@joejukes.bsky.social
Postdoc at Tampere University, Finland, researching queer histories of rurality and DIY / 'ITE' art I'm a cultural geographer w/ special expertise in visual geographies and geographies of sexualities. Also write on affect, emotion and asexualities.
North Cyprus (!)
02.03.2026 12:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It was the wall hanging wasn’t it…. 💁🏻♀️😅
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East African Queer + Trans Displacements (Bloomsbury, 2026) is now Open Access and fully downloadable from today 🌍✨
A collective exploration of movement, borders, belonging, and survival across the region.
Read and share widely. tinyurl.com/4bvknnwv
#QueerStudies #TransStudies #QueerMigration
Our 'Picture Me' research project now has a write-up on the German Visual History network's website! We are developing new methods for queer visual and historical research.
If you're interested in what I am working on at the moment, check it out: visual-history.de/en/project/j... 🌈🎓
The long 2010s are finally over
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1/3 CFP: Islandness in Contemporary Critique
Online Conference | 1–2 Feb 2027
We invite 15-minute papers advancing one clear conceptual provocation about how islandness is generative for contemporary critical thought
500-word abstracts due 1 May 2026
If you're researching queer history in England, farm records might be one of the last places you'd check.
Yet for #LGBTQHistoryMonth, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares how he's tracing queer histories within our farm archives, and gives tips for future research.
merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...
Brilliant to see this research out + open access! On how LGBTQ+ researchers may put themselves at risk whilst researching in neoliberal HE institutions.
“On the edge of sustainable”: LGBTQ+ researchers’ experiences of harm, fear, and community:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The European Geographies of Sexualities Conference (EGSC) is held in Slovenia this year! If you work w/ space & sexualities, consider registering and submitting an abstract.
Theme - 'Discussing from Queer Peripheries: (Un)Desiring the Centre.' See you there! 🌟
sites.google.com/view/egsconf...
Pulling together a new article from my current project on queer space in and through the archive; thinking about what happens to ’lived experience’ when spaces and times are brought to touch in a little box of archival treasures…
20.02.2026 12:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1!!! Incredible!! Bring on the farm and folk films!
20.02.2026 12:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I currently work outside of the UK in Gender Studies, not Geography. But geography is nonetheless what my research 'does'. It's so disheartening to see the erosion of UK Higher Education doggedly continuing. As an ECR, I wonder if the discipline will ever be able to accommodate my work, and others'!
19.02.2026 09:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I presented a new PhD output at the Marginalised Ruralities conference today. Queering the trope of ‘settling down’ in the countryside by thinking about the lesbian home-making (and home-sharing!) practices I encountered during fieldwork & putting forward the concept of ‘queer rural domesticity’.
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This is so grim and it happening under a so-called Labour government is unforgivable
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
U Glasgow has covered Jay Todd's @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & my critical paper on the 'Sullivan Review' rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Many social scientists whom Jay & I talk to are (still) unaware of the Sullivan Review and its potential implications. Our paper aims to change this
New paper, led by @jngardiner.bsky.social. We look at queer & trans visibility on social media and negotiations of safety for LGBTQ+ young people - drawing from interviews with young people, service providers and LGBTQ+ creators. Reach out if you'd like a copy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
19.01.2026 23:58 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Graphic reading 'the UK Government-commissioned 'Sullivan Review' of sex and gender in data and research collection threatens British research and trans inclusion. Here's why.'
📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.
Screen grab of front page for article: A Critical Response to the UK's ‘Sullivan Review’ Into Sex and Gender in Research and Data
📢 New peer-reviewed academic response to the Sullivan Review into sex and gender in research and data.
@jaytoddgla.bsky.social and @felicitycallard.bsky.social have published a critical response to the Sullivan Review.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Still seeking participants for my PhD research on neuroqueer youth digital resistance practices! (ERGO: 103967)
Know someone who’d be interested?
All info is at linktr.ee/nqresearch.s..., or email me with any questions at ✉️nqresearch@soton.ac.uk
Channelling Aquarius season this week by getting some non-Fellowship projects off the ground.… hopefully more to share soon!
30.01.2026 15:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Two fully funded studentships at Manchester to support research in queer and trans healthcare and creativity www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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🎉 Big news! Our new collection, East African Queer and Trans Displacements, is out Open Access 5 Feb. Bringing together diverse case studies + interdisciplinary perspectives, this collection offers the first in-depth examination of queer and trans displacement in East Africa. tinyurl.com/4fz2rk5v
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Finland Friday this week is sharing that we took some DIY headshots this week for our project website (coming soon).
I look like an academic lol! A cold one!
See my thesis for research evidence of why a social media ban would be terrible for LGBTQIA youth.
TLDR- when you belong to a geographically dispersed minority that your family don’t belong to, might even be hostile to- social media is likely your only lifeline for identity work and community.
My article “Particularly Vulnerable. Negotiating Intersections within the ‘Berlin Model’ of Queer Refugee Support” has now appeared in the latest issue of Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography! 🌍✨ Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
20.01.2026 12:20 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Brought some West Country tradition to my local park here in Finland and held a jolly Wassail with friends and colleagues - auspicious timing with Old Twelfth Night falling in a Saturday!
19.01.2026 12:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1"43.5% of all permanently employed staff who had previously worked on a FTC reported that they still experience the negative effects of FTCs on their professional lives."
15.01.2026 12:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"84.9% of colleagues on FTCs reported that their contracts had negative impacts upon their wellbeing"
^ As long as fixed-term contracts (FTC's) are the norm for early-career scholars + many others, then our workplaces are structurally screwing us.
Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography.
Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work.
Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change.
Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT):
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
Read report:
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Introducing: Dr Joe Jukes
@joejukes.bsky.social is a cultural geographer and queer theorist at Tampere University, Finland. They work on queer and film studies, platonic relations, ‚nonsexualities‘, emotion and affect, and geographies of sexualities.