Ash Watson

Edition #17 OUT NOW! So Fi Zine #17 is a special issue created with sociologists and other academic kin at the University of Glasgow in 2025 – full of new sociological fiction, poetry and visual art. Thi…

The new special edition of So Fi Zine is live! A beautiful collection of sociological fiction - HUGE thanks to the legend that is Ash @awtsn.bsky.social for making this possible and including my piece, and to everyone involved.

Read here: sofizine.com/latest-editi...

Thanks so much! I had such an amazing time in the workshop and in Glasgow :-)

Edition #17 OUT NOW! So Fi Zine #17 is a special issue created with sociologists and other academic kin at the University of Glasgow in 2025 – full of new sociological fiction, poetry and visual art. Thi…

Would you like to read a special @uofgsociology.bsky.social edition of the So Fi Zine wonderfully curated by @awtsn.bsky.social and featuring @mindyptolomey.bsky.social @academicdiary.bsky.social @kenglish.bsky.social @erdemavsar.bsky.social and more (& me)?

Thought so:
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Here's something a bit special and a bit different - with thanks to @awtsn.bsky.social for facilitating these exciting engagements, and featuring @mindyptolomey.bsky.social, @academicdiary.bsky.social, @kenglish.bsky.social, @erdemavsar.bsky.social, @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social and more...

The Journal of Creative Research Methods is accepting submissions for our second issue (deadline: October 2025).

We welcome innovative work covering creative methods at ALL stages of research!

More info: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...

ISSUE ONE COMING SEPTEMBER 2025!

Desire lines, queer cartographies and cartographic queers - Ash Watson, Emma Kirby, 2025 Digital technologies have enabled communities to map and (re)claim space in novel ways and at significant scale. Queering the Map (queeringthemap.com), a commun...

icymi: Desire Lines, Queer Cartographies and Cartographic Queers

New paper by @emmawatsonkirby.bsky.social and me out this week in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space on why and how people contribute to queeringthemap.com

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We are so thankful to our other collaborators on this project (@bradyjay.bsky.social @brenchurchill.bsky.social and Lucas LaRochelle), doubly to Lucas for creating the platform, to our generous participants, and to everyone who continues to grow, make and sustain Queering the Map 💜

This project has been so radical for me, full of joy and critical possibility. I love the world that queer theory and practice opens up. Queeringthemap.com is a unique gift

Desire lines, queer cartographies and cartographic queers - Ash Watson, Emma Kirby, 2025 Digital technologies have enabled communities to map and (re)claim space in novel ways and at significant scale. Queering the Map (queeringthemap.com), a commun...

I am THRILLED to have a new article with Emma Kirby in @societyandspace.bsky.social

Focused on Queering the Map, we analyse how people contribute to this queer mapping of life – and become cartographic queers 📍💜

Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@emmawatsonkirby.bsky.social

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review magazine’s latest issue. Featuring:

Image-Maker in Residence @sanamurrani.bsky.social‬ on maps, refuge and rupture
‪Short fiction by Laura J. Bower
Bob Jeffrey on bad jobs, bosses and building solidarity
Illustration by Tim Marrs
...and much more.

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So pleased to see this out, Zine-making the Commons, open access in EJCS @ejcs-journal.bsky.social

Ah thank you so much!! This is so great to hear - I love when people discover the series, it’s such a gem in the discipline. I’m stoked that @thesociologicalreview.org continue to foster this creative sociological space

this is an engaging read, loved the anger, humour & contradictions the story surfaces! Quite exciting to learn about sociological fiction, didn't know it's a thing! Also loved an earlier fiction piece, "what's in a name?"

It's a great format @thesociologicalreview.org, hope you continue doing them!

Five years ago today I got my mitts on my debut novel, Into the Sea, a work of sociological fiction published by Brill. I have (finally) really found my love of writing again and am happily working on my second after many many fits and starts

Call for chapter EOIs for a new edited collection on feminist zine-making. Text on a pink flyer

Call for chapter EOIs for a new edited collection on feminist zine-making. Text on a pink flyer

🌱 Feminist zine-making in research and education: call for chapter EOIs for a new edited collection ✨

There are so many amazing folks thinking creatively, critically and differently about zines today - if this is you, please consider being part of our new collection! shorturl.at/OtaYf

#zine

You don't have time for your bullshit! And yet you do your bullshit all day! Go write your book!

‘Hang on, why am I editing my photos?’ Disrupting the virtual gaze through selfie-editing workshops - Julia Coffey, Akane Kanai, Amy S Dobson, Rosalind Gill, Niamh White, 2025 This article presents findings from a qualitative study that aimed to provide some of the first detailed accounts of how young people use selfie-editing apps, a...

‘Hang on, why am I editing my photos?’ Disrupting the virtual gaze through selfie-editing workshops - Julia Coffey, Akane Kanai, Amy S Dobson, Rosalind Gill, Niamh White, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New fiction in The Sociological Review

Do you use any AI platforms for support, conversation, life questions or companionship?

Looking for participants to take part in an anonymous online interview about their experiences with #AI

Quit calling them hallucinations. Call it what it is: bullshit.

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Call for contributors: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Queering Research Methods: Methods and Methodologies Across the Research Process Edited by Kirstie Ken English, Harvey Humphrey and Kath Browne

We are looking for contributions for this interdisciplinary handbook on queering research methods and methodologies. By showcasing groundbreaking work, we seek to demonstrate to readers how each phase of the research process can be queered. By their very nature queer approaches are not singularly definable. Therefore, we welcome a vast range of different interpretations of what it means to queer research. We are committed to amplifying contributions from individuals whose lived experiences and perspectives have been marginalized, excluded or erased.

The core aims of this handbook are as follows: 1.Produce a resource for students to explore diverse queer approaches to methods 2.Provide ways for readers navigate the ambiguity of queer research without subscribing to ill-fitting categories 3.Showcase groundbreaking examples of queer research and approaches as ways to challenge and counter moral panics and anti-queer backlash 4.To prioritise interdisciplinary and intersectional thinking across this work learning from scholars across diverse global political contexts and career stages 5.This volume seeks to make space for queer and trans individuals from a variety of disciplines, countries and backgrounds who undertake queer research not limited to academics. 6.Provide examples of ways to approach queer research with ethical sensitivity in ways which do justice to queer communities

We will respond to successful submissions by Autumn 2025, with first drafts expected in early 2026. Chapters should be less than 5,000 words. If you are interested, please fill in our submission form where you will be asked some information about yourself and your work and can provide an abstract (300 word maximum). The handbook will be broken down into five sections following the research process. You will be asked which of these five sections you think your contribution is best suited for between: ● ● ● ● ● Queering methodologies edited by Sophie Marie Niang & Robel Afeworki Abay Queering knowledge production edited by Jess Westbrook & Dean Tauches Queering research tools edited by Lizzie Reed & Bethany Lamont Queering analysis edited by Peggy Shannon-Baker & Edmund Coleman-Fountain Queering communication and outputs edited by Sophie Atherton & Valeria Venditti

Excited to announce that in collaboration with @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social & @kathbrowne.bsky.social I am editing a handbook on queering research methods & accepting chapter contributions now. Please share & get in touch if you have any questions.

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ooh love this. dumb question but when does Autumn mean

This morning we started on the Glasgow special edition of So Fi Zine - watch this space for new sociological fiction, poetry and visual art! One of many wonderful things to come from my time visiting UoG sociology dept, including 3.5 solid weeks of sun 🌞✨✂️📎📚 sofizine.com @academicdiary.bsky.social

4 panel comic with the text boxes = order & control. But they are often a tight fit . They leave things out . They can not contain us.

Fun start to work today with a sociological fiction workshop ran by @awtsn.bsky.social. I made this little 5 minute comic about boxes & barriers.

Fantastic morning at a writing workshop on sociological fiction with Ash Watson. Thinking and doing and having permission to indulge in serious play. Such an invigorating gift. @awtsn.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

THIS EVENING: 🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸, the second in our Conversations series of online events.

🍉 Thursday 8 May 18.30-20.00 BST/UTC+1 online
🍉 Speakers: Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell and Rafeef Ziadah
🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos

“Male loneliness” is kind of the perfect antifeminist complaint, because it articulates the moral logic of patriarchal entitlement very neatly: that men deserve women’s attention, company, devotion, sex, and care, and women should provide these to men even at the cost of their own wellbeing.

Trigger warning: the cat poem we published in 2021 is back on the timeline

This is a glorious short story - read it free via the link below

Ways of seeing: how can feminist perspectives transform knowledge production?

Meet our latest three Image-Makers in Residence – and in conversation: Hannah Buckler, ‪@goblinpurwin.bsky.social‬ and Juno Halina Rauber-Baio. Out now in The Sociological Review magazine.

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