i have a blurb! dukeupress.edu/cinemas-of-b...

i'm very happy to share these endorsements for my forthcoming book, CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION. it means the world to have such generous words from scholars i respect so deeply.

my chapter on one of the first instalments of the 80s bi video boom: BI-COASTAL (1985) is now available! featured in the wonderful SCREENING ADULT FILM, edited by ‪‪@ffreibert.bsky.social‬, Peter Alilunas, & Desirae Embree. ask your library to buy it! www.routledge.com/Screening-Ad...

if you can get to Manchester, don't miss the opportunity to see this landmark of Parallel Cinema featuring a bisexual bandit whose place among cinema's messiest bisexual transgressors is well-deserved

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"!

Like so many others, I was dismayed by the recent news that the profit-driven Taylor & Francis acquired multiple book series (including our open-access "The Key Debates") as part of a transaction with Amsterdam University Press. I proudly signed this collective resignation letter.

The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./ mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

28 international editors have announced their resignation from commercial publisher Taylor & Francis, which recently acquired their book series from Amsterdam University Press (AUP). The editors made this known today in a signed letter to the publisher. www.folia.nl/en/actueel/1...

28 editors have resigned from Amsterdam University Press following its unprecedented takeover by Taylor & Francis and firing of commissioning editors. read the letter here: mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

This book looks good!

I am *so* looking forward to this book!!! What a gorgeous cover! 🤩 Congratulations @jacobengelberg.bsky.social ✨ 💙📚 #Booksky

👇excited to now be able to share my partner @jacobengelberg.bsky.social forthcoming book (January 2026) with @dukepress.bsky.social A much needed intervention that really does change how we think, theorise, and conceptualise cinema and bisexuality!

Oh that looks good as fuck

delighted that i can now share the cover of my forthcoming monograph 𝘊𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯. released 6 Jan 2026 with @dukepress.bsky.social in the Camera Obscura series.

IMPORTANT ADVICE FOR AUTHORS AND SERIES EDITORS ON THE FILM/MEDIA LIST: Do not respond to the letter or accept the new contracts proposed by Taylor & Francis at htis point (unles, of course, you want to). A response is being coordinated. Additional conversations scheduled for the NECS conference.

SUPERB! The Film Atlas is a collaboration between the International Federation of Film Archives and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is - or aims to be - an interactive global map of the history of film technology. The site has just gone live and it is free to use for all. www.filmatlas.com

Queer and trans film and media scholars, SCMS QTC members, please help me retire as the senior co-chair of @scmsqtc.bsky.social! I am old & tired. We’re looking for secretary nominees until the 25th to hold elections. It’s a 3 year term: secretary ➡️ junior co-chair ➡️ senior co-chair ➡️ retirement.

Check out the CFP for this year’s World Picture conference hosted in collaboration w/ brilliant colleagues at UvA @jacobengelberg.bsky.social @rhysteven.bsky.social & Abe Geil in November! necs.org/news/calls-f...

a nice thing about dutch academia is a copyright amendment that allows for the open publication of short scholarly works 6 months after their initial publication. this means that my chapter on Call Me by Your Name is now freely accessible! you can find it in the URL on my profile.

As part of the Homotopia takeover of Museum of Liverpool and the Holly Johnson exhibition (Sat 5th April), @mbpearl.bsky.social and myself will be talking "Don't Relax! Culture, Protest, and Music during the AIDS Crisis" event info here: www.homotopia.net/events/homot...

In memory of her passing my favourite Linda Williams media moment is just at the end of an old television documentary series on the history of pornography. She did have a soft spot for 'Boys in the Sand' (1972). @screeningsex.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social

RIP Linda Williams. we've lost an intellectual giant whose debts to film studies & pornography studies can never be repaid. i'm grateful that she got her flowers before she passed, with a symposium & special issue honouring her work in recent years. long may her writing be taught in our classrooms.

119 film and media scholars from 61 institutions across 16 countries have written to Travis Bell (The Movie Database) and Matthew Buchanan (Letterboxd) to make the case to reinstate early moving image works in their catalogues. Thank you to everyone who signed.

film & media scholars. today is the last day you can sign the petition to restore early moving image works to Letterboxd/The Movie Database. find the details below

The official publication day of our THE PROP! @fordhampress.bsky.social www.fordhampress.com/978153150961...

attention film & media scholars! last month, The Movie Database, whose catalogue populates Letterboxd, removed hundreds of early moving image works in a new content policy. read why my colleagues & i think this is a mistake in our open letter. please consider signing: forms.gle/zCyZt9fMwYcj...

i'm in humbling company in @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social's wonderful edited collection 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳: 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴. my chapter looks at invocations of the dybbuk across postmillennial cinemas beyond the Anglosphere. get your library to order it! doi.org/10.2307/jj.2...

sites posing as film journalism that are actually just AI bots can be quite entertaining

gutted to learn that The Movie Database, which populates @letterboxd.social, has banned early motion studies. this is frustrating not just as someone who added dozens of Marey, Demenÿ, and Comte films to the database, but because it stifles efforts to bring early film history to a wider audience

love how eurostar’s like “make sure you arrive early so you can loiter in an area without enough seats for an hour!”

Our new Issue 15: Next (Winter 2025) is live. Eight new essays plus an interview with critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. See what's Next: worldpicturejournal.com

a long overdue rescan of one of the New French Extremity's most smarting provocations. De Van's film gives form to the body's malleable materialities, with an intimate understanding of how explorations of our body's own can involve violence & poesis, control & abandon, pain & ecstasy

An absolute powerhouse of writers talk about int'l folklore in horror films like TUMBBAD, THE WAILING, MR. VAMPIRE. "Transnational Horror" @livunipress.bsky.social @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social @lindsayhallam.bsky.social @jacobengelberg.bsky.social ++ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

It’s ANIMATED FILM & DISABILITY: CRIPPING SPECTATORSHIP’s 2nd year anniversary today! Feeling the urgency to crip perception more than ever, antiableist & antiracist work can guide us in resisting a coup.

i'm delighted to have contributed to the new Wiley-Blackwell collection A COMPANION TO INGMAR BERGMAN, edited by @danielhumphrey.bsky.social & Hamish Ford. my chapter is "Bisexuality, Neurosis, & Fantasies of the Caribbean in Ansikte mot ansikte". Check it out onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Film Studies at King's College London is hiring - TWO POSTS: Areas: cinemas of S Asia;cinemas of Global South (Latin America, Middle East, + Africa), New Media theory, Television (media) history, Documentary, Artists’ moving image, & Film/Media Practice as Research. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/104005-...

this year’s first & last

Lacan wishes you a happy new year, from the first seminar of Lacan.

If you know you know #RHOBH (credit to my partner @jacobengelberg.bsky.social for creating this for me)

Woop woop I’m taking over as Guest Editor for Porn Studies’ upcoming Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence, Porn, and Sex Work” ✨🤲💗✨🤖 I’m interested in adding non-peer-reviewed papers to the issue (films/fest/book reviews, interviews, forums, roundtable, etc.) 📩 Reach out if you have an idea!

relive the trauma in 4k!!

‘tis the season ❤️

differences 35.3 is out now! — edited by @teaganbradway.bsky.social, "Unaccountably Queer" features essays from Gila Ashtor, Cassius Adair, Sara Ahmed, Judith Butler, Jules Gill-Peterson, and more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

i was delighted to contribute to LSE HE Blog's exploration of academic life on film. I discuss the overconfident ornithologist of Hitchcock's THE BIRDS (1963), and other film scholars discuss an eclectic range of examples, from Streisand's THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES (1996) to Martino's TORSO (1973)!

today FNV union members begin our strike at the uni of amsterdam. our exec. board continues to impose antidemocratic limits on protest & refuses to cut ties with institutions complicit in grave human rights violations. but the university isn’t them, it’s students & workers www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o...

catching up on some yiddish cinema

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on February 11th on Blu-ray from @kinolorber.bsky.social in association with #LibraryOfCongress: #OscarMicheaux: The Complete Collection (1920-1940)! In this unprecedented undertaking, Kino Classics, in cooperation with the Library of Congress and

Brilliant piece on the Amsterdam violence by Joana Cavaco from the Amsterdam Jewish collective Erev Rav vashtimedia.com/amsterdam-er...