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Daniel Fountain
@danielfountain.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer & Director of Postgrad Research in Art History at University of Exeter | Writer, Researcher, Artist and Curator | Queer art and visual culture | He/They🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.danielfountain.com https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/37109-daniel-fountain
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Aug 26
First he pretends he’s an art expert and now that?
a drag queen is making a funny face and saying not this .
ALT: a drag queen is making a funny face and saying not this .
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Aug 3
My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Jul 24
Another year around the sun 🌞
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · Jun 26
Look who’s a cover girl for a really cool book 👀
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Jun 26
Mark your diaries - January 2026. Available to pre-order now. 🤜🎤 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-cra...
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Jun 26
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Jun 26
Mark your diaries - January 2026. Available to pre-order now. 🤜🎤 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-cra...
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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · Jun 19
*first year lecture, academic strides in*

“right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION”

*students wail, gnash teeth, vomit*

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told
Guidance has been published by the Office for Students on new free speech rules coming into force this year.
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Jun 6
Ikr! You too! Xx
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Jun 6
Just had a notification that The Metropolitan Museum of Art have aquisitioned my book Crafted With Pride, and it’s now pride of place (pun intended!) in their research library! 📚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · May 15
Huge congrats to my amazing doctoral student Chloë Edwards on passing her PhD viva today with an incredible thesis titled "Listen Without Prejudice: Queer Masculinities in the Popular Music Cultures of Thatcher's Britain". Photo: Sunil Gupta, Heaven, 1980.
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · May 14
The UK has dropped to its lowest position ever (22nd) on the
@ilgaeurope.bsky.social ranking of the best and worst places to be LGBTQ+ in Europe.

Ten years ago, it ranked in first place.

Our government must reverse, not further, this shocking decline in LGBTQ+ rights.
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Apr 26
The landscape for LGBTQ+ research is so bleak. Still fuming that UKRI decided this review was acceptable and didn't undermine EDI policy. Highlights: no relevence to LGB cuz trans inclusive, no hostile climate cuz Pride and gay marriage, no need for declonisation cuz Tate did it 24 years ago (?) 🤷‍♀️
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Apr 17
Sorry I should have specified - as in, what job sites etc should I be looking at? Netherlands and Sweden are high on my list!
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Apr 17
Apropos of nothing that has happened this week…where is the best place to look for academic jobs in the EU? The UK no longer feels like a place my community is welcome and I am genuinely scared.
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Apr 17
The icon that is @roseschmits.bsky.social has legit done this with a piece called ‘Emergency Trans Toilet’
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Apr 16
Today’s news is so bleak. What a horribly hostile place the U.K. continues to be. Check on your trans siblings. Lives are on the line here. 🩷🤍💙
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · Apr 16
Categories used by the state to sort people into boxes are never neutral.

Some thoughts on the UK Supreme Court case ruling and the wider anti-trans campaign to narrow sex and gender categories in policy, data and law.

📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/04/16/t...
A pink background with a speech bubble that reads: The Politics of Categories
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Apr 14
Absolutely wonderful review of my edited collection Crafted with Pride in the Journal of Design History! 🙏
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · Mar 28
“Research into sexuality and gender is vital for identifying social, cultural, and medical needs of populations, and addressing inequalities across populations.”

It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship.

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Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research
Published in The Journal of Sex Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Mar 19
My ceramic cake/jelly collection is getting seriously out of hand…
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Mar 11
Yet another scandal brewing within UK Higher Ed: universities can get research money for everyone they've sacked. Big ghost fleets of lecturers who don't exist will be launched into the next Research Excellence Framework. Unis will laugh and cash in (1/2). englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Mar 3
Cover reveal for the new book hopefully dropping soon 😉✍️📚🏳️‍⚧️
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Feb 12
Oh I didn’t know you were there! 😘
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossb-brighton.bsky.social · Feb 12
Hugely engaging and insightful event with @danielfountain.bsky.social this evening! 🌈🧵

Crafted With Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain @intellectbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social is highly recommended!

#LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay
Front cover of Crafted With Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain, edited by Daniel Fountain
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Feb 12
Great to ‘meet’ you virtually and thanks for your great question!
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