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danielfountain.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer & Director of Postgrad Research in Art History at University of Exeter | Writer, Researcher, Artist and Curator | Queer art and visual culture | He/They🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.danielfountain.com https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/37109-daniel-fountain
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Just had a notification that The Metropolitan Museum of Art have aquisitioned my book Crafted With Pride, and it’s now pride of place (pun intended!) in their research library! 📚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Huge congrats to my amazing doctoral student Chloë Edwards on passing her PhD viva today with an incredible thesis titled "Listen Without Prejudice: Queer Masculinities in the Popular Music Cultures of Thatcher's Britain". Photo: Sunil Gupta, Heaven, 1980.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

The UK has dropped to its lowest position ever (22nd) on the @ilgaeurope.bsky.social ranking of the best and worst places to be LGBTQ+ in Europe. Ten years ago, it ranked in first place. Our government must reverse, not further, this shocking decline in LGBTQ+ rights.

submitted 27 days ago • 11 comments

The landscape for LGBTQ+ research is so bleak. Still fuming that UKRI decided this review was acceptable and didn't undermine EDI policy. Highlights: no relevence to LGB cuz trans inclusive, no hostile climate cuz Pride and gay marriage, no need for declonisation cuz Tate did it 24 years ago (?) 🤷‍♀️

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Apropos of nothing that has happened this week…where is the best place to look for academic jobs in the EU? The UK no longer feels like a place my community is welcome and I am genuinely scared.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Today’s news is so bleak. What a horribly hostile place the U.K. continues to be. Check on your trans siblings. Lives are on the line here. 🩷🤍💙

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Categories used by the state to sort people into boxes are never neutral. Some thoughts on the UK Supreme Court case ruling and the wider anti-trans campaign to narrow sex and gender categories in policy, data and law. 📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/04/16/t...

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely wonderful review of my edited collection Crafted with Pride in the Journal of Design History! 🙏

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

“Research into sexuality and gender is vital for identifying social, cultural, and medical needs of populations, and addressing inequalities across populations.” It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship. 🌈🎓

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

My ceramic cake/jelly collection is getting seriously out of hand…

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Yet another scandal brewing within UK Higher Ed: universities can get research money for everyone they've sacked. Big ghost fleets of lecturers who don't exist will be launched into the next Research Excellence Framework. Unis will laugh and cash in (1/2). englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...

submitted 91 days ago • 5 comments

Cover reveal for the new book hopefully dropping soon 😉✍️📚🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Hugely engaging and insightful event with @danielfountain.bsky.social this evening! 🌈🧵 Crafted With Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain @intellectbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social is highly recommended! #LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

Join us! Online public lecture. Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with Dr Daniel Fountain Wednesday 12 February 2025 6.00pm to 7.30pm Online Sign up to the lecture here 👉ow.ly/3t0G50UYr3v @danielfountain.bsky.social

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Super event at my uni (Oxford Brookes) for LGBTQ+ History Month . . . Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with @danielfountain.bsky.social. 12 February, 6-7pm. Free. Online. Everyone welcome. 🌈🧵 Register here: www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke... #LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay

submitted 127 days ago • 2 comments

Another day, another PI asking me to work for free on their funded project to do ‘important diversity work’. When will this exploitation stop? 😅

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

2024 was shit. 2025 is starting off with a trompe-l'oeil ‘wine goblet’ that looks like a camply decorated cake. #winning

submitted 158 days ago • 2 comments

I listened to this garbage so you don't have to. It is a horrifically one-sided, un-nuanced hit piece on international students that will do damage to universities & pile on racist abuse of vulnerable students. Shame on Jo Grady & @ucu.org.uk for contributing to this & adding to negative tropes 1/8

submitted 186 days ago • 1 comment

Lavender Menace, Gays the Word, Book Woman…I’ve fallen in love with so many LGBTQIA bookshops. They’re places of joy and resistance, good coffee and even better books. Support 🌈 stories and businesses by sharing this Starter Pack. go.bsky.app/G321HCf

submitted 187 days ago • 17 comments

To celebrate my book being a 2024 best seller, my publisher is offering 20% off with code INTELLECT20. A perfect festive gift for those interested in queer history, activism, art and crafting! Thanks to everyone who has supported! intellectdiscover.com/content/book...

submitted 186 days ago • 1 comment

We are advertising for a full time permanent Lecturer in Contemporary Art and Curation (Education and Research), deadline 9 Jan jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

submitted 189 days ago • 0 comments

An editor just got back in touch about a chapter I submitted in *checks notes* 2019. Glad to hear I have a forthcoming publication which I forgot even existed. Anyone else have these moments? #academicpublishing

submitted 190 days ago • 2 comments

Made one of these starter packs (interesting concept) and surely have not included many that should be here so please do comment and share to be added. go.bsky.app/985g3hA

submitted 207 days ago • 19 comments