Ervin Malakaj

@ervinmalakaj.bsky.social

plant dad and dog mom 🏳️‍🌈 https://www.ervinmalakaj.com

Jasbir Puar and I are very excited to invite you to the launch of the UBC Queer Trans Centre for Radical Praxis. The event will feature our distinguished comrades Billy-Ray Belcourt, Xaytun Ennasr, Likes Hettinga, and Jules Gill-Peterson. Please help us spread the word.

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Jasbir Puar and I are very excited to invite you to the launch of the UBC Queer Trans Centre for Radical Praxis. The event will feature our distinguished comrades Billy-Ray Belcourt, Xaytun Ennasr, Likes Hettinga, and Jules Gill-Peterson. Please help us spread the word.

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Friendlies, if you are in Vancouver Sept 24/27, check out the two public events associated with our Queer Play Workshop: a teach-in for educators and a pop-up museum planned. A bunch of fab people are coming together to theorize queer play in anti-queer times. More info: queerplayworkshop.org

pop-up museum of queer play flyer with information about the event. September 27, 2026, 1-4pm. Flyer about queer play teach-in, which will take place September 24, 2026, 11:30-1pm

Coming up in the next two days at the @zfl-berlin.bsky.social: workshop titled “Transatlantic Print Entrepreneurs: Mobility, Publishing Cultures, and Partial Archives in the Mid- and Late-Nineteenth Century” organized by Sean Franzel and @spoerhase.bsky.social. 🌈🌈🌈 www.zfl-berlin.org/event/transa...

Transatlantic Print Entrepreneurs: Mobility, Publishing Cultures, and Partial Archives in the Mid- and Late-Nineteenth Century - ZfL Berlin

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Super happy and excited to be hosting @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social tomorrow morning @kwi-essen.bsky.social for a talk on "Lubitsch's Aesthetics of Suspicion"! If you would like to join, our colloquium begins at 10:30 AM (CET). Details about Ervin's talk and for remote access (Zoom) can be found here:

Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI)

Das Kulturwissenschaftliche Institut Essen (KWI) ist ein interdisziplinäres Forschungskolleg für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften in der Tradition internationaler Institutes for Advanced Study. Als i...

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I’m very proud to have contributed a chapter on coded references to queerness in Pandora’s Box to this wonderful volume! Equally proud to have worked with & feature alongside such wonderful people, including Jonah, @katielmsutton.bsky.social, @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social, Ina Linge & more!

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‪ It's publication day! The volume Weimar's Queer Visual Cultures edited by the most wonderful editors @katielmsutton.bsky.social, Ina Linge, and Birgit Lang is hot off the press! Proud to be among such stellar authors! Get your library copy here: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Registration for the "Queer Lives and Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany's LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures" online conference is now live! Sign up to join us 30 - 31 March (Australia: 31 March - 1 April). With speakers from 6 (!) time zones & keynotes from Jonah Garde & Camilla Smith!

Queer Lives and Trans* Formations Conference Registration

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Queer Lives and Trans* Formations Conference on 30-31 March, 2026! As the conference will be taking place online, we ask that you register to attend by c...

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Do you teach/research gender/sexuality w/ German sources? Have you had access issues or needed to translate sources yourself bc English versions don’t exist? Fill in this survey (by 2/15) to identify core texts for an anthology of translations in scientific & literary sexology between 1890 & 1930.

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Nothing will come in the way of tetka theory. After all, tenacity is part of tetka style. The book is now drafted. It contains lots of tetka wisdoms others want to suppress. It endured much and so it will also endure the long way to publication. Biće, biće!

Tetka Theory: Queer Life in the Bosnian Diaspora
Ervin Malakaj
Introduction: Tetka Theory
Chapter 1: Pijaca
Chapter 2: Batman
Chapter 3: The Soccer Field
Chapter 4: To Color Outside of the Lines
Chapter 5: Lunchroom Blues
Chapter 6: Kvir Berlin
Chapter 7: Babaroga Returns
Epilogue: Tetka Style

Nothing will come in the way of tetka theory. After all, tenacity is part of tetka style. The book is now drafted. It contains lots of tetka wisdoms others want to suppress. It endured much and so it will also endure the long way to publication. Biće, biće!

Tetka Theory: Queer Life in the Bosnian Diaspora
Ervin Malakaj
Introduction: Tetka Theory
Chapter 1: Pijaca
Chapter 2: Batman
Chapter 3: The Soccer Field
Chapter 4: To Color Outside of the Lines
Chapter 5: Lunchroom Blues
Chapter 6: Kvir Berlin
Chapter 7: Babaroga Returns
Epilogue: Tetka Style

A lovely tribute to Alice Wong by @thrasherxy.bsky.social. "She did not gatekeep knowledge; she shared it with the generosity and glee of a neighbor passing out full-sized candy bars on Halloween." I laughed at the part where she told him to “EAT THE FUCKING COOKIES!!!!” So very Alice.

Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend

Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I  was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…

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UBC peoples: if anyone is interested in free books, DM me and we can arrange a time for you to browse. Because of space issues I have to downsize my office library. Primarily 18th-21st century literature, philosophy, literary history/theory. Much of it in German but also in English and French.

Picture of office with two desks, one covered with piles of books and a bookshelf in the background.