visit the post for more.

Visit our website for information on our theme and conference qtrgconference.wordpress.com, and submit your abstract before June 8th at tinyurl.com/QTRG2025

A call for abstracts advertisement for the 2025 QTRG Conference ‘Queer Temporalities’. It includes text listed in the post and artwork that depicts an inverted view into a small distorted room awash with soft pink and purple light, centring on a figure looking upwards longingly to the floor where multiple amorphous figures engage with each other while sinking away into the floorboards.

@qtrg.bsky.social is celebrating 5 years of conferences in 2025 with the theme Queer Temporalities. Exploring the possibilities of queer lives unbeholden to normative narratives of time, memory, success, love, happiness, and family.

Hormones are a human right, and here's why We can't let the rich and powerful determine our human rights

Here's a great piece on Nonsense today from @nataliesqrl.bsky.social that looks at the fascism involved in controlling who gets hormones
heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/hormones-a...

Victoria Police withdraws from Midsumma Pride march Police announced their decision on Wednesday after organisers said it would a ban on participants wearing formal workplace uniforms after “unacceptable violence” at last year’s event.

Bottoms or tops, we all hate cops
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Comedians obsessed with 'wokeness' are the ones ruining comedy there's nothing less funny than old lazy jokes about cancel culture that we've heard before

uh oh! It's the internet's darling
@brocklesnitch.bsky.social, with one of the best arguments about "wokeness in comedy" I've read - namely that hack comedians who are obsessed with it are just bad at their job.
heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/comedians-...

My new year resolution is to stop using one giant list in my Notes app for literally everything | Patrick Lenton We all know I’m not going to ‘get into hiking’ or ‘understand superannuation’ – but maybe I can destroy my swollen and lumbering digital memo once and for all

Happy new year! My resolution for 2025 is to wrangle my terrifying notes app, which has taken over my life. New article in @australia.theguardian.com

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I'm not at all surprised that men are more likely to submit book proposals to university presses, but these disparities are quite shocking. Is this press & field specific? Also wondering about the breakdown in terms of reviewing manuscripts. Who's doing the service work?

Good luck! This looks fantastic.

I'd love to be added!

Nan Goldin Addresses War in Gaza at Berlin Exhibition Opening: ‘Are You Afraid to Hear This, Germany?’ Nan Goldin addressed what she called a 'genocide' in Gaza during the opening for her Neue Nationalgalerie survey in Berlin.

Nan Goldin at the opening of This Will Not End Well in Berlin: “The ICC is talking about genocide. The UN is talking about genocide. Even the Pope is talking about genocide. Yet we’re not supposed to talk about this as genocide. Are you afraid to hear this, Germany?”
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Thank you for making this! I'd love to be added to this list.

Please make one!!

Thank you!

💊Call for Papers💊
Queer Pharma: Experimentations in Bodies, Substances, Affects

An anthropological workshop exploring queer/experimental perspectives on pharmaceuticals @hdilger.bsky.social

Keynote by Kane Race
Deadline for submissions: Nov 24, 2024
www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/ethnologie/f...

This looks amazing!

I've moved over here, hello! I research and write about lesbian studies, HIV and AIDS, PrEP, LGBTQ-inclusive sex education, and higher education! 🌈🎓

Being on here at the moment is like a huge party where people you know and like keep turning up