Zavier Nunn
@zaviernunn.bsky.social
Historian changing sex. Assistant Professor @ Northwestern University. Ex-mulleteer.
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OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs
In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...
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May 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
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'Applicants should have no more than seven years of active full time postdoctoral experience at the time of application (discounting career breaks, but including teaching experience and/or time spent in industry).'
Deadline is 18 March, so get your skates on.
Deadline is 18 March, so get your skates on.
If you're an early career researcher - perhaps based in a fledgling authoritarian state - and want an out, @britishacademy.bsky.social offer 2-year fellowships to come to a UK university (including relocation costs and research funds).
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International Fellowships 2025
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
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February 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
'Applicants should have no more than seven years of active full time postdoctoral experience at the time of application (discounting career breaks, but including teaching experience and/or time spent in industry).'
Deadline is 18 March, so get your skates on.
Deadline is 18 March, so get your skates on.
I’m opposed to infighting. But we should be accurate about (historical) fascism right now. Fascistic states have inconsistencies baked into their ideology and practice, with a hydra mix of wilful incompetence and clinical execution at their head. They’re no less deadly for it.
Also historically unrealistic. Do we really think most fascist governments throughout history were good at things?
that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move
February 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I’m opposed to infighting. But we should be accurate about (historical) fascism right now. Fascistic states have inconsistencies baked into their ideology and practice, with a hydra mix of wilful incompetence and clinical execution at their head. They’re no less deadly for it.
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The (U.K.) National Archives launches guidance for archivists working in fast response situations 📜
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The National Archives launches guidance for archivists working in fast response situations - The National Archives
Today The National Archives has launched new guidance for archivists about rapid response collecting. It’s designed to support archivists collecting material in situations like the aftermath of accide...
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
February 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The (U.K.) National Archives launches guidance for archivists working in fast response situations 📜
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/t...
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/t...
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Not to be over-dramatic, but we have less than 24 hours until our crowdfund deadline, have to raise £1164 to continue our campaign for the NHS and complete our research about the financial links between MPs and the private health sector, and if this was a film the montage would kick in now. HELP!…
February 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Not to be over-dramatic, but we have less than 24 hours until our crowdfund deadline, have to raise £1164 to continue our campaign for the NHS and complete our research about the financial links between MPs and the private health sector, and if this was a film the montage would kick in now. HELP!…
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Important reflections by @DavidMotadel this morning, drawing on history, on whether we have reached a critical turning point.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Are we at a turning point in world history? | David Motadel
Political leaders increasingly caution that we are facing a historical ‘inflection point’. Are we?
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Important reflections by @DavidMotadel this morning, drawing on history, on whether we have reached a critical turning point.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The UK is spending £369m refurbishing Buckingham Palace for King Charles, who has £22bn and gets £500m more a year.
He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country.
He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country.
December 19, 2024 at 2:33 PM
The UK is spending £369m refurbishing Buckingham Palace for King Charles, who has £22bn and gets £500m more a year.
He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country.
He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country.
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Petition:
An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services
At 10k the Government will give a written response (it’s currently at 7k)
✍🏼 Please sign (even if it’s just to keep the pressure on)
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services
At 10k the Government will give a written response (it’s currently at 7k)
✍🏼 Please sign (even if it’s just to keep the pressure on)
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services
We believe that trans healthcare should be based on unbiased research that is peer reviewed. We think that the Cass review's findings have led to restrictive practices that are being directly felt by ...
petition.parliament.uk
December 17, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Petition:
An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services
At 10k the Government will give a written response (it’s currently at 7k)
✍🏼 Please sign (even if it’s just to keep the pressure on)
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services
At 10k the Government will give a written response (it’s currently at 7k)
✍🏼 Please sign (even if it’s just to keep the pressure on)
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Straight people love to stumble upon the concept of a twink and struggle to describe it, like if an ancient Roman saw someone vaping
December 17, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Straight people love to stumble upon the concept of a twink and struggle to describe it, like if an ancient Roman saw someone vaping
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I have been thinking about this a lot lately: that the “phasing out” of humanities scholarship as part of popular education is an effort to prevent people from being able to interpret their political reality.
Moving from aesthetic judgment to interpretation is vital for scholars. But it is not vital for the critic. The move is a move because these activities are not the same kind of thing. The role of criticism is not that it interprets but that it alerts us to what we should be interpreting.
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December 17, 2024 at 4:23 PM
I have been thinking about this a lot lately: that the “phasing out” of humanities scholarship as part of popular education is an effort to prevent people from being able to interpret their political reality.
BFTSI was the first thing I experienced when I arrived at Duke and I still feel the benefits of the intellectual generosity that Jen has nurtured within this summer workshop with deep appreciation! Apply!
Deadline - 12/16. Please apply, please encourage friends/colleagues/students to apply. BFTSI has been- for me, at least- a magical place of theoretical exploration and intellectual friendship.
Moving this from X to here - reminder that Black feminist theory summer institute applications are open. Details here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...
December 12, 2024 at 10:08 PM
BFTSI was the first thing I experienced when I arrived at Duke and I still feel the benefits of the intellectual generosity that Jen has nurtured within this summer workshop with deep appreciation! Apply!
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Since Alito and others are quoting the Cass Report like it's definitive science, this is the moment to repost @polgreen.bsky.social's excellent piece on the Cass Report , which is,"for all its claims of impartiality, is fundamentally a subjective, political document."
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/o...
Opinion | The Strange Report Fueling the War on Trans Kids (Gift Article)
For all its claims to science, the Cass report is fundamentally a subjective, political document.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Since Alito and others are quoting the Cass Report like it's definitive science, this is the moment to repost @polgreen.bsky.social's excellent piece on the Cass Report , which is,"for all its claims of impartiality, is fundamentally a subjective, political document."
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/o...
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“Trans people have always existed!” Even if we hadn’t, the fact is that we do currently exist. And so society has two options: living with us or killing us. But either way, we are bell that cannot be unrung.
November 18, 2024 at 10:16 PM
“Trans people have always existed!” Even if we hadn’t, the fact is that we do currently exist. And so society has two options: living with us or killing us. But either way, we are bell that cannot be unrung.
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"Absolutely anything is possible, and we must acknowledge this, not out of surrender, but as a means of readying ourselves for the impossible fights ahead." @roxanegay.bsky.social. in shorturl.at/zJgKT
Opinion | Enough
To suggest we should yield even a little to Trump’s odious politics is unacceptable. Even if we did, it would never be enough.
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November 17, 2024 at 5:58 PM
"Absolutely anything is possible, and we must acknowledge this, not out of surrender, but as a means of readying ourselves for the impossible fights ahead." @roxanegay.bsky.social. in shorturl.at/zJgKT
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A very thoughtful article by historian Mark Mazower — on the label “fascism” and how it applies (or doesn’t apply) to the past/present situation in the US and Europe
www.ft.com/content/4195...
www.ft.com/content/4195...
Trump’s victory will change America. But Europe can have a different future
[FREE TO READ] Democratic norms look unusually fragile in the US. Historian Mark Mazower argues that it is an outlier, not a precursor
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November 17, 2024 at 5:16 AM
A very thoughtful article by historian Mark Mazower — on the label “fascism” and how it applies (or doesn’t apply) to the past/present situation in the US and Europe
www.ft.com/content/4195...
www.ft.com/content/4195...
Hi 👋 people in this new place! I’m a historian of modern Germany that specializes in the history of medical and legal forms of transition, trans subjectivity, and the historical production and state regulation of categories such as sex, sexuality, and labour. Hoping to have a regular time here
November 17, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Hi 👋 people in this new place! I’m a historian of modern Germany that specializes in the history of medical and legal forms of transition, trans subjectivity, and the historical production and state regulation of categories such as sex, sexuality, and labour. Hoping to have a regular time here
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Moving this from X to here - reminder that Black feminist theory summer institute applications are open. Details here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...
November 15, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Moving this from X to here - reminder that Black feminist theory summer institute applications are open. Details here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...
Waiting at the airport for a connecting flight to Amsterdam, and some kind woman returns my wallet that I had dropped an hour ago, saying: ‘it’s a good thing you’ve got such distinctive hair, or else I wouldn’t have identified you’. Moral of the story: mullets make life better
September 17, 2023 at 9:10 PM
Waiting at the airport for a connecting flight to Amsterdam, and some kind woman returns my wallet that I had dropped an hour ago, saying: ‘it’s a good thing you’ve got such distinctive hair, or else I wouldn’t have identified you’. Moral of the story: mullets make life better
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The application period is open to join us at UBC as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Please circulate to folks who may be interested. cenes.ubc.ca/news/call-fo...
Call for Applications: Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship - Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern...
The UBC Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES) invites applications from interested parties to be considered for the Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program.
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August 29, 2023 at 4:24 PM
The application period is open to join us at UBC as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Please circulate to folks who may be interested. cenes.ubc.ca/news/call-fo...
A sharp and vital contribution from the brilliant @lauriem.bsky.social on the history (and contemporary relevance) of trans life and persecution under the Nazi State: a must read!
August 26, 2023 at 3:28 PM
A sharp and vital contribution from the brilliant @lauriem.bsky.social on the history (and contemporary relevance) of trans life and persecution under the Nazi State: a must read!
Hey new place! Posting to say that my second publication is out. If you’re interested in the intersecting histories of trans life and the Holocaust, and how the present cultural and emotional landscape informs both memory politics and history writing, this one’s for you.
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
Against Anticipation, or, Camp Reading as Reparative to the Trans Feminine Past: A Microhistory in N...
Whether trans people – especially trans women – were persecuted by the Nazi regime remains a contested yet under-researched topic. But the wider political backdrop (including the culture wars and ...
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August 22, 2023 at 5:06 PM
Hey new place! Posting to say that my second publication is out. If you’re interested in the intersecting histories of trans life and the Holocaust, and how the present cultural and emotional landscape informs both memory politics and history writing, this one’s for you.
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
doi.org/10.1111/1468...