Sébastien Tremblay

Sébastien Tremblay

@sebboo.bsky.social

Historian (Berlin/Flensburg) 🏳️‍🌈 he/him First book: global / German / queer history, memory studies. Present project: mobility / Europeanization. Grufti 🦦 Nerd & 🩰. Born in Montréal / Tiohtià:ke Posts in Eng/Dt/Fr probably all with typos.

3,823 Followers 1,640 Following 929 Posts Joined Jul 2023
1 day ago

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

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Charlotte Cardin - The Way We Touch [Official Music Video] YouTube video by Charlotte Cardin

Get in loser, the pop banger of the season just arrived!

*Catwalking in Lichtenberg*

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2 days ago
Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman.

The text in the Tweet says:
SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

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The Origins of Senegalese Homophobia: Discourses on Homosexuals and Transgender People in Colonial and Postcolonial Senegal Babacar M'Baye Abstract: This article traces the history of homosexual and transgender behavior in Senegal from colonial times to the contemporary period in order to demonstrate the flimsiness of the claims, made by many political and religious leaders and scholars, that homosexuality is "un-African." Such claims, which appear as reactions to neocolonialism and Western intervention in African affairs, usually are homophobic discourses that invoke patriotism, cultural difference, and morality in order to justify the subjugation of homosexual and gender nonconforming individuals ( goorjiggens ) living in Senegal. In an attempt to understand the roots of Senegalese homophobia, the article analyzes several depictions of homosexuals and transgender people in contemporary Senegal and traces them to similar representations in European writings of the colonial period. As this approach reveals, homosexuals and transgender people in Senegal, from colonial times to the present, have been constructed as scapegoats, first of the French mission civilisatrice (civilizing mission) and then of Senegalese political and Islamic backlashes. Although they have always cohabited with the rest of the society, homosexuals and transgender people in Senegal have been treated largely as strangers in their own land. By analyzing the discourses of ...
African Studies Review , Volume 56, Number 2 (September 2013)

Deeply concerning that Senegal has announced persecution of queer siblings. Homosexuality, like homophobia, is neither a western import nor a cultural practice (African, European or Asian). It's distressing to observe that political antagonisms harms our communities.
Pls read Babacar M'baye's work.

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Textgrafik mit farbigem Hintergrund. Text: “Jetzt anschauen. Die sexuelle Provokation - Magnus Hirschfeld und die Geschlechter. Dokumenation in der Arte-Mediathek. Bild: Magnus Hirschfeld wird zum “Helden des Tages”, Karikatur von Franz Albert Jüttner (1865-1926) in: Lustige Blätter, 1907, Nr. 48, S. 3.” Gestaltungselemente: Karikatur von Magnus Hirschfeld mit Trommel und Transparent, auf dem steht “Arte schauen schafft Akzeptanz. Filmklappe. Play-Symbol.

Sehenswerte #Dokumentation zur Arbeit von Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) mit besonderem Fokus auf Trans*identität. jetzt online und #kostenfrei in der @artede.bsky.social #Mediathek. 53 Minuten lang. Bis 6. Juni verfügbar.
➡️ https://tinyurl.com/mrxdbtxt

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2 days ago

Great idea my man!
Die British Library lässt grüßen.

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This article by Oksana Dudko and @ankahajkova.bsky.social 5/5

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This book I always wanted to read by Simone Pfleger and Carrie Smith 4/5

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Here are 3 examples of publications I am reviewing this month for the project:

This edited volume co-edited by @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social 3/5

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We are presently starting with our 3rd work package where we aim to develop a new, overarching inclusive approach for European Studies.
We are presently conducting desktop research and compiling interesting literature and I would love to get your suggestions. It doesn't have to be on ES per se 2/5

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I have just joined an ongoing project at the EUF led by @feministconlaw.bsky.social on inclusion, diversity and the teaching of European Studies. This is a partnership with 6 others universities in the EU trying to assess and create new teaching methods in European Studies at undergrad level. 1/5

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Gender changes must be recognised across borders, EU top court rules Countries cannot refuse to update civil status records if it hinders their right to live and move freely, the EU’s Court of Justice said

Gender changes must be recognised across borders, EU top court rules

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2 days ago

Weimer ist keine Fehlbesetzung, sondern tut genau das, was er soll.

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3 days ago
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Some prizes make me happier than others.

This is definitely one of them. 🤗

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3 days ago
Virtual book launch poster for "Reading Queer Media in the German-Speaking World" includes event details, book cover, QR code, and Purdue University logo. The book launch takes place on Friday, April 10 at 10:30 EST / 16:30 CET. Registration: https//purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/2ShwXKFQOCMYbNPqpmU7w

@christopherewing.bsky.social and I are looking forward to presenting you all our volume and having some of our wonderful contributors discussing their pieces!
Come and join us next month!
Friday, April 10, 10:30am-12pm EST/4:30-6pm CET

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4 days ago

Es ist fast amüsant zu sehen, wie dieselben rechten Männer, die uns jahrelang als „Schneeflöckchen“ bezeichnet haben, selbst am empfindlichsten sind, sobald sie an der Macht sind.

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4 days ago

Ich habe sie gebeten, damit aufzuhören. Ehrlich gesagt die Schaffner*innen haben Besseres zu tun, und wir sind hier nicht im Kindergarten. Ich bin nach wie vor der Meinung, dass klare Kommunikation besser ist, als 'Autoritätsfiguren' hinzuzuziehen.

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Die erste Zugfahrt des Semesters und eine Mitreisende findet es völlig normal, den Ruhewagen für ihr Zoom-Meeting zu nutzen, weil (Zitat) „es hier ruhiger ist“.

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5 days ago
Deutschlandfunk
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Wahl in Baden-Württemberg
Spahn stellt automatischen Führungsanspruch Özdemirs
infrage
Vertreter der CDU haben einen Führungsanspruch des grünen Landtags-wahlsiegers Özdemir in Baden-Württemberg infrage gestellt.
09.03.2026

Das liebe Damen und Herren, ist exakt das Trump MAGA Playbook. Passt dir das Wahlergebnis nicht, Zweifel es an, versuche mit absurden Ideen das ganze zu delegitimieren.
So schiebt man demokratische Vorgänge Richtung autoritäre Politik. Spahn ist genau so gefährlich wie die AfD.
Faschismus incoming

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Ausschluss vom Buchhandlungspreis: Danke, Weimer! Der Bremer Golden Shop wurde vom Buchhandlungspreis ausgeschlossen. Zwei Tage in einem Buchladen, der sich wehrt – und dafür viel Solidarität erfährt.

„Scheiß auf die 7.000 Euro. Wir waren noch nie von Staatsknete abhängig. Es geht hier doch um etwas viel Größeres! Um Kunst-, um Kulturfreiheit!“

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5 days ago

The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

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4 days ago

Florence + The Machine live in concert or how to make me happy as a grufti theatre kid in times when being hopeful is harder than ever.

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1 week ago

Ich
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1 week ago

Das wird mal ne Aufgabe für eine Doktorarbeit, die Geschichte der Jungle World von einer Kritik deutscher Zustände zu ihrer totalen Affirmation aufzuarbeiten.

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1 week ago

Back in Germany.
Opening the news.

Once again, watching the “land of poets” dehumanize people in the Middle East, the “world champion of memory” take the wrong side of history, and the “land of regulations” relativize international law. Cool, cool.

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1 week ago

Quick update

Our flight was cancelled before we left Mumbai. We are NOT in transit in Dubai or Doha. We don't know when and how we will be able to fly out towards Germany but we are safe with friends back in Pune

My thoughts are actually for people really suffering from this horrendous jingoism

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1 month ago
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US-Außenminister in München: Rubio bekennt sich zu transatlantischer Partnerschaft Der US-Außenminister findet beschwichtigende Worte auf der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz, dennoch verteidigt er Trumps Politik. Das Publikum ist erleichtert.

„Rubio bekennt sich zu transatlantischer Partnerschaft“. Nein, das tut er nicht. Er bietet Europa die Hand, um an einem Projekt des White Nationalism mitzumachen, sofern Europa gewillt ist, sich in den Kulturkampf zu stürzen und die weiße/christliche „Identität“ Europas zu verteidigen. 1/x

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Silsila Ye Chahat Ka - Devdas - FULL SONG - FULL HD - 1080p YouTube video by Music Video

The Kathak elements 🤗 can't wait for my classes at the end of the month

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Cinema room in the dark (yeah not supposed to I'm sorry...but others were laughing and dancing and singing the songs anyway throughout the movie and gave me the thumbs up) while the title of Devdas appears on the screen.

This is not Insta so I won't be bothering you w/ photos of my vacation or all the tasty and wonderful food I'm eating, but I've ✅ a box on my bucket list today: seeing a Bollywood classic in India
(in Pune for the month) I wanted to share my joy!

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„Für die Sicherheitsbehörden liegt aber nahe, dass der Angriff wohl staatlich gesteuert ist. Denn die bisher bekannten Zielpersonen finden sich in ganz Europa und sind vor allem Politiker, Militär oder Journalistinnen und Journalisten.“ Wie überraschend… Jedenfalls: wichtig, lesen!👇🏼

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