Look what just arrived in the mail! Such inspiring work about queer women in Nazi Germany by @schuneke.bsky.social! Congratulations!!! #queerhistory

Congratulations @ankahajkova.bsky.social! This is such wonderful news! 🎉

Dr Anna Hájková@ankahajkova.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I am thrilled to have received the @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social in category "Holocaust" for People without History Are Dust. My book was shortlisted alongside books by colleagues whom I respect and whom I have been reading since I was a young student.

Congratulations to @ethelene-whitmire.bsky.social! Can’t wait to read her new book! 🎉

African American Studies at UW-Madison@afamuw.bsky.social · last yr.

Dr. Ethelene Whitmire's latest book, "The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram", the true story of a queer, Black man living in Europe during 20th century, will be released from Penguin Random House on February 3, 2026.

We are hosting a hybrid workshop on trans German studies next May with fantastic keynotes by Kadji Amin and @riislover667.bsky.social! The deadline for proposals is approaching on Dec 15 networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

In case you or someone you know is in Amsterdam this coming Friday. There will be a book event for the edited collection “Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World” (2025) at SPUI25. I contributed a chapter on queer rural amusement park space. Free registration below. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

​Het platteland in verbeelding​

​​De uitslagen van recente verkiezingen – nationaal, regionaal en internationaal – worden geduid met verwijzingen naar een toenemende kloof tussen stad en platteland. In hoeverre draagt de culturele, ...

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Babylon Berlin. Big Screen. Tuesday Nov 18. 6:30 PM. Auditorium. Hunt Library. @ncstate.bsky.social @ncsulibraries.bsky.social Register FOR FREE here: calendar.ncsu.edu/event/global... #BabylonBerlin

Congratulations to @schuneke.bsky.social i can’t wait to read it 😍

Samuel Huneke@schuneke.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...

Huge congratulations to @ankahajkova.bsky.social for publishing a quintessential book on queer Holocaust history 🥳 #queerhistory

Dr Anna Hájková@ankahajkova.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The book is here! This morning the UPS delivered fresh off the press my second monograph, People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, published by @uoftpress.bsky.social translated by @williamrossjones.bsky.social and with a foreword by @jennifervevans.bsky.social

Thank you to all who came to the opening of my 1st show last night! It is wonderful to see all these faces I’ve gotten to know so well shown all together. I hope I did justice to their stories and that they would be happy. The display will be up for Sept. @thegallerybar in New Bedford, MA

This is such an important book. Available now for pre-order at 30% off with the code E26JCMGZ www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu...

Gay Print Culture: A Transnational History of North America

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Excited to host Andrea Rottman this Friday! Join in person at UBC or over zoom!

UBC Centre for European Studies@ces.ubc.ca · 11mo ago

CES is excited to announce our second annual Tobin Distinguished Lecture! Historian and author Dr. Andrea Rottmann will give a talk entitled "From Weimar to Berlin: Queer Democratic Citizenship through Hilde Radusch's Five Lives" on September 12, 12-1:30 PM in BuTo 225 and over Zoom. See you there!

It is twenty years today since my first book Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-57 was published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social and I am feeling contemplative. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Queer London

In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big ci...

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This fall the DDGC Queer and Trans Studies Research Coop will be hosting a cozy reading book club. Join us to read and discuss Blutbuch by Kim de l’Horizon! Dates and registration can be found here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Registration for Cozy Reading: Blutbuch by Kim de l’Horizon

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My review of @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social fabulous book “Anders als die Andern” is finally out with @uoftpress.bsky.social! Go check it out, and purchase Ervin’s masterpiece if you haven’t done so! #queer #utp #bookreview #ervinmalakaj #andersalsdieandern #hotoffthepress

Ervin Malakaj. Anders als die Andern | University of Toronto Quarterly

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Friendlies: the fabulous comrades over at VPL have fixed the sound system. The event has been rescheduled: October 9! I'll introduce the film and the Magazinist duo will accompany the screening with a NEW score. Registration free and open to public. vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/68a5f...

Expanded Cinema: Magazinist's Anders als die Andern

This event is part of a new series of performances that combine cinema with live music, movement, theatre, and more. Local experimental music duo Magazinist have produced remarkable original scores fo...

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Ervin Malakaj@ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · last yr.

The Magazinist duo Matthew Tomkinson and Andy Zuliani developed a new score for Richard Oswald's pioneering queer melodrama ANDERS ALS DIE ANDERN and will showcase their work during this upcoming screening at the Vancouver Public Library. Registration is free. vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/67edc...

My book chapter on #MagnusHirschfeld and #AndersAlsDieAndern in the edited collection Urban Discourses of Crises and Resistance by @springer.springernature.com is finally available! #Queer #Weimar #Germany

Resisting Erasure and Reclaiming Queer Space: The Urban Crisis of Male Prostitution in Oswald and Hirschfeld’s Anders als die Andern

In 1919, one of the earliest cinematic landmarks that addressed homosexuality, Different from the Others, premiered in the Apollo Theater in Berlin. In their attempt to challenge the criminalization o...

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My “Queer Germany” students had the privilege of speaking with film director Yony Leyser about his feature film, Desire Will Set You Free, yesterday. They demonstrated exceptional interviewing skills in the German language. I’m so proud of them! Think and Do! 🏳️‍🌈 @ncstate.bsky.social

In spite of all the professional chaos lately, I'm pleased to see this piece out today in early view and open access in Unterrichtspraxis. It's the culmination of a couple of years of writing and thinking about these issues, which are more important now than ever. Out in print later this year!

Reframing Gender‐Inclusive Language in German Education: Politics, Pedagogy, and Possibilities

Recently in Germany the question of gender-inclusive language has become another front in the culture wars. Headlines portray these linguistic innovations as disruptive and unnecessary while politici...

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I just earned my PhD from UCSB and am excited to join NC State as Assistant Professor of German this fall. So grateful to my committee—Patrice Petro, Leila Rupp, Catherine Nesci, and Ervin Malakaj—for supporting my dissertation Queering the Archive: Transgender Identities in Weimar and Nazi Germany.

My new book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London is part of @waterstones.bsky.social summer promotion this week - 25% off pre-orders by entering SUMMER25 at the checkout. www.waterstones.com/book/songs-o... #WPreorder #history #London #20s30s #sevendials

So thrilled to share my book chapter on amusement parks and queer sexualities in the Midwest—a piece very close to my heart, and rooted in my own coming out as a gay man from Germany thanks to my time in the Midwest over a decade ago. #LGBTQ #Pride #QueerStories #Gay #Love doi.org/10.1163/9789...

Chapter 18 A Place Like No Other: Exploring the Relationship between Amusement Parks and Queer Men in the Midwest

Abstract This chapter investigates the queerness of rural amusement park spaces, challenging the assumption that queer spaces are exclusively urban. Through film analysis of Todd Stephens’s Edge of Se...

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Finally got around to displaying my author copies of Dancing with the Modernist City. You can use University of Michigan Press’ discount code HOLIDAY24 to get 50% off any books here (press.umich.edu)! @uofmpress.bsky.social