🦄🔔Attention queers🦄🔔 Queer fragments is starting today in Florence! ⚜️⚜️ We're so excited to welcome all our amazing speakers, the programme is packed and enticing! Join online here if you're interested! 💻 www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

💥🦄Attention queers, event announcement!🦄💥 Join our two speakers from the EUI Max Weber Program, Irene Pollini and Martin Gramc, talking about the double standards of human dignity💅 📍Sala dei Levrieri, Villa Salviati 🗓️9 June, 14:00 - 15:30 💻Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58... See you there!

🌈Look at that QFSWG delegation in Prague!🌈 Many of our members are presenting at the "Queering 20th century East Central Europe" conference in Prague 🏛️💅 The keynote, Ann Cvetkovich, talked about queer methods, emotions and the archive 🦄💡 You can see our list of presenters and their topics below!

A joyful and enraged call to action On 4-5 June, join the conference Queer fragments, organised by our @eui-qfg.bsky.social working group 👉 loom.ly/3kc_wuM The conference will bring together researchers, thinkers, and artists discussing why queer lives are made disposable, triable, and unlivable

My secret passion is excel, budgets, and fundraising (to ensure brilliant researchers and activists can attend conferences without socioeconomic barriers)! We have spent much of this past year working on the Queer Fragments conference and it's a joy that it is finally here. @eui-qfg.bsky.social

EUI Department of History@eui-history.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A joyful and enraged call to action On 4-5 June, join the conference Queer fragments, organised by our @eui-qfg.bsky.social working group 👉 loom.ly/3kc_wuM The conference will bring together researchers, thinkers, and artists discussing why queer lives are made disposable, triable, and unlivable

💥🦄Good morning queers 🦄💥 Yesterday, 17 May, was IDAHOBIT (International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We chose to commemorate it with a photograph of Porpora Marcasciano, Italian writer and trans activist, by artist Lina Pallotta (details below) 📷📷 Our struggle continues!

Hello queers! 🦄 The EUI just turned 50 🇪🇺 For the next 50 years, we demand gender and grant equality, equal and trans-inclusive healthcare for all researchers, condemnation and concrete actions against international crimes and genocides! 🇺🇦🇵🇸 Wishing for a brighter future ahead, happy birthday 🎂

Attention queers! 🦄🦄 💥Upcoming book talk: "Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space"💥 Organised by @biljanak.bsky.social, Martin Gramc, and Vita Zalar 💅 📍Emeroteca, Badia Fiesolana, 🕰️12 May, 18.00-19.30 💻Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

☮️Workshop announcement!☮️ "Depending on a relation: Judith Butler as a philosopher of peace" Organised by @biljanak.bsky.social, Martin Gramc, and Vita Zalar. 📍Emeroteca, Badia Fiesolana ⏳11 May, 15.00-17.00 💻Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

🚨Upcoming event🚨 Book presentation by Paul van Trigt (University of Leiden). 📚Join this fascinating book presentation on the history of disability, human rights, the welfare state, religion, and ethnicity! 📍Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati 🕰️5 May, 11-13 💻Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Had the best time at the Sexuality, Activism and the State in Modern Europe workshop last Friday! Co-organised with the wonderful @zsofia-v.bsky.social and @georgiakat.bsky.social

EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group@eui-qfg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

👏 Thank you to all the participants of the “Sexuality, activism, and the state in modern Europe” workshop 👏 We had a great day of inspiring presentations, illuminating discussions and thought-provoking questions ✨🦄💥 👀🎤Find a sum-up of the keynote and panels in the thread! 🎤👀

Really enjoyed speaking at the European University Institute last Friday for a workshop discussing sexuality and activism across Europe organised by @zsofia-v.bsky.social, @georgiakat.bsky.social and @loladickinson.bsky.social

EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group@eui-qfg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

💥🦾Panel 1 - *Recovering Activist Voices*: Anna Feleki (EUI), @joseph-price.bsky.social (University of Warwick), Jan Daniel Schubert (EUI), and @georgiakat.bsky.social (EUI) 🦾💥

👏 Thank you to all the participants of the “Sexuality, activism, and the state in modern Europe” workshop 👏 We had a great day of inspiring presentations, illuminating discussions and thought-provoking questions ✨🦄💥 👀🎤Find a sum-up of the keynote and panels in the thread! 🎤👀

🚨🚨Multidisciplinary Research Workshop coming! 💥🦾 Organised by researchers in the EUI Max Weber Programme 📚 📍Emeroteca, Badia Fiesolana 🕰️28 April, 9:30-18:00 💻You can register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Yesterday (April 26) was lesbian visibility day 🦄💅🦾 We are celebrating with a trans-inclusive version of the historical Labrys Pride flag 💻You can read more about the flag's history here: www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/27/l...

👀💅ATTENTION QUEERS💅👀 👉Interdisciplinary workshop: "Minority studies go universal?"👈 💬 Organised by Vita Zalar, Khushi Singh Rathore, Rajkumar Sahoo, Martin Gramc 📍Emeroteca, Badia Fiesolana 🗓️23 April, 13:00 - 18:30 💻 Registration: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

💥💅🏽Join our Workshop on sexuality in Western, East Central and South Eastern Europe!💅🏽💥 🏫Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati ⏳24 April, 9:30-18:00 🧑🏼‍🎨Illustration by Emese Veszely (1991 World AIDS Day in Budapest)

Let's meet tomorrow at 5 pm in SS Annunziata, we March together for trans day of visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️🦾🏳️‍⚧️

Thanks to all who joined our fantastic and inspiring talk with Angéla Kóczé! In case you missed it, don't worry: the book "Romani Women at the Edge of Neoliberal Europe: Discursive Emancipation and Structural Violence" (MUP) is coming out this summer and will be available at the EUI library 🌟🦾📚

Academic freedom and integrity can do better than "gender critical" terfs‼️ Our working group will be protesting today at the EUI against the invitation of Prof. Alice Sullivan as a speaker in an event on academic freedom. Find here our statement and join us! 🦾💅

Members of our working group too took to the streets in Florence for International Women's Day 2026: EUI is transfeminist! 🦾🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💅

Another extremely proud and emotional moment: congratulations to Dr Mart Chmielewski for successfully defending their thesis "The Bra Capital of Poland: Socialism, Capitalism, and Economic Change in the Polish Lingerie Industry, 1940s-2020s 💥💅🏽👏🏼

Here's the new post of our #EUIAfter series, which shows previous Working Group members and their fantastic projects after graduating from the EUI 🧑‍🎓 Meet Moisés Fernández-Cano, who is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Global Histories of HIV/AIDS at the University of Stirling.

🌟EVENT ALERT🌟 On 12 Februray we're hosting @albertonicotina.bsky.social to present his book "Lidia Poet e le prime avvocate". We will discuss it with @martinicogi.bsky.social and Sara Molinari (@eui-law.bsky.social), both in Villa Salviati and online. Registere here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

🧚🏽🧚🏽 EVENT ALERT 🧚🏽🧚🏽 Tomorrow, we will host @frammaturo.bsky.social in Palazzo Buontalenti to discuss her latest book, "The Politics of Pride Events"! Join us on premise or online, registration is available here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58... Looking forward to the juicy discussions!! 💥💅🏽

‼️Deadline approaching‼️ One week left to apply for the Queer Fragments Conference! 💥🌟 The great proposals we received made us even more eager to collect more to make this conference, as we promised, joyfully and enragedly queer. Find more detailed info on the application process in the CfP! 🦄💅

EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group@eui-qfg.bsky.social · 7mo ago

💥Extension announcement!💥 New deadline for proposals: 30 January (thanks so much to everyone who submitted amazing abstracts already!). New notification of acceptance: 27 February. In the meantime, we are happy to announce our confirmed keynotes: Mahdi Baraghithi and Anna Borgos! 💅🏽✨

My review of Sara Crangle's An Anatomy of Mina Loy @edinburghup.bsky.social is available in Women: a Cultural Review! Thank you to the editorial team, especially Dr. Clara Jones. DM for help with access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... #ModWrite @eui-history.bsky.social @eui-qfg.bsky.social

💥Extension announcement!💥 New deadline for proposals: 30 January (thanks so much to everyone who submitted amazing abstracts already!). New notification of acceptance: 27 February. In the meantime, we are happy to announce our confirmed keynotes: Mahdi Baraghithi and Anna Borgos! 💅🏽✨

EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group@eui-qfg.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The Queer Feminist Studies WG, an interdisciplinary research group based at the @eui-eu.bsky.social, is co-organising an International Conference titled "QUEER FRAGMENTS: BREAKING, REPARING, TRANSFORMING" (Florence, 4-5 June 2026)! Find attached our CfP: you have time until 9 January to apply!

Still a couple weeks to apply for this amazing conference that can take you to Florence next June! 💥

EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group@eui-qfg.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The Queer Feminist Studies WG, an interdisciplinary research group based at the @eui-eu.bsky.social, is co-organising an International Conference titled "QUEER FRAGMENTS: BREAKING, REPARING, TRANSFORMING" (Florence, 4-5 June 2026)! Find attached our CfP: you have time until 9 January to apply!

"Fatti più in là. Storie e lotte queer in Toscana dal 1969 a oggi" opens this Saturday, 29 November 2025 (6 p.m.), in Carrara 📍🏳️‍🌈 All the details are available here: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...