Queer Studies Scholars, Teachers, Activists and Graduates on Mastodon

This is a list of self-submitted information about those engaging in queer studies, academia and activism on the social network Mastodon. This has been created to help us find each other on a growing social network.

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Areas of interest (i.e. queer space, trans studies, gender etc.)

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Theory, history, space, representation, gender, public history, museums, time, trans studies, pedagogy, decolonisation

PhD Student at the University of Warwick looking at queer representation in museums. I use visual methods.

Law lecturer in Bristol, former ILGA researcher, (gender)queer.

Queer history, youth, gender, oral history, public history, queer health, trans studies

PhD student at Royal Holloway UoL using oral histories to investigate growing up queer in the UK since 1967

LGBT Law & Litigation, Constitutional Law, Employment Discrimination, Interstate Recognition

United States & Canada (primarily), UK, Ireland & other Common Law countries (intermittently), Mexico & other Civil Law countries (occasionally)

queer theory, trans studies (inc. trans philosophy and transgender marxism), philosophy of gender, neuroqueer studies, queer and trans fiction, relationality

Queer time, queer future, disability studies, queerness and illness experience, queer ecologies, vital materialism

Queer futurity, speculative fiction, solarpunk, science fiction, utopian theory, feminist philosophy, feminist posthumanism, queer theory, decolonial thought and praxis

Trans and queer histories, transmisogyny, transfeminism, trans law

literary studies, adaptation studies, medieval studies, gender studies, violence, history of emotions

Dr Mike Jones is an archivist, historian, collections consultant, and Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Deep History (Australian National University). His research explores the history of collections-based knowledge, and the ways in which contemporary technologies and public history initiatives can help to develop and maintain relationships within and between collections, communities, and their histories. His first book, Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum, was published by Routledge in 2021.

Queer theory, Genre theory, Speculative fiction, Film, video games, and new media, Love, affection, and intimacy in fiction, Affect studies, Disability studies

Queer studies, trans studies, cultural history of gender and sexuality, science studies

I’m really into digital queer engagement, esp for queer folks who are also neurodivergent, mentally unwell, disabled and/or managing recovery.

Queer theory, trans* studies, gender and sexuality, fandom studies, online queer fanworks, digital sociology

PhD student at the University of Calgary studying how trans and non-binary individuals use online. Queer fanworks as a space for gender exploration and development. Hi

Academic at the University of Melbourne, she/her, currently working on project about beauty

Queer studies, queer of color critique, decolonial queerness

Gender, trans studies/advocacy , women's studies, intersex advocacy, other social justice advocacy, content moderation.

GenX, member of many intersectional communities. Never satisfied.

Sociologist at UniMelb/UON, looking at trans studies and disability. Open to work/collab

Queer & lesbian futures, utopia, community building, social media, phenomenology, space & time, embodiment, identity, feminist pragmatisms, emotional geographies, creative methods

PhD student in Sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa, unceded Algonquin Territory. I'm studying queer and lesbian futures, utopias, phenomenology & creative methods. I'm also a futurist and design strategist for gov, working in the diversity, equity and inclusion space.

Queer studies; memory studies; cultural studies, film studies, post colonial studies

Black queer and trans studies, quare studies, anti-oppressive social work

Social worker, researcher, and activist. Vanier Scholar & PhD student at Dalhousie University researching barriers to health and social care access for Black gbtq+MSM in Canada.

Queer Legal Theory, Legal Gender Studies, Feminist Legal Studies

Gender studies, Queer Studies, Masculinities, and Postcolonialism,

Queer kinship, queer spaces, queer futurity, sci fi / speculative fiction, popular culture, transnational studies

queer theory, transgender theory, medieval scandinavia, old norse myth

Equality and diversity, charity law, fanfiction, fan studies, audience studies,

Researching perinatal care for Trans, gender expansive, and nonbinary parents

Trans representation, queer/trans art histories, trans spaces

Art histories, gender studies, trans studies, visual arts/media

Currently not working due to disability but doing remote LGBTQ+ education for individuals on fiverr

I have a degree in LGBTQ+ studies and (disability permitting) hope to eventually work in LGBTQ+ education or activism

I host a history podcast with a strong interest in LGBTQIA and sex-positive history. We interview historians and feature new books and research. Always looking for more guests!

Academia, Disability, Editing, Fandom, Gender, Poetry, Queerness, Rhetoric, Teaching, Writing

feminism, queer and trans history, queer studies, queer theory, sexology, gender variance, transcestors, queer and trans liberation, same-sex sexuality, Gilded Age, Victorian era, Edwardian era, Belle Époque, fin de siècle, 1920s, settler colonialism, Foucault, Eve K. Sedgwick

At work on biography for University of Minnesota Press on Leon Belmont (1853—1926), who transed gender and queered Gilded Age sex/gender norms.

Poetry, intersectionality, writer development, QTIPOC, disability, Black British, queer

Adam Lowe is the UK's LGBT+ History Month Poet Laureate, chair of Black Gold Arts, co-chair of #MEAction UK and committee member of Schools OUT UK.

representation, queer femininities, cyborg, science fiction, feminist studies of science and technology, translation