Queer Socialism Network

Affiliated researchers

Martin Atanasov

Visual artist and independent researcher based in Sofia, he is interested in queer Bulgarian past.

Masha Beketova

Doctoral researcher at HU Berlin,
Masha’s work focuses on queer Ukraine.

Kata Benedek

Researcher, critic, and journalist working on LGBT cultural history in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and Poland.

Dmitry Ermalovich-Dashchynski

Independent researcher working on queer aesthetics in late-communist and post-communist cultures in Eastern Europe (esp. Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine).

Simon Garibyan

A researcher of cultural and social history of the South Caucasus, with the focus on queer literature and film in Armenia and Georgia.

Georgy Mamedov

Independent curator, writer and activist, based in Bishkek and Melbourne, whose work focuses on soviet socialism in Central Asia and broader post-soviet space.