Alex Stoffel
@stoffelalex.bsky.social
Lecturer at QMUL • editor at Historical Materialism • author of Eros and Empire (SUP, 2025)
https://www.alexanderstoffel.com
https://www.alexanderstoffel.com
It's the most wonderful time of the year! (annual HM conference in under a month)
Register here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/product/twen...
Register here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/product/twen...
October 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
It's the most wonderful time of the year! (annual HM conference in under a month)
Register here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/product/twen...
Register here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/product/twen...
I'm one of the speakers at The Site's annual conference later this month. The full program is here: www.the-site.org.uk/events/hope-...
Hope/Less – Exploring Psychoanalytic Uses of Utopia | The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
www.the-site.org.uk
October 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I'm one of the speakers at The Site's annual conference later this month. The full program is here: www.the-site.org.uk/events/hope-...
If you're in the US or Canada, you can get 50% off 'Eros and Empire' until September 8!
www.sup.org/books/politi...
www.sup.org/books/politi...
Eros and Empire | Stanford University Press
The history of queer politics in the United States since 1968 is commonly narrated as either a progressive campaign for state recognition or as a subcultural rejection of prevailing gender norms. But ...
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August 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
If you're in the US or Canada, you can get 50% off 'Eros and Empire' until September 8!
www.sup.org/books/politi...
www.sup.org/books/politi...
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Alex Stoffel (@stoffelalex.bsky.social) traces how liberal narratives that once instrumentalised LGBTQ+ rights as markers of modernity have given way to a resurgent right-wing politics, where sexuality becomes a site of fear, control and civilisational anxiety. revsoc21.uk/2025/08/14/e...
End of the rainbow: sex, empire, and the new right
rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century
revsoc21.uk
August 21, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Alex Stoffel (@stoffelalex.bsky.social) traces how liberal narratives that once instrumentalised LGBTQ+ rights as markers of modernity have given way to a resurgent right-wing politics, where sexuality becomes a site of fear, control and civilisational anxiety. revsoc21.uk/2025/08/14/e...
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THIS COMING SATURDAY, 26 July: London Trans Pride.
We’re meeting at 1pm in front of All Souls Langham Place.
LTP has been going since 2018, and has only grow in urgency under the current attack on trans lives. Join us in celebration & protest! 🏳️⚧️
All info: londontranspride.org
We’re meeting at 1pm in front of All Souls Langham Place.
LTP has been going since 2018, and has only grow in urgency under the current attack on trans lives. Join us in celebration & protest! 🏳️⚧️
All info: londontranspride.org
July 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
THIS COMING SATURDAY, 26 July: London Trans Pride.
We’re meeting at 1pm in front of All Souls Langham Place.
LTP has been going since 2018, and has only grow in urgency under the current attack on trans lives. Join us in celebration & protest! 🏳️⚧️
All info: londontranspride.org
We’re meeting at 1pm in front of All Souls Langham Place.
LTP has been going since 2018, and has only grow in urgency under the current attack on trans lives. Join us in celebration & protest! 🏳️⚧️
All info: londontranspride.org
Thanks to everyone who came along to the @pinko.online event yesterday! You can pick up a copy of After Accountability @housmansbookshop.bsky.social if you haven’t got one yet.
June 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Thanks to everyone who came along to the @pinko.online event yesterday! You can pick up a copy of After Accountability @housmansbookshop.bsky.social if you haven’t got one yet.
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6 pm tonight in London at Pelican House, join us and @stoffelalex.bsky.social for a reading and discussion of AFTER ACCOUNTABILITY www.pinko.online/pinko-in-lon...
June 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
6 pm tonight in London at Pelican House, join us and @stoffelalex.bsky.social for a reading and discussion of AFTER ACCOUNTABILITY www.pinko.online/pinko-in-lon...
Max @maxfox.bsky.social and I are doing a reading and discussion of @pinko.online's After Accountability this evening in London.
6pm at Pelican House!
www.pinko.online/pinko-in-lon...
6pm at Pelican House!
www.pinko.online/pinko-in-lon...
June 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Max @maxfox.bsky.social and I are doing a reading and discussion of @pinko.online's After Accountability this evening in London.
6pm at Pelican House!
www.pinko.online/pinko-in-lon...
6pm at Pelican House!
www.pinko.online/pinko-in-lon...
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On Tuesday 27 May, between 17:00–18:30 (BST) join Historical Materialism editor Alexander Stoffel (@stoffelalex.bsky.social) and Juliana Gleeson discussing 'Queer, Trans, and Intersex Liberation History'. The event will be broadcast online, further details from the link below.
Queer, Trans, and Intersex Liberation History
Join us for a discussion of 'Hermaphrodite Logic' and 'Eros and Empire' with authors Juliana Gleeson and Alexander Stoffel.
www.eventbrite.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
On Tuesday 27 May, between 17:00–18:30 (BST) join Historical Materialism editor Alexander Stoffel (@stoffelalex.bsky.social) and Juliana Gleeson discussing 'Queer, Trans, and Intersex Liberation History'. The event will be broadcast online, further details from the link below.
I got to speak to @acidhorizon.bsky.social about my book. We talk marxism, desire, queerness, palestine, RFK, you name it.
You can listen here:
www.patreon.com/posts/eros-a...
youtu.be/weYN5J8GcEw
You can listen here:
www.patreon.com/posts/eros-a...
youtu.be/weYN5J8GcEw
Eros and Empire: A Marxist Theory of Desire, Queer Liberation, and the Limits of the Nation with Alexander Stoffel | Acid Horizon
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May 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I got to speak to @acidhorizon.bsky.social about my book. We talk marxism, desire, queerness, palestine, RFK, you name it.
You can listen here:
www.patreon.com/posts/eros-a...
youtu.be/weYN5J8GcEw
You can listen here:
www.patreon.com/posts/eros-a...
youtu.be/weYN5J8GcEw
Juliana Gleeson and I will be speaking about our books on sexual liberation histories later this month.
The event will be live-streamed on YouTube, 27 May, 5pm BST.
Registration link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1342159758...
The event will be live-streamed on YouTube, 27 May, 5pm BST.
Registration link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1342159758...
Queer, Trans, and Intersex Liberation History
Join us for a discussion of 'Hermaphrodite Logic' and 'Eros and Empire' with authors Juliana Gleeson and Alexander Stoffel.
www.eventbrite.com
May 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Juliana Gleeson and I will be speaking about our books on sexual liberation histories later this month.
The event will be live-streamed on YouTube, 27 May, 5pm BST.
Registration link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1342159758...
The event will be live-streamed on YouTube, 27 May, 5pm BST.
Registration link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1342159758...
I got to join Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for an interview about Eros and Empire last week:
newbooksnetwork.com/eros-and-emp...
newbooksnetwork.com/eros-and-emp...
Alexander Stoffel, "Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States" (Stanford UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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April 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I got to join Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for an interview about Eros and Empire last week:
newbooksnetwork.com/eros-and-emp...
newbooksnetwork.com/eros-and-emp...
grateful for this very clear review of the book's argument and stakes
Review of Eros and Empire by @stoffelalex.bsky.social. The new book looks back at radical struggles which combine fighting for queer liberation with opposing imperialism revsoc21.uk/2025/04/30/r...
Review | Eros and Empire
rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century
revsoc21.uk
April 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
grateful for this very clear review of the book's argument and stakes
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Now announced... CfP: Twenty-Second Annual Historical Materialism London Conference, 'Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order'.
This year taking place 6-9 November 2025 at SOAS University, London
This year taking place 6-9 November 2025 at SOAS University, London
Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism
Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025
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April 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Now announced... CfP: Twenty-Second Annual Historical Materialism London Conference, 'Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order'.
This year taking place 6-9 November 2025 at SOAS University, London
This year taking place 6-9 November 2025 at SOAS University, London
I wrote up some provisional reflections on the changing character of US empire for @histmat.bsky.social
www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/empi...
www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/empi...
Empire Unmasked: Struggles for Gender and Sexual Freedom in an Era of US Imperial Crisis - Historical Materialism
US power has organised the expanded reproduction of global capitalism over the past 70 years and continues to do so. Much ink is currently being spilled over its decline. Commentators are debating whe...
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March 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I wrote up some provisional reflections on the changing character of US empire for @histmat.bsky.social
www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/empi...
www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/empi...
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Come join me and @stoffelalex.bsky.social for a conversation with @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social about his important new book, Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx, hosted by the Gender, Sexuality and Feminism Stream @histmat.bsky.social. Register here www.eventbrite.com/e/subsumptio...
March 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Come join me and @stoffelalex.bsky.social for a conversation with @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social about his important new book, Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx, hosted by the Gender, Sexuality and Feminism Stream @histmat.bsky.social. Register here www.eventbrite.com/e/subsumptio...
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Congratulations on your new book Eros and Empire, @stoffelalex.bsky.social! 👏👏Extra excited to read it after such a great launch @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social
Check out the book at www.sup.org/books/politi...
Check out the book at www.sup.org/books/politi...
March 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Congratulations on your new book Eros and Empire, @stoffelalex.bsky.social! 👏👏Extra excited to read it after such a great launch @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social
Check out the book at www.sup.org/books/politi...
Check out the book at www.sup.org/books/politi...
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Here's a beautiful edit of one of our actions at ISA! #EndScholasticide #EndGenocide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
March 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Here's a beautiful edit of one of our actions at ISA! #EndScholasticide #EndGenocide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
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I thought I’d start putting together a list for people working within queer and trans Marxism.
Please let me know if that’s you, so I can add you!
go.bsky.app/6sdaeHP
Please let me know if that’s you, so I can add you!
go.bsky.app/6sdaeHP
January 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I thought I’d start putting together a list for people working within queer and trans Marxism.
Please let me know if that’s you, so I can add you!
go.bsky.app/6sdaeHP
Please let me know if that’s you, so I can add you!
go.bsky.app/6sdaeHP
NYC friends and comrades -- I'll be in town next month for two events.
1. 'Provincializing Cisness' on Friday, 7 March, 5-7pm at NYU
Ida Birkvad and I will be facilitating a panel discussion with Durba Mitra, Emma Heaney, @asliz.bsky.social, and Howard Chiang
csgsnyu.org/event/provin...
1. 'Provincializing Cisness' on Friday, 7 March, 5-7pm at NYU
Ida Birkvad and I will be facilitating a panel discussion with Durba Mitra, Emma Heaney, @asliz.bsky.social, and Howard Chiang
csgsnyu.org/event/provin...
Provincializing Cisness: Transnational Scholars on the Diversity of Sex/Gender Systems – CSGS
csgsnyu.org
February 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
NYC friends and comrades -- I'll be in town next month for two events.
1. 'Provincializing Cisness' on Friday, 7 March, 5-7pm at NYU
Ida Birkvad and I will be facilitating a panel discussion with Durba Mitra, Emma Heaney, @asliz.bsky.social, and Howard Chiang
csgsnyu.org/event/provin...
1. 'Provincializing Cisness' on Friday, 7 March, 5-7pm at NYU
Ida Birkvad and I will be facilitating a panel discussion with Durba Mitra, Emma Heaney, @asliz.bsky.social, and Howard Chiang
csgsnyu.org/event/provin...
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In Eros and Empire, Alexander Stoffel analyzes three prominent US-based social movements—gay liberationism, Black lesbian feminism, and AIDS activism—to argue that they were fundamentally shaped by their transnational entanglements. #ReadUP #ReadSUP
www.sup.org/books/politi...
www.sup.org/books/politi...
February 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
In Eros and Empire, Alexander Stoffel analyzes three prominent US-based social movements—gay liberationism, Black lesbian feminism, and AIDS activism—to argue that they were fundamentally shaped by their transnational entanglements. #ReadUP #ReadSUP
www.sup.org/books/politi...
www.sup.org/books/politi...
Eros and Empire is out today! Yikes!
20% discount code
- for US and Canada: STOFFEL20
- for international orders: FFF24
www.sup.org/books/politi...
20% discount code
- for US and Canada: STOFFEL20
- for international orders: FFF24
www.sup.org/books/politi...
February 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Eros and Empire is out today! Yikes!
20% discount code
- for US and Canada: STOFFEL20
- for international orders: FFF24
www.sup.org/books/politi...
20% discount code
- for US and Canada: STOFFEL20
- for international orders: FFF24
www.sup.org/books/politi...
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Come join our gathering in Paris in 1-3 July!
February 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Come join our gathering in Paris in 1-3 July!
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🍉On 13th February, the ISA Council will be voting on a motion against #scholasticide & for #BDS. ISA members: please urge your section & caucus chairs to vote in favour of the motion🍉 #BDSatISA
February 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🍉On 13th February, the ISA Council will be voting on a motion against #scholasticide & for #BDS. ISA members: please urge your section & caucus chairs to vote in favour of the motion🍉 #BDSatISA