In Birmingham June 25th? Join us for the launch of Sexualised Masculinity by John Mercer and Clarissa Smith at BCU. Panel, Q&A, drinks. Masculinity, sex & digital culture in sharp focus. 📘 Free OA book: tinyurl.com/yn694erx 🎟️ Eventbrite: tinyurl.com/5xwxsr35

⚡ Fallen icon? Lauren Rosewarne interrogates Buck Angel’s legacy—visibility, respectability, and generational breaks in trans porn. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🔖 Tags and taxonomies: @jizlee.bsky.social & Kriss Lowrance explore the ethics of metadata. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🗾 Bilingual porn celebrity: Alexandra Hambleton follows June Lovejoy’s persona in Japan—market outsider, affective insider. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🏳️‍🌈 Bisexual stardom in gay porn: Finlay Freibert recovers Judy Coleman’s 60s/70s career as solidarity, not anomaly. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📼 Queer archives: Lynn Comella uncovers lesbian-queer porn in 1990s SF—erotic filmmaking as scene, intimacy, and resistance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

👅 Loops, licks, gasps: Peter Lehman explores the micro-gestures of digital fetish porn—genre anchored by fragments, not plot. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📽️ Pastiche & parody: David Church dissects Hollywood Babylon (1972) as softcore celebrity drag—awkward reenactment as critique. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

👹 Horror, porn, hybrid stardom: Xavier Mendik follows Ginger Lynn Allen’s monster femininity across genres, timelines, and myths. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🖤 Tattoo-titted freakdom: James Anderson reads Bonnie Rotten’s body as punk refusal—a spectacle of anti-glam, all attitude. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🇮🇹 Hardcore as heritage: Giovanna Maina & Federico Zecca frame Rocco Siffredi’s career as myth-making masculinity—between porn sets & Italian TV. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📼 From VHS to virality: Oliver Carter traces Ben Dover’s decades-long pivot from underground illegality to digital branding. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🌏 Erotic economies in India: Meet Oasi Das—OnlyFans, Instagram, & intimacy work as multitasking porn stardom in a global South context by Darshana Sreedhar Mini & Anirban Kapil Baishya. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our friends at @calltoactivism.bsky.social dug up a video of Donald tRump trashing Qatar in 2017 calling them “funders of terrorism.” He likely would hate if this clip changed their mind to give him a $400 million plane - so definitely don’t repost it. 😉

💻 Platformed kink: Rebecca Rose Nocella’s ethnography of Countess Diamond reveals the hustle behind BDSM stardom under algorithmic capitalism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎞️ Amateur, on repeat: Daniel Laurin shows how Curtis’s familiar presence on Sean Cody is crafted spontaneity—looped gestures as persona. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💪 Queer masculinity stylised: Peter Rehberg dives into Sagat’s blend of gonzo and gallery—porno aesthetics as art-world muscle. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📱 From YouTube to OnlyFans: Brandon Arroyo reads Ethan Hethcote’s brand shift as narrative overload—where paratext eclipses performance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🤢 Gag reflex as fame? James K Beggan tracks how Brooke Van Buuren’s “failure” becomes fetish, erotics of abjection as porn notoriety. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🩸 Menstrual blood, awkwardness, unscripted intimacy—Laura Sofia Torre’s take on Consent challenges the smooth polish of feminist porn. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💻 Docu-porn and digital persona: Troy Michael Bordun explores Threesome and Ariel Rebel’s parasocial craft—intimacy built on performance, not spontaneity. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎥 Queering the camera: Misha Kavka & Tobias Kunz read CrashPad as metaporn—where staging sex becomes part of the performance. Affective labour meets ethical spectatorship. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Proud to have co-edited this special issue of Porn Studies on Stardom at the Margins. It’s a bold, wide-ranging collection that treats porn performance as craft, labour, persona, and politics. So much insight, so many brilliant contributors. Read it!

Linda Williams changed how we see, think, and argue about pornography, desire, and the moving image. Hard Core was the first serious study of porn as film. Porn Studies recently published a special dossier on her contributions to the field: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprn20/1....

🔥 Porn Studies turns 10! 🔥 A decade of critical conversations with Vol. 11, No. 4—our bumper 10th-anniversary issue is finally out! Packed with articles, interviews, and roundtables, this edition reflects on ten years of Porn Studies! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprn20/c...

🚨 New Book Alert! 🚨 Thrilled that Sexualised Masculinity: Men’s Bodies in 21st Century Media Culture, co-authored with John Mercer, is out. 📖✨ Eroticisation of the male body reshaping ideas of gender, sexuality, and representation. #Masculinity #MediaStudies #Gender #Sexuality #NewBook