So, as I’ve picked up many new followers over the last few days (I wonder why!), I guess maybe I should introduce myself for the curious. Hi! I’m Dr. Bodie A. Ashton, I go by they/them, and I’m a historian who focuses mostly on queer and trans histories of Germany and Europe in the 20th century. 1/ - ThreadSky

manwithoutatan.bsky.social • 104 days ago

So, as I’ve picked up many new followers over the last few days (I wonder why!), I guess maybe I should introduce myself for the curious. Hi! I’m Dr. Bodie A. Ashton, I go by they/them, and I’m a historian who focuses mostly on queer and trans histories of Germany and Europe in the 20th century. 1/

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manwithoutatan.bsky.social•104 days ago

My most recent article, “The Parallel Lives of Liddy Bacroff”, examines the life of a trans woman and sex worker who lived in Hamburg in the 1930s. It’s open access, too, so you don’t need to pay anything or have institutional affiliation to read it! https://academic.oup.com/gh/article/42/1/79/7490840 2/

manwithoutatan.bsky.social•104 days ago

My most recent book is an edited collection, “The Pet Shop Boys and the Political”, where some wonderful colleagues and I get to indulge our enduring interest in and love for PSB. Come for queerness, stay for wild connections to C19th American boosterism! https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pet-shop-boys-and-the-political-9781350331563/ 3/

manwithoutatan.bsky.social•104 days ago

I’m also the coeditor of the book series “Transnational Queer Histories” at De Gruyter-Brill. We’re always looking for new proposals for queer historical studies, and we have two great books already and several more exciting ones in the pipeline! https://www.degruyter.com/serial/tqh-b/html 4/

manwithoutatan.bsky.social•104 days ago

In my old job I worked with @historyned.bsky.social and @sarahfren.bsky.social in the research group “The Other Global Germany.” Our collection “Deviant Global Germany” is under contract with Toronto and includes me writing about West German press discourses and trans people. Watch this space! 5/

manwithoutatan.bsky.social•104 days ago

I don’t just write too much; I talk too much as well. I enjoy public engagement, and I’ve been on a number of podcasts. Most recently, Jordan Gray, @gregjenner.bsky.social and I talked about Weimar queerness on the BBC’s “You’re Dead to Me”… https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0021981 6/

manwithoutatan.bsky.social•104 days ago

…which proves that Greg is a sucker for punishment, because he’d already had me on there before, with Stephen Fry, to discuss the Prussian king Frederick the Great. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ccdc5q 7/