Celestine S. Kunkeler
@celestinekunkeler.bsky.social
Academic, historian, degenerate
I research the radical right, fascists, and reactionary nonsense about sexual and gendered deviance.
Independent scholar (fancy term for unemployed)
I research the radical right, fascists, and reactionary nonsense about sexual and gendered deviance.
Independent scholar (fancy term for unemployed)
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
The latest Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies is out, and it's a doozy: a special issue on "Dynamics of Transphobic Content and Disinformation".
With topics including Youtube, Mumsnet, LGB Alliance, Chinese TERFs, and transvestigators, this is an vital read! bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
With topics including Youtube, Mumsnet, LGB Alliance, Chinese TERFs, and transvestigators, this is an vital read! bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The latest Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies is out, and it's a doozy: a special issue on "Dynamics of Transphobic Content and Disinformation".
With topics including Youtube, Mumsnet, LGB Alliance, Chinese TERFs, and transvestigators, this is an vital read! bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
With topics including Youtube, Mumsnet, LGB Alliance, Chinese TERFs, and transvestigators, this is an vital read! bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
'Racist and transphobic tropes thereby fulfil distinctive, but also complementary functions: both operate via projected scenarios of biological contamination and criminal transgression.'
'Racism, transphobia and the mainstreaming of far-right politics in Britain'
New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Maddy Clark and @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
Read the blog post ⬇️
identitiesjournal.co...
#farright #racism @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Maddy Clark and @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
Read the blog post ⬇️
identitiesjournal.co...
#farright #racism @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
'Racist and transphobic tropes thereby fulfil distinctive, but also complementary functions: both operate via projected scenarios of biological contamination and criminal transgression.'
Oslo medical researchers recently judged to have unlawfully done research on trans patients, turn out to have been denied access to patient records without consent on ethical grounds three times for a previous research project.
Vi har avdekket at forskerne fikk avslag på fritak fra taushetsplikten og fra å innhente samtykke til forskning fra pasientene - tre ganger.
De gjennomførte forskningsprosjektet likevel.
De gjennomførte forskningsprosjektet likevel.
Forskere felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner
– nå er de klaget inn igjen
Forskerne som er felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner, har også tidligere villet forske på den samme gruppen.
www.forskning.no
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Oslo medical researchers recently judged to have unlawfully done research on trans patients, turn out to have been denied access to patient records without consent on ethical grounds three times for a previous research project.
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
Who's Funding the War on Trans Inclusion?
“The stated goal of strategic litigation is rarely to win every case. It’s to make the target behaviour—in this case, implementing trans-inclusive policies—expensive, risky, and exhausting”
“The stated goal of strategic litigation is rarely to win every case. It’s to make the target behaviour—in this case, implementing trans-inclusive policies—expensive, risky, and exhausting”
Who's Funding the War on Trans Inclusion?
A 40-fold surge in cases and the litigation infrastructure behind it
ajustsociety.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Who's Funding the War on Trans Inclusion?
“The stated goal of strategic litigation is rarely to win every case. It’s to make the target behaviour—in this case, implementing trans-inclusive policies—expensive, risky, and exhausting”
“The stated goal of strategic litigation is rarely to win every case. It’s to make the target behaviour—in this case, implementing trans-inclusive policies—expensive, risky, and exhausting”
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall.
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
Astro-TERFs - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
In the backlash against trans rights in the UK since the late 2010s,
the LGB Alliance has been implicated as a leading exponent of the new
moral panic, typified by its newspaper campaign against GRA r...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall.
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
Visible, yet vulnerable: What journalists can learn from how we covered the attack on trans rights in Trump’s first 100 days.
One big takeaway: Based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote trans people.
bit.ly/TJA_visible
One big takeaway: Based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote trans people.
bit.ly/TJA_visible
How journalists covered the attack on trans rights in Trump's first 100 days
Trans perspectives were rarely present in articles about the consequences federal actions would have on their lives, according to an analysis conducted by Berkeley Media Studies Group in partnership w...
bit.ly
November 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Visible, yet vulnerable: What journalists can learn from how we covered the attack on trans rights in Trump’s first 100 days.
One big takeaway: Based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote trans people.
bit.ly/TJA_visible
One big takeaway: Based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote trans people.
bit.ly/TJA_visible
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
It's new article day! So excited that this piece with @luccousineau.bsky.social and @iamryanhopkins.bsky.social is out in the world. In it we work through our experiences studying the far-right & propose some ways universities can better support students.
journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SS...
journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SS...
Scholar and Student Wellness while Confronting Violence and Ignorance: Can we Trust our Institutions when we are Targeted?
| Studies in Social Justice
journals.library.brocku.ca
October 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
It's new article day! So excited that this piece with @luccousineau.bsky.social and @iamryanhopkins.bsky.social is out in the world. In it we work through our experiences studying the far-right & propose some ways universities can better support students.
journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SS...
journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SS...
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
New article!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
am terrible at being on mat leave but ok at writing about tradwives
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
am terrible at being on mat leave but ok at writing about tradwives
Pearl Nationalism: Tradwives and the Chronotopes of Femininity | Signs and Society | Cambridge Core
Pearl Nationalism: Tradwives and the Chronotopes of Femininity
www.cambridge.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
New article!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
am terrible at being on mat leave but ok at writing about tradwives
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
am terrible at being on mat leave but ok at writing about tradwives
Funny that trans people would be affronted by willy nilly being excluded from social activities overnight.
TLC AND FRIENDS DISRUPT CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE
Here's our statement:
Today we disrupted the University IVs Regatta races, preventing most of the boats from competing. By putting out an inflatable boat into the water for the duration of the racing afternoon, we left rowers unable to race.
Here's our statement:
Today we disrupted the University IVs Regatta races, preventing most of the boats from competing. By putting out an inflatable boat into the water for the duration of the racing afternoon, we left rowers unable to race.
October 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Funny that trans people would be affronted by willy nilly being excluded from social activities overnight.
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
Did you know that the first international antifascist news bulletin was called "Chronik des Faschismus", published in Berlin - below the cover from the very first issue, August 1923. For the full background story, see: www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...
October 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Did you know that the first international antifascist news bulletin was called "Chronik des Faschismus", published in Berlin - below the cover from the very first issue, August 1923. For the full background story, see: www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
We are hearing some very troubling stories about trans exclusion, supported by the University, at Cambridge. We are making contact with affected societies and individuals and will fiercely protect the legal rights of trans students to live with respect and dignity.
October 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
We are hearing some very troubling stories about trans exclusion, supported by the University, at Cambridge. We are making contact with affected societies and individuals and will fiercely protect the legal rights of trans students to live with respect and dignity.
And this has now also come to college rowing, as the Boat clubs have now had the exact same experience, and yesterday voted to exclude trans people from participation.
This is an excellent piece of student journalism that clearly spells out how troublingly ignorant the University of Cambridge seems to be of some basic facts concerning the legal status of the EHRC's now-withdrawn Interim Code of Practice!
October 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
And this has now also come to college rowing, as the Boat clubs have now had the exact same experience, and yesterday voted to exclude trans people from participation.
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
New paper on how far-right and adjacent actors on Swedish YouTube channels disseminate transphobia under the guise of child protection – blending moral concern, pseudo-science, and conspiratorial narratives to stigmatise and spread fear of transgender people.
lnkd.in/dfF4SGjm
lnkd.in/dfF4SGjm
October 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
New paper on how far-right and adjacent actors on Swedish YouTube channels disseminate transphobia under the guise of child protection – blending moral concern, pseudo-science, and conspiratorial narratives to stigmatise and spread fear of transgender people.
lnkd.in/dfF4SGjm
lnkd.in/dfF4SGjm
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
This text started out as a country presentation at the @antigenderpolitics.bsky.social kick-off meeting. So excited it found a home as an EPJG gender update!
🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨
In this ✨FREE ACCESS✨ paper, Maja Gergorić & @tvuckovicjuros.bsky.social explain the strategic adaptability of anti-gender movements with evidence from Croatia 🇭🇷
doi.org/10.1332/2515...
In this ✨FREE ACCESS✨ paper, Maja Gergorić & @tvuckovicjuros.bsky.social explain the strategic adaptability of anti-gender movements with evidence from Croatia 🇭🇷
doi.org/10.1332/2515...
October 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This text started out as a country presentation at the @antigenderpolitics.bsky.social kick-off meeting. So excited it found a home as an EPJG gender update!
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
Link here to my contribution to a symposium on Lynn Tesser’s book,
Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics (Stanford, 2024):
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DNE8Z...
Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics (Stanford, 2024):
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DNE8Z...
Imperialism as the Midwife of Nationalism
Published in Ethnopolitics: Formerly Global Review of Ethnopolitics (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Link here to my contribution to a symposium on Lynn Tesser’s book,
Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics (Stanford, 2024):
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DNE8Z...
Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics (Stanford, 2024):
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DNE8Z...
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books
bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...
bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...
October 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books
bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...
bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
Laurie Marhoefer delves into the impacts of the queer press and censorship in Weimar Germany, revealing that print media is historically key to self-discovery and finding community
Read free in @jwomenshistory.bsky.social at @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/3ycehye4
#BannedBooksWeek #AcademicSky
Read free in @jwomenshistory.bsky.social at @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/3ycehye4
#BannedBooksWeek #AcademicSky
October 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Laurie Marhoefer delves into the impacts of the queer press and censorship in Weimar Germany, revealing that print media is historically key to self-discovery and finding community
Read free in @jwomenshistory.bsky.social at @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/3ycehye4
#BannedBooksWeek #AcademicSky
Read free in @jwomenshistory.bsky.social at @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/3ycehye4
#BannedBooksWeek #AcademicSky
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
October 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Deadline: 6 February 2026
More details:
@sslh.bsky.social
sslh.org.uk/2025/10/13/c...
sslh.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk
#GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100
Deadline: 6 February 2026
More details:
@sslh.bsky.social
sslh.org.uk/2025/10/13/c...
sslh.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk
#GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100
CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research
To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike and miners’ lock-out, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG) is organising a conference that revisits the…
sslh.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Deadline: 6 February 2026
More details:
@sslh.bsky.social
sslh.org.uk/2025/10/13/c...
sslh.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk
#GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100
Deadline: 6 February 2026
More details:
@sslh.bsky.social
sslh.org.uk/2025/10/13/c...
sslh.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk
#GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.
bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.
bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.
Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.
bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.
bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
Staten og Legeforeningen bør be om unnskyldning for overgrepene begått mot transpersoner. Folk som ble tvunget til kastrering for å skifte juridisk kjønn, må få oppreisning. I boka «Standardizing Sex» viser jeg at staten vel vitende ofret folks reproduktive helse for å beskytte en binær kjønnsnorm.
October 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Staten og Legeforeningen bør be om unnskyldning for overgrepene begått mot transpersoner. Folk som ble tvunget til kastrering for å skifte juridisk kjønn, må få oppreisning. I boka «Standardizing Sex» viser jeg at staten vel vitende ofret folks reproduktive helse for å beskytte en binær kjønnsnorm.
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
“boys have pee pee, girls have bagina,” intoned the leading media of the husk of a fallen empire as its population fell into poverty, its once-leading universities lost their relevance and reputations, and its industries lost all competitiveness
there are no words sufficient for the british press
October 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“boys have pee pee, girls have bagina,” intoned the leading media of the husk of a fallen empire as its population fell into poverty, its once-leading universities lost their relevance and reputations, and its industries lost all competitiveness
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.
Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals
This is a HUGE breach.
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals
This is a HUGE breach.
Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.
Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.
Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.
October 8, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.
University Hospital in Oslo found to have illicitly used trans patients' records for research purposes without consent, entirely in keeping with its abysmal reputation and appalling treatment of its patient cohorts.
Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.
Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.
Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.
Oslo universitetssykehus felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner
Forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus har forsket på transpersoner uten godkjenning. Nå er de felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.
www.forskning.no
October 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
University Hospital in Oslo found to have illicitly used trans patients' records for research purposes without consent, entirely in keeping with its abysmal reputation and appalling treatment of its patient cohorts.
Reposted by Celestine S. Kunkeler
If you're in Barcelona, come see this round table on Monday 13th October!
October 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
If you're in Barcelona, come see this round table on Monday 13th October!