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Ash Watson
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Sociologist, Senior Lecturer + Scientia Fellow @ UNSW Sydney, Fiction Editor @ The Sociological Review 🏳️‍🌈 she/her awtsn.com
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Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social · Jan 20
Vibes-based methods

Something new from me: people are (still) using ‘vibes’ to talk about generative ambiguities and this says something interesting about social life and social research. Here I look across conceptual trends to consider why vibes are the vibe

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The new special edition of So Fi Zine is live! A beautiful collection of sociological fiction - HUGE thanks to the legend that is Ash @awtsn.bsky.social for making this possible and including my piece, and to everyone involved.

Read here: sofizine.com/latest-editi...
Edition #17
OUT NOW! So Fi Zine #17 is a special issue created with sociologists and other academic kin at the University of Glasgow in 2025 – full of new sociological fiction, poetry and visual art. Thi…
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August 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Would you like to read a special @uofgsociology.bsky.social edition of the So Fi Zine wonderfully curated by @awtsn.bsky.social and featuring @mindyptolomey.bsky.social @academicdiary.bsky.social @kenglish.bsky.social @erdemavsar.bsky.social and more (& me)?

Thought so:
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Edition #17
OUT NOW! So Fi Zine #17 is a special issue created with sociologists and other academic kin at the University of Glasgow in 2025 – full of new sociological fiction, poetry and visual art. Thi…
sofizine.com
August 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Here's something a bit special and a bit different - with thanks to @awtsn.bsky.social for facilitating these exciting engagements, and featuring @mindyptolomey.bsky.social, @academicdiary.bsky.social, @kenglish.bsky.social, @erdemavsar.bsky.social, @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social and more...
August 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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The Journal of Creative Research Methods is accepting submissions for our second issue (deadline: October 2025).

We welcome innovative work covering creative methods at ALL stages of research!

More info: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...

ISSUE ONE COMING SEPTEMBER 2025!
July 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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icymi: Desire Lines, Queer Cartographies and Cartographic Queers

New paper by @emmawatsonkirby.bsky.social and me out this week in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space on why and how people contribute to queeringthemap.com

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Desire lines, queer cartographies and cartographic queers - Ash Watson, Emma Kirby, 2025
Digital technologies have enabled communities to map and (re)claim space in novel ways and at significant scale. Queering the Map (queeringthemap.com), a commun...
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July 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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I am THRILLED to have a new article with Emma Kirby in @societyandspace.bsky.social

Focused on Queering the Map, we analyse how people contribute to this queer mapping of life – and become cartographic queers 📍💜

Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Desire lines, queer cartographies and cartographic queers - Ash Watson, Emma Kirby, 2025
Digital technologies have enabled communities to map and (re)claim space in novel ways and at significant scale. Queering the Map (queeringthemap.com), a commun...
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July 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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thesociologicalreview.org
OUT NOW: The Sociological Review magazine’s latest issue. Featuring:

Image-Maker in Residence @sanamurrani.bsky.social‬ on maps, refuge and rupture
‪Short fiction by Laura J. Bower
Bob Jeffrey on bad jobs, bosses and building solidarity
Illustration by Tim Marrs
...and much more.

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July 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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So pleased to see this out, Zine-making the Commons, open access in EJCS @ejcs-journal.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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this is an engaging read, loved the anger, humour & contradictions the story surfaces! Quite exciting to learn about sociological fiction, didn't know it's a thing! Also loved an earlier fiction piece, "what's in a name?"

It's a great format @thesociologicalreview.org, hope you continue doing them!
thesociologicalreview.org The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Jun 23
What makes a good feminist – theoretically, or otherwise?

Laura J. Bower’s wry short story looks at Kate, a gender-studies lecturer whose lived experience sometimes feels markedly (or horribly) at odds with what she teaches. Out now in the June magazine.

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July 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
awtsn.bsky.social
Five years ago today I got my mitts on my debut novel, Into the Sea, a work of sociological fiction published by Brill. I have (finally) really found my love of writing again and am happily working on my second after many many fits and starts
July 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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🌱 Feminist zine-making in research and education: call for chapter EOIs for a new edited collection ✨

There are so many amazing folks thinking creatively, critically and differently about zines today - if this is you, please consider being part of our new collection! shorturl.at/OtaYf

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Call for chapter EOIs for a new edited collection on feminist zine-making. Text on a pink flyer Call for chapter EOIs for a new edited collection on feminist zine-making. Text on a pink flyer
July 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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You don't have time for your bullshit! And yet you do your bullshit all day! Go write your book!
June 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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‘Hang on, why am I editing my photos?’ Disrupting the virtual gaze through selfie-editing workshops - Julia Coffey, Akane Kanai, Amy S Dobson, Rosalind Gill, Niamh White, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
‘Hang on, why am I editing my photos?’ Disrupting the virtual gaze through selfie-editing workshops - Julia Coffey, Akane Kanai, Amy S Dobson, Rosalind Gill, Niamh White, 2025
This article presents findings from a qualitative study that aimed to provide some of the first detailed accounts of how young people use selfie-editing apps, a...
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June 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
awtsn.bsky.social
New fiction in The Sociological Review
thesociologicalreview.org The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Jun 11
What makes a good feminist – or a bad one? Lecturer Kate Winters presents feminist theory to an enthusiastic class of young women – but back at home after a long day, she carries the domestic load while her husband plays Call of Duty.

Fiction by Laura J. Bowers in our June issue.
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June 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Do you use any AI platforms for support, conversation, life questions or companionship?

Looking for participants to take part in an anonymous online interview about their experiences with #AI
June 2, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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velocirobter.bsky.social
Quit calling them hallucinations. Call it what it is: bullshit.

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May 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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kenglish.bsky.social
Excited to announce that in collaboration with @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social & @kathbrowne.bsky.social I am editing a handbook on queering research methods & accepting chapter contributions now. Please share & get in touch if you have any questions.

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Call for contributors: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Queering Research Methods: Methods and Methodologies Across the Research Process Edited by Kirstie Ken English, Harvey Humphrey and Kath Browne We are looking for contributions for this interdisciplinary handbook on queering research methods and methodologies. By showcasing groundbreaking work, we seek to demonstrate to readers how each phase of the research process can be queered. By their very nature queer approaches are not singularly definable. Therefore, we welcome a vast range of different interpretations of what it means to queer research. We are committed to amplifying contributions from individuals whose lived experiences and perspectives have been marginalized, excluded or erased. The core aims of this handbook are as follows: 1.Produce a resource for students to explore diverse queer approaches to methods 2.Provide ways for readers navigate the ambiguity of queer research without subscribing to ill-fitting categories 3.Showcase groundbreaking examples of queer research and approaches as ways to challenge and counter moral panics and anti-queer backlash 4.To prioritise interdisciplinary and intersectional thinking across this work learning from scholars across diverse global political contexts and career stages 5.This volume seeks to make space for queer and trans individuals from a variety of disciplines, countries and backgrounds who undertake queer research not limited to academics. 6.Provide examples of ways to approach queer research with ethical sensitivity in ways which do justice to queer communities We will respond to successful submissions by Autumn 2025, with first drafts expected in early 2026. Chapters should be less than 5,000 words. If you are interested, please fill in our submission form where you will be asked some information about yourself and your work and can provide an abstract (300 word maximum). The handbook will be broken down into five sections following the research process. You will be asked which of these five sections you think your contribution is best suited for between: ● ● ● ● ● Queering methodologies edited by Sophie Marie Niang & Robel Afeworki Abay Queering knowledge production edited by Jess Westbrook & Dean Tauches Queering research tools edited by Lizzie Reed & Bethany Lamont Queering analysis edited by Peggy Shannon-Baker & Edmund Coleman-Fountain Queering communication and outputs edited by Sophie Atherton & Valeria Venditti
May 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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This morning we started on the Glasgow special edition of So Fi Zine - watch this space for new sociological fiction, poetry and visual art! One of many wonderful things to come from my time visiting UoG sociology dept, including 3.5 solid weeks of sun 🌞✨✂️📎📚 sofizine.com @academicdiary.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Fun start to work today with a sociological fiction workshop ran by @awtsn.bsky.social. I made this little 5 minute comic about boxes & barriers.
4 panel comic with the text boxes = order & control. But they are often a tight fit . They leave things out . They can not contain us.
May 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Fantastic morning at a writing workshop on sociological fiction with Ash Watson. Thinking and doing and having permission to indulge in serious play. Such an invigorating gift. @awtsn.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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thesociologicalreview.org
THIS EVENING: 🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸, the second in our Conversations series of online events.

🍉 Thursday 8 May 18.30-20.00 BST/UTC+1 online
🍉 Speakers: Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell and Rafeef Ziadah
🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos
May 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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“Male loneliness” is kind of the perfect antifeminist complaint, because it articulates the moral logic of patriarchal entitlement very neatly: that men deserve women’s attention, company, devotion, sex, and care, and women should provide these to men even at the cost of their own wellbeing.
evoopsych.bsky.social evoopsych.bsky.social @evoopsych.bsky.social · May 5
Workplace discrimination and harassment, sexual assault, and domestic violence - these very often leave victims desperately lonely but this loneliness somehow never merits discussion as a "crisis"
May 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Trigger warning: the cat poem we published in 2021 is back on the timeline
A poem about pet death that can be read on our website
April 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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This is a glorious short story - read it free via the link below
thesociologicalreview.org The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · May 1
“I would never think of falling in love with a woman working at such a job. For I loved everything about her; I loved her job as well. But I especially loved the liveliness with which she talked about her job.”

The Map of Hidden Feelings: new sociological fiction by Işıl Bayraktar buff.ly/Nldofqv
May 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Ways of seeing: how can feminist perspectives transform knowledge production?

Meet our latest three Image-Makers in Residence – and in conversation: Hannah Buckler, ‪@goblinpurwin.bsky.social‬ and Juno Halina Rauber-Baio. Out now in The Sociological Review magazine.

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May 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM