Heike Bauer

26th October 2026 is the 30th anniversary of Intersex Awareness Day. The UK government's own report from June of this year shows the need for immediate action to protect the bodily autonomy of i/VSC people. You can read more in the link and sign the open letter: openletter.earth/open-letter-...

26th October 2026 is the 30th anniversary of Intersex Awareness Day. The UK government's own report from June of this year shows the need for immediate action to protect the bodily autonomy of i/VSC people. You can read more in the link and sign the open letter: openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Brilliant job opportunity in Birkbeck's School of Creative Arts, Culture & Communication: Lecturer in Digital and Immersive Storytelling, full-time, open ended post. Contact Scott Rodgers at s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk to find out more: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

RIP Dolly Parton youtu.be/nwBNBcFAFso?...

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Terrible news about Jason Arday. Contrary to the recent media frenzy, plagiarism is not an isolated problem in academia & certainly not an EDI issue. The deeply entrenched bullying culture on the other hand is a serious barrier to inclusive environments in which truly transformative work can thrive.

Very hot already on the walk to work but Bloomsbury is providing privileged shady relief.

Hugely looking forward to Mundane Queer History www4.uib.no/en/research/...

Excellent news! “[The ruling] is a devastating indictment of the impartiality and competence of the OfS, implicating its operations…It raises important and urgent questions for the government as it plans to grant ever more powers to the regulator." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fully funded Bloomsbury PhD studentship (SOAS/Birkbeck): Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives. Supervised by Anandi Rao & me. Application deadline 6 May. www.soas.ac.uk/study/studen... 🌈🎓

How can we preserve and celebrate trans histories? If you're in Birmingham on 29 April, come hear about the Digital Transgender Archive. Speaker: Prof K. J. Rawson (Northeastern University) Chair: Prof Mo Moulton Arts 104 University of Birmingham 29 Apr 1pm www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net 🌈🎓

Deadline 2 April. Fully-funded Bloomsbury Scholarship: 'When Should Pets Die? Mapping changing expectations around end-of-life care in UK veterinary practice'. Due to start in 2026-7; supervised by Karen Hiestand at the RVC and me. bloomsbury.ac.uk/when-should-...

Deadline this Friday, 27 April: fully-funded Bloomsbury Scholarship on 'Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives'. Due to start in 2026-7; supervised by Anandi Rao at SOAS and me. bloomsbury.ac.uk/queer-meanin... 🌈🎓

Great new work by @dianewatt.bsky.social and colleagues on a millennium of medieval women's writing from across the globe www.surrey.ac.uk/news/thousan...

Weather! Near Bridge of Orchy, Scotland.

Excited to share that Karen Hiestand & I have secured a 2nd Bloomsbury Doctoral Scholarship working across the Royal Veterinary College & Birkeck Humanities: When Should Pets Die? Mapping changing expectations around end-of-life care in UK veterinary practice bloomsbury.ac.uk/when-should-...

Excited to share that Karen Hiestand & I have secured a 2nd Bloomsbury Doctoral Scholarship working across the Royal Veterinary College & Birkeck Humanities: When Should Pets Die? Mapping changing expectations around end-of-life care in UK veterinary practice bloomsbury.ac.uk/when-should-...

Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.

Applications are invited for a Bloomsbury Doctoral Scholarship on Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives supervised by Anandi Rao at SOAS and me. Deadline 27 March. Full details in the link 🌈🎓 bloomsbury.ac.uk/queer-meanin...

Applications are invited for a Bloomsbury Doctoral Scholarship on Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives supervised by Anandi Rao at SOAS and me. Deadline 27 March. Full details in the link 🌈🎓 bloomsbury.ac.uk/queer-meanin...

RIP Rosa von Praunheim, inimitable queer activist filmmaker 🌈🎓

Beauty along the Wey #SurreyHills

Looking forward to Doing Social Justice Research Now, a panel discussion with representatives from the Birkbeck Institutes, 10 December 2pm at Birkbeck. Free but register to secure your place. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Looking forward to Doing Social Justice Research Now, a panel discussion with representatives from the Birkbeck Institutes, 10 December 2pm at Birkbeck. Free but register to secure your place. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

London evening

London evening

Today! 6pm at Birkbeck. Hope to see some of you there!

This week Wednesday at Birkbeck, right in the heart of Bloomsbury: join us for thought-provoking talk by the brilliant Julia Laite on the history of Newfoundland, home of one of the British Empire’s most remote settlements where one of its most complete genocides took place. Free but pls register

Join us on 19 Nov for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture featuring Julia Laite on the difficult history of Newfoundland, home to one of the British Empire’s oldest & most isolated settler populations where one of its most totalizing genocides took place. Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Join us on 19 Nov for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture featuring Julia Laite on the difficult history of Newfoundland, home to one of the British Empire’s oldest & most isolated settler populations where one of its most totalizing genocides took place. Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Join us for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture in the Humanities & Social Sciences featuring award-winning historian Julia Laite on 'Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'. 19 November 2025, 18.00, Birkbeck, London. All welcome but please register: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Join us for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture in the Humanities & Social Sciences featuring award-winning historian Julia Laite on 'Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'. 19 November 2025, 18.00, Birkbeck, London. All welcome but please register: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Beautiful sky over Troon on the West Coast of Scotland

Beautiful sky over Troon on the West Coast of Scotland

Vienna!

Vienna!

The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🌈🎓

The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🌈🎓

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography now live! 🏳️‍🌈 Thank you to all of the collaborators who made this resource happen! And what a resource it is! Let us know if and when and how you use it! Check it out! #BookHistory #QueerBookHistory #LGBTQIABooks #Research sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

A familiar London panorama looking particularly bright today

A familiar London panorama looking particularly bright today

Beautiful Gothic moon over the Surrey Hills

Beautiful Gothic moon over the Surrey Hills

Dramatic sunrise in the Surrey Hills

My paperback is being launched tomorrow at the Holloway bookshop in Norwich. Do come along!

Painterly morning view in the Surrey Hills

Painterly morning view in the Surrey Hills

Head in the clouds

Head in the clouds