Sara-Jane Vigneault

La Noire de… at 60. Reflecting on the life and legacy of an African classic - CRASSH Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

La Noire de... at 60 📽️
Join us from 12-14 November for a symposium & film screening to celebrate Ousmane Sembène’s La Noire de…/Black Girl (1966), the first feature-length film made by a Black African director, which won the Prix Jean Vigo at Cannes
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47520/

Cream background. Headline is in orange at bottom. It reads: Liberalism as Fascism’s Prefiguration by Abeera Khan. Above is a photograph. It shows the back of a crowd as they move down a street lined with tall buildings. Some wave rainbow flags.

‘What becomes of gender and sexuality amidst the collapse of the liberal world order?’

In this essay, Dr Abeera Khan from SOAS’s Department of Gender Studies examines our current moment as one after homonationalism, where ‘the sparse and vanishing wages of inclusion lie exposed.’

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Something interesting about this report! The researchers received a large number of malicious responses to their online survey - and they analysed those responses too, which provide an interesting window into anti-trans activists' delight at their perceived blanket permission to harass us.

Lauren Berlant: A Michaelmas reading group - CRASSH Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Join us at 5 pm for the AmbArch X Lauren Berlant Reading group with @darlingorlaith.bsky.social.
We'll be discussing excerpts from Berlant's 'The Queen of America goes to Washington City.'
For more information & access to the readings, www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48078...
@crasshlive.bsky.social

20 years since Zyed (17) and Bouna (15) died while fleeing the police despite being completely innocent. Racial profiling and police brutality remain endemic in France. A young black or North African origin man is 20 times more likely to be stopped and searched.

Militarizing Marriage Following tirailleurs sénégalais’ deployments in West Africa, Congo, Madagascar, North Africa, Syria-Lebanon, Vietnam, and Algeria from the 1880s to 1962...

Militarizing Marriage is now OpenAccess!

Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.

Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.

Still time to register for tomorrow's #IdentitiesEvent!

'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global Blackness'

In collaboration with Sociology at Lancaster University

@uofgsps.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk...

Oct. 16. Radio & Archival Production with Arthur Asseraf and Edward Allen Oct. 30. Reading Group - Ambivalent Archives X CRASSH Lauren Berlant Reading Group, with Orlaith Darling Nov. 13. Reading Group - Archives & Periodicals: Clipping and Scrapping Nov. 27. Listening Session - Shira Small’s The Line of Time and the Plane of Now… For more information, see https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/networks/ambivalent-archives/#1-programme-2025-2026

The Ambivalent Archives programme for this term has just dropped! ✨ Starting this week strong with talks by @arthurasseraf.bsky.social and Ned Allen on Radio & Archival Production!

For more information:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47934/
@crasshlive.bsky.social

Sending you hugs 🫂💜

Join us for this seminar on Queer and Trans Worldmaking in the Global South at University of Glasgow on Weds 15th October @uofgsociology.bsky.social All welcome, please share! @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi...

Oct. 16. Radio & Archival Production with Arthur Asseraf and Edward Allen Oct. 30. Reading Group - Ambivalent Archives X CRASSH Lauren Berlant Reading Group, with Orlaith Darling Nov. 13. Reading Group - Archives & Periodicals: Clipping and Scrapping Nov. 27. Listening Session - Shira Small’s The Line of Time and the Plane of Now… For more information, see https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/networks/ambivalent-archives/#1-programme-2025-2026

The Ambivalent Archives programme for this term has just dropped! ✨ Starting this week strong with talks by @arthurasseraf.bsky.social and Ned Allen on Radio & Archival Production!

For more information:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47934/
@crasshlive.bsky.social

Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social

It's been over two hours now, friend - get some food and a treat 👀🍫

It will also disconnect students from each other—and in a world fractured by various flavors of technofascism, I cannot think of a more disastrous thing (which is likely partly why AI fetishists are pushing for AI in schools and universities)

Our next #IdentitiesEvent!

'From Colonial Subjects to #Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness'

@uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

A great new post on researching the history of former Ascari in Eritrea by our own @camilleriana.bsky.social. colvet.eu/338-2/

Cover of the edited volume Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World: New Approaches to print Sources published by Palgrave. The cover image is a 35mm black and white photo of a show in a queer club with two individuals in pup wear reading media during the performance.

This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media

Logo with the words 'GLINTS: Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-binary and Trans Studies' in coral text on a purple background.

We're starting a new 'ArtsLab' (research network) in trans studies at Glasgow! It's very exciting and I hope that in time we can become a real centre for research in this field. Find out more - including details of our upcoming launch event - on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin - The Berliner Three Cameroonian Berliners from a century ago were key figures in Berlin's black history, remembered for their fight for self-determination.

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...

I wrote something quite personal about what use trans history In These Times:

I am saddened and angered to hear this news. “Indian Sex Life” is a game-changing book in the history of sexuality, and Mitra deserves a secure place from which she can continue to develop her already-field-defining scholarship.

Mundane Queer History Conference 2026 | UiB

Really great conference opportujnity in Bergen, Norway by the Queerdom research initiative.

www4.uib.no/en/research/...

MAGA Is Revising the Past to Create the Future They Want They are aiming to build the future they want by rewriting history.

The Trump administration’s decision to remove depictions of slavery from National Historic Parks isn’t just about revising history. It’s about reshaping America.

Read my latest at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/maga-is-revi...

No Right to Return or Remain: French Colonial Soldiers and Discriminatory Demobilization This post explores experiences of veterancy for those who had served in France’s colonial Forces.

I wrote this short blog on the discriminatory demobilisation of French colonial troops for the Returning Soldier network: returningsoldier.co.uk/2025/09/18/n...

Bumping this up again. Deadline for applications is October 3rd.

🚨Call for Papers🚨Delighted to share the CfP for next year's meeting of @frenchcolonial.bsky.social which we will be hosting in Maynooth June 25-27. The theme is "Après la tempête: Afterlives of Colonial Crisis and Conflict". Deadline for submissions is November 14 frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...

Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Desiring Whiteness by Caroline Séquin | Hardcover | Cornell University Press Winner of the Alf Andrew Heggoy Book PrizeDesiring Whiteness uncovers the intertwined histories of commercial sex and racial politics in France and the French Empire. Since the French Revolution of...

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

My review of @carolinesequin.bsky.social's excellent, award-winning book Desiring Whiteness is out! www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... @berghahnbooks.bsky.social

Queer London In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big ci...

It is twenty years today since my first book Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-57 was published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social and I am feeling contemplative.

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