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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · 6d

I'm one of the speakers at The Site's annual conference later this month. The full program is here: www.the-site.org.uk/events/hope-...

Hope/Less – Exploring Psychoanalytic Uses of Utopia | The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · Aug 26

If you're in the US or Canada, you can get 50% off 'Eros and Empire' until September 8!

www.sup.org/books/politi...

Eros and Empire | Stanford University Press

The history of queer politics in the United States since 1968 is commonly narrated as either a progressive campaign for state recognition or as a subcultural rejection of prevailing gender norms. But ...

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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @rs21.bsky.social · Aug 21

Alex Stoffel (@stoffelalex.bsky.social) traces how liberal narratives that once instrumentalised LGBTQ+ rights as markers of modernity have given way to a resurgent right-wing politics, where sexuality becomes a site of fear, control and civilisational anxiety. revsoc21.uk/2025/08/14/e...

End of the rainbow: sex, empire, and the new right

rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Jul 21

THIS COMING SATURDAY, 26 July: London Trans Pride.

We’re meeting at 1pm in front of All Souls Langham Place.

LTP has been going since 2018, and has only grow in urgency under the current attack on trans lives. Join us in celebration & protest! 🏳️‍⚧️

All info: londontranspride.org

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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · Jun 21

Thanks to everyone who came along to the @pinko.online event yesterday! You can pick up a copy of After Accountability @housmansbookshop.bsky.social if you haven’t got one yet.

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Pinko Magazine @pinko.online · Jun 20

6 pm tonight in London at Pelican House, join us and @stoffelalex.bsky.social for a reading and discussion of AFTER ACCOUNTABILITY www.pinko.online/pinko-in-lon...

Friday, June 20
6 PM
Pelican House
144 Cambridge Heath Road
London

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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · Jun 20

Max @maxfox.bsky.social and I are doing a reading and discussion of @pinko.online's After Accountability this evening in London.

6pm at Pelican House!

www.pinko.online/pinko-in-lon...

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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · May 28

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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · May 21

On Tuesday 27 May, between 17:00–18:30 (BST) join Historical Materialism editor Alexander Stoffel (@stoffelalex.bsky.social) and Juliana Gleeson discussing 'Queer, Trans, and Intersex Liberation History'. The event will be broadcast online, further details from the link below.

Queer, Trans, and Intersex Liberation History

Join us for a discussion of 'Hermaphrodite Logic' and 'Eros and Empire' with authors Juliana Gleeson and Alexander Stoffel.

www.eventbrite.com

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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · May 19

I got to speak to @acidhorizon.bsky.social about my book. We talk marxism, desire, queerness, palestine, RFK, you name it.

You can listen here:

www.patreon.com/posts/eros-a...

youtu.be/weYN5J8GcEw

Eros and Empire: A Marxist Theory of Desire, Queer Liberation, and the Limits of the Nation with Alexander Stoffel | Acid Horizon

Get more from Acid Horizon on Patreon

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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · May 12

Juliana Gleeson and I will be speaking about our books on sexual liberation histories later this month.

The event will be live-streamed on YouTube, 27 May, 5pm BST.

Registration link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1342159758...

Queer, Trans, and Intersex Liberation History

Join us for a discussion of 'Hermaphrodite Logic' and 'Eros and Empire' with authors Juliana Gleeson and Alexander Stoffel.

www.eventbrite.com

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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · Apr 30

I got to join Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for an interview about Eros and Empire last week:

newbooksnetwork.com/eros-and-emp...

Alexander Stoffel, "Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States" (Stanford UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · Apr 30

grateful for this very clear review of the book's argument and stakes

Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @rs21.bsky.social · Apr 30

Review of Eros and Empire by @stoffelalex.bsky.social. The new book looks back at radical struggles which combine fighting for queer liberation with opposing imperialism revsoc21.uk/2025/04/30/r...

Review | Eros and Empire

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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · Apr 1

Now announced... CfP: Twenty-Second Annual Historical Materialism London Conference, 'Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order'.

This year taking place 6-9 November 2025 at SOAS University, London

Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism

Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025

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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · Mar 25

I wrote up some provisional reflections on the changing character of US empire for @histmat.bsky.social

www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/empi...

Empire Unmasked: Struggles for Gender and Sexual Freedom in an Era of US Imperial Crisis - Historical Materialism

US power has organised the expanded reproduction of global capitalism over the past 70 years and continues to do so. Much ink is currently being spilled over its decline. Commentators are debating whe...

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felixdelcampo.bsky.social @felixdelcampo.bsky.social · Mar 24

Come join me and @stoffelalex.bsky.social for a conversation with @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social about his important new book, Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx, hosted by the Gender, Sexuality and Feminism Stream @histmat.bsky.social. Register here www.eventbrite.com/e/subsumptio...

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Kate Hall @katharinehall.bsky.social · Mar 14

Congratulations on your new book Eros and Empire, @stoffelalex.bsky.social! 👏👏Extra excited to read it after such a great launch @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social
Check out the book at www.sup.org/books/politi...

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BDS in International Studies @bdsatisa.bsky.social · Mar 8

Here's a beautiful edit of one of our actions at ISA! #EndScholasticide #EndGenocide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress

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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · Jan 15

I thought I’d start putting together a list for people working within queer and trans Marxism.

Please let me know if that’s you, so I can add you!

go.bsky.app/6sdaeHP

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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · Feb 26

2. 'Queer Marxism: The Making of the Queer Radical Tradition?' on Monday, 10 March, 6:15-7:30pm at Columbia

I will be discussing my new book with Tulio Bucchioni, kindly hosted by ISSG and ICLS.

issg.columbia.edu/events/queer...

Queer Marxism: The Making of the Queer Radical Tradition? | ISSG

Is there such a thing as a ‘queer radical tradition?’ And what is the relationship between queerness and Marxism?

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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · Feb 26

NYC friends and comrades -- I'll be in town next month for two events.

1. 'Provincializing Cisness' on Friday, 7 March, 5-7pm at NYU

Ida Birkvad and I will be facilitating a panel discussion with Durba Mitra, Emma Heaney, @asliz.bsky.social, and Howard Chiang

csgsnyu.org/event/provin...

Provincializing Cisness: Transnational Scholars on the Diversity of Sex/Gender Systems – CSGS

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · Feb 25

In Eros and Empire, Alexander Stoffel analyzes three prominent US-based social movements—gay liberationism, Black lesbian feminism, and AIDS activism—to argue that they were fundamentally shaped by their transnational entanglements. #ReadUP #ReadSUP

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Book cover of Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States by Alexander Stoffel

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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · Feb 25

Thank you Flora!!

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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · Feb 25

Eros and Empire is out today! Yikes!

20% discount code
- for US and Canada: STOFFEL20
- for international orders: FFF24

www.sup.org/books/politi...

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Queer & Trans Historical Materialism Collective @qthomo.bsky.social · Feb 9

Come join our gathering in Paris in 1-3 July!

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