We are so thankful to our other collaborators on this project (@bradyjay.bsky.social @brenchurchill.bsky.social and Lucas LaRochelle), doubly to Lucas for creating the platform, to our generous participants, and to everyone who continues to grow, make and sustain Queering the Map 💜

This project has been so radical for me, full of joy and critical possibility. I love the world that queer theory and practice opens up. Queeringthemap.com is a unique gift

Five years ago today I got my mitts on my debut novel, Into the Sea, a work of sociological fiction published by Brill. I have (finally) really found my love of writing again and am happily working on my second after many many fits and starts

🌱 Feminist zine-making in research and education: call for chapter EOIs for a new edited collection ✨

There are so many amazing folks thinking creatively, critically and differently about zines today - if this is you, please consider being part of our new collection! shorturl.at/OtaYf

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Do you use any AI platforms for support, conversation, life questions or companionship?

Looking for participants to take part in an anonymous online interview about their experiences with #AI

This morning we started on the Glasgow special edition of So Fi Zine - watch this space for new sociological fiction, poetry and visual art! One of many wonderful things to come from my time visiting UoG sociology dept, including 3.5 solid weeks of sun 🌞✨✂️📎📚 sofizine.com @academicdiary.bsky.social

highly recommend a tour of Chetham’s Library for folks still in Manchester. It’s the oldest surviving public library in Britain, in continuous use for over 350 years, where Marx and Engels met, read and worked together in 1845. You can read (copies of) the books they read in situ! #britsoc25

Had a great time at #britsoc25 - many fab papers on futures, subjectivity and/in space, creative methods +++

I lowkey love going to a conference and not presenting. so much more brain space for ideas

@sazpaps.bsky.social @sociodigfutures.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social
@socrevdev.bsky.social

Very cute welcome to the BSA! #britsoc25

The Sociological Review Foundation’s magazine is now a quarterly and the debut issue features two brilliant sociological fiction stories - read a teaser in the picture and find the full pieces plus the whole issue via: thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/mar... @sociologicalreview.bsky.social

My new article examines what crisis events like wildfires do to technology innovation - specifically, what kinds of AI affordances are being prioritised now and how these shape narratives about why we need this tech.

It is open access so free to read! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Vibes-based methods

Something new from me: people are (still) using ‘vibes’ to talk about generative ambiguities and this says something interesting about social life and social research. Here I look across conceptual trends to consider why vibes are the vibe

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🌱💥🚀 So Fi Zine ~ edition 16 ~ new out now! 📚🎈💭

So Fi Zine is a place for sociological fiction, poetry and visual art and for creative social inquiry of all kinds. Thanks to all the contributors for making this latest edition so fab ☺️

Read the latest and the archive at sofizine.com #sofizine

Glad to have this gorgeous monograph from The Sociological Review arrive! It features some amazing articles on memory, photography, poetry, theatre, wine, art, prophets and more

Grab an irl copy or find it online via thesociologicalreview.org/journal

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I am spending all week writing about zines so have indulged in some fitting physical procrastination - finally setting up a mini zine library in my office 🤓✂️📚

now on to the final stages of making edition 16 of So Fi Zine! Coming soon at sofizine.com #sofizine

Our paper on queeringthemap.com is up this morning - I’ll be talking exes, sex, yearning, ambiguity, space and subjectivity. The whole program is live at Digital Intimacies X digintx2024.tumblr.com @emmawatsonkirby.bsky.social @brenchurchill.bsky.social @bradyjay.bsky.social qtmstoryproject.com

So many great papers at Digital Intimacies X this week! Yesterday I especially loved Shivangi Garg’s work on queer people in urban India which used the metaphor of a butterfly, and @claresoutherton.bsky.social and Naomi Smith’s work on Kate Middleton conspiracy theories 🙌 #digintX

Loving the literary vibe of #TASA2024 📚 💙 thanks to folks at our 9am (!) panel for the great discussions on writing, representation, ethics, imagination, creativity in classrooms and ChatGPT

Dispatches from #tasa2024 📚 The Australian Sociological Association conference taking place this week on Whadjuk Nyungar land - gorgeous, green, hot, kicked off by brilliant Claire G. Coleman with a Keynote on speculative fiction for our sociopolitical times, full of books to (re)read (and avoid 😆)