Oxford History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network
hflgbtq.bsky.social
Oxford History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network
@hflgbtq.bsky.social
critically rethinking queer history at oxford university 🗣🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

MT25 term card: linktr.ee/oulgbtq_historynetwork
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Hello all! We are excited to share our Michaelmas 2025 term card, beginning with our welcome social on Friday, October 17 from 4-6 PM at the Mansfield College Middle Common Room (MCR) w/ free food & drinks.

See below for details on our upcoming events - open to undergraduates & postgraduates. ⬇️
Hello all! We are excited to share our Michaelmas 2025 term card, beginning with our welcome social on Friday, October 17 from 4-6 PM at the Mansfield College Middle Common Room (MCR) w/ free food & drinks.

See below for details on our upcoming events - open to undergraduates & postgraduates. ⬇️
October 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
You’re invited to our welcome social this Friday, October 17 from 4-6 PM at the Mansfield College Middle Common Room (MCR)! 🌈 We will have free snacks and drinks, so make sure to come along, bring other Oxford friends, and learn more about our Network.
October 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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CfP: Queer Lives & Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany’s LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures, an online conference that I have co-organized with Cedar Lensing-Sharp! Deadline for submissions: 30 August 2025! Keynotes from @manwithoutatan.bsky.social @jonahgarde.bsky.social & Camilla Smith!
June 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Looking forward to hosting some absolutely brilliant thinkers next week in Oxford, on a topic that only seems to get more and more urgent. All welcome - please share with comrades and friends!
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/why-cr...
Why Critiques of Gay Imperialism Still Matter
www.torch.ox.ac.uk
May 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
We are SO excited for this
Does writing a long history of trans women really take a "delirious imperialist" (Gill-Peterson, 2024)? Or is the insistent refusal to give such womanhood a name instead consistent w/ the colonial project of trans misogyny?

Last call to join my Friday talk @ Oxford & online! 🏳️‍⚧️ bit.ly/3GmoBgw
What is a “Trans Woman”?: Towards a Useful Category of Historical Analysis
Join scholar Jamey Jesperson as she tests the oft-doubted utility of “trans woman” as a category of historical analysis.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Tomorrow! A special meeting of our reading group, please join us #Hungary #History #queerhistory #lgbtright #pride
📚 Special Reading Group: Hungarian LGBTQ+ History

In response to the recent ban on #Pride events by the Hungarian government, we're hosting a special session to explore queer activism and community in Hungary.
All welcome—come learn, reflect, and resist 💬🏳️‍🌈
#LGBTQrights #queerhistory #Hungary
April 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
📚 Special Reading Group: Hungarian LGBTQ+ History

In response to the recent ban on #Pride events by the Hungarian government, we're hosting a special session to explore queer activism and community in Hungary.
All welcome—come learn, reflect, and resist 💬🏳️‍🌈
#LGBTQrights #queerhistory #Hungary
April 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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And mark your diaries for 5 June, when I will be talking about the last century of Scottish queer and trans history at @natlibscot.bsky.social, in honour of Pride month and the NLS's centenary: www.nls.uk/whats-on/100...
100 years of Scottish queer history
An exploration of the last century of Scottish queer history, delivered by historian Dr Sam Rutherford, as part of our Pride Month celebrations.
www.nls.uk
April 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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This last week has been A Lot but the day job continues!

This Friday I am talking about my book in Glasgow, in conversation with the inimitable William Whyte: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sam-ruther...
April 23, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Join us for a screening and post watch discussion of Derek Jarman’s seminal and final film, ‘Blue’.

Monday 27th January, 5pm-7pm
St Johns College, 21 St Giles Seminar Room
#queerhistory #queermedia #lgbtqhistory #skystorians
January 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Check out our Hilary term program! It's a particularly exciting one, if we do say so ourselves, with a film screening, a roundtable on new approaches to Shakespeare and much more. Everyone is welcome 💗 🌟🏳️‍🌈
#queerhistory #oxford #lgbtqhistory #queerstudies #skystorians
January 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
SO excited for this!!
Interested in #LGBTQ #History ? Do you want to be part of an informal collective research effort?

Join us at a Hackathon on Fri 29 November to help locate historical resources for an online research guide.

libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/history/lgbt...
November 16, 2024 at 4:23 PM
We're excited to join Bluesky! Email us if you're interested in the reading for out next reading group at hflgbtq@history.ox.ac.uk
November 14, 2024 at 7:41 PM