FREE RESEARCH ARTICLE! Why did writers say Lara Croft was trans? What was her actual relationship to the “male gamer”? Look out for a guest appearance by Mario, and for the author’s own trans memories from the y2k era. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Congratulations @jacobengelberg.bsky.social & @ffreibert.bsky.social! I can’t wait to read this!

SCMS joins the field in mourning the loss of Ina Rae Hark, Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of South Carolina and a pioneering scholar of film and media studies.

I don’t think enough cis people—unless they’re parenting a trans child—realize how deep and wide the defunding of trans healthcare has gotten in 6 months, and how deadly it is.

The type-set pages are in now for 'Screening Adult Cinema' edited by @ffreibert.bsky.social Peter Alilunas, and Des Embree. My own 'Boys in the Sand' (1971) is one of the 39 chapters in the book. More on the forthcoming book and chapters can be found here: www.routledge.com/Screening-Ad...

I've got an article in this issue of The Velvet Light Trap that's based on the screen tourism research I was funded for a few years ago. So pleased to see it in print. utpress.utexas.edu/journals/the...

As #scms25 approaches (first of the post-twitter era!), feel free to follow this conference feed in Bluesky to track the discourse:

yoooooo #scms #scms25, get ready

BREAKING: @scmsqtc.bsky.social zine just dropped!!! Check out the latest & hottest in queer & trans cinema & media scholarship; #SCMS2025 panels & the annual QTC🍹 Check your 📧 for the full zine, made by our talented grad re Eduardo Pelligra!

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 (please share). The Centre for Feminist Research at York University invites abstracts from scholars/artists/activists, for Connection: The Fifth Annual Critical Femininities Conference. Conference is virtual August 15-17, 2025. Full CFP: www.yorku.ca/cfr/wp-conte...

The CFP for the Literature/Film Association Conference 2025 is here: GHOSTED! PRESENCE, ABSENCE, AND ADAPTATION. 👻 Fittingly, we’ll be in Savannah, GA—one of America’s most haunted cities. Will your paper make an appearance… or mysteriously vanish? 👀 Check it out: 🔗 litfilm.org/con.../liter...

This ⬇️ resonates a lot as shoujo fans are held responsible for some series not being successful !!

Revisiting @finleyfreibert.bsky.social and 🔥 “Phrases that centralize the straight male reception once again imagine the anime niche market is a straight male market, and in doing so, argue that a release unaccepted by that market is doomed to failure.” iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jam...

Hopefully my thesis soon enough… 🤞🫠 In my opinion, publications such as @finleyfreibert.bsky.social’s article on Yaoi media distribution or Suzanne Scott’s Fake geek girls do a really good job at dissecting the assumption that popular cultures necessarily cater to a hetero-male market

We're on Bluesky (hi!) & we have a new interview on the blog! Darshana Sreedhar Mini @darshanamini.bsky.social discusses new book Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema & Mediations of Desire in India @ucpress.bsky.social with Finley Freibert @finleyfreibert.bsky.social screeningsex.com/2025/02/12/i...

Out now! MONSTRUM 7.2, “Queer/ing Horror,” guest-ed: @Daynarama.bsky.social. The 9 video essays in this issue think about what queer reuse of queerness looks like through a horror lens, and are also acts of queer re-telling and reviewing practices of horror. www.monstrum-society.ca/monstrum-v7-...

the inaugural university of pittsburgh's queer horror conference is officially off to a stellar start: sapphic fungus-from-the-body eating, rotting corpses and monstrous wives, confucian ethics and mental breakdowns, and so much more just in the first hour!

Our roundtable with Peter Alilunas, @drjonessoc.bsky.social, @noisybits.bsky.social and moi is just out as part of @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social 10th year anniversary. 50 freebies here:

Archiving will be some of the most important work that we can do collectively over the next several years.

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

CALL FOR ZINES! Contribute your zines to the first ever @geographers.bsky.social Zine Fair, happening March 24-28 in Detroit! Find all the info and the submission link on the banner at the top of our homepage: geoz.one. Please spread the word! #geosky

PLUM PLEASED to share my latest, out now in Porn Studies: 💥Porn scholars coming together💥 In this interview, 5 veteran porn researchers recount the 2014 origins of @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social & reflect on a decade of developments in our field. DM for access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New from the Queer and Trans SCMS Caucus: a starter pack to stay in touch! We’ve read your responses to our survey asking to transition from Meta to Bsky & we’re starting by offering this pack. A QTC account will follow. We’re excited to connect, lmk if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/G4eA51z

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!

(1/3)‼️Call for Papers: Porn Studies Special Issue on Digital-Only Sex Work The special issue aims to bring together contributions from a range of cultures and locations on digital-only sex work. For more information: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Grad students & adjunct/underemployed faculty: Apply for travel grants to help with #SCMS25 expenses! Grants are selected by lottery. Learn more and apply here: https://buff.ly/408zERW. Deadline: Jan 6, 2024.

The ⁠#SCMS25 preliminary conference program draft is now live! Find your session, check details, & submit corrections by Jan 15. Check your email for info on chair volunteer assignments, caucus/SIG panel sponsorships, and much more!

The SCMS Adult Film & Media Scholarly Interest Group has an account here, please go give them a follow: @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social Also, a friendly reminder, here is a porn studies starter pack I made a bit ago. I'm continuing to edit and add folks upon request: bsky.app/profile/finl...

📣Our CFP is LIVE! We are seeking submissions from early career scholars, independent scholars, contingent faculty members, and pre-tenure faculty members. *must have membership in good standing with SCMS *must be a member of our SIG *deadline: February 15, 2025 Link to full CFP in 🧵 below!

I'm tired of the framing of trans suicides as an entirely internal struggle detached from the realities of a deeply hostile culture hell-bent on denying us care, dignity, and autonomy. Every trans suicide is a social murder, because you cannot ignore a society actively trying to eradicate us.

Under each document we access in archives, there is a long, invisible, (un)intentional trail of fragmentation of information. Recognizing these pivots in the path of documents can help us better contextualize why we find what we find.

ELAINE MAY comes out in one month! But is already available to ship from @illinoispress.bsky.social! The promo code F24UIP gets you 30% off. The perfect holiday gift for all the ISHTAR haters in your life 😈 www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

SCMS folks: Reminder that our virtual symposium meeting is Friday, December 6, at 11:00 AM Central Time! SCMS already sent out the Zoom links, so check your emails for those! We look forward to seeing you!

And we're live! We're excited to announce our return to social media! Make sure to give us a follow for more information and updates on all things TV Scholarly Interest Group and SCMS! #SCMSTV #TVSIG #televisionstudies #scms

The Virtual Symposium is coming up in a couple of days, which is probably why I’m getting a lot of SCMS related questions…if you have questions, come chat with the more seasoned board members during board office hours!

Absolutely HILARIOUS on every count. Five stars, no notes, would read again.

The SCMS Nontheatrical Studies SIG invites submissions for our Student Essay Award! Submissions due: Feb. 28, 2025 CFP link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/varq6... Submit your paper (and a short CV) to: [email protected] #FilmStudies #NontheatricalMedia

Thanks to all who are reading, 'liking', and reposting this 🧵 for #WorldAIDSDay. I have a short bibliography, prepared for the 30th anniversary of the identification of AIDS in 2011: www.academia.edu/4606342. A lot of scholarship has appeared since, but sometimes it helps just to review the basics.

Fab sounding queer history conference in Copenhagen next year nors.ku.dk/english/rese....

CFP! submit to porn studies' special issue about international digital sex work! (so happy to not have to self-censor on here). if you write about online sex work, especially in contexts outside UK/US, consider submitting or reach out to me for any questions. more info here: shorturl.at/uSCPV

Chicago here we come! (April 3-6) @scmstudies.bsky.social @caelkeegan.bsky.social

Join grindhouse queen Roberta Findlay in a virtual discussion with Whit and Peter to launch the paperback of this amazing book that features chapters by myself @kierlajanisse.bsky.social @finleyfreibert.bsky.social + others ❤️ FREE! Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/refocus-th...

Acceptance notices are out & registration is now open! You can now book at our conference hotels, apply for eligible grants & subsidies, review travel guidance, reserve reception spaces, and more! Visit cmstudies.org for more information about ⁠#SCMS25 in Chicago, IL from April 3-6, 2025.

Stolen from the lovely Whit Strub's fb, heres THE GRINDHOUSE QUEEN HERSELF Roberta Findlay with the book he edited w/ Peter Alilunas, which features work from myself @kierlajanisse.bsky.social @finleyfreibert.bsky.social + a bunch of other amazing people edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus...

Similarly excited to share that I also wrote a looooong academic article on queerness in DC’s Gothic romance comics, which will be published in Horror and Comics, set to be published next April by University of Wales Press as part of their Horror Studies series! www.uwp.co.uk/book/horror-...

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

Made a starter pack of media industry scholars: go.bsky.app/61pDASR Please let me know if you want to be added (or removed)!

Faculty at UNT College of Ed are told they won't "receive travel funds to present research at conferences that deal with race, color, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation." I see people on here saying it's anticipatory compliance as the law doesn't address research or teaching per se.

Alternate/unused title page for Pebbles 3. Reprinting next week eek eek

THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. Censorship affects all of us, and if Project 2025 gets its way, the entire trans publishing industry is at a significant risk of criminalization. In this article, I lay out the problem and the stakes, and suggest a broad action plan with dozens of potential response ✊