If you have asked me about my availability recently I have probably said something along the lines of, “not in February, please”. That’s LGBT History Month, and that tends to mean a lot of travel. Today I have been doing some booking. Here’s what it looks like.
Jan 31 – Feb 4 I shall be in Barcelona for a conference at the university on gender in the ancient near east. That will feed directly into my presentations as part of the official LGBT History Month events.
Feb 11-12 I am in Exeter where I am speaking both at the launch event on the Saturday and on the festival day on the Sunday.
Feb 15 I have marked in as the Ujima show devoted to LGBTHM.
Feb 18 I am in Bournemouth doing the same trans people in the ancient world talk that I gave in Exeter on the 12th.
There will probably be some stuff going on in Bristol. I know M-Shed will be busy on the 18th, and on the 22nd. I have the 25th reserved in my diary for a possible talk on trans people in art down the ages.
Mar 3-5 I am in Liverpool for the LGBTHM academic conference.
And that is why (Ceri, Adele) I will not be going to London on Mar 10-12 for the Women of the World conference. I will be asleep that weekend.
I hope you’ll give that trans people in antiquity talk somewhere closer to me some time. (Perhaps at the next Nine Worlds?)
I proposed it to the British Museum for their LGBTHM event, but apparently they rejected all of the talks Schools Out offered and insisted on using their own people.
There is zero chance of my ever being at Nine Worlds.