🌈 👩‍⚖️ 👨‍💼 ‍💼 🌈 Very pleased to see this in print! The outcome of research by Steven Vaughan, Ben Weil and I on the experiences of LGBT+/Queer barristers within the heteronormative and masculinist environment of the Bar of England and Wales. What seems to be at stake in being an 'out' professional, how that gets navigated, and what it might cost. The possible forms of Professionalism: Credibility and the performance of queer sexualities among barristers in England and Wales. https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12408

#lgbt #queer #lawyers #barristers #professionalism #lgbthistorymonth

🌈 👩‍⚖️ 👨‍💼 ‍💼 🌈 Very pleased to see this in print! The outcome of research by Steven Vaughan, Ben Weil and I on the experiences of LGBT+/Queer barristers within the heteronormative and masculinist environment of the Bar of England and Wales. What seems to be at stake in being an 'out' professional, how that gets navigated, and what it might cost. The possible forms of Professionalism: Credibility and the performance of queer sexualities among barristers in England and Wales. https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12408

#lgbt #queer #lawyers #barristers #professionalism #lgbthistorymonth

Ross-shire Journal: 8 Highland stories you should know in LGBT+ History Month https://www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/news/8-stories-you-should-know-about-for-lgbt-history-month-304989/

#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #AGhàidhealtachd #Highlands #ScottishHighlands #Eachdraidh #History #LGBTHistoryMonth

#LGBTHistoryMonth shows that positive and enduring change is possible when governments have the bravery to deliver it.

The last Labour Government did more to advance LGBT+ equality than any in history.

The next will make Britain a beacon of LGBT+ freedom and equality again. 🏳️‍🌈

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/AnnelieseDodds/status/1628802825126830080

Incite LGBTQIA+ poetry night, are doing a history month special!

Featuring a writing workshop by my lovely friend Hannah Chutzpah, readings by Matthew Keeley, and open mic.

Wed 22 Feb, 6.30pm GMT, Zoom

https://www.facebook.com/events/568130005234495/

#Poetry #LGBTHistoryMonth #WritingWorkshop

I don’t do much media anymore. Being in the Lords require a different sort of influencing and it’s pretty #brutal out there for a queer woman trying to make a nuanced point.

But I do the occasional podcast and you don’t say no to Crystal from #dragrace. It’s a bit sweary, I forgot others might listen but it’s the history of things that made me queer this #LGBTHistoryMonth

Queer theory opens a space for challenging how knowledge and expertise can be weaponised against LGBTQ people. In doing so they challenge what has come to be accepted as objective and neutral.

#LGBTHistoryMonth
#QueerTheory
#CriticalTheory
#LGBTAfrica
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February is #LGBTHistoryMonth 🏳️‍🌈

On display in the museum are a few of the items we've collected relating to LGBT+ history including artwork by local trans woman, Katie Wilson, and Roman hairpins, often excavated from soldiers' barracks. We'll be discussing the significance of this location in tomorrow's post so stay tuned!

Queer people often have to create the cultures they wish to live in. This is especially true in cultures where cishet patriarchy and homophobia are the norm.

Open acess paper by
Rachel Spronk and S. N. Nyeck

#LGBTHistoryMonth
#QueerTheory
#CriticalTheory
#LGBTAfrica

Open access paper

Cite as

Spronk, R. and Nyeck, S.N., (2021). Frontiers and pioneers in (the study of) queer experiences in Africa Introduction. Africa, 91(3), pp. 388-397.

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When you go,
if you go,
and I should want to die,
there’s nothing I’d be saved by
more than the time
you fell asleep in my arms…

—Edwin Morgan, “When You Go”
4/4
#ValentinesDay 💘 #LGBTHistoryMonth 🏳️‍🌈 #Scottish #literature #poetry

There were never strawberries
like the ones we had
that sultry afternoon
sitting on the step
of the open french window
facing each other
your knees held in mine…

—Edwin Morgan, “Strawberries”
3/4
#ValentinesDay 💘 #LGBTHistoryMonth 🏳️‍🌈 #Scottish #literature #poetry

No smoke without you, my fire.
After you left,
your cigarette glowed on in my ashtray
and sent up a long thread of such quiet grey
I smiled to wonder who would believe its signal
of so much love…

—Edwin Morgan, “One Cigarette”
2/4
#ValentinesDay 💘 #LGBTHistoryMonth 🏳️‍🌈 #Scottish #literature #poetry

VALENTINE WEATHER
Edwin Morgan

Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes,
come on, let us sway together,
under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

—a short 🧵 of Edwin Morgan love poems for #ValentinesDay 💘 & #LGBTHistoryMonth 🏳️‍🌈
1/4
#Scottish #literature #poetry

Intersectionality isn't just another theory, it is a means to extend solidarity and create activism and change that addresses all manner of oppression. It recognises how the liberation of one group is tied to the liberation of another.

#LGBTHistoryMonth
#QueerTheory
#CriticalPsychology
#Intersectionality
#Feminism
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https://youtu.be/ssb7wRrdMOc

#FilmShort #LGBTHistoryMonth

Friday evening writing about the lesbian romance between musical hall singers Gwen Farrar and Norah Blaney, and my heart has been slowly melting since then #lgbthistory #lgbthistorymonth

Queer theory challenges the normative nature of psychology. Through its refusal to accept psychologisation it produces a psychology that is political, defiant and liberatory.

Open access paper by Wen Liu.

#LGBTHistoryMonth
#QueerTheory
#CriticalPsychology
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Sharing this past article for #WaybackWednesday in recognition to the #BlackHistoryMonth in the US and #LGBTHistoryMonth in the UK: a quick history lesson to why it’s celebrated differently between these countries.

https://medium.com/@fr314/why-the-uk-and-us-celebrate-black-history-month-and-lgbt-history-month-differently-201029129b4f

As part of LGBT+ History Month, the Middlesex University LGBT+ Network is hosting Behind the Lens, a talk and Q&A with Sue Sanders, activist and educator (Schools Out, LGBT+ History Month UK), and Adam Zmith, writer (Deep Sniff) and podcaster (The Log Books). This will be a hybri in-person and online event on Wednesday 15th February, 5:00-6:30pm

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/behind-the-lens-with-sue-sanders-and-adam-zmith-tickets-539028156727

#LGBTHistoryMonth2023 #LGBTHistoryMonth

Therapy has come to be accepted as normal. However, the individualised approach of locating distress within those seeking therapy has created a culture of depoliticising social issues. Queer theory challenges the assumptions of therapeutic and psychological systems.

Open acess chapter by Miguel Roselló Peñaloza and Teresa Cabruja Ubach

#LGBTHistoryMonth
#QueerTheory
#CriticalPsychology
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