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Matthew Waites (he or they)
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Reader & Sociology Subject Co-Lead, @UofGSociology.bsky.social University of Glasgow. Global queer politics, sexualities & genders, human rights, decolonizing, genocide. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/matthewwaites/ .. more

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Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social · Aug 14
From years of collective work, Colonialisms and Queer Politics has been published! Presenting chapter analyses of 11 empires, and their colonial legacies, plus comparison of both legal and social regulation. #Colonialisms #Queer #LGBTIQ+ @uofgsociology.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social · 2h
Open letter against repression of LGBTI+ people in Turkey, over 1250 signatories including myself. Solidarity with Turkish LGBTI+. I hope the chapter ‘The Ottoman Empire and is Legacies’, in our book Colonialisms and Queer Politics, provides a resource to teach on this. velvele.net/2026/09/17/j...
Judith Butler, Noura Erakat, Slavoj Žižek and others join more than 1,250 academics in joint letter against repression of LGBTI+ people in Turkey
A joint call from more than 1,250 academics, including Judith Butler, Noura Erakat, Slavoj Žižek, Susan Stryker, Jasbir Puar, Elizabeth Anderson, Etienne Balibar and Peter Hallward.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 2h
The Welsh Gender Service also doesn’t suffer from the vast backlogs that many English and Scottish gender clinics are weighed down by
NHS cancels all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of Welsh Gender Service with immediate effect
Some trans patients received news their surgeries had been cancelled just days or even hours before they were due to take place
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3h
Dutch riot police break up far-right protest in The Hague after violence erupts
Dutch riot police break up far-right protest in The Hague after violence erupts
Authorities ban anti-immigration march after fireworks and other projectiles thrown at officers in city centre park Dutch riot police dispersed several hundred far-right protesters in The Hague on Saturday after violence erupted and local authorities banned a planned march in the city against immigration and asylum policies. Police officers made several arrests after some protesters started throwing fireworks and other projectiles at them. Continue reading...
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Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Mary McAuliffe, Matthew Waites

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 14h
There has been a noticeable lack of serious reaction over Turkish persecution of LGBTQIA+ community from the global community. As in many other countries, Türkiye tries to mask persecution by claiming being LGBTQIA+ isn't illegal and then using "obscenity laws".
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Turkey detains dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists and journalists
Protesters teargassed as minister claims widespread raids and arrests under obscenity laws were to ‘protect families’
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Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks to everyone who came to our book launch, at least 144, we hope to publish a recording from Sexuality Policy Watch
matthewwaites.bsky.social Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social · 5d
Online book launch for Colonialisms and Queer Politics, eds S Corrêa, G Gomes da Costa & M Waites. Fri 18th Sept. Hosted @sxpolitics.bsky.social w. Federal University of Pernambuco & @uofgsps.bsky.social 9am US EST, 10am Brazil, 2pm UK, 3pm CET, 4pm Turkey. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Image of book cover for: Colonialisms and Queer Politics: Sexualities, Genders and Unsettling Colonialities, published by Oxford University Press. Book cover shows extract from the Cantino Planisphere, a 1502 map made by a Portuguese cartographer, showing a Eurocentric view of the Atlantic world as the European imperial expansion began.