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Dr Eleri Anona Watson
@elerianona.bsky.social
Fellow in Queer Studies.

Postdoc researcher in English Literature and Critical Theory.

Lecturer/Tutor in English Literature & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

University of Oxford.

Research: literature, queer relationality, and deconstruction.
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❗️Tonight❗️Multi-award-winning historian, biographer, and author Lucy Hughes-Hallett talks all things life-writing and scandal with Hermione Lee.
All welcome! Join us for a book signing afterwards.
🕠 17:30
📍 Wolfson College
🎟️ shorturl.at/8Gdgn
@engfac.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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How did nurses shape Australia’s response to HIV/AIDS? Join Dr Geraldine Fela for ‘Blood Politics’, 31 Oct, 2.30pm, Schwarzman Centre. Free, all welcome: shorturl.at/MNB95 @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social @hflgbtq.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Partner event:
From hospital wards to activist networks, award-winning historian, Dr Geraldine Fela tells the story of nurses during Australia’s AIDS crisis.
31 Oct, 2.30pm @ox.ac.uk
All welcome! Register here: shorturl.at/MNB95 @torchoxford.bsky.social @hflgbtq.bsky.social
Feminist Thinking Seminar | Blood Politics: Nurses and Australia’s AIDS crisis
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October 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
How did nurses shape Australia’s response to HIV/AIDS? Join Dr Geraldine Fela for ‘Blood Politics’, 31 Oct, 2.30pm, Schwarzman Centre. Free, all welcome: shorturl.at/MNB95 @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social @hflgbtq.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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The call for papers is now open for the 9th Derrida Today Conference in Paris, France - from July 13-17, 2026.

Details can be found on the website here: derridatoday.com.au/conference/

All enquiries: conference@derridatoday.com
Conference – Derrida Today
derridatoday.com.au
September 21, 2025 at 6:50 AM
An opportunity by the University of Oxford’s Intersectional Humanities research hub for recent graduates and ECRs!
Please share widely.
@engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @torchoxford.bsky.social
#CFP
August 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Delighted to be in Sydney as a Visiting Scholar at Macquarie University!

I’m here to share my research on “bumping” as a queer ethic— rethinking Derrida & Cixous alongside Queer, Trans & Black Studies. Honoured to see this work resonate across disciplines & contexts. Join my masterclass on Tues!
August 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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The #Oxford Centre for Life-Writing is proud to introduce the inaugural cohort of Global Majority and Underrepresented Writing Scholars—marking the launch of a programme designed to recognise, foster, and champion work by marginalised voices.
oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/global-major...
August 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Delighted to be heading up this initiative! Please share widely ✍️
We're delighted to announce that applications for our Global Majority & Underrepresented Writers Programme are now open.
8 funded places; mentorship, dedicated events, and public recognition.
Apply: shorturl.at/xSOPg
@engfac.bsky.social @drkkennedy.bsky.social
@anadiamond.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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OCLW has carved out a space for underrepresented writers with fascinating, untold stories, waiting only for a little room to bloom.

There are 8 places open this year. The application window is open. If this speaks to you, or someone you know, please help spread the word
Global Majority and Underrepresented Writers’ Programme
oclw.web.ox.ac.uk
May 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Delighted to be heading up this initiative! Please share widely ✍️
We're delighted to announce that applications for our Global Majority & Underrepresented Writers Programme are now open.
8 funded places; mentorship, dedicated events, and public recognition.
Apply: shorturl.at/xSOPg
@engfac.bsky.social @drkkennedy.bsky.social
@anadiamond.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
April 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Toni Morrison ❤️
April 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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#NationalPoetryMonth

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekPforPatterns
(rhyme scheme)

“We Have Not Long to Love”
— Tennessee Williams
April 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Duckie was (as ever) a JOY! Can’t wait to draw on Ajamu X’s interview in next week’s classes on Black queer relationality!
February 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The biggest red flag
February 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Let Every Pansy Bloom!
January 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
An opportune time to visit the Cable St Mural. “The girls all went out with pepper pots in their coat pockets to throw pepper into the faces of the fascists. […] They wanted to stand shoulder to shoulder with the dockers – working people the same as they all were, and socialists”.

shorturl.at/0F7Ie
January 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Congratulations to Dr Eleri Anona Watson @elerianona.bsky.social who was selected to feature in the Fourth Plinth sculpture 'Mil Veces un Instante' by artist Teresa Margolles.

The sculpture commemorates the resilience of the global trans, nonbinary & gender nonconforming communities.
Dr Eleri Anona Watson featured in Fourth Plinth Sculpture in Trafalgar Square
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January 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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🚨 Publication Day Klaxon 🚨 for * The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading * & it looks like the price is reduced for publication day. I’ll be doing an advent calendar of snippets from each chapter over the coming month. Follow the 🧵 here! #QueerReading #LGBTQStudies
November 30, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Wendy Cope, ‘As Sweet’
December 29, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Resolution for the new year:
Audre Lorde, ‘I’m going to go out like a fuc*ing meteor!’
December 29, 2024 at 3:48 AM
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DAY 19: #QueerReading Advent @edinburghup.bsky.social CHAPTER 17: 'FRIENDSHIP AS A WAY OF LIFE':
QUEERING DERRIDA AND CIXOUS'S AIMANCE
Eleri Anona Watson-this chapter offers a fascinating discussion of friendship as queer mode focusing upon the relationship between none other than Derrida & Cixous.
December 19, 2024 at 7:58 AM
Frank O’Hara, ‘My Heart’
December 28, 2024 at 10:40 AM