@anacristinasantos.bsky.social
Sociologist. Focus: queer ageing. Senior Researcher in LGBTQI+ Studies @ces-uc.bsky.social Centre for Social Studies (CES) 2× @ERC_Research winner🏆 Executive Committee @ESA_Sociology Co-Director of Feminist Studies PhD @ucoimbra 🇵🇹
🎥 Prémio 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗟𝗚𝗕𝗧𝗤+ 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺 | O filme «Outlasting – Living Archives of Older Queers», realizado por Ana Cristina Santos e Nuno Barbosa no âmbito do Projeto TRACE - Tracing Queer Citizenship Over Time, foi distinguido no Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival
10.11.2025 10:20 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Outrageous. One of the very first symptoms of a wanna-be) authoritarian regime is their declared dislike for Sociology and Gender Studies. Those are usually the first they go after, as we saw in Brazil during Bolsonaro, in Hungary, etc. It's time to rise. #publicSociology
#academicfreedom
The IV Monsters Summer School invites PhD students to explore monstrosity as a site of possibility. Together, we will reflect on queer challenges, methods, and resistance in times of reactionary politics and shrinking citizenship and democracy.
Reclaim monstrosity, apply now 👾
What if we stopped fearing the monster and instead embraced monstrosity as a space of resistance, solidarity, and radical belonging?
Reclaim monstrosity, apply now 👾
Highlights:
🔹Lectures by leading international scholars
🔹Hands-on workshops & group discussions
🔹Activist & cultural events
🔹Networking
Confirmed speakers:
🔹Ana Cristina Santos
🔹David Paternotte
🔹Judith Takács
🔹 Luisa Semedo
🔹Maggie O’Neill
🔹Miguel Cardina
Reclaim monstrosity, apply now 👾
👾 Open Call – PhD Monsters Summer School IV - Monsters Under Pressure: the queer art of resistance.
Apply until Nov 30 2025!
📅 17–21 May 2026
📍 Centre for Social Studies, Univ of Coimbra, Portugal
👉 More: www.ces.uc.pt/summerwinter...
Apply: ces.uc.pt/cessummersch...
Reclaim monstrosity💥
Amazing week spent at the University of Macerata as an invited keynote speaker for the #SOCIN2025 conference with #ERUA. So much food for truly interdisciplinary thought. And listening to @inekesluiter.bsky.social keynote... what a treat!
28.09.2025 23:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1The evaluation process has been carefully designed and thoroughly explained. The focus on feasibility on B2 only will make room for more cutting edge proposals to get shortlisted avoiding desk rejection. The ERC is a rare gem in wonderful hands! 💎
15.09.2025 23:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Once upon a time, the beginning of the world. 🥹
National Park Timanfaya, Land of Fire, Island of the 1000 🌋🌋🌋
#timanfaya #lanzarote
Take your rosaries from my ovaries (again)
Protect LGBTQI youth (again & again)
Please join the Public Consultation this week before it's too late for Portuguese schools. The input from the international community is precious. Here:
dge.mec.pt/noticias/con...
#StopTERFs #notinmyname
#sexeducation
⚠️Attention prospective PhD students - last Call for Applications!
🇬🇧PhD programmes taught in English (check which before applying)
🫣Deadline: 15th July
📚Join us in a vibrant community of engaged scholars at the @ces-uc.bsky.social , Univ of Coimbra, Portugal
+Info: www.ces.uc.pt/en/doutorame...
20.05.2025 02:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📣 O projeto ‘PULSAR | O papel de profissionais LGBTQ+ para uma saúde inclusiva’ (CES-UC) apresenta um questionário sobre experiências de profissionais de saúde LGBTQ+ em Portugal 👉 O objetivo é identificar desafios, necessidades e promover ambientes de trabalho inclusivos
08.05.2025 10:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📣 LGBTIQ equality academics and experts: #HaveYourSay in the EU's consultation on the new LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 👉 buff.ly/YJXpmlr
On #LesbianVisibilityDay, we mark the strength and stories of lesbian women, plus research from @anacristinasantos.bsky.social @ces-uc.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/QsbOcvF
Tools to think critically about how we live and what we aim for. The #RainbowMap 2025 is out 🌈
With #ILGA-Europe, discover how 49 European countries are performing when it comes to LGBTI human rights.
🔗 rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/
These boots were made for walking. I'm grateful to the ERC for this honor and responsibility I share w/ incredible colleagues and the institution that has always been my home of academic freedom.
Much more to come soon... Onwards!
TRACE - Queer Citizenship over Time
@ces-uc.bsky.social
#trace_ces
Thank you, also from my team and institution. Much more ahead in the years to come, and that's a promise! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️⚧️♀️
27.04.2025 11:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sociologists of sexualities and gender, attention to this⤵️
Deadline extended: 30th April. 🔥
And don't forget to follow the ESA Sexuality Research Network on BlueSky! Together we're stronger. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✊🏽
@esasexuality.bsky.social
W/ European Sociological Association
The attacks on knowledge and academic freedom are targeting LGBTQI+ issues mostly.
We must stand together, use all platforms, demand for more visibility and funding for LGBTQI research.
Sexual and gender diversity remain powerful indicators of the quality of Democracies.
✊🏽🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️⚧️♀️
Same in Portugal, many of us will not set foot in the US for a while. It's simply not safe for scholars engaged in academic freedom and human rights. The costs of this deranged authoritarian turn will last for decades.
13.04.2025 23:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump asks? We answer.
Academic freedom is non-negotiable.
We'll respond to Trump's anti-DEI obsession w/ more & more research on each of the forbidden words, more & more books to fill the shelves emptied by force, more & more transfeminist & queer PhD programmes.
🏳️⚧️✊🏽🏳️🌈⚧️♀️
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
Madeira offers such a powerful statement of tropical wilderness just a stone away from Lisbon. 1h30 on the ✈️ and - bang - an endless gift of colour, ocean and amazement.
#Madeira #islander
🔥Attention, queer EU early career researchers! Enjoy academic freedom & excellence in a prestigious institution w/ longstanding work on LGBTQI+, ageing, gender, diversity, citizenship & democracy. 🌈✊🏽
⚠️PhD up to 8 years; not in Portugal for over 1 yr in the past 3 yrs; etc.
➡️Check & apply bf 30 June
Resistance is only possible if we come 2gether, because attacks on freedom are tentacular. #IWD is transfeminist & more. Just read the list of forbidden words released by the ElonTrump Admin. Not all politicians are the same. Fight against populism, join the Left, bring another friend w/ u. Now. ✊🏽⚧️♀️
09.03.2025 10:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Respect! And gratitude. We should all be doing this and whatever we can, standing up for human rights and for our collective dignity. Hell, yeah.
A big shout-out to brave Maine leaders and to our trans family and friends 🏳️⚧️
#dontpanicorganize
We hosted a special surprise proposal at the bookshop this morning before we opened. It was a few months in the planning…
They said yes!
🌈 On day 16 of LGBTQ+ History Month, we honour Lili Elbe, a Danish trans woman and one of the first known recipients of gender-affirming surgery. Her story, later told in The Danish Girl, highlights both the risks and resilience of early trans pioneers in their fy for authenticity.
16.02.2025 19:12 — 👍 42 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
I've just heard about the sudden death of one of the greatest. Without #MichaelBurawoy, we wouldn't have the public and engaged sociology I believe in. This is a hard blow at a time when his courage, intelligence and irreverence, all of which absolutely brilliant, will be sorely missed. RIPower ✊🏽💔
05.02.2025 00:46 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I am shocked to read this. So sad. He will be missed and his work will remain at the core of truly meaningful sociology. #MichaelBurawoy
04.02.2025 23:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
