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Evelien Geerts

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Lecturer/Assistant Prof in Gender, Women’s Studies & Philosophy at UCC. Posthumanities Hub, Eco- & Bioart Lab & Posthumanism Research Institute affiliate. PhD UC Santa Cruz.🦄 https://linktr.ee/egeerts Meme queen, cat crazy & neurospicy. She/they.

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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 15d

#news Prof @irisvdt.bsky.social from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and I were awarded a SATLE grant for our @ucc.ie's @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social-led #interdisciplinary project, "Diffract/ing Positionalities Through Critical and Feminist Pedagogies". More info to follow soon!
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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 16d

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

Details below. Please share.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope

Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights.

While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 17d

“Like many others, we will continue to engage and, true to her spirit, also challenge her many ideas and insights.”

We are excited to share our new special issue which explores the work of late feminist scholar Drucilla Cornell.

You can read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right

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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to this wonderful keynote (and program) & participating by means of a brief intervention on the #violence of #memes

Women's Studies, UCC @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social · 9d

Do check out this wonderful UCC event on Global & Comparative Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence on October 15!

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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 5d

I promised meme-based pedagogies, eh voilà! Do pay special attention to the anti-phallogocentric cat!

Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 5d

I cannot get this song out of my head now…I deserved to be punished…

Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 5d

Ooof! 😂

Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 6d

It’s missing this gem: youtu.be/UvjLgjtJKsc?...

B*Witched - C'est la vie (Official Video)

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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 7d

Interesting summer school on "Monsters Under Pressure: The Queer Art of Resistance" - and with @maggieoneill.bsky.social as a keynote speaker! ces.uc.pt/summerwinter...

Monsters Under Pressure: the queer art of resistance

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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 9d

*Note that the seminar w Prof Ging will be rescheduled to the Spring of 2026.

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Marie Davidson - Sexy Clown (Official Music Video)

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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 11d

Long bus ride - time for some Garbage albums youtu.be/3ppiohVRZ0s?...

Garbage - Queer

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 14d

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 13d

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National University of Ireland @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social · 15d

📢 The Denis Donoghue Award 2025 is now open for applications!

🎓 For NUI undergrads (FT/PT) from under-represented groups
💶 €2,000–€5,000 available
⏰ Deadline: 24 Oct 2025

Generously funded by author Emma Donoghue in memory of her father, Denis.

Apply now 👉 www.nui.ie/awards/Grant...

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 22d

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!

Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.

Applications are welcome until 24 October.

#envhum #envhist #energyhistory

Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd

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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 16d

Had a great time at Brock University today - loved meeting Prof @cdaigle.bsky.social’s Philosophy students while talking about all things #criticalposthumanist, #cartographies & #diffraction! Thanks again for the invite!
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Oliver Davis @oliverjdavis.bsky.social · 17d

Please join us tomorrow at 5pm Cork time for this research paper by Professor Arthur Bradley: 'Genet's dying words: forty years in Shatila'. @maybenansi.bsky.social @egeertsphd.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 17d

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Kafka-land at UC Berkeley

The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.

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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 20d

This looks like an amazing seminar series: newuniversityinexileconsortium.org/news/consort...

Announcing the Certificate in Gender Studies - The New University in Exile Consortium

The New University in Exile Consortium is proud to offer a new Certificate in Gender Studies. Since the launch of our series of free, co-led online seminars in 2019, the Consortium […]

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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 22d

Delighted to co-announce this fabulous Political Technologies seminar series with the co-conveners, Prof @oliverjdavis.bsky.social & Dr @maybenansi.bsky.social. Do check out the poster below!
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Oliver Davis @oliverjdavis.bsky.social · 23d

together with @egeertsphd.bsky.social and @maybenansi.bsky.social I am convening a new research cluster @ucc.ie on Political Technologies. Here is our first year's seminar programme. Please join us online for these talks - links to follow. @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

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Women's Studies, UCC @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social · 28d

Welcome to @ucc.ie’s 2025-26 MA in Women’s Studies cohort! We were joined by UCCFemSoc & UCCGlobalJustice during the intro session taught by program director @egeertsphd.bsky.social, which focused on the discipline’s politico-epistemological origins.
Looking forward to this academic year!

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Alain Mueller @muellerculanth.bsky.social · Sep 6

The first, “Crafting Between Maps, Powders, Pigments, and the Specter of Modern Science: Handmade Relief Models as Ontological Operations and Experiments” (published in @sthv.bsky.social), unfolds their making.

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Crafting Between Maps, Powders, Pigments, and the Specter of Modern Science: Handmade Relief Models as Ontological Operations and Experiments - Alain Müller, 2025

Handmade relief models are three-dimensional, true-to-scale models that re-present landscape sections like mountains. Departing from the rhetoric according to w...

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · Sep 7

DARK is seeking writing submissions on:

Neurodivergence & Hypermobility Intersections.
Video Games and Disability Representations.
Accessible book summaries for Radical Reading zine.
Poetry & Disability.
Shakespeare and Disability Representation.
Horror & Disability Part II.
Architecture & Disability.
Ancient Greece & Disability
UK Disability Policy summaries.

Disability themed Table Top Game development.
How TTRPG's mechanically conceptualise disability.
Also looking for playtesters for our TTRPG.

Further details provided when joining.
Email Richardamm(at)gmail.com to volunteer.

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