If you're at Belgium Bearpride in Brussels this weekend, you can see me as part of the programme discussing my research on #gaybears! Find us at the Discovering Bear Studies event, Saturday 11am at Grands Carmes 🐻🧔🏼‍♂️

As we have recently lost some of our amazing LBGTQ+ venues - I wanted to share some good news. The fabulous community hub, the Ledward Centre is now back open - such an important asset for our city and was great to drop in and see them over Pride weekend!

UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY

Reminder that I produce a podcast called Space & Sexuality! So far we have covered: - Pride and politics in Copenhagen, - Queer suburbia - Queer architectures - Queer-trans ecologies - Queer organising in Amsterdam - and more! Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/show/033DRqR... 🌈🎓

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Still astonished the Labour party were allowed to march in Manchester Pride given that they're both passively & actively presiding over the mass rollback of trans inclusion & healthcare. Have to wonder if they'd be allowed if they raised age of consent for homosex to 21 or eradicated HIV healthcare

Pissing it down at Manchester Pride but this Lidl diva was making it work

Snapshots from one of my papers at European Geographies of Sexualities Conference 2026. I'm looking into the production of bears' temporary spaces & events, & how volunteer labour, organisational processes, and communication technology were essential to 'bear' both mainstream and LGBTQ space

Having a great time at my favourite conference, this year hosted by a fantastic team at the University of Maribor in Slovenia 🇸🇮

Rachel Bayer@rachelbayer.bsky.social · last mo.

Gorgeous first day at the European Geographies of Sexualities Conference in Maribor!

📰 Today’s Sunday Times exposes just a fraction of the attacks on jobs in Universities. We know the true picture across the UK is even worse. With record student sign ups this situation is completely untenable. The government must intervene.

We have secured the future of the Trans Pride Centre! Thanks to the National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund, we have been awarded a grant of £121,278! This money is ringfenced to keep the rent paid, the lights on, and training for new volunteers covered for the next five years.

I've just heard that the BA/BSc Geography programme is to close at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Geography and Environmental Science (CGES) in Cornwall. This programme was made up of excellent modules with original and content, taught brilliantly—often with real innovation—by extremely 1/9

The Gender + Sexuality Data Lab is hiring a Research Assistant to join its project, ‘Box Breakers: Improving Organisational Data Practices for Minoritised Communities’. Now open to all applicants | Closing date: 25 Aug | More info: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Devastating, two of Brighton's oldest and biggest LGBTQ spaces closing next month - and ones that emphatically weren't just there to cater to hen parties

Attitude Magazine@attitudemag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

R-Bar is the second Brighton gay bar to announce its closure in recent weeks www.attitude.co.uk/culture/r-ba...

Granted I've only seen a tiny slice of Slovenia but I cannot believe how clean and litter-free Ljubljana and its surrounds are. In the UK these green and blue spaces would be covered in garbage, with overflowing bins and every river full of human shit.

Today university fees rise again, while thousands of academics across the country face job cuts, crushing workloads and shattered morale. Students deserve better than this broken system of unfair repayment that widens inequality. Abolish fees and fund universities properly!

Currently in Slovenia - specifically Ljubljana - for my first proper holiday in 10 years (!). Hoping to hike around Golovec, Bled, and Bohinj over the next week, but the 35° weather may do for me 🔥

Love to Berlin Pride / CSD and Berlin's queer communities 🏳️‍🌈 Straight authorities simply love to say 'This was an attack on our society' - NO IT WASN'T. It was an attack on LGBTQ people *specifically*, he didn't drive a car into some policy think-tank did he

Happy Brighton Pride I guess, nothing says gay rights quite like a 15ft wall around the park

T for me but not for thee is it 🤔🤔🤔

Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting

Drop date Aug 25 in the US and UK.

📣New queer geographies podcast! 🌈🎓 Introducing 'Space & Sexuality': Every 2 weeks, I share conversations with leading & emerging scholars across queer/trans geographies of sex and sexualities. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to the first 2 ep's: open.spotify.com/show/033DRqR...

Hey Bluesky crowd! You also should be signing our petition opposing the announced redundancies at the University of Exeter. 📢 We're 17k and growing! Redundancies ARE NOT necessary and we must #DefendExeterUni 🩷 c.org/RFqMvrKb6z

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It’s been a while since I’ve logged into Bluesky, so first things first: my book, Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion, is now out in PAPERBACK! @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

📊New data shows benefits of choosing geography at university. This includes high graduate employment rates, with geography graduates having a higher rate than average. Find out more: https://www.rgs.org/about-us/our-work/latest-news/new-data-shows-the-benefits-of-choosing-geography-at-university

Come join is online tomorrow to learn about ace geographies!

Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network@aroaceresearch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are delighted to welcome @rachelbayer.bsky.social and @joejukes.bsky.social for the first session of the Aro/Ace Online Talk Series who will introduce us to #asexual #geographies! The talk will take place on zoom next Friday, 5 June, at 3pm (UK). Link here: www.aroaceresearch.com/events

Spending the rest of the week at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, w colleagues Alexandre Almeida & Arnau Roig Mora who've also done research on bears 🐻 We're gonna be developing a new paper & funding bid, thinking abt bears outside the Anglo-American sphere (& also visiting some queer bars 🏳️‍🌈)

If I hear one more university leader say they're making "tough decisions" about redundancies or worsening our employment conditions, I will scream. They are not making tough choices, they're making the easiest decisions in the world. Tough decisions would be fighting the inevitability of job losses

Solidarity with friends & colleagues up the road. Hot on the heels of 500+ job cuts is another 200 jobs to go this year. Government silent as the sector collapses.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

'The University of Sussex has said it plans to cut 200 jobs as part of an attempt to save £35m annually. The facility in Brighton will begin a 45-day consultation on Thursday over the potential redundancies, which include roles in admissions, student support and IT services.' 1/3

With summer approaching, now is the perfect time for students interested in geographical careers to gain work experience 💼 Explore our geographical work experience directory, virtual work experience programme with Springpod, and top tips 👉bit.ly/43kSWE7

Everyone read the end of it: "Governments in Scotland and Wales have finally realised that a viable, meaningful higher education sector needs greater oversight and control, and cannot be left wholly to the market. Now Westminster needs to wake up to this need for joined-up thinking"

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 4mo ago

The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians