@drkatw.bsky.social
Third sector research by day, the German far-right by night. I like books, plants, knitting, and pretending that I'm going to start running again soon. My book on women and the AfD is due in 2026. 🖥️: https://linktr.ee/drkatwilliams
Looking forward to discussing how to research the far right safely in academia at the @vox-pol.bsky.social report launch. The report is by @antoniavaughan.bsky.social, with the event hosted by @lizzypearson.bsky.social
07.10.2025 14:34 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
35 years ago today, the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and its territory was absorbed into the Federal Republic. If you want to learn more about the rise and fall of the GDR on this auspicious #TagderEinheit, you can check out my new book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...
03.10.2025 06:30 — 👍 61 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 3
🇩🇪 German Reunification Day!
In 2020, I wrote about how Germany's east–west divide links to #AfD success. Today, the article remains relevant — but the AfD’s rise across Germany shows that this is not only an east-west story.
➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @politicalquarterly.bsky.social
I remember that I came down with a stinking cold about 3 hours after arriving in London. Coincidentally, I have lurgy right now too✌️🤧
03.10.2025 09:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This time last year @lizzypearson.bsky.social and I were invited to the BBC to talk about gender and radicalisation for the Thinking Allowed podcast: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
03.10.2025 09:12 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Hate to brag but I finally got my urgent NHS referral, ***checks notes***, 1 year and 1 month after it was first made...
30.09.2025 16:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It is Book Launch day for @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and My edited volume "Contemporary Far-Right Culture The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism"
www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
🥳 This week, we will pay 31,487 members their share of £11,588,572!
Find out more:
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Image of the words Man Up: Conversations on Gendered Hate in the Digital Age
It’s here: the absolute coolest thing I have done all year, and that is saying something!
“Man Up: Conversations on Gendered Hate in the Digital Age” is an original podcast produced by Long Story Short Media featuring leading extremism expert Cynthia 1/
linktr.ee/manuppodcast
NEW ONLINE EVENT!
Travelling through a landscape of witches, wizards and wicker men, @odavies9.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social will reveal how folklore continues to be lived in the present.
Tickets available now from @faneproductions.bsky.social: www.fane.co.uk/owen-ceri #booksky
A knitted tapestry based on motifs from the film The Witch. It's made with pink and black DK yarn and depicts goats and the words "Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?"
I for one have been living a bit too deliciously recently and must return to my book next week. This chart based on motifs from the 2015 film The Witch is by thewitchystitcher on Etsy 🧶🐐
06.09.2025 19:04 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Book update - I am now 4 chapters in and having a little break this week (and maybe next week 🤫). My next chapter will be a short-ish one about my methodological approach which I'm quite excited about. For now it's a chippy tea and maybe more knitting.
30.08.2025 15:39 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A knitted, albeit simplified, version of Saturn Devouring His Son by Goya in red, glittery black and cream DK yarn.
A knitted tapestry of a druid-like lady cutting mistletoe off a tree in light blue and forest green DK yarn.
A knitted tapestry of a Valkyrie standing in a forest with a spear and shield in pink and purple DK yarn
Some of my recent masterpieces 😎 the Goya chart I found on Pinterest (not sure who the author is - let me know if you do), and the other two are from the online Antique Pattern Library 📚
30.08.2025 15:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nothing like laying my own hands on my own book for the first time. Literally hot off the press 🔥🔥🔥
09.08.2025 20:51 — 👍 302 🔁 48 💬 17 📌 3
A half finished knitted tapestry in purple and pink acrylic yarn. The finished item will depict a mythological lady, possibly a Valkyrie, but it's hard to tell from the pattern tbh. Pattern is from the online Antique Pattern Library.
I am also working full-time and knitting furiously in-between having my dinner and falling asleep on the sofa at 8pm.
07.08.2025 07:12 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hi to all new followers 👋 I'm not on here much atm but I'm squirreling away behind the scenes ✍️ I've just started the 4th chapter of my forthcoming book, and Julius Schneider and I are finalising our book chapter on the AfD's manipulation of crime stats for an exciting new volume due in 2026 😎
07.08.2025 07:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two knitted tapestries, one is of Pinhead from the Hellraiser films, and the second is a quote from Milton's Paradise Lost - "better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."
A knitted swatch with two pink goats facing each other and a white background
A knitted tapestry based on Dante's Inferno with skull, rat, spiral, tree, and staircase motifs. The background is cream and the details and patterns are blue.
Some of my recent projects, all based on charts by saylessknits except the goats from WitchWolfWeb Creations on Pinterest 🧶
01.08.2025 09:20 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A knitted colourwork tapestry featuring Pinhead from the Hellraiser films and a couple of chains, for good measure.
It's Friday, I'm now on A/L, and I've just finished this bad boi. Mistakes were made but happy that it's legible overall ✌️⛓️ will block eventually (as in soak in water and dry to relax the tension in the stitches)
18.07.2025 16:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New podcast! Concluding part of our double podcast episode about the crucial role played by women in the great miners' strike in Britain of 1984-5. Join us on Patreon, help support our work, and listen today at www.patreon.com/posts/134227...
16.07.2025 13:25 — 👍 30 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
📣New review📣
@drkatw.bsky.social reviews Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond's (@sisyphusa.bsky.social) 'Fascism and the Women's Cause', reflecting on the how tenets of women’s rights and agency are central to contemporary attempts to reinvigorate fascism.
reacpol.net/fascism-wome...
My review of Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond's Fascism and the Women's Cause for @reacpolrn.bsky.social ⬇️📚
15.07.2025 15:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Omg, a gust of wind is blowing through my curtains 😭 looks like sleeping's back on the menu, boys 😎🛌
14.07.2025 15:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What is new in #farright research? www.kai-arzheimer.com/may-is-the-n...
06.07.2025 07:55 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
When I'm not writing for work or my book, I like to torture myself by taking on complicated knitting projects which haunt my dreams 🤣⛓️ I've already made some big mistakes but will see it out til the bitter end as it would be a waste of good suffering, ba-dum-cha! 😜
(chart by saylessknits)
🤣 the struggle is real. I'm finally getting round to finishing some long neglected projects to stop myself from just buying stuff that catches my eye and never using it 😔
06.07.2025 12:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0There should also be wings but I've lost this game of yarn chicken. Next time. Pattern by stitchwitchcreations on Etsy 🧶
06.07.2025 12:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A knitted baphomet sat on a bookshelf
A knitted baphomet sat on a shelf, but this time with some friends (3 x baby yodas)
Finally sat down and knit this baphomet some arms. Welcome to the family 😈
06.07.2025 12:10 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0When not attempting to read, I'm making the most of the few evenings off I have between finishing my 2nd book chapter and starting the 3rd by doomscrolling relentlessly ✌️😇
30.06.2025 19:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
