Phillip Ayoub

Out now with @kstoeckl.bsky.social and I are happy to share our new book "The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights" nyupress.org/978147982479... A decade in the making, it offers in-depth look at the global movement to curtail LGBTI rights—and how the LGBTI movement responds to it.

🔊 Tomorrow! What happens when authoritarian regimes appropriate the language of emancipation? Join us for a conversation with author @openlybiased.bsky.social to find out more. Discussants: @payoub.bsky.social and Maja Korac. 🗓️ 21 October at 5pm ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

What happens when authoritarian regimes appropriate the language of emancipation? Join us for the next @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with author @openlybiased.bsky.social to find out more. Discussants: @payoub.bsky.social and Maja Korac. 🗓️ 21 October at 5pm ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

A few things (international) commentatoes should remember. Only 2 million people live in Sachsen-Anhalt. Half of Berlin, a tenth of NRW. Around 400k will vote AfD. Even with this strong result, 80% of people living in S-A will not have voted for the AfD. In a state that is a far-right stronghold.

Looking forward to receive submissions for the DVPW General conference taking place in Leipzig 2027 and its panel "Marginalized Voices, Political Choices: Minority Attitudes and Behaviour, and Party Competition over Minorities". Submissions until October 31st. Feel free to share!

Excited to present work with @payoub.bsky.social at APSA in Boston. We study a real-world disinformation event in which a Swedish far-right organization abused the visual identity of Swedish LGBTQ+ civil-society organizations to make it appear as though they support the legalization of paedophilia.

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In this farewell essay, @payoub.bsky.social & I say goodbye as editors of @ejpgjournal.bsky.social. Here, we reflect on the responsibility editors bear for others' careers-- and on why editing for us meant a duty of care. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

🔄 EPSS Roundtable 4: Meet-the-Editors: Publishing in and Editing Journals in Political Science virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/... 13:30-15:10| Bar 2 (ICC) @payoub.bsky.social, @aeggers.bsky.social , Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien, John Griffin,@zeynsom.bsky.social and @markuswagner.bsky.social

The European Journal of Politics and Gender's incoming Lead Editors @maarja.bsky.social and @grahn.bsky.social are at #ECPG2026 and looking forward to getting started as editors next month. @ejpgjournal.bsky.social

Huge thanks to @jennpiscopo.bsky.social and @payoub.bsky.social and their editorial team for their vision, leadership and hard work serving this wonderful community! @ejpgjournal.bsky.social #ecpg2026

As pride month comes close to its end, read www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Contesting LGBTI Inclusion: Expansion, Contraction, and New Dilemmas By: @payoub.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com

Congrats to incoming editors @grahn.bsky.social and @maarja.bsky.social! Go, go, go! #ecpg2026

Celebrating @ejpgjournal.bsky.social in Newcastle! Massive thanks to outgoing editors @payoub.bsky.social and @jennpiscopo.bsky.social for your vision, leadership and service. You lifted the journal the a whole new level 🔥

My department is hiring a Lecturer in International Relations (full time, permanent, teaching and research) jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... <- very happy to talk to potential applicants about UK academia, the department (but probably not about the IR side of things)

I like this @thejop.bsky.social : "We are now implementing a system in which the editorial team has the right to not consider submissions from authors who have failed to review for the journal three or more times, when invited to do so by the editorial team."

Quick note to our community: several colleagues have reported receiving emails that appear to come from EJPG editors and ask for help with journal business. These messages are scams and were not sent by any member of the EJPG editorial team.

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Always so nice to get to speak with @alanrenwick.bsky.social about research! Here on @adamsharris.bsky.social and my paper in @bjpols.bsky.social, which can be accessed here: www-cambridge-org.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/core/journal...

Should advocates abandon universal rights language in favour of arguments rooted in local traditions and anti-colonial sentiment? Tune in to this week's episode of UCL Uncovering Politics, where we hear from Phillip Ayoub and Adam Harris, both professors in our department: tinyurl.com/2hbv6zm7

I'm very sad to miss this one due to a scheduling conflict, but have learned from Nancy's work and would encourage folks that can to make it!

A ban on conversion therapy in the European Union has moved a step closer. The European Parliament has voted to outlaw the practice of “curing” an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity. It follows pressure from campaign groups and a petition that collected 1,200,000 signatures. 1/2

The High Court has just confirmed what many of us knew. The Office for Students fine of the University of Sussex for supposed ‘free speech’ infringements was a biased piece of right wing culture war politics and had nothing whatsoever to do with free speech. Sussex vindicated and the OfS exposed.

Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming @payoub.bsky.social to @uu-polisci.bsky.social and @uppgap.bsky.social Phil presented his new book with Kristina Stoeckl — The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights. A real privilege to host him in Uppsala! 🤩

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Tonight - roundtable @uclssees.bsky.social analysing the results & potential impacts of last week's Hungarian elections, drawing on a range of academic and policy expertise. In person and virtual. Chaired by @sherrillstroschein.bsky.social of @uclspp.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Thinking back on this experience today, an incredible display symbolizing change could come 🌈

New article on Fast Track by @payoub.bsky.social & Sam Whitt, “Silence or Solidarity? The Political Pitfalls of an LGBTQI Avoidance Strategy in Hungary,” doi.org/10.5129/0010...

Justices Reject Colorado Law Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ for L.G.B.T.Q. Minors www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

APSA celebrates #PrideMonth 2025! 🌈 Check out recent political science research that advances understanding of LGBTQ+ politics, rights, and representation across the globe. Explore new scholarship from APSA members and more! ⬇️

Is it possible to phase out coal and still win an election? Yes! Excited that my paper w @fergusgreen.bsky.social & Mikel González-Eguino on the electoral success of JustTransition policies in coalmining communities is now available OpenAccess at the APSR doi.org/10.1017/S000... Polisky

Check out the newest article from Phillip M. Ayoub, Douglas Page, and Samuel Whitt, “Anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric and electoral outcomes under the shadow of war: Evidence from Poland's 2023 parliamentary election” in the @EJPRjournal. buff.ly/DA1zNSB buff.ly/wVu3VkP

Take a look at this publication from Phillip Ayoub, Vera Mironova, and Sam Whitt, “The Recognition of Shared Suffering After Violence: ISIS Victimization and LGBT+ Support in Mosul Iraq” in @cps_journal. buff.ly/ORfCcCW buff.ly/Ac11X8o

EPSS Diversity Committee is happy to announce the launch of our mentoring program: a new initiative designed to develop a new network within the EPSS community. March 31 is deadline, and program runs from May 1, 2026, to April 30, 2027. More info: epssnet.org/about/divers...

I am moderating this tonight with truly exceptional panelists -- please do stop by if you have time!

Thrilled that my new research w/ @kiranstallone.bsky.social on Bogota's Manzanas del Cuidado -- Blocks of Care -- is now published via the @genderrhul.bsky.social and Ladysmith: we find that feminist care policy *is* possible and reproducible across contexts! pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/files/699028...

Did you present a paper at APSA on European politics and happen to be proud of it? Did you 👀 a paper at APSA on European politics that you wish you had written? Then submit it for the @apsa-europe-polsky.bsky.social best paper award. Committee: @pkostad.bsky.social, Ines Wagner & me Deadline: 15/03