Ana-Cristina Santos 🏳️🌈 (she/her)
@anacristinasantos.bsky.social
Sociologist. Focus: queer ageing.
Senior Researcher in LGBTQI+ Studies @ces-uc.bsky.social Centre for Social Studies (CES)
2× @ERC_Research winner🏆
Executive Committee @ESA_Sociology
Co-Director of Feminist Studies PhD @ucoimbra 🇵🇹
Senior Researcher in LGBTQI+ Studies @ces-uc.bsky.social Centre for Social Studies (CES)
2× @ERC_Research winner🏆
Executive Committee @ESA_Sociology
Co-Director of Feminist Studies PhD @ucoimbra 🇵🇹
Amazing week spent at the University of Macerata as an invited keynote speaker for the #SOCIN2025 conference with #ERUA. So much food for truly interdisciplinary thought. And listening to @inekesluiter.bsky.social keynote... what a treat!
September 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Amazing week spent at the University of Macerata as an invited keynote speaker for the #SOCIN2025 conference with #ERUA. So much food for truly interdisciplinary thought. And listening to @inekesluiter.bsky.social keynote... what a treat!
Once upon a time, the beginning of the world. 🥹
National Park Timanfaya, Land of Fire, Island of the 1000 🌋🌋🌋
#timanfaya #lanzarote
National Park Timanfaya, Land of Fire, Island of the 1000 🌋🌋🌋
#timanfaya #lanzarote
August 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Once upon a time, the beginning of the world. 🥹
National Park Timanfaya, Land of Fire, Island of the 1000 🌋🌋🌋
#timanfaya #lanzarote
National Park Timanfaya, Land of Fire, Island of the 1000 🌋🌋🌋
#timanfaya #lanzarote
Take your rosaries from my ovaries (again)
Protect LGBTQI youth (again & again)
Please join the Public Consultation this week before it's too late for Portuguese schools. The input from the international community is precious. Here:
dge.mec.pt/noticias/con...
#StopTERFs #notinmyname
#sexeducation
Protect LGBTQI youth (again & again)
Please join the Public Consultation this week before it's too late for Portuguese schools. The input from the international community is precious. Here:
dge.mec.pt/noticias/con...
#StopTERFs #notinmyname
#sexeducation
July 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Take your rosaries from my ovaries (again)
Protect LGBTQI youth (again & again)
Please join the Public Consultation this week before it's too late for Portuguese schools. The input from the international community is precious. Here:
dge.mec.pt/noticias/con...
#StopTERFs #notinmyname
#sexeducation
Protect LGBTQI youth (again & again)
Please join the Public Consultation this week before it's too late for Portuguese schools. The input from the international community is precious. Here:
dge.mec.pt/noticias/con...
#StopTERFs #notinmyname
#sexeducation
⚠️Attention prospective PhD students - last Call for Applications!
🇬🇧PhD programmes taught in English (check which before applying)
🫣Deadline: 15th July
📚Join us in a vibrant community of engaged scholars at the @ces-uc.bsky.social , Univ of Coimbra, Portugal
+Info: www.ces.uc.pt/en/doutorame...
🇬🇧PhD programmes taught in English (check which before applying)
🫣Deadline: 15th July
📚Join us in a vibrant community of engaged scholars at the @ces-uc.bsky.social , Univ of Coimbra, Portugal
+Info: www.ces.uc.pt/en/doutorame...
July 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
⚠️Attention prospective PhD students - last Call for Applications!
🇬🇧PhD programmes taught in English (check which before applying)
🫣Deadline: 15th July
📚Join us in a vibrant community of engaged scholars at the @ces-uc.bsky.social , Univ of Coimbra, Portugal
+Info: www.ces.uc.pt/en/doutorame...
🇬🇧PhD programmes taught in English (check which before applying)
🫣Deadline: 15th July
📚Join us in a vibrant community of engaged scholars at the @ces-uc.bsky.social , Univ of Coimbra, Portugal
+Info: www.ces.uc.pt/en/doutorame...
Tools to think critically about how we live and what we aim for. The #RainbowMap 2025 is out 🌈
With #ILGA-Europe, discover how 49 European countries are performing when it comes to LGBTI human rights.
🔗 rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/
With #ILGA-Europe, discover how 49 European countries are performing when it comes to LGBTI human rights.
🔗 rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/
May 14, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Tools to think critically about how we live and what we aim for. The #RainbowMap 2025 is out 🌈
With #ILGA-Europe, discover how 49 European countries are performing when it comes to LGBTI human rights.
🔗 rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/
With #ILGA-Europe, discover how 49 European countries are performing when it comes to LGBTI human rights.
🔗 rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/
Trump asks? We answer.
Academic freedom is non-negotiable.
We'll respond to Trump's anti-DEI obsession w/ more & more research on each of the forbidden words, more & more books to fill the shelves emptied by force, more & more transfeminist & queer PhD programmes.
🏳️⚧️✊🏽🏳️🌈⚧️♀️
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
Academic freedom is non-negotiable.
We'll respond to Trump's anti-DEI obsession w/ more & more research on each of the forbidden words, more & more books to fill the shelves emptied by force, more & more transfeminist & queer PhD programmes.
🏳️⚧️✊🏽🏳️🌈⚧️♀️
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Trump asks? We answer.
Academic freedom is non-negotiable.
We'll respond to Trump's anti-DEI obsession w/ more & more research on each of the forbidden words, more & more books to fill the shelves emptied by force, more & more transfeminist & queer PhD programmes.
🏳️⚧️✊🏽🏳️🌈⚧️♀️
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
Academic freedom is non-negotiable.
We'll respond to Trump's anti-DEI obsession w/ more & more research on each of the forbidden words, more & more books to fill the shelves emptied by force, more & more transfeminist & queer PhD programmes.
🏳️⚧️✊🏽🏳️🌈⚧️♀️
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
Resistance is only possible if we come 2gether, because attacks on freedom are tentacular. #IWD is transfeminist & more. Just read the list of forbidden words released by the ElonTrump Admin. Not all politicians are the same. Fight against populism, join the Left, bring another friend w/ u. Now. ✊🏽⚧️♀️
March 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Resistance is only possible if we come 2gether, because attacks on freedom are tentacular. #IWD is transfeminist & more. Just read the list of forbidden words released by the ElonTrump Admin. Not all politicians are the same. Fight against populism, join the Left, bring another friend w/ u. Now. ✊🏽⚧️♀️
I've just heard about the sudden death of one of the greatest. Without #MichaelBurawoy, we wouldn't have the public and engaged sociology I believe in. This is a hard blow at a time when his courage, intelligence and irreverence, all of which absolutely brilliant, will be sorely missed. RIPower ✊🏽💔
February 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I've just heard about the sudden death of one of the greatest. Without #MichaelBurawoy, we wouldn't have the public and engaged sociology I believe in. This is a hard blow at a time when his courage, intelligence and irreverence, all of which absolutely brilliant, will be sorely missed. RIPower ✊🏽💔
"The Hill We Climb". Remembering precious words by Amanda Norman, at Joe Biden's, 2021.
And more:
Stay focused, stay strong, stay together. This too shall pass.
✊🏽🏳️⚧️♀️⚧️🏳️🌈
And more:
Stay focused, stay strong, stay together. This too shall pass.
✊🏽🏳️⚧️♀️⚧️🏳️🌈
January 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"The Hill We Climb". Remembering precious words by Amanda Norman, at Joe Biden's, 2021.
And more:
Stay focused, stay strong, stay together. This too shall pass.
✊🏽🏳️⚧️♀️⚧️🏳️🌈
And more:
Stay focused, stay strong, stay together. This too shall pass.
✊🏽🏳️⚧️♀️⚧️🏳️🌈
📢 Reminder: The call for submissions to the ESA PhD Summer School in Sicily is open until January 31!
*Funded positions for all selected students!*
A precious opportunity to connect, learn & grow. Apply/ Encourage your students to apply now! #ESASummerSchool #PhDLife #SociologistsDoItBetter
*Funded positions for all selected students!*
A precious opportunity to connect, learn & grow. Apply/ Encourage your students to apply now! #ESASummerSchool #PhDLife #SociologistsDoItBetter
January 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
📢 Reminder: The call for submissions to the ESA PhD Summer School in Sicily is open until January 31!
*Funded positions for all selected students!*
A precious opportunity to connect, learn & grow. Apply/ Encourage your students to apply now! #ESASummerSchool #PhDLife #SociologistsDoItBetter
*Funded positions for all selected students!*
A precious opportunity to connect, learn & grow. Apply/ Encourage your students to apply now! #ESASummerSchool #PhDLife #SociologistsDoItBetter
🎂78th b-day of David Bowie⚡
💝15th anniversary of same-sex marriage in Portugal🌈
Remember. Celebrate. Honour.
💝15th anniversary of same-sex marriage in Portugal🌈
Remember. Celebrate. Honour.
January 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
🎂78th b-day of David Bowie⚡
💝15th anniversary of same-sex marriage in Portugal🌈
Remember. Celebrate. Honour.
💝15th anniversary of same-sex marriage in Portugal🌈
Remember. Celebrate. Honour.
May we find strength to reject offers, postpone deadlines & refuse yet another endless, pointless meeting. May we rejoice in doing nothing. May we get more reading & napping time on our sofa, and remain enchanted with poems, kindness and new places. May we love and be loved.
Happy New Year, folks! 🥂
Happy New Year, folks! 🥂
December 31, 2024 at 12:23 PM
May we find strength to reject offers, postpone deadlines & refuse yet another endless, pointless meeting. May we rejoice in doing nothing. May we get more reading & napping time on our sofa, and remain enchanted with poems, kindness and new places. May we love and be loved.
Happy New Year, folks! 🥂
Happy New Year, folks! 🥂
20 years after Susan Sontag's death and the amazement just keeps piling up.
One of my most important references. And the living proof that your life is actually just a tiny part of your legacy. Note to self (& others): write, write, write.
📚
#SusanSontag
One of my most important references. And the living proof that your life is actually just a tiny part of your legacy. Note to self (& others): write, write, write.
📚
#SusanSontag
December 29, 2024 at 5:29 PM
20 years after Susan Sontag's death and the amazement just keeps piling up.
One of my most important references. And the living proof that your life is actually just a tiny part of your legacy. Note to self (& others): write, write, write.
📚
#SusanSontag
One of my most important references. And the living proof that your life is actually just a tiny part of your legacy. Note to self (& others): write, write, write.
📚
#SusanSontag
Just passing by to wish you a joyful and peaceful time. Remember: your life matters, so does your life story. It shall not be forgotten.
🏳️⚧️❄️🏳️🌈
#trace_ces #LGBTQIageing
#oldisgold
🏳️⚧️❄️🏳️🌈
#trace_ces #LGBTQIageing
#oldisgold
December 25, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Just passing by to wish you a joyful and peaceful time. Remember: your life matters, so does your life story. It shall not be forgotten.
🏳️⚧️❄️🏳️🌈
#trace_ces #LGBTQIageing
#oldisgold
🏳️⚧️❄️🏳️🌈
#trace_ces #LGBTQIageing
#oldisgold
One of the most astonishingly beautiful and breathtaking sports: big waves surfing. 🌊
I am certain there's a paper to be written about queer affect and surviving the roughest of seas.
Hope & pride is what you get as you return home, shaken but not broken.
#100footwave
#Nazare
#lastbigswell2024
I am certain there's a paper to be written about queer affect and surviving the roughest of seas.
Hope & pride is what you get as you return home, shaken but not broken.
#100footwave
#Nazare
#lastbigswell2024
December 23, 2024 at 8:24 PM
One of the most astonishingly beautiful and breathtaking sports: big waves surfing. 🌊
I am certain there's a paper to be written about queer affect and surviving the roughest of seas.
Hope & pride is what you get as you return home, shaken but not broken.
#100footwave
#Nazare
#lastbigswell2024
I am certain there's a paper to be written about queer affect and surviving the roughest of seas.
Hope & pride is what you get as you return home, shaken but not broken.
#100footwave
#Nazare
#lastbigswell2024
🌈🎄 End-of-Year News! New publication, free download!🎅📚
"Guide for Health Professionals and Carers - Ageing as LGBTQ+ in Portugal"
This guide provides precious insights into experiences of LGBTQ+ people 60+.
👉 In English: tinyurl.com/ympepp37
In Portuguese: tinyurl.com/3wdtk699
#lgbtqiageing
"Guide for Health Professionals and Carers - Ageing as LGBTQ+ in Portugal"
This guide provides precious insights into experiences of LGBTQ+ people 60+.
👉 In English: tinyurl.com/ympepp37
In Portuguese: tinyurl.com/3wdtk699
#lgbtqiageing
December 19, 2024 at 8:32 AM
🌈🎄 End-of-Year News! New publication, free download!🎅📚
"Guide for Health Professionals and Carers - Ageing as LGBTQ+ in Portugal"
This guide provides precious insights into experiences of LGBTQ+ people 60+.
👉 In English: tinyurl.com/ympepp37
In Portuguese: tinyurl.com/3wdtk699
#lgbtqiageing
"Guide for Health Professionals and Carers - Ageing as LGBTQ+ in Portugal"
This guide provides precious insights into experiences of LGBTQ+ people 60+.
👉 In English: tinyurl.com/ympepp37
In Portuguese: tinyurl.com/3wdtk699
#lgbtqiageing
December 14, 2024 at 5:55 PM
December 8, 2024 at 2:52 PM
1964: Eight men, among them Nelson Mandela, with their fists raised in defiance through the barred windows of the prison car, leave the Palace of Justice in Pretoria, just after having been sentenced to life imprisonment. ✊🏽
December 6, 2024 at 8:51 AM
1964: Eight men, among them Nelson Mandela, with their fists raised in defiance through the barred windows of the prison car, leave the Palace of Justice in Pretoria, just after having been sentenced to life imprisonment. ✊🏽
And I think to myself... (If only we could keep it a wonderful world)
🍁💛🍁
🍁💛🍁
December 3, 2024 at 7:53 AM
And I think to myself... (If only we could keep it a wonderful world)
🍁💛🍁
🍁💛🍁
And it's a wrap!
Another successful Human Rights PhD Retreat comes to an end. So inspired to hear what our great students of CES-UC are up to next!
💙💪🏽
Another successful Human Rights PhD Retreat comes to an end. So inspired to hear what our great students of CES-UC are up to next!
💙💪🏽
November 29, 2024 at 10:04 PM
And it's a wrap!
Another successful Human Rights PhD Retreat comes to an end. So inspired to hear what our great students of CES-UC are up to next!
💙💪🏽
Another successful Human Rights PhD Retreat comes to an end. So inspired to hear what our great students of CES-UC are up to next!
💙💪🏽
On my way to the PhD Human Rights Retreat at this amazing, magic place: Curia Thermal Baths. 🍁
Looking forward to discussing with our CES students their insightful thesis projects and ongoing fieldwork. 📚
#CentroDeEstudosSociais #ces
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
#HotelTermasDaCuria
Looking forward to discussing with our CES students their insightful thesis projects and ongoing fieldwork. 📚
#CentroDeEstudosSociais #ces
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
#HotelTermasDaCuria
November 29, 2024 at 9:37 AM
On my way to the PhD Human Rights Retreat at this amazing, magic place: Curia Thermal Baths. 🍁
Looking forward to discussing with our CES students their insightful thesis projects and ongoing fieldwork. 📚
#CentroDeEstudosSociais #ces
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
#HotelTermasDaCuria
Looking forward to discussing with our CES students their insightful thesis projects and ongoing fieldwork. 📚
#CentroDeEstudosSociais #ces
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
#HotelTermasDaCuria
Freddie Mercury 🖤
33 years ago the world got smaller.
RIPower 💪🏽
5 Sept 1946 - 24 Nov 1991
#FreddieMercury #Queen
33 years ago the world got smaller.
RIPower 💪🏽
5 Sept 1946 - 24 Nov 1991
#FreddieMercury #Queen
November 24, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Freddie Mercury 🖤
33 years ago the world got smaller.
RIPower 💪🏽
5 Sept 1946 - 24 Nov 1991
#FreddieMercury #Queen
33 years ago the world got smaller.
RIPower 💪🏽
5 Sept 1946 - 24 Nov 1991
#FreddieMercury #Queen