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)
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...
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...
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
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."
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.
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
"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."
web.archive.org/web/20251022...
web.archive.org/web/20251022...
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."
web.archive.org/web/20251022...
web.archive.org/web/20251022...
Can we all just admire the pigeon art drawing on the side of Ottawa's Urban Art Collective space in Hintonburg? Swoon.
urbanartcollective.ca
urbanartcollective.ca
October 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Can we all just admire the pigeon art drawing on the side of Ottawa's Urban Art Collective space in Hintonburg? Swoon.
urbanartcollective.ca
urbanartcollective.ca
Super excited about my offspring in opening night of Jordan Tannihill's iconic Concord Floral, at the Theatre Centre in Toronto.
Tickets still available here: theatrecentre.org/event/concor...
Tickets still available here: theatrecentre.org/event/concor...
October 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Super excited about my offspring in opening night of Jordan Tannihill's iconic Concord Floral, at the Theatre Centre in Toronto.
Tickets still available here: theatrecentre.org/event/concor...
Tickets still available here: theatrecentre.org/event/concor...
Thrilled to say that Member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre @yasirnaqvicdn.bsky.social will also speak at @milleridriss.bsky.social's Ottawa talk October 30th.
Free and open to the public.
www.eventbrite.com/e/man-up-the...
Free and open to the public.
www.eventbrite.com/e/man-up-the...
October 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Thrilled to say that Member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre @yasirnaqvicdn.bsky.social will also speak at @milleridriss.bsky.social's Ottawa talk October 30th.
Free and open to the public.
www.eventbrite.com/e/man-up-the...
Free and open to the public.
www.eventbrite.com/e/man-up-the...
After 5 lockdowns in Melbourne, Andrew Ravenko decided to chronicle his daughter's fascination with space. He made a paper maché helmet and took photos within their 5km mandated travel limit. Here are some of the images from what came to be known as The Rocketgirl Chronicles.
archive.is/QrS32
archive.is/QrS32
September 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
After 5 lockdowns in Melbourne, Andrew Ravenko decided to chronicle his daughter's fascination with space. He made a paper maché helmet and took photos within their 5km mandated travel limit. Here are some of the images from what came to be known as The Rocketgirl Chronicles.
archive.is/QrS32
archive.is/QrS32
My friend, writer, memoirist, curator Kenny Fries has endowed a literary award to support the next generation of disabled and/or deaf writers. If anyone wanted to support it, here's the link. The first award will be announced on his 65th birthday, September 22nd.
www.kennyfries.com/award
www.kennyfries.com/award
September 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
My friend, writer, memoirist, curator Kenny Fries has endowed a literary award to support the next generation of disabled and/or deaf writers. If anyone wanted to support it, here's the link. The first award will be announced on his 65th birthday, September 22nd.
www.kennyfries.com/award
www.kennyfries.com/award
Honoured to have been elected by my peers a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
(A wee bit embarrassed at what the research office wrote about me in the nomination - but nice to know this is what they think!)
(A wee bit embarrassed at what the research office wrote about me in the nomination - but nice to know this is what they think!)
September 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Honoured to have been elected by my peers a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
(A wee bit embarrassed at what the research office wrote about me in the nomination - but nice to know this is what they think!)
(A wee bit embarrassed at what the research office wrote about me in the nomination - but nice to know this is what they think!)
Wistful, captivating. There is something indelibly human about the postwar worlds photographers made in the shadow of catastrophe.
www.artnet.com/artists/will...
www.artnet.com/artists/will...
August 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Wistful, captivating. There is something indelibly human about the postwar worlds photographers made in the shadow of catastrophe.
www.artnet.com/artists/will...
www.artnet.com/artists/will...
The cuts to Berlin's queer institutions are deepening, first Schwuz and now the iconic Sonntags-Club, founded during GDR times. The impact is huge.
archive.is/x78Z5
archive.is/x78Z5
August 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The cuts to Berlin's queer institutions are deepening, first Schwuz and now the iconic Sonntags-Club, founded during GDR times. The impact is huge.
archive.is/x78Z5
archive.is/x78Z5
Thinking of Suleika Aldini on this European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma, which commemorates the 500,000 men, women, and children who were imprisoned, tortured, and killed leading up to and during the Second World War. /1
August 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Thinking of Suleika Aldini on this European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma, which commemorates the 500,000 men, women, and children who were imprisoned, tortured, and killed leading up to and during the Second World War. /1
Hot off the presses: a new forum in German History reappraising Magnus Hirschfeld.
doi.org/10.1093/gerh...
doi.org/10.1093/gerh...
July 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Hot off the presses: a new forum in German History reappraising Magnus Hirschfeld.
doi.org/10.1093/gerh...
doi.org/10.1093/gerh...
Incredibly productive meeting today on the challenge of far-right extremism and how these ideas migrate into the mainstream. With @germanambcanada.bsky.social, Jordan Leichnitz of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, and our SSHRC project researchers @swensteinberg.bsky.social and David Clement.
July 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Incredibly productive meeting today on the challenge of far-right extremism and how these ideas migrate into the mainstream. With @germanambcanada.bsky.social, Jordan Leichnitz of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, and our SSHRC project researchers @swensteinberg.bsky.social and David Clement.
I love the smaller exhibitions in the Bezirksämter in Berlin. Like this one featuring the photography of Anno Wilms.
www.berlin.de/ba-charlotte...
www.berlin.de/ba-charlotte...
July 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I love the smaller exhibitions in the Bezirksämter in Berlin. Like this one featuring the photography of Anno Wilms.
www.berlin.de/ba-charlotte...
www.berlin.de/ba-charlotte...
One year ago today I was in Stuttgart, looking at Tina Glamor's incredible collection. Taking inspiration from Angie Stardust to help get through these very dark days: "don't give up the ship."
July 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
One year ago today I was in Stuttgart, looking at Tina Glamor's incredible collection. Taking inspiration from Angie Stardust to help get through these very dark days: "don't give up the ship."
Was fun contributing to this @bbcnews.bsky.social story on dating rituals and secret writing.
archive.is/HIsZd
archive.is/HIsZd
July 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Was fun contributing to this @bbcnews.bsky.social story on dating rituals and secret writing.
archive.is/HIsZd
archive.is/HIsZd
Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature.
newfascismsyllabus.com
newfascismsyllabus.com
July 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature.
newfascismsyllabus.com
newfascismsyllabus.com
Grateful to receive funding from Canada's Social Science Humanities Research Council for a workshop on hate, conspiracy theories, and the threat to democracy. Which includes a public talk by @milleridriss.bsky.social on October 30th on The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism.
July 5, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Grateful to receive funding from Canada's Social Science Humanities Research Council for a workshop on hate, conspiracy theories, and the threat to democracy. Which includes a public talk by @milleridriss.bsky.social on October 30th on The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism.
9 years ago we queered German History.
June 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
9 years ago we queered German History.