Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Hannah Ayres

@hannahva390.bsky.social

2.5K followers 3K following 130 posts

PhD @ University of Warwick I IAS Early Career Fellow I queer & trans* re/presentation in museums 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏛📸 “Mistress of queer history” I She/her I Co-host @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 9h

My first journal article has officially been published! If you want to know more about trans museology and especially the Museum of Transology, check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A “weapon of survival”: the importance of material culture in trans re/presentation

The Museum of Transology contains the UK’s largest collection of objects re/presenting trans, non-binary and intersex people’s lives. It is a project that fosters and centres community for trans pe...

www.tandfonline.com

1 3 17

Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 9h

My first journal article has officially been published! If you want to know more about trans museology and especially the Museum of Transology, check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A “weapon of survival”: the importance of material culture in trans re/presentation

www.tandfonline.com

1 3 17

Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · Jul 23

Working on article corrections 💪

Reposted by Hannah Ayres

Theoryish Podcast @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social · Jul 21

WAR! What is it good for? Absolutely this week's new episode! We were joined by @hdabrown.bsky.social to discuss "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz . We discuss politics, Napoleon, and Battlestar Galactica! Listen on anchor.fm/theoryish

3 5

Reposted by Hannah Ayres

Henry Brown @hdabrown.bsky.social · Jul 21

War is a continuation of podcast by other means…
Had a blast talking with @paolamedgonz.bsky.social and @hannahva390.bsky.social about CvC and Crimson Tide among other things!

Theoryish Podcast @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social · Jul 21

2 6

Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thank you 🥰 it was honestly such a lovely viva experience, I had fun!

Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · Jun 10

I passed the PhD Viva and am now Dr Hannah Ayres 🥳🥳🥳

Thank you to @richardsandellrcmg.bsky.social and Igi Moon for examining the thesis and making the experience thoroughly enjoyable and encouraging ☺️

4 1 35

Reposted by Hannah Ayres

Theoryish Podcast @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social · May 26

We are back this week with another excellent book from
‪@manchesterup.bsky.social‬ ! We interviewed Rustam Alexander on his monograph, The Red Closet:The hidden history of gay oppression in the USSR. Listen on anchor.fm/theoryish

1 2 4

Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · May 5

Playing round with Obsidian for my first book proposal 📚🕸️

Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · May 1

We reaching 2000 followers on Spotify @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social 🥳🥳

1 3

Reposted by Hannah Ayres

Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · Apr 16

I am co-editing an issue of Puncta with Chris Jingchao Ma on Critical Trans Phenomenology! Submissions are due July 15th. Here is the CFP with full details: puncta.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/pu...

CFP: Critical Trans Phenomenology | Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology

puncta.journals.villanova.edu

1 10 23

Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · Apr 28

We are finally back from our mid season break 🥳

Check out our episode on Carmilla here: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

1 3

Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · Apr 24

This has always been an incredibly important, unique and impressive project and now more than ever trans people need support and solidarity 💜🏳️‍⚧️ I highly recommend visiting before the exhibition ends on the 11th May!

Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · Apr 24

I researched the Museum of Transology for my PhD, and it’s so incredible to see the growth of this project at their 10-year anniversary at the Lethaby Gallery 🥰💜

1 5 18

Reposted by Hannah Ayres

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · Apr 7

Toronto job posting: Museum Collection Specialist at The ArQuves: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives.

Salary: $60 000/year + healthcare benefits
Deadline: 21 April 2025

More info and to apply: arquives.ca/museum-colle...

(Please share, thanks!) #Toronto #GLAM #MuseumStudies🌈🎓 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

The ArQuives Job Alert

Museum Collection Specialist

The Museum Collections Specialist will work to improve collection management and public access to the connection, particularly through improving our descriptive standards in our collection management system

Full-time, 11-month contract
37.5 hours per week
$60,000/year + health benefits

1 26 42

Reposted by Hannah Ayres

ROLES Sexuality & Gender Studies Network @rolesbham.bsky.social · Apr 10

It's that time again! The Call for Papers for the 2025 ROLES Sexuality and Gender Studies Conference is now open! More info below, and visit rolesbham.wixsite.com/home/confere... for more info/to submit! Welcome to all researching in Gender and Sexuality Studies!

Poster announcing a Call for Papers

Theme: Looking Back,
Looking Forward

Deadline: 2nd May, 12pm

Conference: 9th June, at The University of Birmingham and Online via Zoom.

The University of Birmingham’s student-led ROLES Sexuality and Gender Studies Network is delighted to announce the Call for Papers for its 14th Annual Conference.

We welcome 250-word abstracts - along with a 50-100-word bio - for 20-minute paper presentations, as well as proposals for presentations that break the mold of conventional academic conference papers.

Go to https://rolesbham.wixsite.com/home/conferences for more information and to submit an abstract.

1 20 19

Reposted by Hannah Ayres

Kit Colliver @presentlyincorrect.bsky.social · Apr 22

I'm pleased to announce that my paper 'Trans* people’s perceptions of political participation in the wake of voter identification requirements: evidence from the UK', co-authored with Ash Stokoe, is now available Open Access with the European Journal of Politics and Gender
doi.org/10.1332/2515...
🌈🎓

Trans* people’s perceptions of political participation in the wake of voter identification requirements: evidence from the UK

The UK Elections Act 2022 introduced a photo identification (ID) requirement for voting in person in UK general elections and local elections in England and Wales. Fiercely debated, civil society grou...

doi.org

2 24 37

Reposted by Hannah Ayres

Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · Apr 23

Don't forget the deadline to apply is approaching!

APPLY TO PRESENT>> forms.office.com/e/wCQ7W9CyaD

Applications close on 28th April 2025

#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
#Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity
#Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT #Trans #TransLivesMatter #Trans+ #TVCE

1 5 11

Reposted by Hannah Ayres

Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · Apr 23

Just a reminder I've created a queer and trans studies feed to collate discussions, publications, news and academic jobs relevant to our field. Please like and pin it for easy access, use the 🌈🎓 emojis together to post to it, and share it with your colleagues!

2 41 74

Reposted by Hannah Ayres

Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · Jan 6

OUT NOW!

My chapter 'Toward Asexual Geographies' features in the 10-yr anniversary edition of Asexualities. Feels like a full circle moment!

In it, I ask how asexuality studies and geographies of sexuality can enrich the other + think space asexually.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

1 7 29

Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · Apr 10

Submitted my first journal article 🤞🤞

1 34

Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · Apr 4

Update: the Viva has been rearranged, it's going to be a little while to wait but looking forward to it! Also I'm feeling a lot better than I was - finally off the painkillers 🌞

Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · Mar 26

I was meant to have my Viva today (it would have started 15 minutes ago!), and had been looking forward to it for a few months. Unfortunately I've been dealing with a long term health condition, and it reared its head last week and landed me in A&E.

Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · Apr 4

Working on my first journal article today! I think I'm almost there with it 🥳 (still have to format and proofread but the bones are there)

Reposted by Hannah Ayres

Simon Arthur @simonarthur.bsky.social · Apr 4

I have just signed the contract to publish the book based on my PhD thesis, with R outledge books!! Titled "A Sociology of Institutional Banking Power: Elite Power at the Heart of British Banking" which I need to submit in October 2026. I am both excited and terrified!!

2 10

Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thank you 🥰 definitely think I made the best decision - I want to enjoy the viva and being in pain would have ruined the day for me

Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · Mar 26

For now I'll have to muster up a little more patience and wait a little bit longer 🫠

1 4