The two genders: Woman working on her computer Girl running to school

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

Hi folks! I’m currently co-editing a special issue for GAME about queer and trans games studies. Find the full cfp here www.gamejournal.it/n-132025-bey..., deadline for abstract submission is 12 January 2026!

The rebranding of Monchhichis as babies when they’re supposed to be forest monkeys living in an autonomous society….

I love bree.odnl’s work and I’m VERY much looking forward to the animated feature but that’s such an odd collab with The Sims!! It’s not the same animated style as the Sims, it doesn’t show anything game-related, and without the plumbob it would just be a regular animation

Five Oscar-qualified indies, five radically different paths. Directors from 'Endless Cookie,' 'Boys Go to Jupiter,' 'Dog of God,' 'Black Butterflies,' and 'Slide' join our awards season Rogue Roundtable to discuss craft, constraint, and self-promotion. www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

📍Amsterdam, NL

Got a rejection from mechademia womp womp

🇳🇱 I'm presenting my paper "Not Safe for Work, Not Safe from AI: Creative porn workers and the monetization of Generative AI in the platform economy" in Amsterdam next week! I explore the challenges faced by creative porn workers during the rise of AI content on monetization platforms like Patreon ✨

When you’re 17, people will tell you you shouldn’t major in Film Studies because you won’t be able to do anything with it… it’s very important you don’t listen to them. 💛 My little film degrees got me to travel around the world, get paid to write and research, get featured in the media…

Got a burning hot piece of music fan studies research? There's still time to submit to our special issue! As a reminder, we welcome the following formats: Articles (8k max words) Symposium (4k max words) Book Reviews (2.5k max words) Multimedia: 10 images or 5–8 minutes of audiovisual content.

🇳🇱 I'm presenting my paper "Not Safe for Work, Not Safe from AI: Creative porn workers and the monetization of Generative AI in the platform economy" in Amsterdam next week! I explore the challenges faced by creative porn workers during the rise of AI content on monetization platforms like Patreon ✨

Saving literacy by uninstalling Grammarly from my friends’ laptops

Everytime I see the academic who called me unprofessional posts about the requirements about professionalism in academia……. rules for thee but not for me etc etc etc

Manifesting my "Zero Tolerance: The web beyond moderation" book project for after my thesis…..

"If it is tempting to summarize the relationship between regressive politics, the alternative web, and anime to a cross-platform genealogy of 4chan and its “godparent” platform 2channel–or even to rely on awkward parallels between the localized Japanese phenomenon of super-fans (the otaku) and…

"If it is tempting to summarize the relationship between regressive politics, the alternative web, and anime to a cross-platform genealogy of 4chan and its “godparent” platform 2channel–or even to rely on awkward parallels between the localized Japanese phenomenon of super-fans (the otaku) and…

Now shopping for a publisher

Now shopping for a publisher

Aaaand I’ll announce officially what l’ll be doing next very soon!! 😸 postdoc era 🎓

Félicitations to my friend and comrade-in-tentacles Aurélie for this amazing achievement! I remember back when we were on the same panel in Lisbon and *I* was the one talking about tentacle porn! They grow up so fast—*sniff!

Hier, j’ai soutenu ma thèse « Of Tentacles and Men: How anime shaped the internet as we know it" hier 🥹🥹🥹 !!! Le résultat de BEAUCOUP d’années de travail et j’ai passé sans aucune révision avec la note « exceptionnelle » pour la présentation !! 🥹👩🏻‍🎓🎓😸🩷✨

I love Aurélie's work! Do you believe me if I say I bought this magazine just to read her article on the history of hentai anime in France? (not sure my wife believed me ToT)

Congratulations! You absolutely own this. And as @msteinbrg.bsky.social said - next, the book! And I can't wait to read it and tell everyone I know about it.

My thesis abstract 🔥 "Over the last ten years, Japanese animation series–or anime–fans have often been associated with digital right-wing communities of the alternative web. This is better observed in anime been called an aesthetic of the “alt-right” by its most powerful actors ...

Can’t wait for it to become a book now tbh….. 👀👀👀

Congratulations Aurélie, so proud of you for this achievement and your amazing work!! Next step: the book version!

I am SO HAPPY to announce that this morning I defended my dissertation "Of Tentacles and Men: How anime shaped the internet as we know it"🥹🥹 I got no revisions and an OUTSTANDING (💅) grade for the presentation wowowow it has been such a journey, thank you to everyone!! 👩🏻‍🎓🎓🫶🥹❤️‍🔥✨✨✨

My first-ever piece for @unseenjapan.com ⤵

For World AIDS Day, my favorite laptop sticker ❤️‍🔥🫂

for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan

Defense in three days

Shoutout to people sharing this because I feel like I was shadow banned the first time I posted it !!!

Mon gain d’énergie après que je prends ma vitamine d tous les matins

And then I have another article on the way to pub, two under peer review, and two about to be submitted….. but please KNOW that a lot of my funding was tied to me publishing !!!

Resharing all of my articles

Ok, nouvelle contribution aux études françaises de l'animation japonaise et de la pornographie !! Traduction fr disponible de mon article "La guerre des plateformes de streaming hentai" !! 🫡📚💻 (throwback de mon travail de Master) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

✨ Reminder that I translated from French to English my article on pornographic animation in France 🇫🇷 !! ➡️ www.researchgate.net/publication/...

✨ Comme d'hab, traduction française de mon dernier article: "Les limites des politiques de « tolérance zéro » envers les médias pornographiques animés" 💋⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.researchgate.net/publication/...

✨ New article in @romchip.bsky.social on designing adult mods for the Sims 4 💚 I love The Sims, and I’m so happy I was able to bring my research to it in this interview with TURBODRIVER, the creator of WickedWhims 💜 Thank you to editor @lainenooney.bsky.social !! ➡️ www.romchip.org/index.php/ro...

✨ALSO! I have a new publication on AI and adult content governance, check it out www.uottawa.ca/research-inn... 🆒✨

Resharing my article "Do female anime fans exist?" ➡️ www.researchgate.net/publication/...

✨Excited to announce that my new article "The hentai streaming platform wars" is out in the Porn Studies journal!✨ Reach out if you don’t have access and want a copy 📩 🧵 of the findings and link below👇

💬 What does it mean to take a category of pornographic content, refuse to define it, and then apply incredibly hard rules over its regulation? That’s the question I tackle in my 🔥latest🔥 article on animated porn representing children and produced with digital tech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

J’arrête pas d’écrire le pavillon des gommes par erreur…..

For everybody who bullied me into watching K-Pop Demon Hunters, I finally did and may I suggest a few media with similar levels of character and narrative depths you might enjoy…………

J'ai dû jouer à No Mercy dans le cadre de ce papier, je vous ai épargné le compte-rendu... Par contre j'ai mis double dose de la passionnante @aurelievpetit.bsky.social ! Je voulais écrire sur la trop méconnue industrie du jeu pour adultes depuis longtemps, j'espère pouvoir continuer à l'avenir.

My opinion about Wicked For Good is that it surely is easier to make a PG-13 comedy for a general audience than a political tragedy!