Sara-Jane Vigneault
@sjvigneault.bsky.social
PhD candidate @camhistory.bsky.social | Intimacy between French colonised soldiers/workers and Europeans in France & Germany (1914-1950)
Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH)
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH)
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
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Bonjour, Hi! Since I have gained many new followers over the last few days, I thought I would introduce myself. My name is Sara-Jane (she/her), and I am a PhD candidate in Modern French History at the University of Cambridge.
📽️ Such a great start to the ‘La Noire de... at 60’ symposium last night, with film screening of ‘Afrique-sur-Seine’ by Paulin Vieyra and ‘Ça twiste à Popenguine’ by Moussa Sène Absa. Followed by a discussion including Stéphane Vieyra, Moussa Sène Absa, and Doyle Calhoun.
@crasshlive.bsky.social
@crasshlive.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
📽️ Such a great start to the ‘La Noire de... at 60’ symposium last night, with film screening of ‘Afrique-sur-Seine’ by Paulin Vieyra and ‘Ça twiste à Popenguine’ by Moussa Sène Absa. Followed by a discussion including Stéphane Vieyra, Moussa Sène Absa, and Doyle Calhoun.
@crasshlive.bsky.social
@crasshlive.bsky.social
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Our new QUEER AS… website
Exploring queer Indigenous creativity.
With:
Blaqademics/Indigiqueers
Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up).
Indigenous Creatives
Queer Museums
Queer Tv - deep dive
Our pubs and info
queer-as.org
Our new QUEER AS… website
Exploring queer Indigenous creativity.
With:
Blaqademics/Indigiqueers
Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up).
Indigenous Creatives
Queer Museums
Queer Tv - deep dive
Our pubs and info
queer-as.org
Queer As...
Exploring Queer Indigenous Creativity
queer-as.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Our new QUEER AS… website
Exploring queer Indigenous creativity.
With:
Blaqademics/Indigiqueers
Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up).
Indigenous Creatives
Queer Museums
Queer Tv - deep dive
Our pubs and info
queer-as.org
Our new QUEER AS… website
Exploring queer Indigenous creativity.
With:
Blaqademics/Indigiqueers
Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up).
Indigenous Creatives
Queer Museums
Queer Tv - deep dive
Our pubs and info
queer-as.org
I’ll be presenting 'Queering the Rhineland: Same-Sex Intimacies and Interracial Fantasies during the Occupation' at the Modern European History Seminar @camhistory.bsky.social next Tuesday (11.11) at 5:15 pm.
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I’ll be presenting 'Queering the Rhineland: Same-Sex Intimacies and Interracial Fantasies during the Occupation' at the Modern European History Seminar @camhistory.bsky.social next Tuesday (11.11) at 5:15 pm.
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Big shout out to Whitney Nosakhare for inviting myself and @tnflorvil.bsky.social to contribute to the latest Mal nach den Rechten schauen podcast:
www.malnachdenrechtenschauen.de/podcast/14-b...
www.malnachdenrechtenschauen.de/podcast/14-b...
#14 Black People in Nazi Germany – The Stories of Charlotte Rettig and Benedikt Gambé – Podcast "Mal nach den Rechten schauen"
www.malnachdenrechtenschauen.de
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Big shout out to Whitney Nosakhare for inviting myself and @tnflorvil.bsky.social to contribute to the latest Mal nach den Rechten schauen podcast:
www.malnachdenrechtenschauen.de/podcast/14-b...
www.malnachdenrechtenschauen.de/podcast/14-b...
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🚨 #CfP 🚨
Are you a #historian working on queer/intersectional perspective in historical research?
Check our @eui-qfg.bsky.social call for papers
InterQueer: Crossing Queer and Intersectional Lenses in Historical Practice 👉 loom.ly/VL6GJSU
📆 Submit your proposal by 28 November 2025
#skystorians
Are you a #historian working on queer/intersectional perspective in historical research?
Check our @eui-qfg.bsky.social call for papers
InterQueer: Crossing Queer and Intersectional Lenses in Historical Practice 👉 loom.ly/VL6GJSU
📆 Submit your proposal by 28 November 2025
#skystorians
October 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🚨 #CfP 🚨
Are you a #historian working on queer/intersectional perspective in historical research?
Check our @eui-qfg.bsky.social call for papers
InterQueer: Crossing Queer and Intersectional Lenses in Historical Practice 👉 loom.ly/VL6GJSU
📆 Submit your proposal by 28 November 2025
#skystorians
Are you a #historian working on queer/intersectional perspective in historical research?
Check our @eui-qfg.bsky.social call for papers
InterQueer: Crossing Queer and Intersectional Lenses in Historical Practice 👉 loom.ly/VL6GJSU
📆 Submit your proposal by 28 November 2025
#skystorians
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Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup:
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe
Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com
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- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe
Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com
🤗🤗🤗
November 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup:
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe
Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com
🤗🤗🤗
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe
Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com
🤗🤗🤗
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🚨 Job Alert!
We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Managing Editor – Call for Applications
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🚨 Job Alert!
We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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La Noire de... at 60 📽️
Join us from 12-14 November for a symposium & film screening to celebrate Ousmane Sembène’s La Noire de…/Black Girl (1966), the first feature-length film made by a Black African director, which won the Prix Jean Vigo at Cannes
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47520/
Join us from 12-14 November for a symposium & film screening to celebrate Ousmane Sembène’s La Noire de…/Black Girl (1966), the first feature-length film made by a Black African director, which won the Prix Jean Vigo at Cannes
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47520/
La Noire de… at 60. Reflecting on the life and legacy of an African classic - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
La Noire de... at 60 📽️
Join us from 12-14 November for a symposium & film screening to celebrate Ousmane Sembène’s La Noire de…/Black Girl (1966), the first feature-length film made by a Black African director, which won the Prix Jean Vigo at Cannes
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47520/
Join us from 12-14 November for a symposium & film screening to celebrate Ousmane Sembène’s La Noire de…/Black Girl (1966), the first feature-length film made by a Black African director, which won the Prix Jean Vigo at Cannes
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47520/
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‘What becomes of gender and sexuality amidst the collapse of the liberal world order?’
In this essay, Dr Abeera Khan from SOAS’s Department of Gender Studies examines our current moment as one after homonationalism, where ‘the sparse and vanishing wages of inclusion lie exposed.’
buff.ly/vKAZqnk
In this essay, Dr Abeera Khan from SOAS’s Department of Gender Studies examines our current moment as one after homonationalism, where ‘the sparse and vanishing wages of inclusion lie exposed.’
buff.ly/vKAZqnk
October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
‘What becomes of gender and sexuality amidst the collapse of the liberal world order?’
In this essay, Dr Abeera Khan from SOAS’s Department of Gender Studies examines our current moment as one after homonationalism, where ‘the sparse and vanishing wages of inclusion lie exposed.’
buff.ly/vKAZqnk
In this essay, Dr Abeera Khan from SOAS’s Department of Gender Studies examines our current moment as one after homonationalism, where ‘the sparse and vanishing wages of inclusion lie exposed.’
buff.ly/vKAZqnk
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Something interesting about this report! The researchers received a large number of malicious responses to their online survey - and they analysed those responses too, which provide an interesting window into anti-trans activists' delight at their perceived blanket permission to harass us.
A new report from TransActual looks at the impact of the 2025 EHRC interim update on access to, and experiences within, gendered spaces in the UK.
Read the full report here: transactual.org.uk/gendered-spa...
#TransRights #EHRC #ScrapTheBathroomBan #EqualityAct
Read the full report here: transactual.org.uk/gendered-spa...
#TransRights #EHRC #ScrapTheBathroomBan #EqualityAct
October 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Something interesting about this report! The researchers received a large number of malicious responses to their online survey - and they analysed those responses too, which provide an interesting window into anti-trans activists' delight at their perceived blanket permission to harass us.
Join us at 5 pm for the AmbArch X Lauren Berlant Reading group with @darlingorlaith.bsky.social.
We'll be discussing excerpts from Berlant's 'The Queen of America goes to Washington City.'
For more information & access to the readings, www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48078...
@crasshlive.bsky.social
We'll be discussing excerpts from Berlant's 'The Queen of America goes to Washington City.'
For more information & access to the readings, www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48078...
@crasshlive.bsky.social
Lauren Berlant: A Michaelmas reading group - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Join us at 5 pm for the AmbArch X Lauren Berlant Reading group with @darlingorlaith.bsky.social.
We'll be discussing excerpts from Berlant's 'The Queen of America goes to Washington City.'
For more information & access to the readings, www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48078...
@crasshlive.bsky.social
We'll be discussing excerpts from Berlant's 'The Queen of America goes to Washington City.'
For more information & access to the readings, www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48078...
@crasshlive.bsky.social
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20 years since Zyed (17) and Bouna (15) died while fleeing the police despite being completely innocent. Racial profiling and police brutality remain endemic in France. A young black or North African origin man is 20 times more likely to be stopped and searched.
October 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
20 years since Zyed (17) and Bouna (15) died while fleeing the police despite being completely innocent. Racial profiling and police brutality remain endemic in France. A young black or North African origin man is 20 times more likely to be stopped and searched.
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Militarizing Marriage is now OpenAccess!
Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.
Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.
Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.
Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.
Militarizing Marriage
Following tirailleurs sénégalais’ deployments in West Africa, Congo, Madagascar, North Africa, Syria-Lebanon, Vietnam, and Algeria from the 1880s to 1962...
www.ohioswallow.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Militarizing Marriage is now OpenAccess!
Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.
Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.
Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.
Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.
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Still time to register for tomorrow's #IdentitiesEvent!
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global Blackness'
In collaboration with Sociology at Lancaster University
@uofgsps.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global Blackness'
In collaboration with Sociology at Lancaster University
@uofgsps.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
October 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Still time to register for tomorrow's #IdentitiesEvent!
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global Blackness'
In collaboration with Sociology at Lancaster University
@uofgsps.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global Blackness'
In collaboration with Sociology at Lancaster University
@uofgsps.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
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The Ambivalent Archives programme for this term has just dropped! ✨ Starting this week strong with talks by @arthurasseraf.bsky.social and Ned Allen on Radio & Archival Production!
For more information:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47934/
@crasshlive.bsky.social
For more information:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47934/
@crasshlive.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The Ambivalent Archives programme for this term has just dropped! ✨ Starting this week strong with talks by @arthurasseraf.bsky.social and Ned Allen on Radio & Archival Production!
For more information:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47934/
@crasshlive.bsky.social
For more information:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47934/
@crasshlive.bsky.social
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Join us for this seminar on Queer and Trans Worldmaking in the Global South at University of Glasgow on Weds 15th October @uofgsociology.bsky.social All welcome, please share! @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi...
October 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Join us for this seminar on Queer and Trans Worldmaking in the Global South at University of Glasgow on Weds 15th October @uofgsociology.bsky.social All welcome, please share! @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi...
The Ambivalent Archives programme for this term has just dropped! ✨ Starting this week strong with talks by @arthurasseraf.bsky.social and Ned Allen on Radio & Archival Production!
For more information:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47934/
@crasshlive.bsky.social
For more information:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47934/
@crasshlive.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The Ambivalent Archives programme for this term has just dropped! ✨ Starting this week strong with talks by @arthurasseraf.bsky.social and Ned Allen on Radio & Archival Production!
For more information:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47934/
@crasshlive.bsky.social
For more information:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47934/
@crasshlive.bsky.social
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Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
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It will also disconnect students from each other—and in a world fractured by various flavors of technofascism, I cannot think of a more disastrous thing (which is likely partly why AI fetishists are pushing for AI in schools and universities)
“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”
Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students
A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.
www.edweek.org
October 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
It will also disconnect students from each other—and in a world fractured by various flavors of technofascism, I cannot think of a more disastrous thing (which is likely partly why AI fetishists are pushing for AI in schools and universities)
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Our next #IdentitiesEvent!
'From Colonial Subjects to #Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness'
@uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
'From Colonial Subjects to #Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness'
@uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
October 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Our next #IdentitiesEvent!
'From Colonial Subjects to #Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness'
@uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
'From Colonial Subjects to #Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness'
@uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
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A great new post on researching the history of former Ascari in Eritrea by our own @camilleriana.bsky.social. colvet.eu/338-2/
Dr Nicola Camilleri, ‘Former Eritrean Soldiers in the Italian Colonial Army: Fragments of Life and Documentation’. | Colvet.eu
colvet.eu
October 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
A great new post on researching the history of former Ascari in Eritrea by our own @camilleriana.bsky.social. colvet.eu/338-2/
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This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media
October 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media
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We're starting a new 'ArtsLab' (research network) in trans studies at Glasgow! It's very exciting and I hope that in time we can become a real centre for research in this field. Find out more - including details of our upcoming launch event - on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We're starting a new 'ArtsLab' (research network) in trans studies at Glasgow! It's very exciting and I hope that in time we can become a real centre for research in this field. Find out more - including details of our upcoming launch event - on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...
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Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...
Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin - The Berliner
Three Cameroonian Berliners from a century ago were key figures in Berlin's black history, remembered for their fight for self-determination.
www.the-berliner.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...
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I wrote something quite personal about what use trans history In These Times:
The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?
Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
September 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I wrote something quite personal about what use trans history In These Times: