Joe Jukes
@joejukes.bsky.social
Postdoc at Tampere University, Finland, researching queer histories of rurality and DIY / 'ITE' art
I'm a cultural geographer w/ special expertise in visual geographies and geographies of sexualities. Also write on affect, emotion and asexualities.
I'm a cultural geographer w/ special expertise in visual geographies and geographies of sexualities. Also write on affect, emotion and asexualities.
In Turku at Åbo Akademi today for Gender Studies Day. So many great discussions circulating around crip-queer-feminisms, and archival time-travelling with a keynote from Eliza Steinbock. Thanks to the organisers for bringing us together!
November 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
In Turku at Åbo Akademi today for Gender Studies Day. So many great discussions circulating around crip-queer-feminisms, and archival time-travelling with a keynote from Eliza Steinbock. Thanks to the organisers for bringing us together!
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Laurin Tirpitz and Ela Przybyło are organising a workshop "On Asexualities. Crossdisciplinary Perspectives" in Berlin. Registration is now open!
Register here: laurin.tirpitz.me/event/aceworkshop25
Register here: laurin.tirpitz.me/event/aceworkshop25
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Laurin Tirpitz and Ela Przybyło are organising a workshop "On Asexualities. Crossdisciplinary Perspectives" in Berlin. Registration is now open!
Register here: laurin.tirpitz.me/event/aceworkshop25
Register here: laurin.tirpitz.me/event/aceworkshop25
‘Similar Ground‘ exhibition of trans+ art in Helsinki 💙
November 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
‘Similar Ground‘ exhibition of trans+ art in Helsinki 💙
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Genuine pleasure to be an absolute unit once more! Curious to hear listeners’ opinions on the speculatory nature of this research, and how that might clash with archival neutrality.
Absolute Units is back!
We continue our conversation with @timjerrome.bsky.social (University of Brighton; formerly, The MERL) about his research into queer rural life.
Discover what Tim has found in our archives to date & the research challenges he's faced.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
We continue our conversation with @timjerrome.bsky.social (University of Brighton; formerly, The MERL) about his research into queer rural life.
Discover what Tim has found in our archives to date & the research challenges he's faced.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
October 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Genuine pleasure to be an absolute unit once more! Curious to hear listeners’ opinions on the speculatory nature of this research, and how that might clash with archival neutrality.
weekly finland: a rainbow installation
October 24, 2025 at 5:28 AM
weekly finland: a rainbow installation
Finally deleted by academia .edu account because of its suspect data usage policies! Would urge others to do the same.
My research is still collated on ResearchGate & Google Scholar. Perhaps we don't need 3rd-party platforms now our profiles are mostly on Pure?
www.researchgate.net/profile/Joe-...
My research is still collated on ResearchGate & Google Scholar. Perhaps we don't need 3rd-party platforms now our profiles are mostly on Pure?
www.researchgate.net/profile/Joe-...
October 24, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Finally deleted by academia .edu account because of its suspect data usage policies! Would urge others to do the same.
My research is still collated on ResearchGate & Google Scholar. Perhaps we don't need 3rd-party platforms now our profiles are mostly on Pure?
www.researchgate.net/profile/Joe-...
My research is still collated on ResearchGate & Google Scholar. Perhaps we don't need 3rd-party platforms now our profiles are mostly on Pure?
www.researchgate.net/profile/Joe-...
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Btw, you can read that article open access (for free) here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"Asexual geographies promise to both respond to the identitarian richness of ace, and other, lives, as well as attend to the space around, ground below, & possibilities beyond identity alone. Join us."
"Asexual geographies promise to both respond to the identitarian richness of ace, and other, lives, as well as attend to the space around, ground below, & possibilities beyond identity alone. Join us."
New directions for asexual geographies - Joe Jukes, Rachel Bayer, 2025
Thinking geographically involves empirically contextualizing and critically contesting the situatedness of relational life. Thinking asexually, meanwhile, means...
journals.sagepub.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Btw, you can read that article open access (for free) here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"Asexual geographies promise to both respond to the identitarian richness of ace, and other, lives, as well as attend to the space around, ground below, & possibilities beyond identity alone. Join us."
"Asexual geographies promise to both respond to the identitarian richness of ace, and other, lives, as well as attend to the space around, ground below, & possibilities beyond identity alone. Join us."
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We are thrilled to introduce the Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network this #AceWeek! The network is based at @clsrleeds.bsky.social in the UK and brings together researchers who are working on #asexuality and #aromanticism.
🔗Find out more at aroaceresearch.com
🔗Find out more at aroaceresearch.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
We are thrilled to introduce the Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network this #AceWeek! The network is based at @clsrleeds.bsky.social in the UK and brings together researchers who are working on #asexuality and #aromanticism.
🔗Find out more at aroaceresearch.com
🔗Find out more at aroaceresearch.com
I have the pleasure of being a member of this exciting research network! Check it out 👇
We are thrilled to introduce the Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network this #AceWeek! The network is based at @clsrleeds.bsky.social in the UK and brings together researchers who are working on #asexuality and #aromanticism.
🔗Find out more at aroaceresearch.com
🔗Find out more at aroaceresearch.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I have the pleasure of being a member of this exciting research network! Check it out 👇
now featuring real sun!
October 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
now featuring real sun!
wrapping up my first week in sunny Finland! 🌞
October 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
wrapping up my first week in sunny Finland! 🌞
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🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
October 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
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New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...
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It’s easy to respond to this consultation, and important to protect the inclusive culture of these beautiful spaces!
Sex Matters are trying to force the ponds to operate on a trans-exclusive basis, despite users of the ponds having voted against such an approach.
If you use, or would like to use, the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds, it is absolutely worth your time to respond to this consultation.
www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
October 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It’s easy to respond to this consultation, and important to protect the inclusive culture of these beautiful spaces!
Had a fun time co-facilitating this workshop for LGBTQ+ people from rural Somerset with my friend @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social ❤️
Grateful also to Flo Fitzgerald for extending the invitation, to Spike Island Bristol for the support, and to Hauser & Wirth Somerset for hosting!
Grateful also to Flo Fitzgerald for extending the invitation, to Spike Island Bristol for the support, and to Hauser & Wirth Somerset for hosting!
September 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Had a fun time co-facilitating this workshop for LGBTQ+ people from rural Somerset with my friend @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social ❤️
Grateful also to Flo Fitzgerald for extending the invitation, to Spike Island Bristol for the support, and to Hauser & Wirth Somerset for hosting!
Grateful also to Flo Fitzgerald for extending the invitation, to Spike Island Bristol for the support, and to Hauser & Wirth Somerset for hosting!
On a high after presenting with my friend and collaborator, Daniel, at the @esasexuality.bsky.social conference in Palermo!
We shared progress on our side project, which concerns the queer and bisexual geographies of cruising spaces in Bristol. What better way to kick off bisexual visibility week?!
We shared progress on our side project, which concerns the queer and bisexual geographies of cruising spaces in Bristol. What better way to kick off bisexual visibility week?!
September 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
On a high after presenting with my friend and collaborator, Daniel, at the @esasexuality.bsky.social conference in Palermo!
We shared progress on our side project, which concerns the queer and bisexual geographies of cruising spaces in Bristol. What better way to kick off bisexual visibility week?!
We shared progress on our side project, which concerns the queer and bisexual geographies of cruising spaces in Bristol. What better way to kick off bisexual visibility week?!
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Interested in queer and trans ecologies? Critical geographies of nature and the natural? I’m so pleased this graphic format article finally published and free to read (or better yet - download) at doi.org/10.1080/0966...
Not just gay penguins: on the importance of queer/trans ecologies for critical geography
Queer/trans Ecologies names a growing and trans-disciplinary body of thought that applies perspectives and sensibilities drawn from queer/trans experience and theory to thinking critically about na...
doi.org
September 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Interested in queer and trans ecologies? Critical geographies of nature and the natural? I’m so pleased this graphic format article finally published and free to read (or better yet - download) at doi.org/10.1080/0966...
In Sicily for the European Sociological Association‘s Gender and Sexuality group’s conference!
Daniel (R) and I will be presenting on bisexual spaces and queer futures tomorrow, where we will think the marks and ephemera in a Bristol cruising space. Colin (L) completes our mini Bristol delegation!
Daniel (R) and I will be presenting on bisexual spaces and queer futures tomorrow, where we will think the marks and ephemera in a Bristol cruising space. Colin (L) completes our mini Bristol delegation!
September 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
In Sicily for the European Sociological Association‘s Gender and Sexuality group’s conference!
Daniel (R) and I will be presenting on bisexual spaces and queer futures tomorrow, where we will think the marks and ephemera in a Bristol cruising space. Colin (L) completes our mini Bristol delegation!
Daniel (R) and I will be presenting on bisexual spaces and queer futures tomorrow, where we will think the marks and ephemera in a Bristol cruising space. Colin (L) completes our mini Bristol delegation!
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Last week saw the Royal Geographical Society's inaugural Asexual Geographies panel!
@rachelbayer.bsky.social & I were delighted to present alongside Wenmei and Zofia, following our previous article's invitation for scholars to #joinus in this new field of inquiry. Thanks to the 20+ attendees too!
@rachelbayer.bsky.social & I were delighted to present alongside Wenmei and Zofia, following our previous article's invitation for scholars to #joinus in this new field of inquiry. Thanks to the 20+ attendees too!
September 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Last week saw the Royal Geographical Society's inaugural Asexual Geographies panel!
@rachelbayer.bsky.social & I were delighted to present alongside Wenmei and Zofia, following our previous article's invitation for scholars to #joinus in this new field of inquiry. Thanks to the 20+ attendees too!
@rachelbayer.bsky.social & I were delighted to present alongside Wenmei and Zofia, following our previous article's invitation for scholars to #joinus in this new field of inquiry. Thanks to the 20+ attendees too!
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New open access article out in Gender, Place & Culture: Particularly vulnerable. Negotiating intersections within the ‘Berlin model’ of queer refugee support.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Particularly vulnerable. Negotiating intersections within the ‘Berlin model’ of queer refugee support
Since 2015, the ‘Berlin model for support of LGBTI refugees’ organises funding and support for those individuals coming to Berlin because they are fleeing persecution due to their sexuality and/or ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
New open access article out in Gender, Place & Culture: Particularly vulnerable. Negotiating intersections within the ‘Berlin model’ of queer refugee support.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Last week saw the Royal Geographical Society's inaugural Asexual Geographies panel!
@rachelbayer.bsky.social & I were delighted to present alongside Wenmei and Zofia, following our previous article's invitation for scholars to #joinus in this new field of inquiry. Thanks to the 20+ attendees too!
@rachelbayer.bsky.social & I were delighted to present alongside Wenmei and Zofia, following our previous article's invitation for scholars to #joinus in this new field of inquiry. Thanks to the 20+ attendees too!
September 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Last week saw the Royal Geographical Society's inaugural Asexual Geographies panel!
@rachelbayer.bsky.social & I were delighted to present alongside Wenmei and Zofia, following our previous article's invitation for scholars to #joinus in this new field of inquiry. Thanks to the 20+ attendees too!
@rachelbayer.bsky.social & I were delighted to present alongside Wenmei and Zofia, following our previous article's invitation for scholars to #joinus in this new field of inquiry. Thanks to the 20+ attendees too!
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Today I presented at the #RGSIBG25 conference in the very first panel on asexual geographies! Such an honour to share my work alongside brilliant (and lovely!) colleagues and contribute to making space for asexuality within geography. Really excited to see what’s coming next!!! #asexualgeographies
August 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Today I presented at the #RGSIBG25 conference in the very first panel on asexual geographies! Such an honour to share my work alongside brilliant (and lovely!) colleagues and contribute to making space for asexuality within geography. Really excited to see what’s coming next!!! #asexualgeographies
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This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
www.quaker.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
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I was really excited to attend the Asexual Geographies panel at the @rgsibg.bsky.social earlier today organised by @rachelbayer.bsky.social and @joejukes.bsky.social 👏 Truly wonderful to hear from four researchers about their work on asexuality, even though I'm not a geographer! Lots to reflect on!
August 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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