Erdem Avşar
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erdemavsar.bsky.social
Erdem Avşar
@erdemavsar.bsky.social
doctor of usefully useless things | utopias and crises, queer performance and politics, sociology of culture and media

teaches at @uofgsociology.bsky.social
affiliate artist & researcher @uofgunescorila.bsky.social
writer, translator
looking forward to this conversation next week with wonderful friends + colleagues for the Voices of Change roundtable at #ATHE2025. we’ll read from new work + talk all things playwriting, identity, and cultural resistance. come join us! july 30, 1:30-3PM MET
@uofgsociology.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
You and me both, Libcat. You and me both.
May 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
love how Toscano talks about plurality/pluralism:
May 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
sunday trip to summerlee.

'It is to be hoped that the decisive victory now gained – for the Summerlee Company have now agreed to force all employees to join the union. Cling together, lads.'

www.marxists.org/archive/macl...
January 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
if there is one radically transformative space in academia, it’s the classroom. it’s also the most moving one. today, a lovely student with a new Polaroid camera took two photos—one, to my surprise, was for me. and they left this ‘happy’ note on the back. love how it reads like a Buddy Holly song.
November 25, 2024 at 9:12 PM
It's Tenementals Friday! @tenementals.bsky.social Can't wait to grab my copy @lnfg.bsky.social

And if you have any doubts about how much of a fan I am - I even have the badge, thanks very much.

shop.lastnightfromglasgow.com/collections/...
November 22, 2024 at 12:06 PM