Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @mozzgi.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social talks about her recent article in this podcast. Tune in 👇
Read here: direct.mit.edu/jcws/article...
My other article is out in @kritikajournal.bsky.social. In it, I show how, after Stalin’s death, leftist queer people in the West forged and demonstrated forms of queer kinship with their counterparts in the USSR. It is a new lens on the study of Soviet queer life, moving beyond national narrative⬇️
John Vassall did have diplomatic immunity when he was approached by the KGB in Moscow in 1955 and shown photos of him having sex with a Soviet man. He could have left, but he did not.
KGB, Cold War, Same-Sex Entrapment. Also available on Spotify.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...
My interview for Radio Liberty about my piece on same-sex entrapment and Soviet queer history in general.
He knew that even if he avoided prosecution in Russia, his life would turn into hell if the KGB shared the photos with the UK press or the authorities.
direct.mit.edu/jcws/article...
Irina Roldugina 🦔
Irina Roldugina 🦔
Leverhulme Trust
Irina Roldugina 🦔
Irina Roldugina 🦔
I spoke at The Eurasian Knot about my piece on same-sex entrapment.
Irina Roldugina 🦔
An incredible cover has landed for an incredible book - Philippa Hetherington's "Circulating Subjects: Sex Work and Migration in Russia, 1885–1935."
More on how to pre-order a copy of her "riveting" and "radical" @cornellupress.bsky.social book here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
