A cover image for 'In Our Own Words' (showing blue line drawings of people reading, writing, and running) on a blue banner with the text: A collective work that is at once research, art, and activism. Rooted in decolonial queer and trans* theories, it emerges from lived realities and centres the voices of queer and trans* Central Asians. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2218/ED.9781836451518

Happy publication day to 'In Our Own Words: Documenting the Queer Everyday in Central Asia'!

Exceptionally proud to be the publishing partner for this collective work that is at once research, art, and activism.

Check it out!

#OpenAccess

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Thank you so much, Sebastien! It means a lot that you are planning to include it in your teaching. I hope it supports some meaningful conversations! 🌈

Thank you, Siobhan!

A very special day: In Our Own Words: Documenting the Queer Everyday in Central Asia is now open access via @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social
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Funded by AHRC and created through collective effort. My deepest thanks to all contributors.

Ground Level: RuPaul's Drag Race and Globalisation w/ Helton Levy and Mariya Levitanus | SPERI Presents... Tackling the big questions in political economy

As queer culture is commodified by Western media and corporate interests, this dialogue suggests the voices of marginalized communities, particularly in Central Asia, are forced into silence or invisibility.

With @levitanus.bsky.social et al. on @sperishefuni.bsky.social

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Event poster for 'Decolonial Queer Approaches to Researching Queer and Trans Lives in Central Asia'.

Join us for this Politics and Sociology seminar with
@levitanus.bsky.social, who will examine the ethical complexities and questions of positionality involved in researching #queer, #trans, and gender-diverse people in Central Asia.

🗓️ 19 March at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Ground Level: RuPaul's Drag Race and Globalisation w/ Helton Levy and Mariya Levitanus Podcast Episode · SPERI Presents... · 16 March · 38m

New episode of Ground Level, the new series I host for @sperishefuni.bsky.social.

We discuss queer globalisation and queer everyday lives from #Kazakhstan to #Brasil passing through #Italy’s Veneto. With: @levitanus.bsky.social @heltonlevy.bsky.social! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Learning not to Breathe the Poison Decolonial Queer Approaches to Researching Queer and Trans Lives in Central Asia

This is an invitation to sit with stories that don’t often get told.

Join me on 21 Oct for an online seminar:
Learning not to Breathe the Poison: Decolonial Queer Approaches to Research in Central Asia
🕟 4:30 PM BST | 🔗 Register: events.bookitbee.com/university-o...
Hosted by Queer Minds Scotland

Join us for an evening with CN Lester, hosted by QUEER.ED!

Come and join us at QUEER.ED for the event on LGBTQI+ inclusive education!

Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence (TVCE) 1st Annual Symposium Guildhall School of Music and Drama is delighted to announced that on the 8th July, in collaboration with the Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence [TVCE], the De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice an...

The Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence invites you to apply to present at our first annual Symposium on 8th July: www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/tra...
Deadline for submissions 28th April

#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
#Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity
#Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT

Last week in Lisbon, I presented two papers: our queer Central Asian art book project with Mohira Suyarkulova & Russian queer migration to Central Asia with Polina Kislitsyna. It was a privilege to join the panel on queer cultures with the wonderful Saltanat Shoshanova & Georgy Mamedov

Dear academic friends and colleagues, please join us in signing our open letter with the RUTA Association and expressing our support and solidarity with Georgian students and scholars in their ongoing fight for academic freedom, sovereignty, democracy and justice ruta-association.org/news/open-le...

Dire Financial Straits at UoE? NO! — UCU Edinburgh Are things really as bad as they say? Find out the truth behind the numbers!

‘Staff are not a burden on the University—they are the core of its educational mission….’ Really important piece of work from UCU Edinburgh critically evaluating the Uni’s statements about its financial position (tl;dr there is money in the banana stand) www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/2eppzf7...

Dear #CentralAsia crowd. Here is a first "starter pack". Please reach out if you want me to add you !
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Starting Central Asian Starter Pack!

Please write in comments if you want to be added/want to add someone!

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Just joined Bluesky and eager to explore this new platform. I'll be sharing my thoughts and writing on LGBTQ+ lives in Central Asia, queer migration, psychotherapy, and other topics that inspire me. Looking forward to engaging conversations and new connections! 🌈

I would love to be added as well ☺️