Jen Evans
@jennifervevans.bsky.social
historian | digital curator | Humboldtian | professor | FRSC | currently writing Full Frontal: A New History of the Sexual Revolution for Stanford Univ Press/Redwood Press
latest book: Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism (Duke UP, 2023)
latest book: Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism (Duke UP, 2023)
The first of two policy briefs on Alberta's Bill-9 from our Populist Publics research project. Based on the amicus curiae US vs. Skrmetti Supreme Court Case, September 2024.
About to upload to our research site and to the Carleton University library.
www.carleton.ca/populistpublics/resources
About to upload to our research site and to the Carleton University library.
www.carleton.ca/populistpublics/resources
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The first of two policy briefs on Alberta's Bill-9 from our Populist Publics research project. Based on the amicus curiae US vs. Skrmetti Supreme Court Case, September 2024.
About to upload to our research site and to the Carleton University library.
www.carleton.ca/populistpublics/resources
About to upload to our research site and to the Carleton University library.
www.carleton.ca/populistpublics/resources
I've had the privilege of helping two freelance journalists in Berlin on a project that historicizes the queer and transphobia we are seeing in our world today. In last week's @taz.de, I offer some words on the right wing thought patterns edging their way into the liberal centre.
archive.is/nWH8W
archive.is/nWH8W
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I've had the privilege of helping two freelance journalists in Berlin on a project that historicizes the queer and transphobia we are seeing in our world today. In last week's @taz.de, I offer some words on the right wing thought patterns edging their way into the liberal centre.
archive.is/nWH8W
archive.is/nWH8W
I hadn’t even seen this yet!
Noch ein absolutes Highlight aus der Suhrkamp Vorschau, deutsche ausgabe von @jennifervevans.bsky.social "Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism" 😍
November 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I hadn’t even seen this yet!
More ways in which one can use the Royal Society imprimatur to do vital work: volunteering with At-Risk and Displaced Academics and Artists (AARDA). This year, we welcomed Bantayehu Shiferaw Chanie into the College of New Scholars.
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rsc-src.ca/en/fellows-m...
November 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
More ways in which one can use the Royal Society imprimatur to do vital work: volunteering with At-Risk and Displaced Academics and Artists (AARDA). This year, we welcomed Bantayehu Shiferaw Chanie into the College of New Scholars.
rsc-src.ca/en/fellows-m...
rsc-src.ca/en/fellows-m...
Let's talk about the fascinating project by Marianne Wex "Lets Take Back Our Streets" from 1979 in which she photographed men and women in the street as a commentary on gender and space.
davidcampany.com/marianne-wex...
davidcampany.com/marianne-wex...
Marianne Wex: Let’s Take Back Our Space | David Campany
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November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Let's talk about the fascinating project by Marianne Wex "Lets Take Back Our Streets" from 1979 in which she photographed men and women in the street as a commentary on gender and space.
davidcampany.com/marianne-wex...
davidcampany.com/marianne-wex...
I'm so fortunate to be traveling to NYC in January for an event and able to take in this phenomenal retrospective at the @brooklynmuseum.org
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/a...
Seydou Keïta and the Forging of West African Identity
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I'm so fortunate to be traveling to NYC in January for an event and able to take in this phenomenal retrospective at the @brooklynmuseum.org
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/a...
This event was tremendously interesting. A mix of art meets Aufklärungsarbeit with cherished colleagues @danielsiemens.bsky.social and Thomas Weber among others bringing their research to bear on the danger of the AfD for Germany.
@politicalbeauty.bsky.social
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@politicalbeauty.bsky.social
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Der Rat der Geschichte
YouTube video by Zentrum für Politische Schönheit
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November 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This event was tremendously interesting. A mix of art meets Aufklärungsarbeit with cherished colleagues @danielsiemens.bsky.social and Thomas Weber among others bringing their research to bear on the danger of the AfD for Germany.
@politicalbeauty.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
@politicalbeauty.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Great new photo book based on the extraordinary collection of queer counterculture photography from 1970s NYC - the Bobby Busnach archive.
www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...
www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...
Uncovering a Glamorous Archive of Queer Portraits From 1970s New York
A new book presents Bobby Busnach’s photographs of high glamour and queer counterculture, intricately staged in a crumbling Upper West Side apartment
www.anothermag.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Great new photo book based on the extraordinary collection of queer counterculture photography from 1970s NYC - the Bobby Busnach archive.
www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...
www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...
Exciting new exhibition on Diane Arbus's photography of people's intimate spaces.
www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...
www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...
Diane Arbus’s Intimate Portraits of People in Their Own Homes
A new exhibition at David Zwirner in London features Diane Arbus’s richly psychological and often glamorous portraits of people in their homes
www.anothermag.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Exciting new exhibition on Diane Arbus's photography of people's intimate spaces.
www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...
www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...
The Azazello Collection - from the hippie counter culturalist in the Soviet Union - documents drop out culture behind the Iron Curtain. Azazello's images and sketchings are amazing.
azazello-archive.com/en/photos
azazello-archive.com/en/photos
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The Azazello Collection - from the hippie counter culturalist in the Soviet Union - documents drop out culture behind the Iron Curtain. Azazello's images and sketchings are amazing.
azazello-archive.com/en/photos
azazello-archive.com/en/photos
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if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
Friends in NYC, consider coming to this event in 2026. Suzanne Keen (Scripps College), Irene Kacandes (Dartmouth) and I will discuss how to make sense of the intensity of emotions in these times and what we can learn from the arts to help strengthen our democracies.
www.1014.nyc/events/empathy
www.1014.nyc/events/empathy
Too Much Emotion or Not Enough? Empathy and the Public Sphere
What can history teach us about how specific actors cultivate emotions in citizens?
www.1014.nyc
November 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Friends in NYC, consider coming to this event in 2026. Suzanne Keen (Scripps College), Irene Kacandes (Dartmouth) and I will discuss how to make sense of the intensity of emotions in these times and what we can learn from the arts to help strengthen our democracies.
www.1014.nyc/events/empathy
www.1014.nyc/events/empathy
Really great podcast featuring Birkbeck media scholar Rob Topinka on how we might be inadvertently platforming far-right talking points even when we think we are doing the work of opposition.
"How the Far Right are Changing How We Speak"
archive.ph/qlEqn
"How the Far Right are Changing How We Speak"
archive.ph/qlEqn
November 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Really great podcast featuring Birkbeck media scholar Rob Topinka on how we might be inadvertently platforming far-right talking points even when we think we are doing the work of opposition.
"How the Far Right are Changing How We Speak"
archive.ph/qlEqn
"How the Far Right are Changing How We Speak"
archive.ph/qlEqn
What I loved most about working with folks in extremism prevention and anti-hate initiatives on the ground was they weren't *at all* interested in calling anyone out.
Instead, it was like "what are we going to do to make life liveable for at risk people?" and "lets find ways to do this together."
Instead, it was like "what are we going to do to make life liveable for at risk people?" and "lets find ways to do this together."
November 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
What I loved most about working with folks in extremism prevention and anti-hate initiatives on the ground was they weren't *at all* interested in calling anyone out.
Instead, it was like "what are we going to do to make life liveable for at risk people?" and "lets find ways to do this together."
Instead, it was like "what are we going to do to make life liveable for at risk people?" and "lets find ways to do this together."
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I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.
Welcome to Decoherence Media, an independent nonprofit founded by @jennefer.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee that investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
Welcome to Decoherence Media!
We're an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
decoherence.media
October 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.
We’ve seen this tactic before. And we need to oppose it.
Sie will zum CSD keine Regenbogenflagge hissen und vergleicht die taz mit Nius – aber warnt vor Polarisierung. Ist das Widerspruch oder Strategie?
Bundestagspräsidentin Julia Klöckner: Wen sie zur Ordnung ruft
Sie will zum CSD keine Regenbogenflagge hissen und vergleicht die taz mit Nius – aber warnt vor Polarisierung. Ist das Widerspruch oder Strategie?
taz.de
November 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We’ve seen this tactic before. And we need to oppose it.
November 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Thrilled with the evening event. @milleridriss.bsky.social was brilliant, we had 200+
folks, and there were tons of good, difficult questions about misogyny and hate and the far right extremist pipeline.
folks, and there were tons of good, difficult questions about misogyny and hate and the far right extremist pipeline.
October 31, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Thrilled with the evening event. @milleridriss.bsky.social was brilliant, we had 200+
folks, and there were tons of good, difficult questions about misogyny and hate and the far right extremist pipeline.
folks, and there were tons of good, difficult questions about misogyny and hate and the far right extremist pipeline.
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New article for @prospectmagazine.co.uk with my colleagues David Feldman (@dmf101.bsky.social) and Ben Gidley (@bengidley.bsky.social) in which we critically examine mainstream political responses to the attack on the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester earlier this month.
The difficult truth about antisemitism
Why don’t we acknowledge that there are different ways of measuring the prevalence of anti-Jewish prejudice?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
New article for @prospectmagazine.co.uk with my colleagues David Feldman (@dmf101.bsky.social) and Ben Gidley (@bengidley.bsky.social) in which we critically examine mainstream political responses to the attack on the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester earlier this month.
In addition to the established scholars and @carleton.ca students coming to our workshop next week, I invited two young queer freelance journalists working on queer scandals as forms of mis and disinformation. Part of Media Literacy Week @mediasmarts.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
In addition to the established scholars and @carleton.ca students coming to our workshop next week, I invited two young queer freelance journalists working on queer scandals as forms of mis and disinformation. Part of Media Literacy Week @mediasmarts.bsky.social
Looking forward to welcoming colleagues to Ottawa next week for our international workshop on conspiracy theories as a threat to democracy. Part of Media Literacy Week @mediasmarts.bsky.social
www.carleton.ca/populistpublics/events
www.carleton.ca/populistpublics/events
Events - Populist Publics
Hate, Conspiracy Theories, and the Challenge to Democracy (Closed Workshop) Dates: October 28-30, 2025 Through the generous support of a SSHRC Connection
www.carleton.ca
October 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Looking forward to welcoming colleagues to Ottawa next week for our international workshop on conspiracy theories as a threat to democracy. Part of Media Literacy Week @mediasmarts.bsky.social
www.carleton.ca/populistpublics/events
www.carleton.ca/populistpublics/events
Very much looking forward to a weekend of cutting edge documentaries, workshops, and dancing. Tickets available now!
www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...
www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...
ChromaQueer Film + Arts Festival
ChromaQueer Film + Arts Festival
www.zeffy.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Very much looking forward to a weekend of cutting edge documentaries, workshops, and dancing. Tickets available now!
www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...
www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...
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Peter Becker + I wrote "Forward: A Kaleidoscope of CEH-C Meanings" to explain how the Vienna 2025 Central European History Convention and the collection of 20 blogs by emerging scholars on the joys, promises, + challenges of the event came into being. Read! Share! Discuss! cehc.hypotheses.org/79
October 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Peter Becker + I wrote "Forward: A Kaleidoscope of CEH-C Meanings" to explain how the Vienna 2025 Central European History Convention and the collection of 20 blogs by emerging scholars on the joys, promises, + challenges of the event came into being. Read! Share! Discuss! cehc.hypotheses.org/79
Hot off the presses and available now in English. A major contribution from @ankahajkova.bsky.social. I was honoured to write the forward.
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People without History are Dust - University of Toronto Press
utppublishing.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Hot off the presses and available now in English. A major contribution from @ankahajkova.bsky.social. I was honoured to write the forward.
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
"She also has what Hall describes as hardline views on Japan's WWII history. In remarks over the years, she has downplayed Japan's aggression during the war and criticized the war crimes trials that the Allies held afterward to convict Japan's wartime leaders."
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October 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
"She also has what Hall describes as hardline views on Japan's WWII history. In remarks over the years, she has downplayed Japan's aggression during the war and criticized the war crimes trials that the Allies held afterward to convict Japan's wartime leaders."
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