{"id":2756,"date":"2026-05-27T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:31:03","slug":"the-lgbt-at-kent-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/05\/27\/the-lgbt-at-kent-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"The LGBT+ at Kent Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udcc5<strong>Monday &#8211; 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0June 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"customListStyle\">\n<li class=\"ck-list-marker-bold\" data-list-item-id=\"e60c2b0a8addb59ea854b2449b4d45632\"><strong>12:00\u201313:00: Research Flash Talks (Sibson SIBLT2)<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"customListStyle\">\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e3d8397c5a3eeb7472f4f0dd047dc5be8\">\ud83c\udfa4 Peter Ellis &#8211;\u00a0<i>&#8220;What is Biological Sex &amp; Who Cares?&#8221;\u00a0<\/i><\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e5fdf9431e3964816da99933cf694076e\">\ud83c\udfa4 Eleni Vosnaki &#8211;\u00a0<i>&#8220;The Gender Beehive: Identity Discourses Through Transgender Case Law in the United Kingdom&#8221;<\/i><\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e9f49572850120a262c6eb32df20d7789\">\ud83c\udfa4 Sid Connor &#8211;\u00a0<i>&#8220;Friends of Garak: The Role of Online Fan Culture in Queer Readings of Star Trek&#8221;<\/i><\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e8f25fde81caf5e9ef0027fcc3d8779ff\">\ud83c\udfa4 Sarah Morris &#8211;\u00a0<i>&#8220;Fantasties and Phantasms in Omegaverse Fanficton&#8221;<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"customListStyle\">\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ed387eba055448f4bc605ae0bda53a9bc\">\ud83c\udf55\ud83e\udd64<strong>13:00\u201314:00: Lunch (Pizza &amp; 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Physics<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"eede619c4fa039e609d9ae2989f31d6b5\">School of Natural Sciences<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"eeeae0c8d48f6ca7241944333dcad2e0f\">School of Psychology<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"efee634dc3750cdd2c66889c8382ab8ae\">School of Computing<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ea8c1e7089f8f06ad36ca401bc83f4a4a\">School of Arts &amp; Architecture<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e7b97bff349dca49b1998bffe68c667b6\">Kent Business School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udcc5Monday &#8211; 1st\u00a0June 2026 12:00\u201313:00: Research Flash Talks (Sibson SIBLT2) \ud83c\udfa4 Peter Ellis &#8211;\u00a0&#8220;What is Biological Sex &amp; Who Cares?&#8221;\u00a0 \ud83c\udfa4 Eleni Vosnaki &#8211;\u00a0&#8220;The Gender &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/05\/27\/the-lgbt-at-kent-afternoon\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80318,"featured_media":2757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383],"tags":[112454,22926,314635,251764],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}