Matthew Waites (he or they)
@matthewwaites.bsky.social
Reader & Sociology Subject Co-Lead, @UofGSociology.bsky.social University of Glasgow. Global queer politics, sexualities & genders, human rights, decolonizing, genocide. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/matthewwaites/
We’re opening SQIFF 2026 with Scottish Shorts 🎬🏴 A celebration of queer filmmaking coming out of Scotland right now, from experimental film and punk rebellion to queer and trans strength, intimacy + community. 📅 19 Oct, 8:30pm 📍 GFT Full line-up, tickets + access info: www.sqiff.org
SQIFF 2026 programme is LIVE! We’re back for our 11th festival, 19–24 October at Glasgow Film Theatre & The Vic and Assembly Rooms. 100+ films and 27 events celebrating LGBTQIA+ stories from Scotland and across the world. Programme + tickets: sqiff.org Art: Christian Noelle Charles Model: Medea
*PSA27 Annual Conference - Call for Papers* 📢 FINAL REMINDER 📆 Deadline for submissions 12 October ➡️ Join us at the University of Hull from 22 - 24 March 2027 ℹ️ Full details online
For all new PhD students starting their journey today, I just wanted to share this piece about foregrounding both the joy and value of what you are doing. Good luck to you all - you are doing hope’s work www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/too-...
Too much talk about our PhD scars does current students a disservice
Better to remind candidates that a doctorate is an opportunity to find and articulate their own thoughts on what they care about most, says Les Back
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I can’t recommend this book highly enough - The PhD Handbook by Rosie Doyle and Fraser Robertson . It’s a fantastic resource and companion for any PhD student in any field. thesociologicalreview.org/reviews/the-...
The PhD Handbook by Rosie Doyle and Fraser Robertson
Rosie Doyle and Fraser Robertson reveal the skills of academic life, from power poses to body language in the viva. Les Back reviews The PhD Handbook.
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Don't miss ISA's upcoming #Webinars and #Virtual #Courses in October! Learn more & register: buff.ly/MWa1QW6 Interested in staying up to date on future #VirtualEvents? Sign up for ISA Connected, our monthly newsletter dedicated to all upcoming programming: buff.ly/TNTPD97
Very sad news yesterday that BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed is to come off the air. Laurie Taylor has done an incredible service to us all by giving sociological ideas a space to be heard. This is a lovely conversation with him thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/may...
Laurie Taylor in conversation: A life that celebrates ‘the drunkenness of things being various’
Laurie Taylor talks to Les Back about life as a sociologist of crime and deviance, his long career as a broadcaster and the value of sociology today.
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Join us on the 20th Oct, 6-7.30 pm, in the Adam Smith Bldg, Rm 492 for a lecture by Prof. Stephen Small (University of California, Berkeley): 'Transnational Black culture in Liverpool in the final decades of the twentieth century: legacies of West Africa in so-called ‘the second city of empire’.
Glasgow 21st November 3-5.30pm The Doublet presents 'Pubs for the People' and an afternoon discussion about how pubs help us understand the nation over a few pints. Meet authors Sivamohan Valluvan and Amit Singh in conversation with Les Back www.eventbrite.com/e/pubs-for-t...
Pubs for the people
The fight for the pint and the nation By Sivamohan Vall! Book Launch!
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UCU - UCU condemns Turkish state crackdown on LGBTQ+ people and civil society www.ucu.org.uk/article/1467...
UCU condemns Turkish state crackdown on LGBTQ+ people and civil society
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Recently, #Türkiye's officials launched coordinated operations targeting #LGBTI+ organizations, journalists & individuals. Watch ISA's conversation with activists & experts on the crackdown against #Queer #Activism & its relation to the anti-democratic path of the government: buff.ly/BUiA7Pg
Targeting Queer Life in Türkiye: Family, Security, and Mass Arrests
Sponsored by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, & Allies Caucus (LGBTQA). This month, authorities launched coordinated operations across 15 provinces targeting LGBTI+ organizations,…
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Colleagues at Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Caledonian are all on strike today over job cuts. Please show your solidarity as they take to the picket lines to defend jobs and education.
This is going to be a great event if you are in London on 23rd October. Early bird tickets available.
For those who missed @isanet.bsky.social's excellent expert panel on the crackdown targeting queer life in Turkey, you can find the link here: youtube.com/watch?v=nNV_ujWY1so&feature=youtu.be.
Targeting Queer Life in Türkiye: Family, Security, and Mass Arrests
YouTube video by International Studies Association (ISA)
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International Studies Association@isanet.bsky.social · 3w agoHappening today! Recently, #Türkiye's officials launched coordinated operations targeting #LGBTI+ organizations & individuals. Join ISA's online conversation with activists & experts on the crackdown against #Queer #Activism & its relation to the government's anti-democratic path: buff.ly/wxNX4Yq
📢 Submissions are open for the ISA 2027 Midyear Conference in #Reykjavík, #Iceland (23-25 June)! Explore this year's theme, Melting Ground: Crossroads of Global Order, and submit your proposal today: buff.ly/WP8zIUl
A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Benjamin Netanyahu begins his speech.
It is demonstrably proven, via multiple studies as well as commonsense, that preventing young people explore and acknowledge their own identity has massively harmful impacts. Labour reviving Section 28 against trans young people will cause untold harm, just as the original Section 28 did.
QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 3w agoUnlike Section 28, these rules are spread across a myriad of documents, which will make it harder for LGBTQIA+ groups to fight to overturn their harmful impacts Read our full analysis 👇
Great to see this first article published from my former PhD student Dr Congwei Zheng, on gay men in China engaging with parenting via surrogacy @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Beyond Choice: Constrained Navigation of Surrogacy Destinations Among Chinese Gay Men
This article examines how Chinese gay men navigate surrogacy destinations under conditions of legal complexity, unequal resources and limited recognition of gay parenthood. Drawing on qualitative int...
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Valuable online gathering on Friday to address the escalated state repression of #LGBTI+ in Turkey via @isanet.bsky.social
International Studies Association@isanet.bsky.social · 3w agoRecently, #Türkiye's officials launched coordinated operations targeting #LGBTI+ organizations, journalists & individuals. Join ISA's online conversation with activists & experts on the crackdown against #Queer #Activism & its relation to the anti-democratic path of the government: buff.ly/wxNX4Yq
European Conference of African Studies Lisbon 2027 #ECAS2027 www.ecasconference.org/2027/
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From 30 June to 3 July 2027, Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal, will welcome scholars from across the world for the 11th European Conference of African Studies (ECAS2027): African Prisms.
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📢 Submissions are now open for the ISA Midyear Conference 2027 in Reykjavík, Iceland (23-25 June)! Explore this year's theme, Melting Ground: Crossroads of Global Order, and submit your proposal today: buff.ly/x914QPl
Dutch riot police break up far-right protest in The Hague after violence erupts
Dutch riot police break up far-right protest in The Hague after violence erupts
Authorities ban anti-immigration march after fireworks and other projectiles thrown at officers in city centre park Dutch riot police dispersed several hundred far-right protesters in The Hague on Saturday after violence erupted and local authorities banned a planned march in the city against immigration and asylum policies. Police officers made several arrests after some protesters started throwing fireworks and other projectiles at them. Continue reading...
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The Welsh Gender Service also doesn’t suffer from the vast backlogs that many English and Scottish gender clinics are weighed down by
NHS cancels all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of Welsh Gender Service with immediate effect
Some trans patients received news their surgeries had been cancelled just days or even hours before they were due to take place
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There has been a noticeable lack of serious reaction over Turkish persecution of LGBTQIA+ community from the global community. As in many other countries, Türkiye tries to mask persecution by claiming being LGBTQIA+ isn't illegal and then using "obscenity laws". www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Turkey detains dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists and journalists
Protesters teargassed as minister claims widespread raids and arrests under obscenity laws were to ‘protect families’
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Open letter against repression of LGBTI+ people in Turkey, over 1250 signatories including myself. Solidarity with Turkish LGBTI+. I hope the chapter ‘The Ottoman Empire and is Legacies’, in our book Colonialisms and Queer Politics, provides a resource to teach on this. velvele.net/2026/09/17/j...
Judith Butler, Noura Erakat, Slavoj Žižek and others join more than 1,250 academics in joint letter against repression of LGBTI+ people in Turkey
A joint call from more than 1,250 academics, including Judith Butler, Noura Erakat, Slavoj Žižek, Susan Stryker, Jasbir Puar, Elizabeth Anderson, Etienne Balibar and Peter Hallward.
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Thanks to everyone who came to our book launch, at least 144, we hope to publish a recording from Sexuality Policy Watch
Matthew Waites (he or they)@matthewwaites.bsky.social · 4w agoOnline book launch for Colonialisms and Queer Politics, eds S Corrêa, G Gomes da Costa & M Waites. Fri 18th Sept. Hosted @sxpolitics.bsky.social w. Federal University of Pernambuco & @uofgsps.bsky.social 9am US EST, 10am Brazil, 2pm UK, 3pm CET, 4pm Turkey. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Please share this online book launch Colonialisms and Queer Politics, engaging global historical sociology @rc09-isa.bsky.social @rc56.bsky.social @isa-tg12.bsky.social @wg01-local-global.bsky.social
Matthew Waites (he or they)@matthewwaites.bsky.social · 4w agoOnline book launch for Colonialisms and Queer Politics, eds S Corrêa, G Gomes da Costa & M Waites. Fri 18th Sept. Hosted @sxpolitics.bsky.social w. Federal University of Pernambuco & @uofgsps.bsky.social 9am US EST, 10am Brazil, 2pm UK, 3pm CET, 4pm Turkey. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Invitation to our Colonialisms and Queer Politics book launch - global historical sociology and political sociology in action @asanews.bsky.social @thesociologicalreview.org @bsatheory.bsky.social @bsa-families.bsky.social @bsarace.bsky.social @rc48-isa.bsky.social @rc47isa.bsky.social
Matthew Waites (he or they)@matthewwaites.bsky.social · 4w agoOnline book launch for Colonialisms and Queer Politics, eds S Corrêa, G Gomes da Costa & M Waites. Fri 18th Sept. Hosted @sxpolitics.bsky.social w. Federal University of Pernambuco & @uofgsps.bsky.social 9am US EST, 10am Brazil, 2pm UK, 3pm CET, 4pm Turkey. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Delighted to be able to share advance notice of the online book launch for this timely and very welcome new collection. Sign up at the link below.
Matthew Waites (he or they)@matthewwaites.bsky.social · 4w agoOnline book launch for Colonialisms and Queer Politics, eds S Corrêa, G Gomes da Costa & M Waites. Fri 18th Sept. Hosted @sxpolitics.bsky.social w. Federal University of Pernambuco & @uofgsps.bsky.social 9am US EST, 10am Brazil, 2pm UK, 3pm CET, 4pm Turkey. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
