New article (open access!!) online now with Contemporary British History www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘In the eyes of the law I might be a man but what do I look like?’: trans women and sex work in 1980s and 1990s England

This article considers the precarious position of trans sex workers in 1980 s and early 1990 s England by examining the ambiguities of medico-legal interpretations of their identities and labour. D...

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And continued with a two-day workshop “Intimate States” ⚡️ I presented about Hungarian sexologist Elvira Lux (1929-2016) 👋 Bye Prague!

Presented at one of the coolest conferences of the year in Prague 🌈 My paper was titled “Queer Comrades: Teenage Friendship and Same-Sex Desire in Hungarian Sex Education During the Cold War” 👩‍❤️‍👩

💥🦄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!

👏 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! 🎤👀

Next year, again! Please, distribute, apply, consider coming as mentor, discussant, chair! @dacretu.bsky.social @giannako.bsky.social @johannamellis.bsky.social @zorapiskacova.bsky.social @rkpejsova.bsky.social www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

So excited for our workshop tomorrow with @georgiakat.bsky.social and @loladickinson.bsky.social! You can follow the keynote lecture by @npapadogian.bsky.social chaired by @elisaheinrich.bsky.social and all the following panels in person or online 💫

EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group@eui-qfg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

💥💅🏽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)

So excited for the upcoming workshop ‘Sexuality, Activism and the State in Modern Europe’ which I have organised with the brilliant @zsofia-v.bsky.social and @georgiakat.bsky.social. Promises to be a fantastic day of talks and beautiful Italian sunshine! www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

join @filipkostelka.bsky.social @zsofia-v.bsky.social Imogen Bayley & me in Florence @eui-eu.bsky.social or via Zoom on 16 April, as we discuss the implications of the #HungarianElection 🇭🇺🗳️ Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

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 🌟🦾📚

Book recommendation and review by me! You can read it here: www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...

Presenting my paper today at ELTE Budapest: ‘They Consider Prevention a Sin’: Attitudes Towards the Reproductive Choices and Knowledge of the Roma in State-Socialist Hungary. Thank you for inviting me to the kick-off workshop of this fantastic project on mixedness and mixed families!

Kick-off Workshop of "Mixed Families: Searching for Identity and Belonging in Post-Conflict Societies"

Members of the Research Group "MIXED" invite scholars to join them in addressing the key questions that the project will tackle.

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Applications are open until 24 February: Short (one-week) mobility stays at the EUI in Florence for doctoral researchers from the targeted Widening countries ✈️

📢 Call for applications IVF Research Grants 2026 at the Historical Archives of the EU are now open. 🗓 Deadline: 27 April 2026 🔗 https://loom.ly/egHlbls 👉 Spread the word! #ResearchFunding #ArchivalResearch #EuropeanIntegration #Visegrad4 #CzechRepublic #Hungary #Poland #Slovakia

💥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!

New article out 🎉 Drawing on my PhD research, I explore the construction of the 'prostitute' and the 'client' within England's AIDS Policy in the late 1980s. Published with the @sshmedicine.bsky.social and now available to read here (though sadly not open access!): #histmed #histsex #AIDShistory

The ‘Prostitute’ and the ‘Client’ in the Making of England’s AIDS Policy

Abstract. This paper explores the state’s evolving discourse on prostitution and sexual health during the ‘crisis years’ of England’s HIV epidemic. Analysi

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For people who are from Eastern Europe and consider applying to the EUI: we are giving a prep talk about our own application experiences - Don’t forget to sign up! @eui-eu.bsky.social #WideningEurope

You can read my review here:

CEU Review of Books@ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The editors of The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe, Agnieszka Kościańska, Anita Kurimay, Kateřina Lišková, & Hadley Z. Renkin, offer a cornerstone in the canon of academic scholarship on sexuality. Read @zsofia-v.bsky.social's review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/build...

I am so excited to share the news that after many years of research & writing the collaborative monograph of the project #ZARAH #Women'sLabourActivism is out today with @uclpress.bsky.social ! It is available in print and online (open access). uclpress.co.uk/book/womens-...

Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond

This collaborative monograph presents a deeply researched, inclusive history of women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe, Austria, Turkey and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late twen...

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Thank you so much to LUCK (Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge) for including me in this fantastic summer school 🎓

Highlights from this year’s summer school

Last week, the sixth annual Summer School in the History of Knowledge brought together an international group of 20 Ph.D. candidates and early career researchers for four days of lectures, seminars…

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Presenting my paper today at @ische-news.bsky.social in Lille, titled “They Are Used To Latin Expressions” about expert knowledges and teacher training in Hungarian school-based sex education during the Cold War @univlille.bsky.social (Photo: Fortepan/Urbán Tamás)

Hungary Pride ban prompts largest ever parade in Budapest: ‘There have never been so many people’

Anti-LGBTQ+ Hungarian PM named 'king of Budapest pride'

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been named 'king of Pride' after Budapest Pride's largest ever event in response to his ban.

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Excited to present my paper (“We demand more contraceptives”: Family planning and the transnational activism of the National Council of Hungarian Women) today in Paris, Condorcet Campus 🏛️

This was such a lovely trip 🤍 thank you @ricbul.bsky.social for organizing it

EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group@eui-qfg.bsky.social · last yr.

As an end-of-year activity, the Working Group visited the Centro di Documentazione Aldo Mieli in Carrara 🏛️ This public LGBTQIA+ archive is run by and grew out of the personal collection of Luca Locati Luciani and welcomes curious researchers and activists. cdocaldomieli.com

THANK YOU to the participants of our Sensitive Matters oral history workshop @georgiakat.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social ✨ keynotes Dr Natalya Benkhaled-Vince and Dr Ráhel Turai ✨ chairs @mboluferp.bsky.social @elisaheinrich.bsky.social Monika Baár, Benno Gammerl ✨ poster emeseveszely.com

This is happening today! You can still join the workshop we organized with @georgiakat.bsky.social 💫

EUI Department of History@eui-history.bsky.social · last yr.

Sensitive matters On 3 June at 9.00 CEST, join a workshop on vulnerability in oral history and interviewing 👉 buff.ly/EfcD0t0 Organised by our Interviewing and Oral History Working Group 👉 buff.ly/ZeDsnIk 📣 #OralHistory #GenderHistory #skystorians

As part of the LGBT+ History Month Italia, the Queer and Feminist Studies and the Interviewing and Oral History Working Groups jointly organised a wonderful one-day workshop with Professor Tamara Chaplin.

April is Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month – an opportunity for charities and the young people we support to come together and raise awareness of the unique challenges facing teenagers and young adults with cancer 💙

A belated blogpost - not at all in time for Women's History Month - about a couple of books that were on display #libraries #feminism #womenshistorymonth blogs.eui.eu/library/femi...

Feminism(s) and conservatism - History item of the month - The EUI Library Blog

Ripa, Yannick, and Françoise Thébaud. Les féminismes: une histoire mondiale 19e-20e siècles. Paris: Textuel, 2024. and Virgili, Fabrice, and Camille Noûs. Femmes contre le changement: conservatisme, r...

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A reminder to celebrate trans people and remember that they face discrimination worldwide, increasingly in countries like Hungary, which has just banned Pride! If you want to help, you can support and follow the Hungarian organisation transvanilla! (Links below) #transdayofvisibility ‍