Eligibility criteria: The article must have been published in a peer-reviewed journal in 2025, and the author must be a member of the Gender and Sexuality Research Network.

Submit your nominations to tunay.altay@hu-berlin.de, including a PDF of the nominated article.

Deadline: April 8, 2026.

We are thrilled to announce that nominations—including self-nominations—are now open for the Gender and Sexuality Research Network's Best Article Prize. This award is an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the outstanding and innovative research contributions of our members.

Excited to share the program for this year’s lecture series in Queer Feminist Issues in Methodologies! Following last year’s format, we will use the classroom as a space to discuss research as a process, focusing on the decisions we make during research design, data collection, and analysis.

Have you read "Translating difference: Whiteness, racialisation, and queer migration in Berlin" 🤔

The paper by @tunayaltay.bsky.social was selected as the EJPG's Best Article of 2025 🤩

👀Read the award-winning paper here:
doi.org/10.1332/2515...

🤩 New year, new award ✨

The EJPG team are absolutely delighted to announce that @tunayaltay.bsky.social has been award the 2025 Best Article Award for their paper on "Translating difference: Whiteness, racialisation, and queer migration in Berlin" 🏆

doi.org/10.1332/2515...

📢 Reminder: The Gender & Sexuality Research Network (GSRN) looks forward to seeing you at the next CES conference, June 16–18, 2026, at University College Dublin 🇮🇪. Don’t miss the Call for Papers!

Beyond panels, we are planning a roundtable to reflect on the future of gender and sexuality studies and share strategies for responding to political pressures. If you’d like to be part of the roundtable, send us your bio and statement of interest by September 24, 2025.

There are many ways to get involved with the GSRN at CES 2026. If you have an individual paper, you can submit it yourself or send it to us by September 24, 2025 (tunay.altay@hu-berlin.de / kristabailie@gmail.com). Fully formed panels can be submitted directly via the CES portal by October 8, 2025.

The Gender and Sexuality Research Network (GSRN) is excited to invite you to the next annual CES conference, which will take place at University College Dublin, Ireland, on June 16–18, 2026. Full details for the conference and the Call for Papers are available here: ces-temple.secure-platform.com/a

✨ OUT NOW! ✨
📚 From our book series with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
Queer and Trans Life: Anthropological Futures
⌲ Edited by @silviaposocco.bsky.social, @ej-gp.bsky.social, Lars Aaberg & @tunayaltay.bsky.social

Find out more: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Posocc...

Undoing one-dimensionality: reforming German citizenship through the postmigrant framework - Comparative Migration Studies This paper critically examines Germany’s 2024 citizenship reform, designed to promote integration and pluralism through legal and societal transformations. We argue that the prevailing migration disco...

New paper out! ✨ We critically examine Germany’s 2024 citizenship reform and call for a shift from one-dimensional migration discourse to a postmigrant perspective—viewing migration as a dynamic, multilinear force shaping broader societal transformation w @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social & Naika Foroutan!

For #PrideMonth, we're highlighting books with free introductions! Browse our site #GenderStudies & #SexualityStudies: bit.ly/3Fs37yw

Check out QUEER & TRANS LIFE by Posocco @silviaposocco.bsky.social, Gonzalez-Polledo @ej-gp.bsky.social, Aaberg, Altay @tunayaltay.bsky.social: bit.ly/40Rr228

Three Fully-funded Interdisciplinary PhD Positions on Governance by Data Infrastructure Are you passionate about interdisciplinary research on data infrastructure, governance, and democracy? Do you have a strong interest in citizen science and methodological innovation? The Department of...

UvA Media Studies has some fully funded PhDs in governance and data infrastructure www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3517...

People are being kidnapped off the street for their political views, sent to holding centers due process and in defiance of judicial orders, sent to camps overseas, and still progressives and liberals are painted as the real tyrants. These editors aren’t prepared for when it happens to them.

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

OUT NOW – ‘Sex, care and the working body: ambiguities of the gendered racialisation as “Eastern European”’ by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & @probursula.bsky.social: A short summary 🧵 (1-11): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Video of PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk being snatched from the streets in Somerville, MA, by unidentifiable people (& unmarked vehicle), claiming to be police.

Last year, she co-authored an op-ed critiquing Tufts' response to students calling upon the uni to condemn genocide in Gaza.

#fascism

Turkey Is Now a Full-Blown Autocracy Erdogan may come to regret his latest power grab.

By forcing the Istanbul mayor out of politics, Turkey has crossed from competitive authoritarianism to full-blown autocracy. A must-read analysis: www.foreignaffairs.com/turkey/turke...

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

Deeply concerning: The Trump admin is revoking legal status for 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua & Venezuela. Meanwhile, a journalist captured the treatment of the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador. Horrific. time.com/7269604/el-s...

Thanks Andreas :)

What Makes Up a Writing System? Building a Writing System: The Tools and Habits That Keep Me Productive as an Academic Writer

I’ve launched my Substack, Footnotes, where I share my journey of writing my first monograph while navigating postdoc life in Germany. If you’re a researcher, writer, or just curious about the behind-the-scenes of academic work, come join me!

tunayaltay.substack.com/p/what-makes...

Amazing new release from #TVCE member @silviaposocco.bsky.social, alongside colleagues @ej-gp.bsky.social and @tunayaltay.bsky.social

#AcademicSky 🌈🎓

Check it out!

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Thanks dear!

This is a small but important step in safeguarding the future of LGBTQ research amid growing threats and funding cuts across Europe. Institutional visibility affirms that we are here to stay and that queer and trans lives will continue to be recognized in research.

Thanks dear!

Happy to announce an exciting new beginning at
@humboldtuni.bsky.social — a new department within BIM dedicated to gender, sexuality, and migration! I am thrilled to serve as co-head of the department alongside @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social! More information: bim.hu-berlin.de/de/abteilung...

Yes ☺️ via email pls.

QUEER AND TRANS LIFE: Anthropological Futures, edited by Silvia Posocco (@silviaposocco.bsky.social), EJ Gonzalez-Polledo (@ej-gp.bsky.social), Lars Aaberg, Tunay Altay (@tunayaltay.bsky.social) has now been published!

Find out more here: https://bit.ly/40Rr228

#Anthropology #GenderStudies

📢 We’re thrilled to open nominations (incl. self-noms) for the Council for European Studies- Gender and Sexuality RN's Best Article Prize! 🏆 Submit your nomination to tunay.altay@hu-berlin.de by March 14. The paper must be peer-reviewed, published in 2024, and authored by a network member.

Far-right populists have re-politicized "border control" as the magical solution to all the ills of our times. We see a similar trend in Germany as well. The coming years will undoubtedly introduce new configurations of border regimes, each with its own challenges.