Daniel Fountain
@danielfountain.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer & Director of Postgrad Research in Art History at University of Exeter | Writer, Researcher, Artist and Curator | Queer art and visual culture | He/They🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
www.danielfountain.com
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/37109-daniel-fountain
www.danielfountain.com
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/37109-daniel-fountain
My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...
August 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...
Another year around the sun 🌞
July 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Another year around the sun 🌞
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Look who’s a cover girl for a really cool book 👀
Mark your diaries - January 2026. Available to pre-order now. 🤜🎤 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-cra...
June 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Look who’s a cover girl for a really cool book 👀
Mark your diaries - January 2026. Available to pre-order now. 🤜🎤 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-cra...
June 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Mark your diaries - January 2026. Available to pre-order now. 🤜🎤 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-cra...
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*first year lecture, academic strides in*
“right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION”
*students wail, gnash teeth, vomit*
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION”
*students wail, gnash teeth, vomit*
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told
Guidance has been published by the Office for Students on new free speech rules coming into force this year.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM
*first year lecture, academic strides in*
“right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION”
*students wail, gnash teeth, vomit*
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION”
*students wail, gnash teeth, vomit*
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just had a notification that The Metropolitan Museum of Art have aquisitioned my book Crafted With Pride, and it’s now pride of place (pun intended!) in their research library! 📚🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
June 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Just had a notification that The Metropolitan Museum of Art have aquisitioned my book Crafted With Pride, and it’s now pride of place (pun intended!) in their research library! 📚🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Huge congrats to my amazing doctoral student Chloë Edwards on passing her PhD viva today with an incredible thesis titled "Listen Without Prejudice: Queer Masculinities in the Popular Music Cultures of Thatcher's Britain". Photo: Sunil Gupta, Heaven, 1980.
May 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Huge congrats to my amazing doctoral student Chloë Edwards on passing her PhD viva today with an incredible thesis titled "Listen Without Prejudice: Queer Masculinities in the Popular Music Cultures of Thatcher's Britain". Photo: Sunil Gupta, Heaven, 1980.
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The UK has dropped to its lowest position ever (22nd) on the
@ilgaeurope.bsky.social ranking of the best and worst places to be LGBTQ+ in Europe.
Ten years ago, it ranked in first place.
Our government must reverse, not further, this shocking decline in LGBTQ+ rights.
@ilgaeurope.bsky.social ranking of the best and worst places to be LGBTQ+ in Europe.
Ten years ago, it ranked in first place.
Our government must reverse, not further, this shocking decline in LGBTQ+ rights.
May 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The UK has dropped to its lowest position ever (22nd) on the
@ilgaeurope.bsky.social ranking of the best and worst places to be LGBTQ+ in Europe.
Ten years ago, it ranked in first place.
Our government must reverse, not further, this shocking decline in LGBTQ+ rights.
@ilgaeurope.bsky.social ranking of the best and worst places to be LGBTQ+ in Europe.
Ten years ago, it ranked in first place.
Our government must reverse, not further, this shocking decline in LGBTQ+ rights.
The landscape for LGBTQ+ research is so bleak. Still fuming that UKRI decided this review was acceptable and didn't undermine EDI policy. Highlights: no relevence to LGB cuz trans inclusive, no hostile climate cuz Pride and gay marriage, no need for declonisation cuz Tate did it 24 years ago (?) 🤷♀️
April 26, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The landscape for LGBTQ+ research is so bleak. Still fuming that UKRI decided this review was acceptable and didn't undermine EDI policy. Highlights: no relevence to LGB cuz trans inclusive, no hostile climate cuz Pride and gay marriage, no need for declonisation cuz Tate did it 24 years ago (?) 🤷♀️
Apropos of nothing that has happened this week…where is the best place to look for academic jobs in the EU? The UK no longer feels like a place my community is welcome and I am genuinely scared.
April 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Apropos of nothing that has happened this week…where is the best place to look for academic jobs in the EU? The UK no longer feels like a place my community is welcome and I am genuinely scared.
Today’s news is so bleak. What a horribly hostile place the U.K. continues to be. Check on your trans siblings. Lives are on the line here. 🩷🤍💙
April 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Today’s news is so bleak. What a horribly hostile place the U.K. continues to be. Check on your trans siblings. Lives are on the line here. 🩷🤍💙
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Categories used by the state to sort people into boxes are never neutral.
Some thoughts on the UK Supreme Court case ruling and the wider anti-trans campaign to narrow sex and gender categories in policy, data and law.
📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/04/16/t...
Some thoughts on the UK Supreme Court case ruling and the wider anti-trans campaign to narrow sex and gender categories in policy, data and law.
📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/04/16/t...
April 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Categories used by the state to sort people into boxes are never neutral.
Some thoughts on the UK Supreme Court case ruling and the wider anti-trans campaign to narrow sex and gender categories in policy, data and law.
📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/04/16/t...
Some thoughts on the UK Supreme Court case ruling and the wider anti-trans campaign to narrow sex and gender categories in policy, data and law.
📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/04/16/t...
Absolutely wonderful review of my edited collection Crafted with Pride in the Journal of Design History! 🙏
April 14, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Absolutely wonderful review of my edited collection Crafted with Pride in the Journal of Design History! 🙏
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“Research into sexuality and gender is vital for identifying social, cultural, and medical needs of populations, and addressing inequalities across populations.”
It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship.
🌈🎓
It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship.
🌈🎓
Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research
Published in The Journal of Sex Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
“Research into sexuality and gender is vital for identifying social, cultural, and medical needs of populations, and addressing inequalities across populations.”
It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship.
🌈🎓
It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship.
🌈🎓
My ceramic cake/jelly collection is getting seriously out of hand…
March 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
My ceramic cake/jelly collection is getting seriously out of hand…
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Yet another scandal brewing within UK Higher Ed: universities can get research money for everyone they've sacked. Big ghost fleets of lecturers who don't exist will be launched into the next Research Excellence Framework. Unis will laugh and cash in (1/2). englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
englishassociation.ac.uk
March 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Yet another scandal brewing within UK Higher Ed: universities can get research money for everyone they've sacked. Big ghost fleets of lecturers who don't exist will be launched into the next Research Excellence Framework. Unis will laugh and cash in (1/2). englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
Cover reveal for the new book hopefully dropping soon 😉✍️📚🏳️⚧️
March 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Cover reveal for the new book hopefully dropping soon 😉✍️📚🏳️⚧️
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Hugely engaging and insightful event with @danielfountain.bsky.social this evening! 🌈🧵
Crafted With Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain @intellectbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social is highly recommended!
#LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay
Crafted With Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain @intellectbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social is highly recommended!
#LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay
February 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Hugely engaging and insightful event with @danielfountain.bsky.social this evening! 🌈🧵
Crafted With Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain @intellectbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social is highly recommended!
#LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay
Crafted With Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain @intellectbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social is highly recommended!
#LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay
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Join us!
Online public lecture.
Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with Dr Daniel Fountain
Wednesday 12 February 2025
6.00pm to 7.30pm Online
Sign up to the lecture here 👉ow.ly/3t0G50UYr3v
@danielfountain.bsky.social
Online public lecture.
Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with Dr Daniel Fountain
Wednesday 12 February 2025
6.00pm to 7.30pm Online
Sign up to the lecture here 👉ow.ly/3t0G50UYr3v
@danielfountain.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Join us!
Online public lecture.
Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with Dr Daniel Fountain
Wednesday 12 February 2025
6.00pm to 7.30pm Online
Sign up to the lecture here 👉ow.ly/3t0G50UYr3v
@danielfountain.bsky.social
Online public lecture.
Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with Dr Daniel Fountain
Wednesday 12 February 2025
6.00pm to 7.30pm Online
Sign up to the lecture here 👉ow.ly/3t0G50UYr3v
@danielfountain.bsky.social
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Super event at my uni (Oxford Brookes) for LGBTQ+ History Month . . .
Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with @danielfountain.bsky.social. 12 February, 6-7pm. Free. Online. Everyone welcome. 🌈🧵
Register here: www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...
#LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay
Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with @danielfountain.bsky.social. 12 February, 6-7pm. Free. Online. Everyone welcome. 🌈🧵
Register here: www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...
#LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay
Crafted with Pride: queer craft and activism - LGBTQ+ History Month lecture - Oxford Brookes University
This lecture delivered by Dr Daniel Fountain explores how LGBTQ+ communities have utilised craft processes to explore identities, bring communities together, and encourage social and political change.
www.brookes.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Super event at my uni (Oxford Brookes) for LGBTQ+ History Month . . .
Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with @danielfountain.bsky.social. 12 February, 6-7pm. Free. Online. Everyone welcome. 🌈🧵
Register here: www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...
#LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay
Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with @danielfountain.bsky.social. 12 February, 6-7pm. Free. Online. Everyone welcome. 🌈🧵
Register here: www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...
#LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay
Another day, another PI asking me to work for free on their funded project to do ‘important diversity work’. When will this exploitation stop? 😅
January 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Another day, another PI asking me to work for free on their funded project to do ‘important diversity work’. When will this exploitation stop? 😅
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I listened to this garbage so you don't have to. It is a horrifically one-sided, un-nuanced hit piece on international students that will do damage to universities & pile on racist abuse of vulnerable students. Shame on Jo Grady & @ucu.org.uk for contributing to this & adding to negative tropes 1/8
“Jo Grady from the UCU, which represents 120,000 lecturers and university staff, says it is an open secret that students who lack English skills find ways to come to the UK to study” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Universities enrolling students with poor English, BBC finds
Institutions may be overlooking inadequate language skills to receive high fees from overseas students.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 8:57 AM
I listened to this garbage so you don't have to. It is a horrifically one-sided, un-nuanced hit piece on international students that will do damage to universities & pile on racist abuse of vulnerable students. Shame on Jo Grady & @ucu.org.uk for contributing to this & adding to negative tropes 1/8
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Lavender Menace, Gays the Word, Book Woman…I’ve fallen in love with so many LGBTQIA bookshops. They’re places of joy and resistance, good coffee and even better books. Support 🌈 stories and businesses by sharing this Starter Pack.
go.bsky.app/G321HCf
go.bsky.app/G321HCf
December 5, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Lavender Menace, Gays the Word, Book Woman…I’ve fallen in love with so many LGBTQIA bookshops. They’re places of joy and resistance, good coffee and even better books. Support 🌈 stories and businesses by sharing this Starter Pack.
go.bsky.app/G321HCf
go.bsky.app/G321HCf
To celebrate my book being a 2024 best seller, my publisher is offering 20% off with code INTELLECT20. A perfect festive gift for those interested in queer history, activism, art and crafting! Thanks to everyone who has supported! intellectdiscover.com/content/book...
December 5, 2024 at 9:50 PM
To celebrate my book being a 2024 best seller, my publisher is offering 20% off with code INTELLECT20. A perfect festive gift for those interested in queer history, activism, art and crafting! Thanks to everyone who has supported! intellectdiscover.com/content/book...