Are you a researcher, practitioner, or community member interested in LGBTQ+ mental health and wellbeing in Scotland?

Join Professor Jamie Frankis (he/him) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 and I for the launch of our network either in Glasgow (eventbrite.co.uk/e/lgbtqia-ment…) or Edinburgh (eventbrite.co.uk/e/lgbtqia-ment…)

My official UK book launch for #HowWeNamedTheStars is July 11th (Thu) at The Portobello Bookshop with the wonderful Nadine Aisha Jassat.

Tickets are now available, including dedicated copies. Hope to see you there! 🌟💖🏳️‍🌈🐦‍⬛
theportobellobookshop.com/events/andres-…

Equality Network is looking for new members to join its Board 📢

It's a great organisation doing important work to advance equality and human rights for LGBTI people in Scotland.

Happy to speak with anyone keen to find out more. Closing date: 17 June. Please share 🔄

Volunteer with the Equality Network! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌟

Join us at Pride events across Scotland this summer and learn new skills, make new connections and most importantly, make a difference.

For more information and to sign up, please head to: equality-network.org/volunteer/

✨We are extremely excited to announce our AIES 2024 one-day symposium on 'AI as the Broken Machine', taking place on 7 June 2024 in Edinburgh ✨ We'll explore brokenness, care, and repair in the age of AI with invited panelists and keynote speaker Louise Amoore.

I will be giving a lecture, 'Changing Institutions' in Oxford on Thursday. You can listen online or in person (register here) torch.ox.ac.uk/event/changing….

It will be such a privilege to come to the encampment and to express my solidarity with you! #DivestFromIsrael #FreePalestine

Thrilled to announce Rahul Rao Rahul Rao will deliver our annual lecture on 'The Libidinal Lives of Statues'!

May 14 at 5

bringing together sexual politics & anti/colonialism
fetishization
idolisation
destruction

qUCL GFRN_UCL UCL Arts & Humanities

ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

Remember today & always: all writing is political, all art forms are political, all creative dreaming is political.

How we witness the world & write towards or against it is political. The characters we magic = political.

A union that supports writers is therefore political.

Hey lovelies, my first UK event for #HowWeNamedTheStars is now live. 💞

Bringing my debut of first love and first loss to Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop' First Date: Edinburgh's Romance Festival at Summerhall.

You can grab a copy of my novel a whole 3 weeks early!
lighthousebookshop.com/events/beyond-…

I enjoyed contributing to this video for DDI - speaking about data skills and using data to change the world for the better! x.com/datacapitaled/…

Today of all days, remembering and being grateful for all the blessings I have in life.

ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّٰهِ

I'll be in Glasgow next month, talking about a few of my favourite things. Stop by if you're in the area. eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for-g…

(The title doesn't make it obvious but there will be lots of Irish history in here!)

What a bleak turn of events.

Scotland's self-image as a progressive country is at odds with the actions of politicians and the media who have spent recent years bashing the government's (negligible and piecemeal) efforts to address hate crimes, LGBTQ rights and the environment.

We're hiring:

Lecturer, Computational Sociology. Do you want to teach? Are you interested in a range of methods? Do you care about developing critical social data science? Then apply.

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Our next seminar series speaker EmilyPostan is a week away from giving her talk 'Uncanny Kinds' on Thu 2 May 4pm-5pm, hosted by John Zerilli - get your tickets now: ow.ly/uoy150RlWwV #BraidUK #DIwebinars #ResponsibleAI Arts and Humanities Research Council @designinf @inspaceg Edinburgh Law School

Excited to host our next Queer/ing Research Conference Ulster University supported by Ulster UniversityPhD Centre for Youth Research & Dialogue Research & Innovation #lgbtqi #research Call for papers now open (UU PhD researchers only). General registration also open via QR link below 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Ryan Castellucci Ryan Castellucci has been granted permission to appeal the ruling that 'gender' is a binary term in the UK Gender Recognition Act.

The case potentially has big implications for the legal recognition of non-binary people in the UK leighday.co.uk/news/news/2024…

When campaigners say biological sex is immutable, what they mean is: the sex you were categorised at birth is your sex forever & you cannot change it. They may also argue sex is in your DNA, bones, chromosomes whatever but their main point is sex at birth is sex forever.