Yay! Congratulations!!

Best of luck! You will smash it

that uni will not rest until everyone is gone ☠️☠️☠️ up the UCU and sorry to see this

I read, I enjoyed, I want your opinions and feelings on this book, please

Congratulations on submission! That's a massive achievement!

Highly recommend catching the We Who Remain exhibition of Sámi contemporary art at Kiasma_ in Helsinki. It's on until September. Excellence!

1. Sami Future (Arvid Sveen, 1980)
2. Dollet (detail) (Katarina Pirak Sikku, 2006/2026)

My chapter 'Towards Asexual Geographies' seems to be consistently read, but my co-written article with @rachelbayer.bsky.social is arguably more accessible/useful to a broader range of scholars!

💜New directions for asexual geographies, 2025 (Sexualities)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Recommendations pls Gender Studies peeps, can you give me your recs for articles, books on male femininities, particularly life & experiences, discrimination, hate crime experiences for feminine men/queer amab peeps in Europe?

A Queer Scrapbook: Book Launch, Conversation and Scrapbooking Workshop As part of Queer History Club we are very excited to bring you a book talk, conversation and scrapbooking workshop with the editors of A Queer Scrapbook! New book A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Irelan...

Join me in Leeds for A Queer Scrapbook: Book Launch, Conversation and Scrapbooking Workshop with Matt Cook hosted by @krheyam.bsky.social . See you soon!

Date: Wed 22nd April 2026
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: @thebookishtype.bsky.social 77a Great George Street, LS1 3BR

thebookishtype.co.uk/products/a-q...

Not many work updates this week, but a film recommendation from Finland:

Jossain on valo joka ei sammu (Somewhere there is a light that never goes out), 2025

First Feature from Lauri-Matti Parppei - brilliant small town/coastal vibes, sonic geographies and transformative platonic intimacies 🖤

Hot Connections: Why Sexual Platforms Matter A rethinking of “the social” in social media which includes the sexual.What can we learn from including sexual platforms in definitions of social media and

Our book with @jenmadelene.bsky.social and @kattiid.bsky.social is not only out, but available for OA downloading. Voilà!

Last day to submit to our CfP: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality and space

Exciting things ahead!!

I call this photo-series Finnish Fridays, it’s a cute academic diary for me 🌸

At Utrecht no less!!

CFP: Queer spaces and cartographies - SQS – seura Artikkelikutsu: Queer spaces and cartographies (scroll below for English) SQS – Suomen Queer-tutkimuksen seuran lehden teemanumero Queer-elämä on aina ollut tilallista. Se on rakentunut reiteille, pai...

The Journal of the Finnish Society for Queer Studies (SQS) is welcoming abstracts for a Special Issue on:

📍QUEER SPACES AND CARTOGRAPHIES🌍

Submissions can be in Finnish, Swedish or English. Deadline 4th May!

More info (in FI and EN): sqsseura.fi/cfp-queer-sp...

Presenting queer visual history (PicMe) | Tampere universities Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) constitute the Tampere Universities community. Our areas of priority in research and education are technology, health and societ...

NEW CfP! 🌈🎓

📸 VISUAL HISTORY NOW: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality, and space
8-9 Oct, Tampere Uni, Finland

If you research gendered, sexual, queer or trans histories using visual materials, this is the conference for you!

Deadline 31 March
www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

Spent most of this week on an archival visit and looking through A Lot of photographs.

including this one 😳

Come work with me and @rvytniorgu.bsky.social on this Mapping Queer Hertfordshire Project! ce0997li.webitrent.com/ce0997li_web...

EGS Conference 2026 Discussing from Queer Peripheries: (Un)Desiring the Centre

Can't give any spoilers, but the European Geographies of Sexualities Conference 2026 is gonna feature some of the most exciting sexualities research I've seen in ages!

Registration is open & the deadline for abstracts has been extended - see you in Maribor? 🇸🇮 😁

sites.google.com/view/egsconf...

Our first collective conference outing with a panel session on Queer Visual History - we’re on to something special here! 💜

Abstract deadline has been extended until 20 April fyi ;)

What if Our Ancestors Didn’t Feel Anything Like We Do? The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow

Atlantic article about the Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Abstract for session WHO’S AFRAID OF GIS? for a. first-time or novice users of digital mapping tools and GIS (Geographic Information Systems); b. former users who feel they have lost their confidence, skill and knowledge; or c. reading this now and thinking ‘Maybe I could give it a go…?’.

I'm recruiting for TWO sessions at European Geographies of Sexualities Conference 2026!

First - WHO'S AFRAID OF GIS?

A friendly, no-stakes show-&-tell. Zero experience needed - produce 1 simple GIS output before the conference, then come & tell us about it!

sites.google.com/view/egsconf...

Abstract for EPHEMERAL, EPISODIC & EVENT SPACES FOR SEXUALISED COMMUNITIES session. This session invites scholars and researchers to discuss the temporary, ephemeral, episodic, and event-based spaces created and used by sexualised communities and groupings of all kinds.

My 2nd session at European Geographies of Sexualities Conference 2026:

EPHEMERAL, EPISODIC & EVENT SPACES FOR SEXUALISED COMMUNITIES

Looking for research on temporary spaces & events used by LGBTQ+, cishet, kink, asexual groups, sexual subcultures & more!

sites.google.com/view/egsconf...

Presenting queer visual history (PicMe) | Tampere universities Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) constitute the Tampere Universities community. Our areas of priority in research and education are technology, health and societ...

NEW CfP! 🌈🎓

📸 VISUAL HISTORY NOW: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality, and space
8-9 Oct, Tampere Uni, Finland

If you research gendered, sexual, queer or trans histories using visual materials, this is the conference for you!

Deadline 31 March
www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

Less than 1 week to submit an abstract to the European Geographies of Sexualities Conference! 📣 Deadline: 16 March.

If you research sexualities/LGBTQ+ and space/place, you're more than welcome!

MORE INFO and to submit: sites.google.com/view/egsconf...

Pic: EGSC in Brighton 2024. 🌈🎓

Congratulations Florence!!!

Exciting keynote on Narrating Queer Experiences by Benno Gammerl at the History to Experience conference, which kicks off today!

Equally exciting; it’s just 4 floors down from my office 😅

North Cyprus (!)

It was the wall hanging wasn’t it…. 💁🏻‍♀️😅