Daniel Fountain
@danielfountain.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer & Director of Postgrad Research in Art History at University of Exeter | Writer, Researcher, Artist and Curator | Queer art and visual culture | He/They🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ www.danielfountain.com https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/37109-daniel-fountain
The dismantling of the arts by universities and places of learning is abhorrent and must be challenged vociferously! Sign the petition. With thanks to @danielfountain.bsky.social c.org/8z6Qz48fBF
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Never thought I’d be doing press about my own redundancy but here we are
Arts Professional@artsprofessional.co.uk · 2mo agoConcerns have been raised that plans to cut costs at two leading universities will disproportionately hit staff teaching creative courses.
Exeter Green Party stands in solidarity with the Exeter University and College Union in condemning the University of Exeter’s announcement of sweeping job cuts. These plans will recklessly imperil the University’s vital contributions to the social, cultural, and economic life of the city. 1/4
This awesome book is out now!! My work is on the cover!! Go get one, Daniel is a legend. Feels so special to have my work featured in a serious academic art book, on the cover no less!
Daniel Fountain@danielfountain.bsky.social · 8mo agoOut now! Queer Crafts: Material Practices and the Making of Identity available via the Bloomsbury website and all good bookstores! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-cra...
Out now! Queer Crafts: Material Practices and the Making of Identity available via the Bloomsbury website and all good bookstores! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-cra...
My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...
*first year lecture, academic strides in* “right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION” *students wail, gnash teeth, vomit* www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told
Guidance has been published by the Office for Students on new free speech rules coming into force this year.
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Just had a notification that The Metropolitan Museum of Art have aquisitioned my book Crafted With Pride, and it’s now pride of place (pun intended!) in their research library! 📚🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Huge congrats to my amazing doctoral student Chloë Edwards on passing her PhD viva today with an incredible thesis titled "Listen Without Prejudice: Queer Masculinities in the Popular Music Cultures of Thatcher's Britain". Photo: Sunil Gupta, Heaven, 1980.
The UK has dropped to its lowest position ever (22nd) on the @ilgaeurope.bsky.social ranking of the best and worst places to be LGBTQ+ in Europe. Ten years ago, it ranked in first place. Our government must reverse, not further, this shocking decline in LGBTQ+ rights.
The landscape for LGBTQ+ research is so bleak. Still fuming that UKRI decided this review was acceptable and didn't undermine EDI policy. Highlights: no relevence to LGB cuz trans inclusive, no hostile climate cuz Pride and gay marriage, no need for declonisation cuz Tate did it 24 years ago (?) 🤷♀️
Apropos of nothing that has happened this week…where is the best place to look for academic jobs in the EU? The UK no longer feels like a place my community is welcome and I am genuinely scared.
Today’s news is so bleak. What a horribly hostile place the U.K. continues to be. Check on your trans siblings. Lives are on the line here. 🩷🤍💙
Categories used by the state to sort people into boxes are never neutral. Some thoughts on the UK Supreme Court case ruling and the wider anti-trans campaign to narrow sex and gender categories in policy, data and law. 📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/04/16/t...
Absolutely wonderful review of my edited collection Crafted with Pride in the Journal of Design History! 🙏
“Research into sexuality and gender is vital for identifying social, cultural, and medical needs of populations, and addressing inequalities across populations.” It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship. 🌈🎓
Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research
Published in The Journal of Sex Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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My ceramic cake/jelly collection is getting seriously out of hand…
Yet another scandal brewing within UK Higher Ed: universities can get research money for everyone they've sacked. Big ghost fleets of lecturers who don't exist will be launched into the next Research Excellence Framework. Unis will laugh and cash in (1/2). englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
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Cover reveal for the new book hopefully dropping soon 😉✍️📚🏳️⚧️
Hugely engaging and insightful event with @danielfountain.bsky.social this evening! 🌈🧵 Crafted With Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain @intellectbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social is highly recommended! #LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks@rossbrooks.co.uk · 2y agoSuper event at my uni (Oxford Brookes) for LGBTQ+ History Month . . . Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with @danielfountain.bsky.social. 12 February, 6-7pm. Free. Online. Everyone welcome. 🌈🧵 Register here: www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke... #LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay
Join us! Online public lecture. Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with Dr Daniel Fountain Wednesday 12 February 2025 6.00pm to 7.30pm Online Sign up to the lecture here 👉ow.ly/3t0G50UYr3v @danielfountain.bsky.social
Super event at my uni (Oxford Brookes) for LGBTQ+ History Month . . . Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with @danielfountain.bsky.social. 12 February, 6-7pm. Free. Online. Everyone welcome. 🌈🧵 Register here: www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke... #LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay
Crafted with Pride: queer craft and activism - LGBTQ+ History Month lecture - Oxford Brookes University
This lecture delivered by Dr Daniel Fountain explores how LGBTQ+ communities have utilised craft processes to explore identities, bring communities together, and encourage social and political change.
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Another day, another PI asking me to work for free on their funded project to do ‘important diversity work’. When will this exploitation stop? 😅
2024 was shit. 2025 is starting off with a trompe-l'oeil ‘wine goblet’ that looks like a camply decorated cake. #winning
I listened to this garbage so you don't have to. It is a horrifically one-sided, un-nuanced hit piece on international students that will do damage to universities & pile on racist abuse of vulnerable students. Shame on Jo Grady & @ucu.org.uk for contributing to this & adding to negative tropes 1/8
CJ McKinney@cjmckinney.bsky.social · 2y ago“Jo Grady from the UCU, which represents 120,000 lecturers and university staff, says it is an open secret that students who lack English skills find ways to come to the UK to study” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lavender Menace, Gays the Word, Book Woman…I’ve fallen in love with so many LGBTQIA bookshops. They’re places of joy and resistance, good coffee and even better books. Support 🌈 stories and businesses by sharing this Starter Pack. go.bsky.app/G321HCf
