The double special issue of AFS Journal, Creating Feminist Futures: Methodologies for New Times edited by kat jungnickel and me, is really coming together! At this moment of multiple crises, it asks how feminist methodologies can make ethically and politically just futures 🧵 1/?

Designs for life – and all its adventures: our April Image-Maker in Residence is the research project Politics Of Patents, led by kat jungnickel, which looks at patents for innovative multi-function clothing, and the practical challenges they aimed to solve.

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Fantastic article from Angela McRobbie on the devastating consequences of the proposed mass redundancies at Goldsmiths, University of London both for people's livelihoods and prospects for a critical & inclusive higher education system versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

“Can clothing inventions be read as acts of political resistance or subversion? How have clothing inventors attempted to change the world stitch by stitch?”

kat jungnickel Sociology, Goldsmiths leads Politics of Patents, our April Image-Maker in Residence.

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today 200+ of us academics at Goldsmiths, University of London received our letters about redundancy. They held an “information session” which was such a striking display of pathetic visionless management & humour, passion, intellect of colleagues. I may go but I will go with humour & fire 🔥

Me too!! Was a pleasure to contribute: wonderful writing sessions with Nirmal Puwar, patient editing by Rebecca Coleman & inspiration from the fabulous colleagues of Sociology, Goldsmiths

Call for participation: we’re inviting bold, creative & sociologically imaginative proposals to contribute to our #UndiscipliningII conference, 10–12 Sept 2024, Salford, UK.

Send us your proposal on the theme: Who is sociology for?
Deadline: 1 December. buff.ly/47a2Qse

Our short film “Women On The Move” has been shortlisted to appear at Kendal Mountain Festival Film Festival this year 🎉. Made by Adventure Syndicate with Aneela McKenna it’s all about POP’s research into women’s sporting histories. It’s on 17 & 18 Nov. tickets.kendalmountainfestival.com/events/film-co…

We acknowledge the many non-Aboriginal people who support us and are also hurting with the referendum result.

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What an experience so far at #glastonbury2023 . 4 shows done with one to go. If you are here today, please join us for our last performance of Scary Little Girls POCKETS of POWER at 3.30pm at The little More Sensations stage in the cabaret field.

Up bright and early to speak to Worthy FM about our Pockets of Power! show, commissioned by Theatre and Circus. If you’re at #Glastonbury today we’ve got just one show left - at 3.30 on the A Little More Sensation Stage in the cabaret area. 😃

#ThinkingAllowed FASHION RE-IMAGINED:
Angela McRobbie Polity asks how we create a more equitable & inclusive fashion future. Also kat jungnickel Sociology, Goldsmiths on clothing inventions which enabled women's access to sports & the public world. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Still one of my fav projects - The Politics of Patents. What can clothing inventions tell us about citizenship? politicsofpatents.org Politics Of Patents

I've been known to shed a tear reading acknowledgments but the one from Rebecca Coleman kat jungnickel & Nirmal Puwar for this new ed collection is a potent honouring of Sociology, Goldsmiths & its devastation by SMT mitpress.mit.edu/9781913380427/…

Exciting things happening at Politics Of Patents in a dreamy collaboration with Scary Little Girls and Dr Naomi Paxton. Research + historic costumes + puppets + music + cabaret. Coming soon…. 🎉

Here are the links for in-person registration (required) for Friday's event and for our two webinars, 'Queering the Corset' and 'Forensic Jewellery'
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We are excited to see our “Women On The Move” film & the research article it is based on receive widespread national, regional & specialist coverage. So great to see these stories get the attention they deserve and highlight the contemporary relevance of these enduring issues 🎉

We’re featured in the The Guardian best pics of day for #IWD2023 for our research into the inventive histories of women’s sport and active wear. 🎉theguardian.com/news/gallery/2…

The shape of freedom: patents for women’s sportswear attest to their inventors’ determination to claim mobility rights, say Politics Of Patents scholars.

Convertible, multiple & hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–1940 #OnlineFirst buff.ly/3Jd3dJp

Research by sewing sociologist kat jungnickel, Sociology, Goldsmiths into historic clothing patents has revealed a hidden history of clothing that helped women defy political and societal restrictions barring their access to living active, sporting lives

Funded by European Research Council (ERC)

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