Ona Bantjes-Ràfols

Researcher specialized in oral history, Catalan and Spanish history, queer history, and digital humanities. (She/her)

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

Just found out my thesis is now available online! For anyone interested in reading "Queer Geographies of 1970s Barcelona: Mapping the City in Transition through Image and Oral History" you can find it here: https://t.co/sSQAQdw1ZF

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

A fantastic piece of research on sex, media, and political transition available to read online! I highly recommend everyone check out @dani_lcn's amazing work

[dani carron @dani_lcn]

look what's up :') i am thrilled to share my thesis, which is now accessible via the carleton database - it felt truly meaningful to research & write on the Wende through sex. thank u again @JenniferVEvans for your faith, and everyone that supported me! https://t.co/6izs5B6oJ4

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

Giving a talk on queer memories of Barcelona in the 1970s today at 12:30pm EDT, alongside Javier Cuevas del Barrio who will be presenting his own research on 1960s Granada. Hope to see you there!

[History of Sexuality Seminar @IHR_Sexuality]

Join us for our next IHR #histsex seminar on 25 April at 5:30pm (UK)

Spanish Queer Histories pre- and post-Franco

Javier Cuevas and Ona Bantjes-Ràfols

All welcome at this hybrid seminar (in person and virtual) but please register at:

https://t.co/NbtGhv7p1E

#QueerHistory

[History of Sexuality Seminar @IHR_Sexuality]

Join us for our next IHR #histsex seminar on 25 April at 5:30pm (UK)

Spanish Queer Histories pre- and post-Franco

Javier Cuevas and Ona Bantjes-Ràfols

All welcome at this hybrid seminar (in person and virtual) but please register at:

https://t.co/NbtGhv7p1E

#QueerHistory

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

@JenniferVEvans @ihr @CU_History Thank you Jen!

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

@Dominiq92516944 Thanks Dominique!

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

Thanks again to my supervisor @JenniferVEvans and department twin @dani_lcn for getting me through those writing slumps, and eternally grateful to everyone who shared their stories with me - gràcies per la vostra generositat❤️

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

Just found out my thesis is now available online! For anyone interested in reading "Queer Geographies of 1970s Barcelona: Mapping the City in Transition through Image and Oral History" you can find it here: https://t.co/sSQAQdw1ZF

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

@JenniferVEvans @dani_lcn Can confirm that she did amazing! What a fantastic topic, excited to see where the research goes from here🙂

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

It's been wonderful to work on this project, working alongside fantastic colleagues from history and industrial design and learning from exciting research projects on gender across the world!

[Dominique Marshall she/her @Dominiq92516944]

Three @CU_History graduate student worked at the centre of the @GenDesignSTEAM project: @obrafols @librarylandia & Kavita Mistry. Interviews, achiving, curation, networking, visualizations & media production. @carletonhgsa @CUGradStudies @cu_fass @CHAgradstudents @ctrpublichist

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

@stevenhighmtl @JenniferVEvans @dani_lcn Thank you Steven! Thanks again for encouraging me to pursue oral history and all your support🙂

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

I've been so lucky to have a superstar team around me, very happy and grateful to be celebrating my defense with my supervisor @JenniferVEvans and department twin @dani_lcn 😊

[Jennifer Evans @JenniferVEvans]

Celebrating @obrafols's successful Senate medal-nominated MA thesis on queer geographies of 1970s Barcelona. With flowers and @dani_lcn

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

@gissyggarcia Thank you!!

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

@m0vingpictures ❤️❤️❤️

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

@JenniferVEvans Absolutely!!!

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

@wjnewsome @JenniferVEvans Thank you so much!! Still thinking about your question, I think there's a lot to delve into there with these transnational symbols

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

@JenniferVEvans Thanks Jen!!

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

@carliegem89 Still so sad I couldn't make it to your talk!

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

@aearls @noah_littel @CraigEGriffiths Thank you for coming! I enjoyed your panel as well, your presentation on Hand was a really fascinating case study!

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

I've had such a great time at this conference, and presenting with @noah_littel @CraigEGriffiths Peter Edelberg and @Alponz77 was definitely a highlight, it was great to see how our research connected in many different ways

[Ona Bantjes-Ràfols @obrafols]

@CraigEGriffiths @Alponz77 @noah_littel Yes, thank you all for so many fantastic discussions both inside and outside the panel!! It's been so enriching and inspiring