Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender

That’s a wrap on 2024–25 for the Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender! 💥

Our AGM celebrated our research, shared highlights, welcomed our Paul Cottingham Trust Scholar & our dissertation prize winner!

Huge thanks to all our amazing members & contributors, you make CTSG what it is. 💜

Exciting things ahead at The Centre for Sexuality and Gender CTSG. We spent a productive and inspiring day together as a board, planning future events and shaping the next phase of our work.

#SexualityStudies #GenderStudies
#FeministResearch #LGBTQIAResearch #GenderInequality

A slide from a talk that reads: Rainbow Trap. A requirement to be classified, as a condition of being included, catches LGBTQ communities in a rainbow trap. With the image of Kevin Guyan's new book, Rainbow Trap.

I'm in Brighton today to deliver the keynote at the Box Breakers conference organised by @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social

The lineup of presenters LOOKS AMAZING and it's also the first outing for new ideas from #RainbowTrap. Equal parts nervous and excited! 🌈

#LGBTQ #queer #book #newbook

Phenomenal way to start the @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social #BoxBreakers conference with an insightful talk from @kevinguyan.bsky.social about data, labels, and active resistance to being defined by a box.

Conference on gender/sexuality

I am attending (on and off because of meetings) this interesting event organised by brilliant colleagues and @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social here at the University of Brighton.

A poster for the one-day student conference on Box Breakers: Queer Data, Categories, and Who Counts? Happening at the University of Brighton on 20 May 2025.

Box Breakers: Queer Data, Categories and Who Counts? 🔢

Super excited for this one-day conference at @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social on 20 May, with presenters sharing work on sexuality, gender and/or the idea of box breaking!

🔗 Register to attend (hybrid): blogs.brighton.ac.uk/ctsg/2025/04...

It is yours too 😊

Great CTSG event today as part of the University of Brighton’s Knowledge Exchange week. CTSG members shared their brilliant and diverse research projects all with addressing inequalities at their core. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Our paper has been published 📢It explores teachers’ perceptions and experiences of delivering LGBTQ+ inclusive Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) in England 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ doi.org/10.1080/1468...

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Second Session:

Wednesday 7th May 2025, 2 PM (UK Time)
👥 Speakers:
Dr. Cüneyt Çakırlar (Nottingham Trent University, School of Arts & Humanities)
Framing Toxic Masculinity and Queer Vengeance in Alef (2020): Locations of Horror, Islam, and Heterodoxy/Heresy in Postmillennial Turkish Screen Culture

🚀 New CTSG Webinar Series! 🚀

Muslim Masculinities: Interdisciplinary Conversations – a two-part series hosted by Ömercan Tüm

🗓️ 30 April 2025 | 🕐 1 PM (UK)
🎙️ Dr. James Ravenhill & Dr. Nazila Heidarzadegan

sign-up: www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-zz...

#MuslimMasculinities

Still time to submit your proposal for our @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social scholarship for a PhD project on trans / NB inclusion & wellbeing (w me supervising).

The application isn't huge, so even if you've not started yet it's not too late 👍

Excited to kick off our collaboration with Nagoya City University. Our partnership begins with a systematic scoping review on trans-affirmative healthcare in Japan.

#TransAffirmativeHealthcare #TransHealthcare #LGBTQResearch #SystematicScopingReview #Japan #CTSG

CTSG board member @profcdllewellyn.bsky.social’s new paper on the complex social, cultural and psychological drivers of the ‘chemsex’ experiences of men who have sex with men: a systematic review and conceptual thematic synthesis of qualitative studies is now available to download ⬇️

Congratulations to CTSG board member @jamiechan.bsky.social on the publication of this important paper -
“Presentable for the outside world”: Social class, cultural capital and body image amongst White working-class women in the United Kingdom

Literally cannot wait to share this ✨new publication✨ with y’all.

doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...

Tl;dr. White working-class women’s body image is rooted in appearance norms, rather than appearance ideals (they are conceptually different).

Super important to consider intersectionality of class x gender

Thomas and Austen: a gay relationship in the MERL archives? - The Museum of English Rural Life For LGBTQ+ History Month 2025, researcher Tim Jerrome shares how he's using rural archives to research same-sex relationships in the countryside.

How can we trace same-sex relationships in rural archives, when love letters were heavily euphemistic or burned after reading?

For LGBTQ+ History Month, Tim Jerrome shares his research into queer rural relationships: from his first find, to the challenges faced.

merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

Our sponsored event - the Bear Studies Symposium (Wed May 14) - brings together researchers, scholars, students & more interested in the GBQ men’s Bear subculture. Visit bit.ly/bearstudies to register & find out more

This timely and important research symposium focused on LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing might be of interest 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Beyond Abortion: What is Behind the Desire to Punish Women for their Miscarriages? In March of 2016, then-U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump was asked whether women who undergo abortions when the procedure is banned…

New Blog Post 📣

Why do some people seek to punish women for miscarriages? Jocelyn Chalmers delves into this important issue in our latest blog post, shedding light on the role of ideological attitudes in support for women’s rights 🔍.

Read the article and join the conversation: bit.ly/4hmNPIz

📣 Upcoming CTSG Event: Research Seminar by Prof. Noriyo Kaneko – “HIV/STIs in Japan and 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans and Non-Binary Access to Healthcare” on Thursday February 20th, 12:00 – 13:00, Falmer Campus, David Watson Lecture Theatre

Funded PhD project in trans and non-binary inclusion An opportunity to develop a PhD project around trans and non-binary inclusion within health and social care.

University of Brighton & @CottinghamTrust launch one of the UK’s first PhD scholarships focusing on trans & non-binary inclusion‍ ⚧

The landmark initiative provides an opportunity to advance research that drives equality & transforms lives. Find out more bit.ly/42gt3Gn

Funded PhD project in trans and non-binary inclusion An opportunity to develop a PhD project around trans and non-binary inclusion within health and social care.

University of Brighton & @CottinghamTrust launch one of the UK’s first PhD scholarships focusing on trans & non-binary inclusion‍ ⚧

The landmark initiative provides an opportunity to advance research that drives equality & transforms lives. Find out more bit.ly/42gt3Gn

link to open access publication

1. Published TODAY (😀), Gender diff in emotions during COVID across 24 countries.🧵https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-024-06989-0
#SocialPsych #Academicsky #PoliSky #psychSciSky
@adrianlueders, @shellkryan.bsky.social
@spyasin.bsky.social

New publication for
CTSG member @lisbundock.bsky.social…

We have some very exciting news coming soon...

Look out on the 15th January 2025! We will also announce on our blog page here blogs.brighton.ac.uk/ctsg/

CTSG's
Dr @jamiechan.bsky.social shares thoughts on Wicked (2024), as a Woman of Colour. ‘Everyone deserves a chance to fly’… but at what cost? www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Looking forward to this important text being out in the world very soon and so glad to have contributed a chapter. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #lgbtq
Thanks
@dradambrett.bsky.social and Catherine Lee for being fabulous editors and making this happen.

CTSG @liamwignall.bsky.social sharing his important work on kink in the digital age @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social