@kincha.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher at Lund University. Views are mine. https://linktr.ee/shotakincha
Kanske symptomatiskt för den bredare amerikaniseringen men hur många svenska queers känner till kulmen av den amerikanska frigörelsens startsalva Stonewall utan att känna till *Europas* första s.k. homopolitiska demonstration med Gay Power Club 1 den 15e maj 1971 i Örebro
04.02.2026 07:34 — 👍 58 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 3Chiming in to Talia and Mallory’s discussion with some writing I did back in 2024 about how the Catholic Church played a really key role in the anti-gender moral panic (anti-feminism and queer/transphobia).
23.01.2026 08:31 — 👍 30 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Talk Eastern Europe, the Podcast of @neweasterneurope.eu, recently lost a major funding source. If you can, I highly suggest taking out a subscription. With it, you can listen to in depth interviews with experts on the post-Soviet sphere!
www.patreon.com/talkeasterne...
DC Friends! Please join me to launch my new book, The Queer Face of War: Portraits and Stories from Ukraine at Politics and Prose's Wharf location. I'll be in conversation with the extraordinary @chrisgeidner.bsky.social discussing homophobia and the global assault on democracy.
22.01.2026 16:21 — 👍 30 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0CitizenGO has caused significant harm. In addition to this valuable Good Law Project piece on the organisation’s UK connections, our co-authored report on the subject shows its damaging transnational impact in Latin America and Kenya. Both are well worth reading! lassociacio.org/wp-content/u...
19.01.2026 11:46 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In Sweden, nuns from the St Elisabeth Convent, which was originally based in Belarus, were found to be working for Russian intelligence. Active in 20 churches across the country, they raised funds for the Russian army while posing as a charity.
united24media.com/latest-news/...
Thank you for the interesting read!
15.01.2026 22:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Sharing from the part that speaks to one of the aspects of violent right-wing extremism I find most interesting: its normalisation youtu.be/7GSWsVdoh2M?...
12.01.2026 19:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As nationalism grows ever more central to international politics, the Vienna-based Central European University department that studies it is on the verge of extinction.
So what would be lost if this small but scrappy program disappears?
Interesting sessions at NCSR 2026 in Finland this August, including panels on religious minorities, migration & gender in the Nordics. Paper abstracts due Feb 1, 2026. Worth checking out for sociology of religion scholars. #AcademicSky #conferences
https://sites.abo.fi/ncsr2026/sessions/
'[G]ender- and sexuality-related articles were almost absent on RT Deutsch before 2018, but increased sharply in 2018, and have been constantly present since' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
04.01.2026 18:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've learned a strange new word today: wokehöger
29.12.2025 20:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Academia misdelivering for political and market demand
27.12.2025 22:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New Review: Nuremberg (2025)
A compelling yet cautious portrait of the men behind recent history’s atrocities. Vanderbilt’s psychological angle is moving but often too restrained.
Full review: www.youngcriticmovies.com/post/nuremberg
#YoungCritic #FilmReview #Nuremberg
'В поэтической тусовке, где Владислав периодически выступает [...], есть посетитель, которого не получилось идентифицировать. Поэтому поэты читают стихи, делают вид, что мероприятие закончилось. Когда этот посетитель уходит, авторы читают неподцензурные тексты' semnasem.org/articles/202...
26.12.2025 17:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pope: 'Unfortunately, it has become increasingly common to drag the language of faith into political battles, to bless nationalism, and to justify violence and armed struggle in the name of religion. Believers must actively refute (...) these forms of blasphemy that profane the holy name of God'
19.12.2025 12:24 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Vi låtsades vara en ung kille - och fick prata med ledaren för Aktivklubb. Och höra hur det går till när nazisterna vill rekrytera. ”Vissa får utegångsförbud för sina mammor”.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/L4...
'the symbolic conflation of marriage with coupledom and monogamy renders ‘marriage reform’ an unlikely candidate for providing meaningful answers to the need to legally protect diverse intimacies and familiar arrangements'
13.12.2025 13:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I suppose these findings have already caused some discussions (I'm still digesting)
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Join us for the 10th Edition: Global Congress on Gender & Sexuality Studies 2026 (GSS 2026)!
May 18–19, 2026
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Theme: Beyond Binaries: Reimagining Gender and Sexuality in the 21st Century
Register now!
#GenderStudies #SexualityStudies #Feminism #LGBTQ #QueerStudies
Sociologist Ruth Braunstein in the What Matters Most episode - a podcast from the Centre for Christian Engagement
Follow @jwmartens.bsky.social
South Ossetia, by the way, has a universal ban on them 😀 but
almost nobody has ever written about it. I think many would genuinely be curious to read an explanation of how, and why on earth, that happened
A delegation of Orthodox Christian clergy met with Trump administration officials and members of Congress this week, igniting feuds among both U.S. Orthodox Christian and Republican groups amid accusations that the visitors were agents of Russian influence.
religionnews.com/2025/11/21/o...
Matthew D. Taylor on why many Evangelical Christians were not and won't be conflicted about supporting Donald Trump despite Trump always being Trump.
Taylor also outlines what is needed to save American democracy (a generally good approach to resisting authoritarianism elsewhere too)
Screenshot of Balkan Insight article dealing with the rise of AI in the Orthodox church.
My new piece for Balkan Insight. As the #Vatican emerges as a de facto #AI ethicist, the #Orthodox Church has barely engaged.
Now, as AI spreads, some Orthodox Primates warn of the "end times" while others are overtaken by algorithms and influencers.
balkaninsight.com/2025/11/14/a...
‘From Kyiv with Love: the Push to Legalize Same-Sex Civil Partnerships’ - an interesting Master’s thesis by Thomas Cline-Fedorus www.researchgate.net/publication/...
09.11.2025 10:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This specific account is so illustrative of what queerphobia is based on: systemic extortion, blackmail, sexual exploitation, incarceration, coerced recruitment, torture
Anti-queer violence is, above all, institutionalised violence; social prejudices (indoctrination) is just an extention of it
2025 was a year of significant progress for EU enlargement.
Montenegro, Albania, Ukraine and Moldova stand out.
They advanced most on reforms in the past year.
Our candidates have ambitious goals to finish negotiations.
The coming year will be a moment of truth.
‘Faculty members have gathered facing away from the rectorate building, holding banners with messages such as “We do not accept, we do not give up.” This ritual, observed during fieldwork, has continued without interruption’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
