As I sit in the library of the Schwules Museum about to have gone through the full run of the gay magazine Du & Ich (1969–2000), I confirm that the demise of gay culture and sexual politics is inversely proportional to the growth of “health” and “fitness” discourse, and ads for tacky underwear.
01.08.2025 13:32 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide.
It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International.
No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.
10.07.2025 21:41 — 👍 2611 🔁 1131 💬 41 📌 46
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
A scholar of genocide comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.
“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”
15.07.2025 05:16 — 👍 537 🔁 272 💬 24 📌 36
I had a lovely time to chatting to @franziskalamp.bsky.social about my work.
Listen here to me talking about Anglo-Polish relations, teaching Polish history to undergrads, and researching queer histories of displacement 😊
07.07.2025 19:02 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Had to go to a bank to verify my ID yesterday. They hadn't asked for proof of doctorate, and my passport/DL say "miss" (because, cba to change it/money).
Banker: "don't you have your PhD with you??"
Me: "... the scroll?"
Banker: "yes! Don't you just have it in your pocket?"
Pocket. POCKET!
03.07.2025 07:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
WOO!! Congratulations 🎊 👏 🥳
21.06.2025 15:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Copies of The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State by Ned Richardson-Little (Bloomsbury, 2025)
It’s here!
21.06.2025 11:34 — 👍 187 🔁 29 💬 13 📌 6
CfP for conferencing on refugees /migrants in the always-fabulous Prague. Dates: 19-20 Nov. 2025.
20.06.2025 08:04 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Ah, yeah. I will not go for work - I've redrafted funding bids to stay in Europe when the UN archives in NYC would have been my 1st option.
This trip is to finally take Andy's elderly dad to America - probably our last chance before his chest gets worse 🤞
19.06.2025 07:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Cancelling isn't really an option for us, so we will just have to see what happens.
19.06.2025 07:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We, unfortunately, booked in August last year for September - so... this will be interesting
19.06.2025 06:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🤌 perfect
18.06.2025 12:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is fantastic.
29.05.2025 06:41 — 👍 33 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
On the left, a person — me — with mauve hair and square glasses, wearing a rainbow patchwork coat. On the right, another — Sam — wearing a rainbow scarf and with bisexual-coloured hair. Both are smiling.
It’s been a really busy week but *what* a week! Days of queer history, including spending time with some of my fave people (pictured here: the outrageously brilliant @lgmsam.bsky.social).
Farvel til København. Indtil næste gang!
24.05.2025 12:24 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
That combo of colours 🔥
24.05.2025 12:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Picture of 6 lovely academics next to a river in Copenhagen.
What's the collective noun for a bunch of academics? A fabulousness?
@manwithoutatan.bsky.social @queerstorian.bsky.social
24.05.2025 10:01 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Poster for Queer Pasts conference - "what's queer in queer history?". May 21st to 23rd. 2025. Image is an androgynous person wearing a lovely bowtie. Pink and red background.
I had such a great time at the Queer Pasts conference in Copenhagen. Wonderful papers. Excellent city. Thanks to the organisers and every participant 💜
24.05.2025 09:32 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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24.05.2025 05:47 — 👍 318 🔁 62 💬 38 📌 69
Ah ha! Excellent. You and your new wolf friend will have an excellent time... don't lose the hand!
24.05.2025 08:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Passport control may take an hour 😕
24.05.2025 08:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
graduate student essay prize | German Studies Association
GSA graduate student essay prize for an article-length 2024 manuscript written with a focus on German, Austrian, + Swiss history, literature, culture studies, political science, + economics). Share! More details here: www.thegsa.org/prizes/gradu... @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social @thegsa.bsky.social
19.05.2025 10:13 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Welcome to my customary and super-random report from my hometown’s biannual antique market. It’s that time of the year various old and less-old objects almost come alive and swarm the city in a symphony of idiosyncrasies.
Let’s see what was there this year.
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26.04.2025 13:17 — 👍 130 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 4
A useful reminder that understanding verifiable sources, building plausible arguments and interpreting varied information about human experiences - the bread and butter of the Humanities, and certainly of History - is more necessary than ever.
19.04.2025 08:59 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
When your bff is in town, you MUST have an obligatory selfie in front of the ugliest building in Warsaw! @lgmsam.bsky.social
#historianBFFs #Warsaw #StalinsPenis #PalaceOfScienceandCulture
17.04.2025 19:51 — 👍 25 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
A French lithograph of the First World War entitled La Tradition. It shows a French WWI soldier embracing a soldier of the French revolutionary wars. René Georges Hermann-Paul
La Tradition, c.1918
Hand-coloured woodcut
Art.IWM BUTE 290
Delighted to announce an exciting collaborative PhD studentship at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and the Imperial War Museum in London.
The project is entitled "Lithographs of the First World War: printmaking, propaganda and mobilisation" and funded by the AHRC.
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warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
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24.03.2025 13:39 — 👍 68 🔁 34 💬 1 📌 1
Red hand breaking free of a chain
Excellent conference on counter-hegemonic internationalisms at @northumbriauni.bsky.social thanks to the whole team on the AHRC curiosity project @riakapoor.bsky.social @drmargottudor.bsky.social @jessicareinisch.bsky.social, and particularly Daniel Laqua for allowing me to attend w/out a paper! 🥳
22.03.2025 10:12 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
The introduction pretty much always gets rewritten. It'll be great!
22.03.2025 10:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Historian of violent extremism and de-radicalization; @hfguggenheim fellow; book on Everyday Denazification (CUP, 2023): http://tinyurl.com/4rmrjk2y
Historian|Intersectional Feminist|Southern Africa| Decolonisation|Depo-Provera|Reproductive Justice |Grieving, fighting and looking for the light.
I love #language and #linguistics. Check out our magazine at sillylinguistics.com. Follow us at @sillylinguistics.com
Historian of the former Yugoslavia and ethnic partitionism. X-Men opinion-haver. Did a PhD on diplomacy in the Bosnian War. Host of The History of Yugoslavia podcast.
Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
Historian - mainly researching refugee history in the 20c. … but it’s not just about refugees… oh, and still learning about what’s at stake then and now. Funded generously in the past by AHRC and Leverhulme Trust and enabled by UNHCR Records and Archives
Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
Historian of childhood & youth, Oxford. Love podcasts, bad TV, sugar. Ireland & Scotland. she/her
PhD student at Uni of Nottingham researching sex in French-occupied Germany (1945-55)
Cat parent 🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛🐈
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Edited The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans (2025) and co-edited Off White: Central/Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024). Eurovision research since longer than I can remember. She/her.
Ph.D. Candidate at USC Van Hunnick History Department | Queer Historian | Trying to Go to Every Gay Bookstore in the World 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Historian of the queer past | 'gay pardons' | local LGBTQ+ histories | capitalism. Headed the University of London's MA Queer History.
Travels, writes, and longs for the mountains. London and Valencia. (he/him)
justinbengry.com | notchesblog.com
NOTCHES is a collaborative and international history of sexuality blog that aims to get people inside and outside the academy thinking about histories of sex and sexualities in the past and in the present across regions, periods and themes.
Writer, editor, publisher. Science fiction and fantasy, also queer history. Welsh. May rant about rugby.
Arts & Culture at William Way LGBT Community Center, Philadelphia, PA. Art, Archives, Library. waygay.org
Fighting disinformation/misinformation. Film/TV producer (The Walking Dead, The Terminator, Aliens, T2, Tremors, Armageddon) and documentaries (The YouTube Effect, Mankiller) & a bunch of stuff you've never heard of. Full-time Gooner. Part-time Cassandra.
Assoc prof at the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies UoM | Translation Multiples (Princeton UP, 2025) | Literature, translation, multilingualism, Central & Eastern Europe, Cold War writing
Historian of Poland in WW2. Specialising in Poles in Auschwitz, & the #WarsawUprising. Now running history tours in Poland! Check out my podcast "Moments in Time: WW2 Edition"
#biker
Writer | Academic | Bookworm | Expertise: Musical Theatre, Identity in Popular Culture, Black Studies & Music. Lots of talk about neurodivergence. Also, a rugby union nerd.
