Thomas Jeram-West (they/them)
@thefivetonine.bsky.social
An infrequent - and probably incoherent - miscellany. PhD candidate at UCA: sociology of dress and non-binary genders. Also lectures on sex and sexuality, and runs The Five to Nine Studio: a queer, peripatetic and generalist creative studio. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇵🇸
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My PhD research questionnaire is now live!
forms.gle/HEPBswqzswGi...
Looking for those who:
1. identify as #nonbinary in the broadest sense
2. live or have lived in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)
3. aged 15+ (adult consent required to participate)
Open until 23/09/2025.
More info below! 👇
forms.gle/HEPBswqzswGi...
Looking for those who:
1. identify as #nonbinary in the broadest sense
2. live or have lived in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)
3. aged 15+ (adult consent required to participate)
Open until 23/09/2025.
More info below! 👇
Research Questionnaire: Non-binary Finery
You are being asked to take part in a questionnaire as part of the following doctoral research project at University for the Creative Arts (UCA): Non-binary Finery: Dress, adornment, and the embodimen...
forms.gle
My PhD primary research questionnaires and interviews have been reopened until 23/01/2026 - after more UK non-binary participants:
- from global majority backgrounds
- from working class backgrounds
- aged 15, 16 and 17
Let's talk about how you use clothes, accessories etc. as a non-binary person!
- from global majority backgrounds
- from working class backgrounds
- aged 15, 16 and 17
Let's talk about how you use clothes, accessories etc. as a non-binary person!
Picking a film at our house...
Him: Let's watch this one.
Me: Why?
Him: We liked the trailer.
Me: Never watched it.
Him: It's got her in it.
Me: Who's her?
Him: The blonde one.
Me: Which blonde one?
Him: She has teeth.
We watch the film. Never remember seeing a trailer. Don't ever recognise 'her'.
Him: Let's watch this one.
Me: Why?
Him: We liked the trailer.
Me: Never watched it.
Him: It's got her in it.
Me: Who's her?
Him: The blonde one.
Me: Which blonde one?
Him: She has teeth.
We watch the film. Never remember seeing a trailer. Don't ever recognise 'her'.
February 8, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Picking a film at our house...
Him: Let's watch this one.
Me: Why?
Him: We liked the trailer.
Me: Never watched it.
Him: It's got her in it.
Me: Who's her?
Him: The blonde one.
Me: Which blonde one?
Him: She has teeth.
We watch the film. Never remember seeing a trailer. Don't ever recognise 'her'.
Him: Let's watch this one.
Me: Why?
Him: We liked the trailer.
Me: Never watched it.
Him: It's got her in it.
Me: Who's her?
Him: The blonde one.
Me: Which blonde one?
Him: She has teeth.
We watch the film. Never remember seeing a trailer. Don't ever recognise 'her'.
Completely by chance, I came across Neuroqueer Heresies by Nick Walker, and appear to have answered my own question. I'm really quite excited to make the time to read this next week. Trying to find a way of engaging with my PhD thesis that respects how my brain processes and produces information.
February 7, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Completely by chance, I came across Neuroqueer Heresies by Nick Walker, and appear to have answered my own question. I'm really quite excited to make the time to read this next week. Trying to find a way of engaging with my PhD thesis that respects how my brain processes and produces information.
Almost a 100% hit rate on students citing Gender Trouble in their essays. Imagine if Butler got royalties that way. Makes me laugh that, one year, I'll get about 15 near-identical definitions of performativity, and the next, every single student off-roads and gives me a brand new interpretation...
February 7, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Almost a 100% hit rate on students citing Gender Trouble in their essays. Imagine if Butler got royalties that way. Makes me laugh that, one year, I'll get about 15 near-identical definitions of performativity, and the next, every single student off-roads and gives me a brand new interpretation...
Hey, academic Bluesky! Am I hallucinating, or had someone out there written about 'working neurodivergence into research methodologies'? Something along those lines? Something kind-of-but-not-quite using the experience of having ADHD or ASD, for example, to almost 'queer' doing your research? No?
January 29, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Hey, academic Bluesky! Am I hallucinating, or had someone out there written about 'working neurodivergence into research methodologies'? Something along those lines? Something kind-of-but-not-quite using the experience of having ADHD or ASD, for example, to almost 'queer' doing your research? No?
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Nearly 10,000 online and open access collections of material related to radical, labour and anti-colonial history from around the world now available.
Browse the full list here:
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
Browse the full list here:
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
radical online collections and archives
I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…
hatfulofhistory.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Nearly 10,000 online and open access collections of material related to radical, labour and anti-colonial history from around the world now available.
Browse the full list here:
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
Browse the full list here:
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
Bookshop Lady (grumbling): 'You don't look very wet.'
Me: 'Oh, I run between the drops.'
Her: ...
Me: ...
Her: >:(
Me: :D
Me: 'Oh, I run between the drops.'
Her: ...
Me: ...
Her: >:(
Me: :D
January 21, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Bookshop Lady (grumbling): 'You don't look very wet.'
Me: 'Oh, I run between the drops.'
Her: ...
Me: ...
Her: >:(
Me: :D
Me: 'Oh, I run between the drops.'
Her: ...
Me: ...
Her: >:(
Me: :D
Run, don't walk, to get copies for your local and university libraries, and your bookshelves at home!
Out now! Queer Crafts: Material Practices and the Making of Identity available via the Bloomsbury website and all good bookstores! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-cra...
January 10, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Run, don't walk, to get copies for your local and university libraries, and your bookshelves at home!
There is something so unsettling to me about Valentine's Day stuff and hot cross buns on the shelves by 9 Jan, only summer clothes in some shops, and TV ads for 'savings schemes' for Christmas 2026. There must be something somewhere written about capitalism and the collapse of the cultural calendar.
January 9, 2026 at 6:34 PM
There is something so unsettling to me about Valentine's Day stuff and hot cross buns on the shelves by 9 Jan, only summer clothes in some shops, and TV ads for 'savings schemes' for Christmas 2026. There must be something somewhere written about capitalism and the collapse of the cultural calendar.
Shocked, but not surprised, by the way in which the US invasion of Venezuela is being spoken about on BBC news. Language in the 10:30 Radio 6 bulletin arguably legitimised actions taken, the authority the US claims over Maduro and their allegations against him. Bizarre and horrific in equal measure.
January 4, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Shocked, but not surprised, by the way in which the US invasion of Venezuela is being spoken about on BBC news. Language in the 10:30 Radio 6 bulletin arguably legitimised actions taken, the authority the US claims over Maduro and their allegations against him. Bizarre and horrific in equal measure.
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Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops
December 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops
Stop whatever you're doing and go and download yourself a copy of this: Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity! It's open access! It's right there!
For those who don't already know of the ridiculous lengths trans people have to go to, after waiting years, to 'prove' we're who we say we are and access healthcare, here's my experience & take on life under trans medical gatekeeping.
Ch.10. Open Access.
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Ch.10. Open Access.
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New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity
This open access book features a diverse collective of arts and humanities researchers, educators and creative practitioners, sharing their thoughts and experie…
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December 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Stop whatever you're doing and go and download yourself a copy of this: Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity! It's open access! It's right there!
Another important and timely thread about student and lecturer experiences. It's been getting harder both to learn and teach for a long time.
I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Another important and timely thread about student and lecturer experiences. It's been getting harder both to learn and teach for a long time.
Just seen this thanks to @kariebookish.bsky.social. I've been involved in HE as student/staff for most of the past 20 years and the rise in student disengagement - and its spiking over the past couple of years in particular - has been an absolutely heartbreaking experience. This thread hits me hard.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Just seen this thanks to @kariebookish.bsky.social. I've been involved in HE as student/staff for most of the past 20 years and the rise in student disengagement - and its spiking over the past couple of years in particular - has been an absolutely heartbreaking experience. This thread hits me hard.
My PhD primary research questionnaires and interviews have been reopened until 23/01/2026 - after more UK non-binary participants:
- from global majority backgrounds
- from working class backgrounds
- aged 15, 16 and 17
Let's talk about how you use clothes, accessories etc. as a non-binary person!
- from global majority backgrounds
- from working class backgrounds
- aged 15, 16 and 17
Let's talk about how you use clothes, accessories etc. as a non-binary person!
My PhD research questionnaire is now live!
forms.gle/HEPBswqzswGi...
Looking for those who:
1. identify as #nonbinary in the broadest sense
2. live or have lived in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)
3. aged 15+ (adult consent required to participate)
Open until 23/09/2025.
More info below! 👇
forms.gle/HEPBswqzswGi...
Looking for those who:
1. identify as #nonbinary in the broadest sense
2. live or have lived in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)
3. aged 15+ (adult consent required to participate)
Open until 23/09/2025.
More info below! 👇
Research Questionnaire: Non-binary Finery
You are being asked to take part in a questionnaire as part of the following doctoral research project at University for the Creative Arts (UCA): Non-binary Finery: Dress, adornment, and the embodimen...
forms.gle
November 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My PhD primary research questionnaires and interviews have been reopened until 23/01/2026 - after more UK non-binary participants:
- from global majority backgrounds
- from working class backgrounds
- aged 15, 16 and 17
Let's talk about how you use clothes, accessories etc. as a non-binary person!
- from global majority backgrounds
- from working class backgrounds
- aged 15, 16 and 17
Let's talk about how you use clothes, accessories etc. as a non-binary person!
We've just been to see Predator: Badlands. It's as though someone handed the franchise over to the Star Trek: Lower Decks writers, who then wrote the whole script the furthest off their tits on shrooms that any human could ever be whilst nudging each other in the ribs and going, 'omg what if'.
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
We've just been to see Predator: Badlands. It's as though someone handed the franchise over to the Star Trek: Lower Decks writers, who then wrote the whole script the furthest off their tits on shrooms that any human could ever be whilst nudging each other in the ribs and going, 'omg what if'.
Both @lizziereed.bsky.social and @robinskyer.bsky.social are pretty great - and so is their article!
Failure hurts. How can the concept of bipolar time help us understand it?
@lizziereed.bsky.social @robinskyer.bsky.social reflect on an unsuccessful research project, relentless demands for productivity, and the importance of radical acceptance.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/zb4uVL6
@lizziereed.bsky.social @robinskyer.bsky.social reflect on an unsuccessful research project, relentless demands for productivity, and the importance of radical acceptance.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/zb4uVL6
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Both @lizziereed.bsky.social and @robinskyer.bsky.social are pretty great - and so is their article!
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This is a great article by Alex Adamson for Philosophy and Global Affairs that bridges trans studies, intersex studies, and decolonial feminism.
#AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #TransStudies #IntersexStudies #DecolonialStudies #PhilSky #GenderSky #Wynter #Lugones #TransSky
doi.org/10.5840%2Fpg...
#AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #TransStudies #IntersexStudies #DecolonialStudies #PhilSky #GenderSky #Wynter #Lugones #TransSky
doi.org/10.5840%2Fpg...
October 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This is a great article by Alex Adamson for Philosophy and Global Affairs that bridges trans studies, intersex studies, and decolonial feminism.
#AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #TransStudies #IntersexStudies #DecolonialStudies #PhilSky #GenderSky #Wynter #Lugones #TransSky
doi.org/10.5840%2Fpg...
#AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #TransStudies #IntersexStudies #DecolonialStudies #PhilSky #GenderSky #Wynter #Lugones #TransSky
doi.org/10.5840%2Fpg...
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Researchers from the University of Birmingham are recruiting transgender or non-binary individuals who were born into a Sikh family. To explore intersecting domains of gender and religion.
Please email them for further information on navigatingidentities@contacts.bham.ac.uk
#TransResearch
Please email them for further information on navigatingidentities@contacts.bham.ac.uk
#TransResearch
October 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Researchers from the University of Birmingham are recruiting transgender or non-binary individuals who were born into a Sikh family. To explore intersecting domains of gender and religion.
Please email them for further information on navigatingidentities@contacts.bham.ac.uk
#TransResearch
Please email them for further information on navigatingidentities@contacts.bham.ac.uk
#TransResearch
And another one for the big birthday book list! This looks like an incredibly exciting addition to everyone's queer bookshelf.
Very excited to see our new book: A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland Since 1945 (with FAB co-editors Matt Cook, Rebecca Jennings, and E-J Scott) now available for pre-order.
www.waterstones.com/book/a-queer...
www.waterstones.com/book/a-queer...
A Queer Scrapbook by Justin Bengry, Matt Cook | Waterstones
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October 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
And another one for the big birthday book list! This looks like an incredibly exciting addition to everyone's queer bookshelf.
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The winter term is about to start, and with it our lecture series on "Global Politics, Gender, and (In-)Equality". The lectures will take place on selected Thursdays via Zoom.
The series unpacks the complex entanglements of global politics, gender, and (in-)equality in contemporary societies. [1]
The series unpacks the complex entanglements of global politics, gender, and (in-)equality in contemporary societies. [1]
October 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The winter term is about to start, and with it our lecture series on "Global Politics, Gender, and (In-)Equality". The lectures will take place on selected Thursdays via Zoom.
The series unpacks the complex entanglements of global politics, gender, and (in-)equality in contemporary societies. [1]
The series unpacks the complex entanglements of global politics, gender, and (in-)equality in contemporary societies. [1]
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☎️ Call For Papers ☎️
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
October 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
☎️ Call For Papers ☎️
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
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20th Nov 2025 at 2.00 pm (Paris time), I'll be giving a talk on queer & decolonial thinking & how it is evolving in our times. It's co-badged by Université Paris Cité & CLAGS, CUNY. Everyone is welcome.
Image courtesy: Mario Patiño
Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...
Image courtesy: Mario Patiño
Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...
October 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
20th Nov 2025 at 2.00 pm (Paris time), I'll be giving a talk on queer & decolonial thinking & how it is evolving in our times. It's co-badged by Université Paris Cité & CLAGS, CUNY. Everyone is welcome.
Image courtesy: Mario Patiño
Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...
Image courtesy: Mario Patiño
Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...
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The EHRC Code will devastate trans people's lives. This is an emergency.
Here are three ways to fight back.
Take action now:
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code
Here are three ways to fight back.
Take action now:
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code
September 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The EHRC Code will devastate trans people's lives. This is an emergency.
Here are three ways to fight back.
Take action now:
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code
Here are three ways to fight back.
Take action now:
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code
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🚨 New police powers could ban face coverings at Pride protests even if you need to protect your identity because:
🔴 Risk of domestic abuse
🔴 You're not out as queer/Trans+
🔴 Fear of political views being made public
Health and disability reasons also won't prevent you getting arrested 🧵Here's why
🔴 Risk of domestic abuse
🔴 You're not out as queer/Trans+
🔴 Fear of political views being made public
Health and disability reasons also won't prevent you getting arrested 🧵Here's why
September 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🚨 New police powers could ban face coverings at Pride protests even if you need to protect your identity because:
🔴 Risk of domestic abuse
🔴 You're not out as queer/Trans+
🔴 Fear of political views being made public
Health and disability reasons also won't prevent you getting arrested 🧵Here's why
🔴 Risk of domestic abuse
🔴 You're not out as queer/Trans+
🔴 Fear of political views being made public
Health and disability reasons also won't prevent you getting arrested 🧵Here's why
I know I should be neither shocked nor surprised at how the BBC news bulletins are being used to very clearly stir up anti-immigrant and anti-trans hate, but FUCKING HELL. The last two days' worth on Radio 6 have really felt like getting punched in the guts every hour. It's abhorrent.
August 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I know I should be neither shocked nor surprised at how the BBC news bulletins are being used to very clearly stir up anti-immigrant and anti-trans hate, but FUCKING HELL. The last two days' worth on Radio 6 have really felt like getting punched in the guts every hour. It's abhorrent.