Going into Friday rounding off a research trip to Eastern Finland with colleagues. We’ve been visiting an ITE / DIY artist’s home and staying on a nearby island 💚 Let the Finnish Summer times roll from here on out…!
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Happy Friday! Entering the weekend by sending off a new and improved chapter on lesbian-queer homemaking for an edited collection 👀
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big week in the archive this week, i must have looked at up to 4000 photographs belonging to a DIY-artist from Eastern Finland. hopefully more to share when the time comes, but a real (and really exhausting) treat! Queer rurals here we come ;)
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I read, I enjoyed, I want your opinions and feelings on this book, please
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Highly recommend catching the We Who Remain exhibition of Sámi contemporary art at Kiasma_ in Helsinki. It's on until September. Excellence!
1. Sami Future (Arvid Sveen, 1980)
2. Dollet (detail) (Katarina Pirak Sikku, 2006/2026)
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Not many work updates this week, but a film recommendation from Finland:
Jossain on valo joka ei sammu (Somewhere there is a light that never goes out), 2025
First Feature from Lauri-Matti Parppei - brilliant small town/coastal vibes, sonic geographies and transformative platonic intimacies 🖤
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Exciting things ahead!!
I call this photo-series Finnish Fridays, it’s a cute academic diary for me 🌸
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Spent most of this week on an archival visit and looking through A Lot of photographs.
including this one 😳
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Our first collective conference outing with a panel session on Queer Visual History - we’re on to something special here! 💜
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Our 'Picture Me' research project now has a write-up on the German Visual History network's website! We are developing new methods for queer visual and historical research.
If you're interested in what I am working on at the moment, check it out: visual-history.de/en/project/j... 🌈🎓
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Pulling together a new article from my current project on queer space in and through the archive; thinking about what happens to ’lived experience’ when spaces and times are brought to touch in a little box of archival treasures…
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Channelling Aquarius season this week by getting some non-Fellowship projects off the ground.… hopefully more to share soon!
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Finland Friday this week is sharing that we took some DIY headshots this week for our project website (coming soon).
I look like an academic lol! A cold one!
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Brought some West Country tradition to my local park here in Finland and held a jolly Wassail with friends and colleagues - auspicious timing with Old Twelfth Night falling in a Saturday!
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My Finland-Friday post this week is just more of the chapter that came out this week. I’m really proud of it and people have said nice things.
We’re having a ‘queer friendship’ coffee break next week to celebrate in the office 💚
Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Deep in archive obsession: I spent this week with Finland’s dyke-kink subcultures, and lots of beautiful photographic portraits therein!
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Research visits to the Workers’ Museum, Tampere, began this week. I’ve been slipping around on the fresh snow too!
After a month or so of settling in, this week I began to feel like an active researcher again ⭐️🌝💛
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Finnish painter Magnus Enckell was born on this week (9 Nov) in 1870. Thanks to @queermodernisms.bsky.social via Insta, I've been enjoying reading about his life and viewing his works.
1. Awakening Faun (1914)
2. By The Window (1919) - a slighter more green representation of my postdoc life atm!
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In Turku at Åbo Akademi today for Gender Studies Day. So many great discussions circulating around crip-queer-feminisms, and archival time-travelling with a keynote from Eliza Steinbock. Thanks to the organisers for bringing us together!
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‘Similar Ground‘ exhibition of trans+ art in Helsinki 💙
