Alex Stoffel

Why Palestine Matters So Much to Queer People Palestinian identity can “upend the whole world order, if done right, if spun right, if we activate it enough. And I think queerness is a very similar kind of identity.”

Today in @thenation.com: a rich, insightful piece from @jadsalfiti.bsky.social on the complex, decades-long intersection of the Palestine and queer movements, and why Palestine has become such a vital queer issue.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Next week I'm moderating an @histmat.bsky.social event on the instantly-canonical 'Feminism Against Cisness' with @riislover667.bsky.social, @reproutopia.bsky.social, Lola Olufemi, and @weakanalogy.bsky.social.

Thursday, December 11, 6pm GMT, online

To register: www.eventbrite.com/e/feminism-a...

It's the most wonderful time of the year! (annual HM conference in under a month)

Register here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/product/twen...

I'm one of the speakers at The Site's annual conference later this month. The full program is here: www.the-site.org.uk/events/hope-...

Eros and Empire | Stanford University Press The history of queer politics in the United States since 1968 is commonly narrated as either a progressive campaign for state recognition or as a subcultural rejection of prevailing gender norms. But ...

If you're in the US or Canada, you can get 50% off 'Eros and Empire' until September 8!

www.sup.org/books/politi...

End of the rainbow: sex, empire, and the new right rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

Alex Stoffel (@stoffelalex.bsky.social) traces how liberal narratives that once instrumentalised LGBTQ+ rights as markers of modernity have given way to a resurgent right-wing politics, where sexuality becomes a site of fear, control and civilisational anxiety. revsoc21.uk/2025/08/14/e...

Poster for London Trans+ Pride

THIS COMING SATURDAY, 26 July: London Trans Pride.

We’re meeting at 1pm in front of All Souls Langham Place.

LTP has been going since 2018, and has only grow in urgency under the current attack on trans lives. Join us in celebration & protest! 🏳️‍⚧️

All info: londontranspride.org

Thanks to everyone who came along to the @pinko.online event yesterday! You can pick up a copy of After Accountability @housmansbookshop.bsky.social if you haven’t got one yet.

Friday, June 20 6 PM Pelican House 144 Cambridge Heath Road London

6 pm tonight in London at Pelican House, join us and @stoffelalex.bsky.social for a reading and discussion of AFTER ACCOUNTABILITY www.pinko.online/pinko-in-lon...

Max @maxfox.bsky.social and I are doing a reading and discussion of @pinko.online's After Accountability this evening in London.

6pm at Pelican House!

www.pinko.online/pinko-in-lon...

t.co/5k4MkqezLj

Queer, Trans, and Intersex Liberation History Join us for a discussion of 'Hermaphrodite Logic' and 'Eros and Empire' with authors Juliana Gleeson and Alexander Stoffel.

On Tuesday 27 May, between 17:00–18:30 (BST) join Historical Materialism editor Alexander Stoffel (@stoffelalex.bsky.social) and Juliana Gleeson discussing 'Queer, Trans, and Intersex Liberation History'. The event will be broadcast online, further details from the link below.

Eros and Empire: A Marxist Theory of Desire, Queer Liberation, and the Limits of the Nation with Alexander Stoffel | Acid Horizon Get more from Acid Horizon on Patreon

I got to speak to @acidhorizon.bsky.social about my book. We talk marxism, desire, queerness, palestine, RFK, you name it.

You can listen here:

www.patreon.com/posts/eros-a...

youtu.be/weYN5J8GcEw

Queer, Trans, and Intersex Liberation History Join us for a discussion of 'Hermaphrodite Logic' and 'Eros and Empire' with authors Juliana Gleeson and Alexander Stoffel.

Juliana Gleeson and I will be speaking about our books on sexual liberation histories later this month.

The event will be live-streamed on YouTube, 27 May, 5pm BST.

Registration link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1342159758...

I got to join Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for an interview about Eros and Empire last week:

newbooksnetwork.com/eros-and-emp...

grateful for this very clear review of the book's argument and stakes

Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025

Now announced... CfP: Twenty-Second Annual Historical Materialism London Conference, 'Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order'.

This year taking place 6-9 November 2025 at SOAS University, London

Empire Unmasked: Struggles for Gender and Sexual Freedom in an Era of US Imperial Crisis - Historical Materialism US power has organised the expanded reproduction of global capitalism over the past 70 years and continues to do so. Much ink is currently being spilled over its decline. Commentators are debating whe...

I wrote up some provisional reflections on the changing character of US empire for @histmat.bsky.social

www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/empi...

Come join me and @stoffelalex.bsky.social for a conversation with @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social about his important new book, Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx, hosted by the Gender, Sexuality and Feminism Stream @histmat.bsky.social. Register here www.eventbrite.com/e/subsumptio...

Congratulations on your new book Eros and Empire, @stoffelalex.bsky.social! 👏👏Extra excited to read it after such a great launch @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social
Check out the book at www.sup.org/books/politi...

Here's a beautiful edit of one of our actions at ISA! #EndScholasticide #EndGenocide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress

I thought I’d start putting together a list for people working within queer and trans Marxism.

Please let me know if that’s you, so I can add you!

go.bsky.app/6sdaeHP

2. 'Queer Marxism: The Making of the Queer Radical Tradition?' on Monday, 10 March, 6:15-7:30pm at Columbia

I will be discussing my new book with Tulio Bucchioni, kindly hosted by ISSG and ICLS.

issg.columbia.edu/events/queer...

NYC friends and comrades -- I'll be in town next month for two events.

1. 'Provincializing Cisness' on Friday, 7 March, 5-7pm at NYU

Ida Birkvad and I will be facilitating a panel discussion with Durba Mitra, Emma Heaney, @asliz.bsky.social, and Howard Chiang

csgsnyu.org/event/provin...

Book cover of Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States by Alexander Stoffel

In Eros and Empire, Alexander Stoffel analyzes three prominent US-based social movements—gay liberationism, Black lesbian feminism, and AIDS activism—to argue that they were fundamentally shaped by their transnational entanglements. #ReadUP #ReadSUP

www.sup.org/books/politi...

Thank you Flora!!

Eros and Empire is out today! Yikes!

20% discount code
- for US and Canada: STOFFEL20
- for international orders: FFF24

www.sup.org/books/politi...

Come join our gathering in Paris in 1-3 July!

🍉On 13th February, the ISA Council will be voting on a motion against #scholasticide & for #BDS. ISA members: please urge your section & caucus chairs to vote in favour of the motion🍉 #BDSatISA

I thought I’d start putting together a list for people working within queer and trans Marxism.

Please let me know if that’s you, so I can add you!

go.bsky.app/6sdaeHP