qUCL Annual Lecture: 'Changing Gender' with Susan Stryker 19 Oct 6pm, UCL From nineteenth-century phrenology to present-day anti-trans conspiracies, Stryker finds surprising places to tune into the origins, idiosyncrasies & generative possibilities of the gender concept www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

qUCL Annual Lecture: 'Changing Gender' with Susan Stryker

From nineteenth-century phrenology to present-day anti-trans conspiracies to examples from her lifetime as an agenda setting historian, filmmaker and activist, Stryker finds surprising places to tune ...

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Out Laws: Screening & discussion 11 May 6pm Out Laws follows three queer activists, from Namibia, Sri Lanka & Barbados, as they fight to overturn the colonial-era laws that still criminalise their lives With director James Lewis, Prof Bob Mills & activist Friedel Dausab www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Out Laws: Screening and discussion

Please join us for a film screening and discussion of the documentary Out Laws (2025, Lexi Powner & James Lewis) with director James Lewis, Professor Bob Mills (UCL) and activist Friedel Dausab.

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Symposium: Unbuilding the Pyrocene 20 May 13:30 – 20:00 @thebartlettucl.bsky.social Exploring Stephen J. Pyne’s Pyrocene through intersectional, queer & global lenses. Keynote by Nigel Clark. Film screening & directors' Q&A of Playing With Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

Symposium: Unbuilding the Pyrocene

Exploring Stephen J. Pyne’s Pyrocene through intersectional, queer and global lenses. Keynote by Nigel Clark, followed by film screening and directors' Q&A of Playing With Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency

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Grateful to @elpais.com for featuring our research on Budapest Pride and its critical role in Orban's eventual defeat. Our findings show how the attempted repression of Pride helped transform LGBTQI visibility into a broader defense of freedom and democracy.

EL PAÍS América@elpaisamerica.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Así ayudó el Orgullo de Budapest a derrotar a Orbán dozz.es/h1q7em

TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE for the 2026 Queer Data Showcase in Manchester! We’re spotlighting a fantastic group of artists, academics and activists all working with – or interested in – the idea of queer data. 🗓️ Weds 10 June 2026 🌍 HOME, Manchester 👋 All welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-data...

GOTH symposium - Gender and Otherness in the Humanities Friday, May 15, 9am-5pm The Open University, Kents Hill Gender and otherness in drama, literature, creative writing and visual culture. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/6th-annual...

6th Annual GOTH Symposium

SAVE THE DATE: The Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars for two days of productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate.

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Queering 20thC Irish Women’s Writing 1 May 5:30pm @naoisemurphy.bsky.social will discuss her new book, disrupting narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality & race in the postcolonial state. With Sophie Chauhan, @jackconneely.bsky.social & @ctlnkane.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns

qUCL are pleased to welcome Dr Naoise Murphy (Manchester) to discuss their new book, disrupting common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state. Chaired ...

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Dear folks! I am sending the invitation and warmly invite you join us on 7 May 2026 for two events!!! 🥳 🥳 🥳 QUEER ASIA AS METHOD LAUNCH EVENT ⏰ Time: 13:00–15:00, 7 May 2026 📍 In person: Bush House (SE) 1.05 / Online: Microsoft Teams Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/queer...

Our last big hurrah before we're shut down. We hope you can join us (free lunch!) 28 April 2026, 9am-5pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Reflections Symposium: Celebrating the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies

A one-day symposium that will celebrate the wealth of highly innovative, interdisciplinary research that has been generated within the auspices of the IAS over the last ten years.

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Out Laws: Screening and discussion 11 May 6–8:30pm, UCL East Out Laws follows three queer activists, from Namibia, Sri Lanka and Barbados, as they fight to overturn the colonial-era laws that still criminalise their lives. www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Out Laws: Screening and discussion

Please join us for a film screening and discussion of the documentary Out Laws (2025, Lexi Powner & James Lewis) with director James Lewis, Professor Bob Mills (UCL) and activist Friedel Dausab.

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Friends - I'm launching my book in London at @qucl.bsky.social on May Day - I promise extra anti-capitalism in honour of the occasion 🥖🌹and if that isn't enticement enough, I'll be in conversation with the brilliant Sophie Chauhan and @jackconneely.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns

qUCL are pleased to welcome Dr Naoise Murphy (Manchester) to discuss their new book, disrupting common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state. Chaired ...

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Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns 1 May 5:30-7:30pm Dr @naoisemurphy.bsky.social (Manchester) will discuss disrupting common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state. www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Contesting Equality: LGBTIQ+ Rights, the State & Democratic Decline 12 March 6:15–7:30 pm This seminar explores backlash, state power, and activist resistance across the Global North and South. www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Contesting Equality: LGBTIQ+ Rights, the State, and Democratic Decline

This seminar explores backlash, state power, and activist resistance across the Global North and South.

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IAS Book Launch: Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice 19 March, 6-8pm This edited volume considers the role of storytelling and experimental, creative and often collaborative interventions across, between and beyond disciplines. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice

We look forward to the launch of this edited volume with the editors Natasha Tanna, Abeyamí Ortega Domínguez, Hakan Sandal-Wilson.

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Call for Papers: Sexuality and Shame Conference 📅 27-28 May 2026 @exeter.ac.uk Submission Deadline: 27 March This conference explores how sexual shame has been historically produced, regulated, circulated & contested across different periods & social settings exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

‘Bright young thing’: Stephen Tennant, a life lived on his own terms, part of Faces of UCL. His story is one that has influence and relevance today. buff.ly/KURnyzq Photo credit: © National Portrait Gallery, London @ucl.ac.uk @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social

🚨Extra tickets now released. Grab them fast! 🤩 Anarchitecture After Everything 10 March 6pm We're delighted Prof Jack Halberstam will give our annual lecture, exploring the meaning of trans embodiment now, with vocab borrowed from a 70’s art collective, “anarchitecture” www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

qUCL Annual Lecture: Anarchitecture After Everything

qUCL are delighted to welcome Professor Jack Halberstam to give their annual lecture, exploring the meaning of trans embodiment now, using a vocabulary borrowed from a 1970’s art collective called “an...

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It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS. We will close our doors forever on 31 July 2026. Follow the link to leave thoughts, comments, memories 💗 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

All good things come to an end

It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS on 31 July 2026.

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Visit Queer Britain 🖼️ Join B.Queer and explore queer histories, culture & creativity at Queer Britain. 📍 26 February, 4:00–6:00 pm 🔗 Sign up: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=_oivH5ipW0yTySEKEdmlwq13Gm8t27FGoGSAMaORU7FUM0YxMUVVTUVINVVYS1dPTjU2OVRPOE9VUy4u&route=shorturl

Happy 200th anniversary UCL! Read a little about UCL’s Queer History via this blog post from Milo Edwards, a BA Education Studies student, who completed a summer research fellowship with Generation UCL. studentsunionucl.org/articles/ucl...

Book talk: Feminism Enchanted 24 Feb 6pm qUCL are pleased to welcome Yanbing Er @eryanbing.bsky.social to share insights from her new book. How might feminist thought make sense of a fate that can no longer be indexed by a framework of progressive reason? www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Book talk: Feminism Enchanted

qUCL are pleased to welcome Yanbing Er, to share insights from her new book. How might feminist thought make sense of a fate that can no longer be indexed by a framework of progressive reason?

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Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 14 10 February 2026, 3:30pm-5pm An informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 14

The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.

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With the wonderful Max Liboiron, a queer Two Spirit scientist and Indigenous STS scholar whose thinking around science is informed by these intersections. @maxliboiron.bsky.social

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Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero) 4 February 2026, 5pm–7pm This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

🔊 Yugo Queer Join us for this one-day conference, which aims to make area studies more #queer and queer studies more far-reaching. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge. 🗓️ 19 February ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Yugo Queer

A project by Natalija Stepanović, with support from UCL FRINGE, IAS & qUCL.

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The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline that Listened 9 Feb 5pm Authors Tash Walker & Adam Zmith will launch their book 'The Log Books', an intimate history of LGBTQ+ life over four decades, discovered in a stash of forgotten, handwritten notes. www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

🔊 Yugo Queer Join us for this one-day conference, which aims to make area studies more #queer and queer studies more far-reaching. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge. 🗓️ 19 February ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Yugo Queer

A project by Natalija Stepanović, with support from UCL FRINGE, IAS & qUCL.

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Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero) 4 February 2026, 5pm-7pm This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero)

This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics.

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Can’t wait to read this. I did some transcribing for the podcast and was such a fascinating project.

qUCL@qucl.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline that Listened 9 Feb 5pm Authors Tash Walker & Adam Zmith will launch their book 'The Log Books', an intimate history of LGBTQ+ life over four decades, discovered in a stash of forgotten, handwritten notes. www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics & American Health since the Rights Revolutions of the 1960s 29 Jan 6:15–7:30pm We welcome Prof Jonathan Bell @uclamericas.bsky.social, who will explore an emerging crisis in health care access through the lens of sex and gender. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics & American Health since the Rights Revolutions of the 1960s

Join this Health Humanities Seminar with Prof Jonathan Bell (UCL Institute of the Americas), who will explore an emerging crisis in health care access through the lens of sex and gender.

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Yugo Queer 19 February 2026, 2pm-9pm Yugo Queer remaps the Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge. This hybrid conference aims to make area studies more queer and queer studies more far-reaching. www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Yugo Queer

Yugo Queer remaps the Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge. This hybrid conference aims to make area studies more queer and queer studies m...

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