🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

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Affect in Fandom is out soon, which I co-edited with great colleagues! It's an open-access book with splendid scholarship on fan fic, cosplay and games. How do feelings, texts and memories shape fandom? What do fans create, and why? Find out in March! #mediastudies www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

It's publication day for this edited collection that I've been working on with my two fabulous co-editors. Plenty of great work in here on animation, fandom and transmedia, and the general importance of this classic film 🕷🎃🎄 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nightmare...

A reminder that our CFP for women's writing is still live!

New CFP alert! Celebrating Women's Writing seeks a reassessment of women’s words and cries out to hear their diverse voices as they make critical contributions to society, culture, and politics. Creative and academic submissions are welcome maifeminism.com/cfp-happy-50... #academicsky

Did you know that MAI also accepts creative work? Creative responses can take any form, are peer reviewed using our fair, transparent approach and are an important aspect of creative scholarship. Honor Wilson's confessional in MAI 14 is a great example maifeminism.com/the-men-who-... #academicsky

Rose Mulraney talks with Alison Ramsey about their shared interests in women’s wellbeing and the use of animation and found footage in filmmaking to help illuminate hidden stories. maifeminism.com/womens-healt... #Academicsky #health

Happy New Year! Still lots to read and enjoy in our latest issue Feminist Pedagogies in Games, including Julia Kiernan's inspiring account of the power of listening maifeminism.com/situating-rh... #Academicsky #feminism #pedagogy

It's the time of year to think back as well as forward. Teresa Rizzo explores remembering through the practice of rephotography in our latest issue: maifeminism.com/the-beloved-... #academicsky #feminism #photography

What the hell are we even doing? Normalizing & green-lighting another psychotic madman. That’s what we’re doing. It’s f’ing insane.

"Videogames are typically associated with challenge and competition, but games can also incorporate representations and mechanics of care." Silvia Ruzanka explores alternate modes of understanding games in our new issue: maifeminism.com/experimental... #feminism #games #academicsky

"cinema can be more than a site of ponderous ‘dialogue and exchange’. It can also be a battleground." Ian Wang in Art Review on film's turn away from the real world. artreview.com/the-year-in-...

Anna Nygren explores the world of 'neuroqueer' in her article for our latest issue Feminist Pedagogy in Games maifeminism.com/neurodiverge... #academicsky #gaming #play #feminism

"The game design and game studies classroom continually struggle with the same conflicts, culture wars, and exclusionary practices that dominate the game industry itself." Anne Sullivan and Anastasia Salter look for solutions to the status quo maifeminism.com/mending-the-... #academicsky #feminism

Let's start at the beginning: the guest editors of our latest issue explain the importance of feminist voices in teaching games design: "‘who are we teaching, and what can we learn from them?’ " maifeminism.com/feminist-ped... #feminism #academicsky #gamesdesign

Over the next few days we'll be dipping into and sharing some of the wonderful new content from current issue. Starting with Sandra Alexandersson who writes about her experience of learning, and teaching, games design. maifeminism.com/taught-to-aw... #Academicsky #feminism #games

Joy of joys, our new issue! Feminist Pedagogies in Games Commissioned by our guest editors, Rebecca Rouse, Josefin Westborg and Amy Corron Youmans, explores game design and teaching games from a feminist perspective //maifeminism.com/issues/focus-issue-fourteen-feminist-pedagogies-in-games/

Did someone say Tuesday? Then it must be time for another peek into the MAI archives... Revisiting an interview with filmmaker Karyn Kusama from our third Spring 2019 issue #feminism #horror #film #directing #academicsky #Filmsky

It's another throwback Tuesday (wow, that week went fast ;-D Daniel Fountain writes about knitting, queering and surviving in Survival of the Knittest: Craft and Queer-Feminist Worldmaking part of MAI 8: Feminist Craft issue. #feminism #craft #queer-feminist

Insane list of talented people here. It’s a free informational pamphlet by like, Gene Ha and Ho Che Anderson, what more could you ask for

Throwback Tuesday - to MAI Issue 7: Female Detectives on TV, and a delicious dive into the sinous back and forth between Eve and Villanelle in the TV drama Killing Eve maifeminism.com/consorting-w... #feminism #academicsky #tvdrama

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and we were #4,783,153!

MAI welcomes feminist creative writing submissions. Send us your poems, short stories and creative responses (max 3000 words) For more info see: maifeminism.com/submissions/ #feminism #creativewriting #poetry #fiction

It IS possible to have robust, peer reviewed and academically challenging journals outside of the current system....;-) maifeminism.com/manifesto/ Rise up and fight! #academicsky

"I was making a film about a mother trying to be a filmmaker and a filmmaker trying to be mother." Watch Joanna Callaghan's short film included in MAI 11: Representing Women's Realities maifeminism.com/home-movie-p... #Filmsky #academicsky #filmmaking #homemovie

Catch up with this fantastic interview with filmmaker Nina Menkes from MAI Issue 11: Representing Women's Realities maifeminism.com/a-cinematic-... #filmsky #feministfilmmaking #academicsky

Very pleased to announce the first book from the new MAI press will be published in Autumn this year. The launch of our new Punctum books imprint marks a significant step forward in feminist publishing! punctumbooks.com/titles/corpo... #feminism #writing #progress

Staying with our Reframing Varda issue (MAI 12, Autumn 2023), Lydia Tuan's insightful exploration of biological time in Varda's essay films. maifeminism.com/the-texture-... #AcademicSky #FilmSky

Looking back at some of our previous issues, it's a delight to re-read a conversation between Nicole Fayard and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis on the work and life of Agnes Varda, in MAI 12 Reframing Varda maifeminism.com/she-knew-wha... #Filmsky #Academicsky

Jiratorn Sakulwattana's insightful video essay recontextualises the 'female gaze' from the cinematographer's perspective, in the film Shutter (2004). maifeminism.com/looking-back... #AcademicSky #Filmsky

Watch Krista Calvo's eloquent and unsettling video essay which explores Sofia Carillo’s short horror animations and weaves together stories about feminine grief, family and childhood. maifeminism.com/dos-hermanas... #AcademicSky #Filmsky

Fancy a walk? Make sure to watch Katarzyna Ancuta's video essay in the latest issue of MAI: Doing Women’s Global Horror Film History where she explores ghostly time travel in Mattie Do’s film The Long Walk (2019) maifeminism.com/ghost-time-g... #AcademicSky #Filmsky

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Creative writing on Alice in Wonderland (poems, short stories, creative responses, max 3000 words) for an upcoming issue. Submit to: [email protected] #academicsky

Celebrate International Women's Day with a dive into the journal's back catalogue. Since 2018 MAI has published ground breaking research in its special issues on topics as diverse as materialism, pegagogy, craft, female TV detectives, photography and comics! maifeminism.com/issues/issue... #IWD

Immerse yourself in Kate Robertson's poetical visual essay exploring Asato Mari's Gekijōban: Zero/Fatal Frame (2014). Just one of the amazing visual essays featured in MAI Focus Issue 13 Doing Women’s Global Horror Film History: maifeminism.com/the-spectre-... #filmsky #feminism #academicsky

Another great watch from MAI Focus Issue 13: Ariel Avissar examines clothing and horror, using the case study of Israeli costume designer Michal Dor’s Rabies (2010) and Big Bad Wolves (2013) maifeminism.com/wicked-seams/ #film #feminism #academicbluesky

This video essay by Alison Peirse mobilises a statement by feminist antiracist scholar Sarah Ahmed, positioning it as a manifesto for researching women filmmakers. maifeminism.com/how-not-to-r... in our latest issue MAI 13: Doing Women’s Global Horror Film History #film #feminism #visualculture

It might not help you drift off to sleep, but Alicia Izharuddin's video essay is a brilliant way to experience the power of the Pontianak, the female vampire of Malay folk tradition. From our new issue MAI 13: Doing Women’s Global Horror Film History. maifeminism.com/the-sound-wo... #film #feminism

Today's must read from our new issue MAI 13: Doing Women’s Global Horror Film History. Beatriz Saldanha explores the idea of female rebellion in Brazil in the 1970s through the monstrous women in The Woman Who Makes Doves Fly (1978) maifeminism.com/female-monst... #film #cinema #academic #feminism

There's so much to read and *watch* in our new issue. MAI 13: Doing Women’s Global Horror Film History is leading the way in showcasing the video essay as a site of critical engagement with diverse and non-canonical film - a benefit of our online presence. Dive in! maifeminism.com/to-eat-and-b...

Hello Monday! Start the week with one of our #videoessays from the new issue of MAI: Kūki by Colleen Laird. "Kūki can mean the air one breathes, a situation or circumstance, a setting or set, an emotional mood, a resonant vibe between people, or even a sonic landscape." maifeminism.com/kuki/

Oh, be still my heart! This looks amazing! 😍

Delve into our exciting new issue 'Doing Women's Global Horror Film History'. The introduction by Alison Peirse and trailer by Dayna McLeod show how this issue became "a model of feminist, decolonial worldmaking". maifeminism.com/introduction...

MAI issue 13, 'Doing Women's Global Horror Film History,' which guest-edited by the amazing Alison Peirse, is now live: maifeminism.com/issues/focus...