Last month I was in Beirut visiting Makani, an organisation that works with refugee women in the UK and Lebanon.
I met the most brilliant women at the charity's centre, who have built a great community & also do skilled (& genuinely beautiful) creative work in embroidery and crochet. So I have 1/3
thank you for coming all the way!
Zuhörer*innen vor der Veranstaltung, Buch, Wasser
Solidarität mit den drei Buchhandlungen! Vor einem Jahr hatte ich eine Veranstaltung bei der Göttinger Roten Straße, sie waren fantastisch.
Queer Central European studies is a beautiful field
ten scholars of queer Central Europe smiling
And here are we (almost) all!
In the third panel, we heard from @npapadogian.bsky.social and @tomsmithgerman.bsky.social on the Greek migrants and the Gayhane
L to R: Craig Griffiths, Isabell Dahms, Annalisa Martin
Second panel: Craig Griffiths on Swiss queer magazines during 1930s and 40s organizing human rights, and @annalisamartin.bsky.social on two women in love in a BRD workhouse in the 1950s.
Did you know that West Germany sent stigmatized people to workhouses up to 1969?
Today’s workshop is the first ever meeting of UK scholars who work on queer Central Europe/Germany!
HF, IR on laptop, DP
Next, @history-doug.bsky.social and @irisrach.bsky.social present their essays, skillfully moderated by @helencfinch.bsky.social
Sam Huneke speaking
Today is workshop on Queer Central Europe organized by European History Research Centre/yours truly. Opened by @schuneke.bsky.social keynote on queer women in Nazi Germany
Good news for us, for the higher education in the UK, for reason in the UCU! mazzel tov, Mark!
@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social has presented the National Jewish Book Award (Holocaust category) to People without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust by @ankahajkova.bsky.social! This award “represents the best of Jewish literature.”
#NationalJewishBookAwards
Israeli army just ordered all of Dahiyeh residents to evacuate. Yesterday the entire south, now all of Dahiyeh (Beirut's southern suburbs).
Still have yet to see comments on proportionality from the international community. Macron asked Israel not to launch ground invasion but seems too late
it’s quite a lovely filling
mazzel tov!!!
Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.
Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:
Povidla
hamentashen that are not very triangular
“Form follows function,” they said, but what about if form limps behind?
and yes Purim is over but I had food poisoning
magnolia starting to blossom
Can’t help it still find magnolias so romantic
The exhibition is in both German and English and includes a wealth of new insights and archival discoveries (and gives credits!). I also really appreciate how the curator uses inclusive text but also writes very clearly. Go have a look yourselves!
exhibition-qi.educat-kollektiv.org/de/
I have just updated the bibliography on lesbian and trans people in Nazi-occupied Europe, now including the online exhibition "Spectrum of In_justice: Gender nonconforming lives under Nazi rule" curated by Kai* Brust
sexualityandholocaust.com/bibliography/
UK Home Office now only accepting 4.5% of Ukrainian asylum seekers because it’s a “safe country”. Families sent to cities being bombed, told to use noise cancelling headphones to block out the horror.
news.sky.com/story/ukrain...
This is so terrible that I am lost for words (does not happen much)
Film and media historian @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on the parallels between the current ICE surge in Minneapolis, where she lives, and the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. Read through the end, deeply observed >>
The Israeli police brutally dispersed a small anti-war demo yesterday in Tel Aviv.
Diesen Shitstorm finde ich nicht so verdient.
Ich weiß nicht so recht. Ich lächle durchaus bei Veranstaltungen, auf Photos kann man mich grinsend finden. Ich poste diese Bilder zwar nicht auf Socials (das war unklug), aber dennoch:
Heißt es, dass ich mich über das Thema lustig mache? Mitnichten.
www.juedische-allgemeine.de/politik/poli...
I never interned anywhere, I could not afford to.
