Jen Evans

The first of two policy briefs on Alberta's Bill-9 from our Populist Publics research project. Based on the amicus curiae US vs. Skrmetti Supreme Court Case, September 2024.
About to upload to our research site and to the Carleton University library.

www.carleton.ca/populistpublics/resources

I've had the privilege of helping two freelance journalists in Berlin on a project that historicizes the queer and transphobia we are seeing in our world today. In last week's @taz.de, I offer some words on the right wing thought patterns edging their way into the liberal centre.

archive.is/nWH8W

Bienvenue mon cher ami! xx

Wow! The first I’ve seen it!

I hadn’t even seen this yet!

More ways in which one can use the Royal Society imprimatur to do vital work: volunteering with At-Risk and Displaced Academics and Artists (AARDA). This year, we welcomed Bantayehu Shiferaw Chanie into the College of New Scholars.

rsc-src.ca/en/fellows-m...

Let's talk about the fascinating project by Marianne Wex "Lets Take Back Our Streets" from 1979 in which she photographed men and women in the street as a commentary on gender and space.

davidcampany.com/marianne-wex...

Seydou Keïta and the Forging of West African Identity

I'm so fortunate to be traveling to NYC in January for an event and able to take in this phenomenal retrospective at the @brooklynmuseum.org

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/a...

Der Rat der Geschichte YouTube video by Zentrum für Politische Schönheit

This event was tremendously interesting. A mix of art meets Aufklärungsarbeit with cherished colleagues @danielsiemens.bsky.social and Thomas Weber among others bringing their research to bear on the danger of the AfD for Germany.

@politicalbeauty.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Uncovering a Glamorous Archive of Queer Portraits From 1970s New York A new book presents Bobby Busnach’s photographs of high glamour and queer counterculture, intricately staged in a crumbling Upper West Side apartment

Great new photo book based on the extraordinary collection of queer counterculture photography from 1970s NYC - the Bobby Busnach archive.

www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...

Diane Arbus’s Intimate Portraits of People in Their Own Homes A new exhibition at David Zwirner in London features Diane Arbus’s richly psychological and often glamorous portraits of people in their homes

Exciting new exhibition on Diane Arbus's photography of people's intimate spaces.

www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...

The Azazello Collection - from the hippie counter culturalist in the Soviet Union - documents drop out culture behind the Iron Curtain. Azazello's images and sketchings are amazing.

azazello-archive.com/en/photos

What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.

can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

Too Much Emotion or Not Enough? Empathy and the Public Sphere What can history teach us about how specific actors cultivate emotions in citizens?

Friends in NYC, consider coming to this event in 2026. Suzanne Keen (Scripps College), Irene Kacandes (Dartmouth) and I will discuss how to make sense of the intensity of emotions in these times and what we can learn from the arts to help strengthen our democracies.

www.1014.nyc/events/empathy

Really great podcast featuring Birkbeck media scholar Rob Topinka on how we might be inadvertently platforming far-right talking points even when we think we are doing the work of opposition.

"How the Far Right are Changing How We Speak"
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What I loved most about working with folks in extremism prevention and anti-hate initiatives on the ground was they weren't *at all* interested in calling anyone out.

Instead, it was like "what are we going to do to make life liveable for at risk people?" and "lets find ways to do this together."

I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.

We’ve seen this tactic before. And we need to oppose it.

This came up in my feed today. Wishing we hadn’t been correct.

archive.is/FqovV

Thanks to @carleton.ca Provost Pauline Rankin for welcoming us to the space, @yasirnaqvicdn.bsky.social for setting the tone and our co-sponsors @fesonline.bsky.social Canada and the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London.

Thrilled with the evening event. @milleridriss.bsky.social was brilliant, we had 200+
folks, and there were tons of good, difficult questions about misogyny and hate and the far right extremist pipeline.

The difficult truth about antisemitism Why don’t we acknowledge that there are different ways of measuring the prevalence of anti-Jewish prejudice?

New article for @prospectmagazine.co.uk with my colleagues David Feldman (@dmf101.bsky.social) and Ben Gidley (@bengidley.bsky.social) in which we critically examine mainstream political responses to the attack on the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester earlier this month.

In addition to the established scholars and @carleton.ca students coming to our workshop next week, I invited two young queer freelance journalists working on queer scandals as forms of mis and disinformation. Part of Media Literacy Week @mediasmarts.bsky.social

Looking forward to welcoming colleagues to Ottawa next week for our international workshop on conspiracy theories as a threat to democracy. Part of Media Literacy Week @mediasmarts.bsky.social

www.carleton.ca/populistpublics/events

ChromaQueer Film + Arts Festival ChromaQueer Film + Arts Festival

Very much looking forward to a weekend of cutting edge documentaries, workshops, and dancing. Tickets available now!

www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

Peter Becker + I wrote "Forward: A Kaleidoscope of CEH-C Meanings" to explain how the Vienna 2025 Central European History Convention and the collection of 20 blogs by emerging scholars on the joys, promises, + challenges of the event came into being. Read! Share! Discuss! cehc.hypotheses.org/79

People without History are Dust - University of Toronto Press

Hot off the presses and available now in English. A major contribution from @ankahajkova.bsky.social. I was honoured to write the forward.

utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

"She also has what Hall describes as hardline views on Japan's WWII history. In remarks over the years, she has downplayed Japan's aggression during the war and criticized the war crimes trials that the Allies held afterward to convict Japan's wartime leaders."

web.archive.org/web/20251022...

Huge congratulations to @ankahajkova.bsky.social on this momentous endeavour!

YouTube video by PhantogramVEVO Phantogram - You Don’t Get Me High Anymore (Live On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon)

Nothing is fun.
Not like before.
You don't get me high anymore.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnx_...