Ticket giveaway! 🎟️🎟️🎟️ Repost to be entered into a drawing for a free ticket to this screening. Winners notified on Friday. For more about the event: www.iffo.ca/2026/we-are-...

Happy International Nasty Women's Day!!!! No better way to celebrate than by nabbing your copy of these **feminist film books**--extant & forthcoming--by our curators and sisters! 😍🎞️📚 Links in the comments below... What feminist films books are lighting up your life right now? ⁉️

If you're in Ottawa, come to our screening on Saturday, March 14th! After the movie, Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social will be talking with Tom McSorley about her new book, TRANS CINEMA: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds (2026)! www.iffo.ca/2026/we-are-... @ottawaartgallery.bsky.social

Fantastic mail day! Congrats @laurah.bsky.social!

#unboxing advance copies of my new book!!! #TransCinema @ucpress.bsky.social

"These women used mass media to critique the damaging effects of unfettered capitalism on women’s lives." Love this piece by @laurah.bsky.social:

Great piece by WFPP contributor @laurah.bsky.social! playgirl.com/entertainmen...

It was only a matter of time before the Nasty Women infiltrated Playgirl Magazine!! Great piece by our own @laurah.bsky.social. playgirl.com/entertainmen...

1910 E4 of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever is live! @laurah.bsky.social wrote Girls Will Be Boys so it makes sense that much of our discussion deals with the transgression, or lack thereof, of cross-dressing women. It's a rich topic! Plus: the electricity of Asta Nielsen in her debut. Links 👇

Here is an excerpt from my conversation with @laurah.bsky.social about THE ABYSS for The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever: 1910. Links in quoted post!

Want to come work in my Film Studies department in Ottawa, Canada, for a year? Application deadline is March 6. All areas of specialization welcome. Please spread the word! @carleton.ca carleton.ca/deputyprovos... #filmstudies #jobopportunity

We're almost halfway there! Help us out! All donations matched dollar-for-dollar! futurefunder.carleton.ca/campaigns/su...

Fight trans invisibility this Giving Tuesday! The Transgender Media Portal is a free online database made and maintained by a lab of student scholars—and we need your help. Your donation will be matched, dollar for dollar! Donate today at futurefunder.carleton.ca/campaigns/su...

Please donate! 🙏

Are you a fan of the 1978 film THE WIZ? I would LOVE to chat with you about your fandom for a book on THE WIZ. You only need to be 18 years old or older and love the film. DMs open and please share.

This was so fantastic! Lined up beautifully with some of the issues we were discussing in my Queer and Trans Art HIstories class so I might have to add it to the "Dr. R. has a problem" pile on our CMS (which already has work by @laurah.bsky.social and Eva Hayward in it!)

"The theme was Dressed for Chaos: Costumes, Nasty Women and Social Change. But what does that mean? Well, it means a fun, informative, often rousing hour in the company of silent comediennes, and three women who dearly love them." @hennefem.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social

"A real highlight of the day arrived with the UCLA David C. Copley Lecture on Costume Design and Silent Cinema, this year presented by the Nasty Women Triumvirate: Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçı." Thank you @silentlondon.bsky.social !! ❤️🎞️🎩 silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/09/l...

The curators of Cinema's First Nasty Women presenting the annual Copley lecture on Silent Film Costume Design -- "DRESSED FOR CHAOS" -- at the Giornate del Cinema Muto! 🎊🎞️👗🧯 @hennefem.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social #GCM44

If you missed the nasty women deliver the UCLA Copley lecture on silent film costume design in Pordenone, you're in luck!! It's now on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IEG... *The audio-visual quality isn't stellar, but the slides are beautifully chaotic. @hennefem.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social

Next week! Thursday at 6:30PM ET on Zoom. Free! Open to all! In English with simultaneous French interpretation. Listen to Eva Hayward and @laurah.bsky.social chat about the artist Erica Rutherford and her work, as well as trans rights today. www.gallery.ca/whats-on/cal...

Word is out!!! The curators of Cinema's First Nasty Women -- Elif Kaynakci, @hennefem.bsky.social, @laurah.bsky.social -- will co-deliver the UCLA Copley on Silent Cinema & Costume Design at the Giornate del Cinema Muto this year. 👒☔🌪️ 📍 Thursday 9th October, Teatro Verdi in Pordenone Save the date!

Next week! Thursday at 6:30PM ET on Zoom. Free! Open to all! In English with simultaneous French interpretation. Listen to Eva Hayward and chat about the artist Erica Rutherford and her work, as well as trans rights today. www.gallery.ca/whats-on/cal...

Lookee here! My book has a cover! Coming from @ucpress.bsky.social in April 2026. Many thanks to Tourmaline for allowing us to use her photograph "Summer Azure"!

Great review of Breaking Plates & our Nasty Women extravaganza at the @cinemathequefr.bsky.social by Nicolas Villodre!! 🎞️🔥 @karenpearlman.bsky.social @richardjamesallen.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social www.leshumanites-media.com/post/le-cin%...

It's been a whirlwind week on the road w/ @nastysilents.bsky.social & Breaking Plates at Women & the Silent Screen, @cinemathequefr.bsky.social, & Eye Filmmuseum!!! Feeling very energized and grateful for all my dish-breaking feminist comrades!!!! 🎞📽🎶‼️🎊🥳

No Kings, Yes Nasty Women!!! Beautiful day of screenings & dialogue in Paris at the @cinemathequefr.bsky.social!!! Long live Léontine AND Breaking Plates!!! 🎞️🎶🎊 @karenpearlman.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social @richardjamesallen.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Chicagoans! Come to my queer and trans silent film series every Wednesday night in June! This Weds I'll be there in person introducing a program of shorts like you've never seen before!!! @facetschicago.bsky.social

Ottawans - spread the word! Have a fun day at the movies and help support our students! 🍿📽️ @carletonfass.bsky.social @carleton.ca @mayfairtheatre.bsky.social

As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵

BREAKING — Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) staffers who were put on admin leave on Monday just got letters letting them know they’re a part of a Reduction in Force (RIF) and that their job will be “abolished” effective May 4th in accordance with Trump’s EO, per copy reviewed by me.

I checked, it’s open access and excellent! @scmsqtc.bsky.social

For the first time in a decade, I canceled my #SCMS participation. W/ TSA harassment & travel doc confiscations of trans people, ICE’s treatment of visa holders, for political & random reasons, & the measles outbreak—I don’t feel safe traveling to the U.S. as a trans, immunocompromised immigrant.1/4

Happening in two hours! With all the travel restrictions on trans folks and additional flight delays, if you’re around, be a pal, come say hi to @laurah.bsky.social and send me a pic, pleaseeeee! I so wish I could be there with y’all! 🏳️‍⚧️🎥📺✨ @scmsqtc.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social #SCMS25

I’m heartbroken that so many brilliant scholars could not attend #SCMS25 out of the completely understandable and real fear for their safety.

Sitting in the forest looking at a photo of myself presenting at #SCMS25 is kinda uncanny. Thank you @javiperezosorio.bsky.social for the pic and @laurah.bsky.social for orgenizing and chairing the most complicated panel ever!

Congrats @laurah.bsky.social ! 🥳 newsroom.carleton.ca/2025/2025-do... #carleton #ottawa #transmedialab

Sneak peek 🫣 of the Queer and Trans Caucus 2025 zine @caelkeegan.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social @scmsqtc.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social #SCMS25

For those of you in Chicago for #SCMS2025: www.mobilize.us/indivisiblec...

It was a thrill to co-present GENDER ADVENTURES at the Cactus Theatre in Lubbock, TX with my partner-in-crime, @laurah.bsky.social!! 🎞️🌈🌵Big thanks to the organizers of Sexism/Cinema for inviting us!! ❤️

Tomorrow I'll be at Carleton University speaking about Trans Technologies! Thanks @laurah.bsky.social @transmediaportl.bsky.social and Rena Bivens for organizing! carleton.ca/filmstudies/...

@carletonu.bsky.social students! Come learn about the Trans Media Portal at this Friday's event! Tickets at www.instagram.com/cusagsrc/

Chase Joynt's new doc is all too relevant these days! If you're in the US you can watch it online at the Sundance website until Feb 2!

Ottawans, come to this amazing event!

Hurray!

Folks teaching spring courses on feminism / cinema / archives, our double-issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social on "Curating Feminist Film Archives" is currently open access!!! @laurah.bsky.social would be happy to make syllabus suggestions for your course topic. 🎞️❤️ online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/10...

Here are the movies I watched for the first time this year that I enjoyed the most, not counting the ones I saw at Pordenone, Bologna, or the Nitrate Picture Show because I didn’t capture those in my Letterboxd diary. NEW MOVIES Joyland Past Lives All of Us Strangers The People’s Joker Rye Lane 1/

This was a great year for novels for me. Many of my favourite authors published new books and I discovered many new favs, including getting into romance novels, thanks to my friend Ruby Barrett! I heartily recommend the following books - may they bring you as much joy as they’ve brought me. 1/

Heartbreaking and evil.