It’s funny to see the secret to making bank in animation is creating serialized shows catered towards girls/young women. Felt like, for the longest time, this was a demographic the big companies did everything they could to avoid appealing to! They musta left just SO much money on the table.

Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

#CFP for the Critical Paths in Manga Studies international symposium! Submit an abstract (300 words) and a short bio (150 words) by September 15 ✨

#CFP for the Critical Paths in Manga Studies international symposium! Submit an abstract (300 words) and a short bio (150 words) by September 15 ✨

Fuck off Visa/Mastercard

J’ai besoin de savoir comment ça se fait que la traduction française de cet article ait tellement de vues !! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Went MIA this summer because I was finishing up my thesis 🥳

Went MIA this summer because I was finishing up my thesis 🥳

Listen, I love the journal but I'm still baffled that this article exists in open-access lol www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Payment processors are now holding games — works of fiction involving no actual human — to the same standards as actual filmed adult content. How long before this is applied to books, or Hollywood movies? Push, a book that deals with incest, is not actual incest. itch.io/docs/creator...

"The games purge also serves as yet another example of the way payment processors have become weaponized by both governments and activists, since they can serve as a means of suppressing speech without having to resort to more unconstitutional or objectionable methods."

💬 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....

Free access to an awesome movie by Sawako Kabuki!! vimeo.com/channels/sta...

✨ 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/...

Very quebecois of me to translate everything I do in French or English 💋

✨ 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/...

i keep thinking about this more and more with each passing day

Excited for the cultural shift when Olivia Rodrigo inevitably get a pixie haircut !!!

‼️ Resharing my article on unfair moderation practices for adult content involving non-realistic characters following the new Itch.io and Steam policies 👇👇👇

✨ We're wrapping up our first day with 250 buyers so far and about $9,300 and counting for queer art. That works out to about $30 per person after you subtract a handful who opt out of funding. Thank you for the powerful number of shares and posts today. They make a huge difference. itch.io/b/3062

Are #age-verification systems for adult websites new? Not really. Many of for-pay adult websites in the 1990s used either a password verification system or the Adult Check pass, an age verification service owned by Cybernet Ventures. #OSA #DSA

Spotify is now instituting face scans and ID checks ... to listen to music. Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use. www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...

Are #age-verification systems for adult websites new? Not really. Many of for-pay adult websites in the 1990s used either a password verification system or the Adult Check pass, an age verification service owned by Cybernet Ventures. #OSA #DSA

‼️ Resharing my article on unfair moderation practices for adult content involving non-realistic characters following the new Itch.io and Steam policies 👇👇👇

We may have the chance to hire an outstanding researcher 3+ years post PhD to join Tarleton Gillespie, Mary Gray and me in Cambridge MA bringing critical sociotechnical perspectives to bear on new technologies. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Actually NECS 2026 being in Montpellier is SO IMPORTANT TO ME!!! necs.org/conference/2...

Umi Ga Hashiru End Roll is ending 🩷 a story about an older woman who goes back to film school after her husband dies

Second AI panel at the @sasanistudies.bsky.social conference. There’s a bit of a trend I already noticed in Viborg: the Q&A sessions often turn into a forum to discuss AI and animation as a whole, rather than the specific papers presented. Maybe there’s a need for an actual space to do so. #SAS36

Things are taking a bad turn… Talking all things “Bad Animation” with Jacqueline Risola, Grace Han, and Aurelie Petit #SAS36

Excellent panel on "Bad" Animation by @ghahahan.bsky.social @aurelievpetit.bsky.social and Jacqueline Ristola at #SAS36

I’m in London and can’t wait to push the francophone agenda at #SAS36

Niche content mais j’ai un article dans le dernier numéro de Animeland !!

Crazy to think that before starting my PhD, I had never wrote anything in English???? Sometimes you just need to be a bit delulu 🙂‍↕️

I still managed to talk about it tho!!! (Plus other shoujo magical girl anime series)

I wanted to use Sugar Sugar Rune SO BAD when I was teaching animation and magical girls, but then I learned it never had an English distribution????

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

🇬🇧 I’m flying to London next week to present my research on “bad animation” at the Society of Animation Studies conference and I’m so excited!!! And if you’re around and free on Friday July 11th, I will give an additional talk at Bristol University!! 🚂🤗

🇬🇧 I’m flying to London next week to present my research on “bad animation” at the Society of Animation Studies conference and I’m so excited!!! And if you’re around and free on Friday July 11th, I will give an additional talk at Bristol University!! 🚂🤗

Ok no shade but I’ve reached my limits of how many Io Sakisaka’s stories I can read 😵 I will now switch to Kyôko Okazaki !!!

What will I post about once I finish my thesis……….. (my Roman Empire)

Holidays and heat waves are OVER and I’m back at my DESK to work on my THESIS!!! 💻 (if I own you a message or email, I’m on it🫡)

🌞 Earlier this month, I was at the Animafest Zagreb in (sunny!) Croatia to present my research on using Generative AI to historicize adult animation. You can learn more about this project here: www.animafest.hr/en/2025/side...

This month on the podcast, I'll be talking to @scarlet-rhapsody.com all about her new book, The Fangirl Diaries: Finding Community in Anime Fandom of the 90s & 00s! Have any questions for her? Send em in before the 19th!

Annecy exposes the widening chasm between student hopes and industry reality. Festivals and events, writes Matt Jones, must “evolve beyond their current model of celebration without substance.”

Why is it so hard to find adult puppetry theater shows in Montreal……..

Mubi accepting investment from companies committed to supporting Israel doing a genocide is why I’m always on the side of piracy

I'll be doing my panel this Friday! It WILL be rebroadcast at the con early Saturday morning (1:30AM CST), and WILL be uploaded to YouTube at a later unknown date! Also don't miss all the BL artists & industry panels! There are a bunch of other amazing fandom panels and guests! I'm excited!🏳️‍🌈 #lore

Like for example, people would fight against ANY kind of censoring including rape scenes representing a child and like??? Can we take a step back for a minute?????

I see a lot of parallel with my thesis actually, when anime fans started to develop very strong tendency towards libertarianism against any criticism about representations of age and gender as a result to what they saw as initial puritanian frameworks of anime and sexuality

Just checked for the first time the stats of my little Medium filmography, not bad: 2.8k views!! medium.com/@aurelievirg... (and I need social media platforms to know that every time I have to censor my work, an angel dies 😔 I hope you feel bad about it!!! 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼)