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Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social · Jul 16

That’s a wrap on 2024–25 for the Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender! 💥

Our AGM celebrated our research, shared highlights, welcomed our Paul Cottingham Trust Scholar & our dissertation prize winner!

Huge thanks to all our amazing members & contributors, you make CTSG what it is. 💜

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Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social · May 21

Exciting things ahead at The Centre for Sexuality and Gender CTSG. We spent a productive and inspiring day together as a board, planning future events and shaping the next phase of our work.

#SexualityStudies #GenderStudies
#FeministResearch #LGBTQIAResearch #GenderInequality

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · May 20

I'm in Brighton today to deliver the keynote at the Box Breakers conference organised by @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social

The lineup of presenters LOOKS AMAZING and it's also the first outing for new ideas from #RainbowTrap. Equal parts nervous and excited! 🌈

#LGBTQ #queer #book #newbook

A slide from a talk that reads: Rainbow Trap. A requirement to be classified, as a condition of being included, catches LGBTQ communities in a rainbow trap. With the image of Kevin Guyan's new book, Rainbow Trap.

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Bella Tomsett @bellatomsett.bsky.social · May 20

Phenomenal way to start the @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social #BoxBreakers conference with an insightful talk from @kevinguyan.bsky.social about data, labels, and active resistance to being defined by a box.

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Federica Formato (she/her) @genderedform.bsky.social · May 20

I am attending (on and off because of meetings) this interesting event organised by brilliant colleagues and @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social here at the University of Brighton.

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · Apr 29

Box Breakers: Queer Data, Categories and Who Counts? 🔢

Super excited for this one-day conference at @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social on 20 May, with presenters sharing work on sexuality, gender and/or the idea of box breaking!

🔗 Register to attend (hybrid): blogs.brighton.ac.uk/ctsg/2025/04...

A poster for the one-day student conference on Box Breakers: Queer Data, Categories, and Who Counts? Happening at the University of Brighton on 20 May 2025.

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Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social · Apr 2

It is yours too 😊

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Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social · Apr 2

Great CTSG event today as part of the University of Brighton’s Knowledge Exchange week. CTSG members shared their brilliant and diverse research projects all with addressing inequalities at their core. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Bella Tomsett @bellatomsett.bsky.social · Apr 2

Inspired by the diverse, interesting and important work of my @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social, unified by their interest in people and enabling #SocialChange! With the state of global politics, it feels like a huge privileged to have this space, and the work itself - an ongoing act of #Resistance.

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Melanie Riley @melriley1.bsky.social · Feb 24

Our paper has been published 📢It explores teachers’ perceptions and experiences of delivering LGBTQ+ inclusive Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) in England 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ doi.org/10.1080/1468...

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Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social · Mar 24

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POWES BPS @powes.bsky.social · Mar 24

📢 Call for Abstracts – #POWES2025 is NOW OPEN! 📢

Submit an abstract or register ⬇⬇
bps.org.uk/event/psychology-women-and-equalities-section-annual-conference-2025

This year’s themes:
✊ Resisting violences
🧵 The fabric of freedom
⚡ Accelerating activism

🗓 Deadline: 18 April 2025

🔁 Please repost!

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Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social · Mar 16

Second Session:

Wednesday 7th May 2025, 2 PM (UK Time)
👥 Speakers:
Dr. Cüneyt Çakırlar (Nottingham Trent University, School of Arts & Humanities)
Framing Toxic Masculinity and Queer Vengeance in Alef (2020): Locations of Horror, Islam, and Heterodoxy/Heresy in Postmillennial Turkish Screen Culture

Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social · Mar 16

🚀 New CTSG Webinar Series! 🚀

Muslim Masculinities: Interdisciplinary Conversations – a two-part series hosted by Ömercan Tüm

🗓️ 30 April 2025 | 🕐 1 PM (UK)
🎙️ Dr. James Ravenhill & Dr. Nazila Heidarzadegan

sign-up: www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-zz...

#MuslimMasculinities

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · Mar 16

Still time to submit your proposal for our @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social scholarship for a PhD project on trans / NB inclusion & wellbeing (w me supervising).

The application isn't huge, so even if you've not started yet it's not too late 👍

Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social · Jan 16

University of Brighton & @CottinghamTrust launch one of the UK’s first PhD scholarships focusing on trans & non-binary inclusion‍ ⚧

The landmark initiative provides an opportunity to advance research that drives equality & transforms lives. Find out more bit.ly/42gt3Gn

Funded PhD project in trans and non-binary inclusion

An opportunity to develop a PhD project around trans and non-binary inclusion within health and social care.

bit.ly

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Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social · Feb 20

Excited to kick off our collaboration with Nagoya City University. Our partnership begins with a systematic scoping review on trans-affirmative healthcare in Japan.

#TransAffirmativeHealthcare #TransHealthcare #LGBTQResearch #SystematicScopingReview #Japan #CTSG

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Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social · Feb 10

CTSG board member @profcdllewellyn.bsky.social’s new paper on the complex social, cultural and psychological drivers of the ‘chemsex’ experiences of men who have sex with men: a systematic review and conceptual thematic synthesis of qualitative studies is now available to download ⬇️

Professor Carrie Llewellyn @profcdllewellyn.bsky.social · Feb 7

New paper on the complex social, cultural and psychological drivers of chemsex with implications for therapeutic practice @nadarzynski.bsky.social doi.org/10.3389/fpub...

Frontiers | The complex social, cultural and psychological drivers of the ‘chemsex’ experiences of men who have sex with men: a systematic review and conceptual thematic synthesis of qualitative studi...

doi.org

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Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social · Feb 10

Congratulations to CTSG board member @jamiechan.bsky.social on the publication of this important paper -
“Presentable for the outside world”: Social class, cultural capital and body image amongst White working-class women in the United Kingdom

Dr. Jamie Chan @jamiechan.bsky.social · Feb 10

Literally cannot wait to share this ✨new publication✨ with y’all.

doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...

Tl;dr. White working-class women’s body image is rooted in appearance norms, rather than appearance ideals (they are conceptually different).

Super important to consider intersectionality of class x gender

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Dr. Jamie Chan @jamiechan.bsky.social · Feb 10

Literally cannot wait to share this ✨new publication✨ with y’all.

doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...

Tl;dr. White working-class women’s body image is rooted in appearance norms, rather than appearance ideals (they are conceptually different).

Super important to consider intersectionality of class x gender

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · Feb 5

How can we trace same-sex relationships in rural archives, when love letters were heavily euphemistic or burned after reading?

For LGBTQ+ History Month, Tim Jerrome shares his research into queer rural relationships: from his first find, to the challenges faced.

merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

Thomas and Austen: a gay relationship in the MERL archives? - The Museum of English Rural Life

For LGBTQ+ History Month 2025, researcher Tim Jerrome shares how he's using rural archives to research same-sex relationships in the countryside.

merl.reading.ac.uk

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Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social · Jan 31

Our sponsored event - the Bear Studies Symposium (Wed May 14) - brings together researchers, scholars, students & more interested in the GBQ men’s Bear subculture. Visit bit.ly/bearstudies to register & find out more

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Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social · Jan 30

This timely and important research symposium focused on LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing might be of interest 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Willem Stander @willemjstander.bsky.social · Jan 26

Delighted to announce that the INQYR UK symposium focused on LGBTQ+ health & well-being will be held in Birmingham on May 22nd - in time for Birmingham Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Call for abstracts now open:
🔗 Submission: tinyurl.com/INQYRUK-2025
🗓️Deadline: Feb 28, 2025

Symposium registration will open soon!

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ISPP @polpsyispp.bsky.social · Jan 20

New Blog Post 📣

Why do some people seek to punish women for miscarriages? Jocelyn Chalmers delves into this important issue in our latest blog post, shedding light on the role of ideological attitudes in support for women’s rights 🔍.

Read the article and join the conversation: bit.ly/4hmNPIz

Beyond Abortion: What is Behind the Desire to Punish Women for their Miscarriages?

In March of 2016, then-U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump was asked whether women who undergo abortions when the procedure is banned…

polpsyispp.medium.com

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Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social · Jan 28

📣 Upcoming CTSG Event: Research Seminar by Prof. Noriyo Kaneko – “HIV/STIs in Japan and 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans and Non-Binary Access to Healthcare” on Thursday February 20th, 12:00 – 13:00, Falmer Campus, David Watson Lecture Theatre

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Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social · Jan 16

University of Brighton & @CottinghamTrust launch one of the UK’s first PhD scholarships focusing on trans & non-binary inclusion‍ ⚧

The landmark initiative provides an opportunity to advance research that drives equality & transforms lives. Find out more bit.ly/42gt3Gn

Funded PhD project in trans and non-binary inclusion

An opportunity to develop a PhD project around trans and non-binary inclusion within health and social care.

bit.ly

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Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social · Jan 15

University of Brighton & @CottinghamTrust launch one of the UK’s first PhD scholarships focusing on trans & non-binary inclusion‍ ⚧

The landmark initiative provides an opportunity to advance research that drives equality & transforms lives. Find out more bit.ly/42gt3Gn

Funded PhD project in trans and non-binary inclusion

An opportunity to develop a PhD project around trans and non-binary inclusion within health and social care.

bit.ly

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Serge GUIMOND @seguimon1.bsky.social · Jan 14

1. Published TODAY (😀), Gender diff in emotions during COVID across 24 countries.🧵https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-024-06989-0
#SocialPsych #Academicsky #PoliSky #psychSciSky
@adrianlueders, @shellkryan.bsky.social
@spyasin.bsky.social

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