I love travelling, but I see some American academics taking 3/4 planes per week and then writing about queer decolonial ecologies - not all americans tho

Something that always strikes me as foreign is the UK academics' use of acronyms - I used to believe I couldn't understand them because I'm Argentinean, but now I know that also the majority of UK academics don't know what these mean. Is a lot of people just faking it.

Body Size in Early Modern Germany Abstract. This book uncovers the significance of body size—of fatness and thinness—in early modern Germany. It explores how early modern people conceived o

So so pleased to see that my book ‘Body Size in Early Modern Germany’ is now available on Oxford Academic ahead of its print publication later this month: academic.oup.com/book/62409

🎉🎉🎉

To mark its online publication, I thought I’d share a bit more about the book and its contents...

The book will be in print at the end of the month, and I’ll be doing a book launch in early June – stay tuned for more details!

I'm also organising (with @historyelaine.bsky.social) a roundtable on body size and embodiment featuring @psimonetto.bsky.social & Grace Lucas in April. Details to follow!

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies will be launching our first digital fellowship - more information here:
lnkd.in/eNzj5d3w

The system of UK grants applications is so perverse....I don't even want to start. But it is exhausting

🔔 Reminder: #DecolonizingBodies seminars this week!

📅 8 Dec, 15–17 CET — Embodied Fear
w/ @psimonetto.bsky.social & Prof. Ashley Mears

📅 9 Dec, 15–17 CET — Embodied Dignity
w/ @ladanrahbari.bsky.social

🎙 Key speaker both days: Prof. Walter Mignolo

👉 Register: lnkd.in/eUyWH5Ke

See you online!

The whole programme can be found here

In this second conversation, I will be joining Professor Walter Mignolo and Professor Ashley Mears to discuss the topic of Bodies of Fear.

On the 8th of December, I will be participating in the seminar Decolonising Bodies organised by Carolina Belen Rabasa Rucki of the binq. ERC project.

You can book your place here forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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An LGTBIQ+ archival boom? Grassroot archival activism and memory politics in Latin America. Yuri Fraccaroli (University of California, USA), Patricio Simonetto (University of Leeds, UK).

This article asks how queer/trans archiving, curating, and displaying material were articulated as activism in Latin America, debating the cultural and political meanings of these practices in a global context.

Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@psimonetto.bsky.social

In Argentina. Feeling how the world is closing over us. There is sun, but there is no hope.

Lo más duro y lo más relajante de visitar tu país es que, desde que llegas, sabes que te vas.

Which shows I haven't learn nothing of it LOL

I have been almost converted to a new religion with this book. It should be mandatory for all academics. Something great I took for it is incremental writting

I am working on an article that is totally different for what I usually do. I am not sure why I complicated my life so much, but here I am trying to make sense of my chaos.

My book stamp

Book Release! 🔖
Dr Jessica Martin has published 'Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis', via Bloomsbury Academic

The book explores gender inequality, media driven feminism, and a new kind of 'austerity celebrity'

Congratulations Jess! 📖

Check it out here: https://ow.ly/izBc50X8jc5

Imagining Trans Futures Sam Rutherford reflects on how trans histories and historians can work towards building power in the trans community.

Powerful piece by @echomikeromeo.bsky.social

www.historyworkshop.org.uk/queer-histor...

I am reading about memory studies, and I am shocked by how they announce a turn every two pages.

🧵You know what I would love love loveeeeee. Mainstream media platforming migrants. I’ve written plenty about it and yet all the articles going around are written by British folk? Part of the problem with the discourse is lack of representation on mainstream media? Who would have thought lol

A Brief History of Violence in Mexico This session will discuss A Brief History of Violence in Mexico by Pablo Piccato (Columbia University).

Next October 30, I will be discussing A Brief History of Violence in Mexico with my friends Thomas Rath, Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, Paulo Drinot and Ben Smith www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

El Tesoro de EEUU confirmó que negocia con el Gobierno de Milei una línea de swap por u$s20.000 millones El secretario del Tesoro de EEUU, Scott Bessent, anunció que está en la mesa de negociación con Javier Milei una línea swap de u$s20.000 para auxiliar financieramente a la Argentina.

Patria no, colonia sí
www.ambito.com/economia/el-...

I love political journalism

"Anyone who was drawn to him was bound to feel like the child who catches a glimpse of the lighted Christmas tree through a crack in the closed door."

I always think of that text of Adorno in which he describes his admiration for Benjamin's ideas. My book is back in Argentina, but according to the internet was something like

Oh I want this book so much :) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social may want it too

Also, a trans scholar doing interesting work is Cole Rizki who is publishing a monograph with Duke about this www.colerizki.com/research-1

Sideways Selves How trans and non-binary networks engage in decoloniality across hemispheres.  A deeply informed, theoretically rich work of inquiry and critique, Sideways ...

Maybe PJ Pietro new book
utpress.utexas.edu/9781477331774/