I consider the queer possibilities of theory that emerges in moments when we let our bodily organs speak to us through experiences of pleasure and pain.

I suggest that an amphimixis of eroticisms, as a queer erotic relational landscape, has the potential to travel beyond clearly defined queer cruising spaces into broader erotic life.

I use these examples of queer autoethnography to consider a Ferenczian sexual theory where genitals are not assigned a privileged erotic status or assumed to belong to a binary gender or sex.

Very happy to see this The Polyphony! Thanks

I bring together Ralcua Soreanu’s work on Sándor Ferenczi’s theory of sexuality with Florêncio’s recent writing (with Liz Rosenfeld) about experiences of cruising, and Just’s use of horror writing to explore her experiences of endometriosis.

With 38 hrs to go to the EHRC consultation deadline I'm seeing posts from people feeling bad they're too stressed to engage.
The GLP⬇️has removed all but the last step, a general comment box. This is a far easier task. I hope it helps those who want to, to get their voice heard without too much pain.

Unexpected full page in today's Observer on yesterday's protests and it doesn't interview a single GC for 'balance'

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.

The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010

www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

You are warmly welcome to an online launch of our double special issue, Queering intimacies, families and companionships, on 23 April 2025, from 15:00 to 16:15 (EEST)

Link to the event: uef.zoom.us/j/6136398447...
Meeting ID: 613 6398 4474
Passcode: 304373

None of my trans mates feel safe enough to celebrate #TransDayOfVisibility this year. That says everything. Sending love and fierce solidarity—especially to the disabled trans community in the UK. You deserve safety, joy, and care.

Flyer for patients / clients in psychotherapy

Flyer for psychotherapists ……

This Thursday!

Research study participant recruitment: A queer phenomenological analysis of experiences of sexual and erotic feelings between female-identified patients and psychotherapists (ERAMS ETH2324-1980)

Potential participants can contact me either directly or using this link bit.ly/QETCFP

PRE-ORDERS OPEN! A #transgender rights history about #LGBTQ+ standing up to Nazis in the shadow of the Third Reich! Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute and the lives of #trans patients proving that joy + life lived as your authentic self is an act of radical #resistance. 🧪🗃️📚🏳️‍⚧️

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….how the jouissance of colonial and post-colonial violence might be invoked in psychotherapy...the role of whiteness....
and the necessity of the therapist’s ‘exigent sadism’
All welcome - pay what you can - www.freud.org.uk/event/freudi...

Next Thursday 20th March at 6pm I will be leading the next Freudian Research Seminar Series with the @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social
I’ll be thinking about why race disappears from conversations about erotic transference in psychotherapy.........

1. Major news in transgender care.

Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.

They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.

Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.

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Finally.

A major media outlet has finally reported on Trump’s total travel ban for transgender visa applicants seeking the United States.

I had to scream for two days to get someone else to report on it.

It is NOT just for athletes.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Only six more days to submit your abstract to the Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory!

Join the Queer Encounters research network for a special visit to the psychoanalytic archive to see contributions from Klein, Winnicott and others to the 1957 ‘Wolfenden Report’. March 28th 2pm GMT. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-enco...

Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/psychoanal...

& Calvin Thomas' hilarious and angry 'Lacanistas in the stalls: Urinary segregation, transgendered abjection, and the queerly ambulant dead'.

Both chapters offer tremendous potential for resistance and queer/trans becoming in times of state repression - we look forward to a vibrant discussion!

Queer Encounters reading group 27/02/25: Dina Al-Kassim's reflection on Afsaneh Najmabadi's 'Professing Selves'.

Join us to discuss the complexities of religion-and state-sanctioned gender transition in Iran through Al-Kassim's Laplanchean lens of the 'enigma of gendered embodiment and desire'

We can't outspend Sieg Heil Elon - but we desperately need more firepower. Please, if you don't want to see his values dominate in the UK, help us fight back: goodlawproject.org/donate/