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Laura Penning
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#FirstGenAcademic│Queer Kinship in SFF │Probably in the middle of rewatching You've got mail for the 300th time │she/her 🌈🌹
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I’ve followed and interacted with Refaat for years. He was killed three days ago in Gaza with his brother, sister and her four kids. Here is a poem he wrote. I am heartbroken.

(Here is a link to a book series he edited of stories from young people in Gaza justworldbooks.com/books-by-tit... )
December 7, 2023 at 8:45 PM
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Entschuldigt, liebe Kinder. Wir konnten die Klimakatastrophe leider beim besten Willen nicht verhindern. Wir mussten ja die Schuldengrenze einhalten. Das müsst ihr verstehen.
November 16, 2023 at 9:21 AM
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Arbeitgeber, wenn Gewerkschaften zu dem wirksamsten Mittel im Arbeitskampf greifen, um ihre Forderungen durchzusetzen
November 15, 2023 at 9:09 AM
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🚨 We’re looking for a Full Professor of Sociology to join us! Expertise in the areas of work and social inequality is particularly desirable @univie.ac.at
⏰ Closing date: 15th January 2024
See t.ly/v32Fv for detailed information!
#sociology #professorship
November 13, 2023 at 5:10 PM
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🚨PhD funding 🚨 2x fully funded Stuart Hall Foundation PhD fellowships available to Black, British scholars starting their PhD studies in October 2024 at Sussex. Proposed research should clearly address social justice issues.

www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
Stuart Hall Foundation University of Sussex PGR Studentship : University of Sussex
PhD Scholarship, Stuart Hall Foundation University of Sussex Postgraduate Research Studentship
www.sussex.ac.uk
November 9, 2023 at 1:22 PM
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Job alert ✨🚨 We are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies and Disability Studies at ASU! This is an interdisciplinary role. If you work across these fields, please consider applying! Deadline: 11/27 apply.interfolio.com/134120
November 9, 2023 at 9:07 PM
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ATTTTTTENNNTION:
#jobAlert #jobPosting in English and/or American literary and cultural studies at Uni HH
100%
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PERMANENT
#Dauerstelle

More here: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
Ausschreibung
www.uni-hamburg.de
November 10, 2023 at 9:38 AM
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Das sind gerade jetzt tatsächliche erstmal gute Nachrichten: Die Mittelkürzungen für die Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) werden zurückgebommen:
Bundeskongress Politische Bildung: Faeser nimmt Kürzungen zurück
Innenministerin Nancy Faeser (SPD) nimmt geplante Kürzungen bei der Bildungsarbeit zurück. Allerdings stehen Haushaltsverhandlungen noch bevor.
taz.de
November 5, 2023 at 7:34 AM
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Hey library folks! I'm co-editing a special issue on Libraries and/as Extraction, and the CFP is available. Proposals are due 12/18. Questions? Email the journal email in the CFP or me. cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
October 17, 2023 at 2:19 PM
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Please join us! On Thursday October 19th at 10am EST, Emma Awe (Carleton History), Kaileigh LaBelle (Queens U History) and Noe Bourdeau (Carleton History) will present their research in a webinar on New Directions in Queer History. Part of #2SQHMCan

carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/98006514511
October 16, 2023 at 4:45 PM
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My colleague Dong Xia and I are so excited to announce that we will be editing a special issue of C21 Literature! Full call attached; deadline for abstract submission is 1 December 2023. We are looking forward to hearing about your ideas! Any questions, contact us at novelmedia@st-andrews.ac.uk 🎉🤩🤓
October 11, 2023 at 12:56 PM
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✨ 🔉 Hi! Here's my CFP for a special recurring series on queer/trans sound art for Resonance: The Journal of Sound & Culture. I'm seeking guest essays, audiovisual media, commentaries, interviews, and other editorial items *in addition* to peer-reviewed scholarship! online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...
September 26, 2023 at 7:45 PM
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Für alle, die sich mit lehre beschäftigen und Barrierefreiheit: hier auch der Link zum Download: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/667664.html
October 7, 2023 at 8:52 AM
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Hey #AcademicSky #PopCulture friends I have a #CFP that has just gone out.

Pop Culture made me do it: call for book chapter proposals for an edited collection exploring how popular culture informs our life choices, work, and identity.

Want to participate?

www.364days.org/call-for-pro...
Call for proposals: Pop culture made me do it — 364 Days
We are excited to share with you a call for book chapter proposals for an edited collection exploring how popular culture informs our life choices, work, and identity. At this point in time, we are ...
www.364days.org
October 2, 2023 at 10:21 PM
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The Gender & Sexuality Studies program at Northwestern University is hiring a tenure-line Assistant Professor of Trans Studies! Please share far & wide with your academic networks. The deadline for applications is October 23. Happy to answer any questions. #HigherEd #AcademicSky
JOB POST: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF TRANS STUDIES: Gender & Sexuality Studies Program - Northwestern Un...
gendersexuality.northwestern.edu
September 30, 2023 at 7:27 PM
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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
***JOB ALERT***
Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History and/or the History of Sexuality
University of Glasgow
Deadline 3 October 2023

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DCN544/l...
September 6, 2023 at 12:45 PM
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Pleased as punch to see the first volume of our DFD Network's output, open access to boot! Just in time for Queer History Month. Know anyone interested in the German state of the field of queer/trans history? This is for them.

www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/7b...
October 2, 2023 at 4:02 PM
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Deutschland ist kein Land mit Chancengleichheit. Wichtiger Artikel “Der unsichtbare Vorteil” von Carla Neuhaus und Ann-Kathrin Nezik in der aktuellen ZEIT
September 23, 2023 at 4:00 PM
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CFP below for 'Affiliations: Towards a Theory of Cross-Temporal Comparison', an international conference that will be held in Oxford, 24-25 May 2024. Please share (and submit your abstracts!)
September 1, 2023 at 2:04 PM
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recent research has uncovered new details about how trans people were some of the very first to be persecuted by the Nazi regime, basically from the moment Hitler took power in 1933. good piece: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-...
New Research Reveals How the Nazis Targeted Transgender People
Last year, a German court officially recognized the persecution of trans people by Adolf Hitler's regime
www.smithsonianmag.com
September 22, 2023 at 3:45 PM
Happy graduation day to me! Successfully defended my thesis today and can finally call myself Master of Arts! 🎓👩‍🎓🎉
September 22, 2023 at 1:51 PM