We did it!! New issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social is LIVE. Pleasure working w/ my co-editor @benspky.bsky.social, FMH team @jmbean.bsky.social and @cainmiller.bsky.social, and our brilliant contributors to make special issue on "Nontheatrical Medias" happen. See Ben's thread for issue content! 🥂

FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO TURN ANGER INTO ACTION Here’s advice from a high-level staffer for a Senator. I’m retyping from Allison McGuffie’s post, which she cut and pasted from a friend. There are two things that we should be doing all the time right now, and they’ve by far the most important things.

And in celebration of Black History Month, this issue will stream freely on the UC Press website through the end of February! We will continue to share and promote the issue's contents throughout the week!

Reminder: Our 11.1 issue is free to read throughout Black History Month 🙂 Here is one of the essays included in the issue:

Coming up at the Sundance Festival: the world premiere of KHARTOUM, produced by the Sudan Film Factory with archive research contributed by our King’s College London project SUDAN MEMORY. Watch this space for the European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February.

This by @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social on the terrible California fires is very good. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/whats-go...

I’m gathering a list of #OpenAccess or #freelyaccessible #Film, #Television, #ScreenStudies, #audiovisualmediastudies Publications, Editors and Advocates People at Bluesky. Please let me know if you’d like me to add you. go.bsky.app/NBipNnW

ICYMI: Last month @rewirenewsgroup.com published a comprehensive guide to protecting your reproductive health during the next Trump administration, including how to stock up on birth control and abortion pills, and how to protect your digital privacy rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/12/16/h...

For those of you who want to help, here are some local Altadena organizations who were impacted. These are all groups I have worked with personally and can vouch for the good work they do. Thread. #EatonFire

New CFP!

Post-doctoral #opportunities working in an archive - Women's Screen work. #WomenInFilm. 👇 britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blo...

It's here!!! I'm extremely excited to share “Unaccountably Queer,” the special issue of Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies that I edited in honor of Judith Butler’s groundbreaking “Giving an Account of Oneself." read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

If you wanna reach the historical communities of the blue skies, consider using this established hashtag that reaches out to all fields with historical perspectives: #skystorians So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting

My amazing colleague @goldenowens.bsky.social rocked this conversation with Boots Riley. I’m a huge fan (of both)! Check it out…

via Decolonial Film Festival: un extrait du film Beyrouth, ma ville (1982) de Jocelyne Saab. En tandem avec le dramaturge libanais Roger Assaf, elle décide de parcourir sa ville assiégée par les Israéliens et de rendre compte de la situation à Beyrouth. #arabcinema #lebanon #palestine

Sweet! Borzage rocks….

This whole thread is good— what *is* the humanities anyways? @miriamposner.com never disappoints

Hey! Did you all know that you can watch tons of indigenous cinema here on the National Film Board of Canada's website? Well, you can, and I thought I'd share just a few of my favorites today for... reasons. www.nfb.ca/indigenous-c...

Greetings, Bluesky! What better use of a first post than to announce our new CFP! Special Issue on Craftwork with the Digital, guest edited by Christina Corfield and Whitney Trettien. Proposals are due February 15, 2025: online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...

Are you a film & media scholar who wants to learn how to make video essays? Applications for the two-week June 2025 workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image at Middlebury College in Vermont are now open. Come be a videocamper and spread the word!

This may be my favorite video essay ever. I feel seen. And (my rage) revered.

Spread the word— safe spaces/states for reproductive health in the US

Next week, the 1st in my 3 book series will go on sale from Greasy Grass Press. Centering around an Indigenous plant geneticist, in a world where corporations have taken the vestiges of power from elected governments, as she goes from submission to rebellion. greasygrasspress.vip/products/the...

The “book hunt” assignment. Love this idea. Am gonna adopt/translate for 19th and early 20th c. film/media/archeology

Transphobia isn’t a distraction. It’s an attack on one of the most vulnerable populations and a reinforcement of biological essentialism, a pillar of patriarchal control that trans identity rightfully threatens

Great stuff. Been thinking a lot about this very exact thing in the face of Interstella 5555's new re-release, which itself is plagued with a """restoration""" (aka bad upscale) that awkwardly smooths out all the beauty inherent to the animation of the era.

oh i know this one! if you're on chrome, just go to settings then systems, and turn off graphics accelleration. then reload your browser. i have to do this all the time for cdrama streaming

Y'all I cannot even BEGIN to tell you how good it feels to just post interesting science facts and 1) they get engagement and 2) nobody calls me names.

This pretty much made my day. Thx @hennefem.bsky.social !

My first post! Just wanted to introduce the new BFI Inside the Archive blog: blog.bfi.org.uk/category/kno...

Silent films had beautiful color, live music, and lesbian air pirates!!

A wonderful article on NAKED ACTS! ttps://fnewsmagazine.com/2024/11/the-plea-for-black-visibility/

It’s a solid overview of the situation—three cheers for hanging here, where the skies are blue!

It was a joy to work with Dan Bustillo on trans Latinx micro-celebrities the past year — let’s encourage more of the same here @bsky.social

Download your free copy of the anthology "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire," which I had the honor of co-editing in 2022. Light in Gaza explores the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and the struggle for liberation. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1861-l...

The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th” When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn

This book is a thing of beauty. Snap it up before they're all gone!

Do you have a book idea centering #queer and #trans studies in #education? @kamdenstrunk.bsky.social and I would love to talk with you about your project! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📖📚🎉

"I wanted to connect the dots between the seemingly disparate laws that govern pregnancy in the context of abortion, surrogacy, parental rights, and reproductive technology."—Jennifer Hendricks, author of ESSENTIALLY A MOTHER #NWSA2024 www.ucpress.edu/blog...#NWSA2024

www.arieldougherty.com/archives-et-al Whoa! Ariel Dougherty posted her archive of Women Make Movies newsletters — 1973-1983. 👀

On this day in 1978, Céline Sciamma was born. Her films are tender yet intense, they are both cerebral and visceral. They're the work of a director with a clear aesthetic and keen intuition. Celebrate her birthday with this VIDEO ESSAY DOSSIER on her work: www.filmscalpel.com/celine-sciamma/

Frame 9: "Pro-Palestine Protests on University Campuses (Notes from Spring, 2024)" is now live on Cultural Critique's open access website! (This has been long in the works and we were worried that it wouldn't come out at all...) manifold.umn.edu/projects/cc1...

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

Circle ‘round, kids, and watch as it dawns on the Journal’s editorial page that they’ve been backing an “anti-constitutional” candidate all this time!

"You have to protect, with hyper-controlling vigilance, what is almost uncontrolled in your writing—its complexity and chaos, its charismatic shimmer." ✨❤️

"Some essays have... structure + not enough mood; some essays are all mood in shapeless space... The veil of order is structure; the chaos that shimmers, the light that moves inside the text, is mood. Mood moving thru structure may be what gives essays energy, the energy that nearly escapes control"

Look what we got into USA Today.

reply if you'd like to be added! Feminist media people, unite!!! go.bsky.app/497Tp3t

For all the feminist media scholars who just joined Bluesky...consider submitting a proposal to Console-ing Passions 2025! We're hosting it at Georgia State University and we're looking forward to lively conversations! fmt.gsu.edu/console-ing-...

Film writers: I’m always hiring for Blu-ray booklet essays (academics, critics, journalists etc) and the easiest way for me to connect used to be Twitter, but I’d like that to be here going forward. Reply here if we aren’t already connected and also drop your Letterboxd as that help hugely!