Big congratulations to Dr Patricio Simonetto on the winning the Society for Latin American Studies 2026 Research Development Award! 🎉 The project on Trans/Travesti community archiving and material culture in Argentina, is a collaboration with Victoria Macioci & Biblioteca Claudia Pía Baudracco.

Working in HE right now is being told to focus while you hear about friends losing their jobs, being constantly told that what you would do is useless, but still having to fake that everything is ok and nothing can go wrong...how?

I left a country in which a government without vision or direction was driving us directly to the far right, and 5 years later, I am in a country with a government without vision or direction that is leading us to the far right.

a history of sadness

I love travelling, but I see some American academics taking 3/4 planes per week and then writing about queer decolonial ecologies - not all americans tho

Something that always strikes me as foreign is the UK academics' use of acronyms - I used to believe I couldn't understand them because I'm Argentinean, but now I know that also the majority of UK academics don't know what these mean. Is a lot of people just faking it.

So so pleased to see that my book ‘Body Size in Early Modern Germany’ is now available on Oxford Academic ahead of its print publication later this month: academic.oup.com/book/62409 🎉🎉🎉 To mark its online publication, I thought I’d share a bit more about the book and its contents...

Body Size in Early Modern Germany

Abstract. This book uncovers the significance of body size—of fatness and thinness—in early modern Germany. It explores how early modern people conceived o

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The book will be in print at the end of the month, and I’ll be doing a book launch in early June – stay tuned for more details! I'm also organising (with @historyelaine.bsky.social) a roundtable on body size and embodiment featuring @psimonetto.bsky.social & Grace Lucas in April. Details to follow!

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies will be launching our first digital fellowship - more information here: lnkd.in/eNzj5d3w

The system of UK grants applications is so perverse....I don't even want to start. But it is exhausting

🔔 Reminder: #DecolonizingBodies seminars this week! 📅 8 Dec, 15–17 CET — Embodied Fear w/ @psimonetto.bsky.social & Prof. Ashley Mears 📅 9 Dec, 15–17 CET — Embodied Dignity w/ @ladanrahbari.bsky.social 🎙 Key speaker both days: Prof. Walter Mignolo 👉 Register: lnkd.in/eUyWH5Ke See you online!

On the 8th of December, I will be participating in the seminar Decolonising Bodies organised by Carolina Belen Rabasa Rucki of the binq. ERC project. You can book your place here forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Job Opportunity! Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Gender, Politics & Society UCL - Institute of the Americas www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK119/a...

Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Gender, Politics & Society at UCL

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This article asks how queer/trans archiving, curating, and displaying material were articulated as activism in Latin America, debating the cultural and political meanings of these practices in a global context. Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @psimonetto.bsky.social

In Argentina. Feeling how the world is closing over us. There is sun, but there is no hope.

Lo más duro y lo más relajante de visitar tu país es que, desde que llegas, sabes que te vas.

I have been almost converted to a new religion with this book. It should be mandatory for all academics. Something great I took for it is incremental writting

I am working on an article that is totally different for what I usually do. I am not sure why I complicated my life so much, but here I am trying to make sense of my chaos.

My book stamp

Book Release! 🔖 Dr Jessica Martin has published 'Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis', via Bloomsbury Academic The book explores gender inequality, media driven feminism, and a new kind of 'austerity celebrity' Congratulations Jess! 📖 Check it out here: https://ow.ly/izBc50X8jc5

Powerful piece by @echomikeromeo.bsky.social www.historyworkshop.org.uk/queer-histor...

Imagining Trans Futures

Sam Rutherford reflects on how trans histories and historians can work towards building power in the trans community.

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I am reading about memory studies, and I am shocked by how they announce a turn every two pages.

🧵You know what I would love love loveeeeee. Mainstream media platforming migrants. I’ve written plenty about it and yet all the articles going around are written by British folk? Part of the problem with the discourse is lack of representation on mainstream media? Who would have thought lol

Next October 30, I will be discussing A Brief History of Violence in Mexico with my friends Thomas Rath, Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, Paulo Drinot and Ben Smith www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

A Brief History of Violence in Mexico

This session will discuss A Brief History of Violence in Mexico by Pablo Piccato (Columbia University).

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Patria no, colonia sí www.ambito.com/economia/el-...

El Tesoro de EEUU confirmó que negocia con el Gobierno de Milei una línea de swap por u$s20.000 millones

El secretario del Tesoro de EEUU, Scott Bessent, anunció que está en la mesa de negociación con Javier Milei una línea swap de u$s20.000 para auxiliar financieramente a la Argentina.

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I love political journalism

I always think of that text of Adorno in which he describes his admiration for Benjamin's ideas. My book is back in Argentina, but according to the internet was something like

Oh I want this book so much :) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social may want it too

Ketil Slagstad@slagstadk.bsky.social · 11mo ago

To celebrate the release of "Standardizing Sex," I'm giving away a free ebook. For a chance to win and learn about the myriad strategies the state has followed to standardize sex, share this post and tag someone in the comments. I'll announce the winner in a week. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

📑 I am happy to share a new article that I co-wrote with Salvador Vidal-Ortiz entitled "Lohana Berkins: A Latin American Travesti Theory of the Body".

Very interesting paper by Fraccaroli & Simonetto (@psimonetto.bsky.social) which explores LGBTQ + archival practices in Latin America and highlights that archives share but also contest the meaning and materiality of memory of how LGBTQ+ people are remembered: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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