It’s great you are on board!

Poster for the Workshop ‘Sexuality, Activism and the State in Modern Europe’ describing the workshop aims.

So excited for the upcoming workshop ‘Sexuality, Activism and the State in Modern Europe’ which I have organised with the brilliant @zsofia-v.bsky.social and @georgiakat.bsky.social. Promises to be a fantastic day of talks and beautiful Italian sunshine!

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Thank you very much for having me on board this amazing workshop!

Found amazing non-fiction books on race, gender and sexuality in @lighthousebks.bsky.social today!

Absolutely CANNOT WAIT to host the brilliant Ariana Reines, and in the wickedly cool pianodrome as well! Come one come all!

Decentring the Medical Humanities - Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Decentring the Medical Humanities: NNMHR (Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research) early career workshop Date: Starting on 29 October 2026 at 13.00, and concluding on 30 October at 13.00. Pla...

Interested in a workshop for early-career UK researchers on challenging Western-centric perspectives in the #medhumanities? Facilitated by Global History of HIV Activism project & NNMHR.

📆 29-30 Oct 2026 | University of Stirling
Apply by 15 May

@npapadogian.bsky.social

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In the third panel, we heard from @npapadogian.bsky.social and @tomsmithgerman.bsky.social on the Greek migrants and the Gayhane

Queer Central European studies is a beautiful field

Thank you very much for including me in this amazing workshop, Anna!

Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England, by George J. Severs This monograph is a very welcome development in the study of HIV and AIDS in England. George Severs’s book is situated in the ‘second wave’ in the history

Nikolaos Papadogiannis @npapadogian.bsky.social reviews 'Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England', by George J. Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social

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Last but not least, the interview of Pia Covre (in Italian), conducted by Rachel Love. Covre is a co-founder of the Comitato per i diritti civili delle prostitute (CDCP)The transcript is available here: taa.st-andrews.ac.uk/2023/01/16/i...

Stigma, Denial of Health Services, and Other Human Rights Violations Faced by Sex Workers in Africa: “My Eyes Were Full of Tears Throughout Walking Towards the Clinic that I Was Referred to” An ethical and forward-looking health sector response to sex work aims to create a safe, effective, and non-judgemental space that attracts sex workers to its services. Yet, the clinical setting is of...

The book chapter co-edited by Marlise Richter and Kholi Buthelezi, Buthelezi is a key sex worker rights' activist in South Africa, and the chapter is available here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

(PDF) “We are infecting people with activism”. Oral Histories of European HIV/AIDS Activists PDF | This book is made up of an edited selection of oral history interviews about European-level HIV/AIDS activism that were conducted as part of the... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

The interview of Ruth Morgan Thomas, active between the UK and several countries in the world, contained in the wonderful, open-access book edited by Dziuban and Sekuler, on pp. 75-115: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The interview transcript of Helga Bilitewski and Freddy Strack (in German), active in Berlin, whom I have interviewed and whose transcript appears on the website of the project I am currently leading: ghiv.stir.ac.uk?page_id=100

Please find in the comments below the links to the oral testimonies of some important sex workers/sex workers rights' activists varying in terms of ethnicity and the locations where they have been active.

It is also timely in the context of the increasing stigmatisation of sex workers, coupled in many cases with the spike in transphobia in several countries across the world.

This is crucial due to the criminalisation of sex work in several countries, its material and emotional impact on sex workers, but also such criminalisation's impact on the sex workers' limited access to HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment programmes.

A belated, but hopefully still relevant set of thoughts on the #WorldAIDSDay: the voices of #sex #workers who have been active in HIV activism, as well as those of their allies, need to become more prominent in research and broader public discussions on the subject matter. A thread.

CfP "Doing #MigrationHistory with Digital Methods", #DigHum #MigHist, am @dhi-paris.fr: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve....

During this Transgender Awareness Week, I am sharing my work on the pioneering role of #transgender people in #HIV activism in Athens, Greece: www.storre.stir.ac.uk/handle/1893/...

Thanks to Frederik Doktor for this very thoughtful conference report on a wonderful and very stimulating workshop about "Intimacies on the Move"! And of course to @chreinecke.bsky.social, Benno Gammerl, @npapadogian.bsky.social and @uschaper.bsky.social for bringing us together in lovely Flensburg!

CORE Local Multi-Stakeholders' Meeting | From Margins to Mainstream: Community-Led Strategies for Inclusive Health and Policy for Sex Workers in France | EATG As part of the CORE (COmmunity REsponse to End Inequalities) Project, Fédération Parapluie Rouge (Red Umbrella Federation) and Médecins du Monde (Doctors of the World), together with the European AIDS...

#EATGatEACS2025

❤️ CORE Local Multi-Stakeholders’ Meeting: From Margins to Mainstream – Community-Led Strategies for Inclusive Health and Policy for Sex Workers in France

📅 14 October 2025
🕐 13:30 – 18:00
📍 Amnesty International

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#EACS2025
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Taking place on Monday, 22 September!

Well done, colleagues!

This very interesting event is forthcoming!

Delighted to welcome the University of Stirling and @npapadogian.bsky.social to the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Steering Group. We're looking forward to collaborating with you and your colleagues!
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Thank you very much, @durhamimh.bsky.social ! We are so glad to be part of the Network! We look forward to working with you!

Great event!

I am curious about ways in which this approach to identity could come into dialogue with queer studies.

Workshop: identity politics and social movements - LAOMS Workshop: identity politics and social movements Centre on Social Movement Studies, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence 27-28 October 2025 The politics of identity has become one of the most contested ...

Thought-provoking approach to identity politics to be discussed at this exciting workshop: laoms.org/workshop-ide... The organisers welcome contributions from the perspective of the history of sexuality and gender. Deadline falling soon!