Join us on Sunday 23rd for "Imagining Trans Futures" with Mijke van der Drift (co-author of Trans Femme Futures) and Deity Evans (trans activist-socialist) - location: Liverpool, Blue Coat gallery. For more info, to book a place, and please, see eventbrite link www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-...

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A few pics from the launch for photographer Ming De Nasty's "Residents" project at Liverpool's Open Eye Gallery. Part of city-wide arts festival Homotopia. The portrait exhibition captures Liverpool's broad LGBTQAI+ community around politics, identity, and place. www.homotopia.net/events/resid...

the preface & introduction of my forthcoming book is now freely available to read! & you can also pre-order it at 50% off buff.ly/ehSkevd

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Great day for this special issue on critical aunty studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Can’t help but wonder if I would still be employed right now and, if so, for how long if I hadn’t left my position in Texas in the fall.

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.

100% I would also add Clara Law to the "best of" too! I used to teach her Farewell China

It seems to be a curation exclusively from the "Golden Princess Film Production" catalogue which I assume is why there's no Ann Hui. It is a pretty small roster of films from what I remember but includes those John Woo/Tsui Hark big hitters.

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...

Are you neurodivergent & have done, or considered, a PhD? We’re researching how doctoral study works (or doesn’t) for neurodivergent people. Take our 30min survey & help make academia more inclusive forms.office.com/e/ft9jyWsPUW Questions? Email [email protected] #PhD #Neurodivergent

The most scary and dystopian thing about Alien: Earth is that the only consumable media in the future appears to be Disney. In the first episode two scenes in which media content is watched in different geographies, locales is other Disney texts including Peter Pan and Pixar's Ice Age.

Post from @caitgauthor.bsky.social on the ableism behind “write every day!” I am definitely writing my book on crip time. Bc I must, there is no other way for me. caitgordon.com/2022/09/16/t...

the UK’s Internet age verification law has led to the effective censorship of all LGBT content on Reddit what a shocking and unexpected turn of events!

New Queer Cinema apparently includes "Milk" and "Fox." I will hopefully be setting the record straight on the fiction of New Queer Cinema as "an irresponsible canon" (the chapter title) when the book on AIDS and independent cinema is actually finished. PS 'Without you I'm Nothing" is actually great!

Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature. newfascismsyllabus.com

related - I always remember Sarah Shulman's calling it the "New York Crimes" for its handling of the AIDS crisis

"the designation “dip hop”... signals an independent style grounded in both hip-hop and Deaf culture. Like bounce, trap and drill, the label “dip hop” makes a greater distinction from being a variation of rap to a style that is heavily situated within Deaf culture and determined by Deaf aesthetics."

sensational

👇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!

For months, @wired.com has been working on something about this moment's big fights: pushback against immigration raids, Tesla Takedown, LGBTQ+ rights. When we started, we didn't expect to publish following some of the biggest protests of Trump’s second term. www.wired.com/how-to-win-a...

I loved the original version but this Nitzer Ebb version and their additional remixes was elevated. The remixes on the Mute 12" are stunning. An indictment to streaming services as these gems haven't been heard since 1989.

shout out to this one too @horrornonna.com which was a formative moment www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVy...

Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech

Getting writing, queer dears: I want ur essays & poems in my eyes for catflap #5, Outburst Arts' awesome magazine. Deadline: 30 June for finished poems & essays / 10 June for essay pitches, pls read FAQ carefully! Paid. Pls share! Pls submit! No genAI! No str8s! outburstarts.com/events-proje...

The new 4K restoration of Mike Thomas’s groundbreaking gay sexploitation film THE MEAT/RACK premieres at Frameline on June 26th and is now available for festival bookings. www.frameline.org/films/framel...

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...

Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

Parting Glances (1986) Anhell69 (2022) 120 BPM (2017) Killing of Sister George (1968)

Each of the articles in this special issue theorizes the [] between trans and crip in distinct yet interconnected ways, expanding on the dynamic tension between difference and alignment. I’ll be introducing them throughout June. @dukepress.bsky.social

Another sign I need to write about Dario Argento's relationship to Italian fashion at some point. A nod to the history of the giallo, Argento, and Italian style, Bottega Veneta's “Craft is our Language” celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Intrecciato leather weave with these guanti dell'assassino

**Academic position klaxon** My department (who are awesome, btw) are hiring for my replacement for a year while I am away on fellowship. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l...

Protect Scouse Dolls - there’s a rally to support our trans siblings this weekend in Liverpool. This fundraiser is to support charities looking after trans youth gofund.me/121b64e6

TOMORROW - LIVERPOOL - 12PM @ ST GEORGES HALL 🏳️‍⚧️

watched something I hadn't seen since - Ninja III: The Domination (1984) - aerobics + Flashdance + Exorcist + Poltergeist + 80s ninja craze + synths. Had a look at the original Canon pre-prod sexy ninja pitch and the post-prod ad with "the most fearsome ninja ever known" + fearsome blow-dry volume

A sneak preview of Eileen Perrier's show A Thousand Small Stories at Autograph, London. We're very lucky to have got Eileen for an online talk this Wednesday 28th May at 3pm BST- it’s free, book here - www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

The wonderful Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (which I worked on for many happy years) is back in July. Book your tickets for some of the best Arab music, theatre, performance, conversation and more www.arabartsfestival.com

I’m re-sharing the QTC starter pack in hopes of finding our new secretary. Are you out there? @scmsqtc.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social go.bsky.app/G4eA51z

The most loving partner who understands me and knows when to tell me to stop 😜 You know your autism is adored when your info dumping gets called out!

In the 1980s, the BBFC was so OTT censorious even words like "Chainsaw" and "Ninja" were banned that VHS artwork and beloved cartoons credits had to be changed/edited. Here's two examples of fortress UK. Spot the difference

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...

The UK is now second-worst country for LGBTQ+ rights in western Europe www.huckmag.com/article/uk-s...

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Comparatively speaking - are they shorter than the shorts in "Sleepaway Camp" short?

Check out this just released chapter on Virtual Production called 'This is the Way’: ILM’s Stagecraft, Disney’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian and constructing the rhetoric of virtual production’ by @sarah-thomas.bsky.social! 🎥 Can we agree that this title is 😍? www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

My review of Superfine: Tailoring Black Style (opening this weekend at the Met Costume Institute) is live on Frieze.com www.frieze.com/article/supe...

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: PRIDE IS A TRANS LED PROTEST. June 1st, 12:00, St Georges Hall, Liverpool, UK #pride #transrightsarehumanrights #queer #alternativepride #lgbtqcommunity #transuk #transwomenarewomen #transmenaremen #translivesmatter #nonbinary #protest 🖤 graphics by Connie F 🖤

Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.

Another update to the map of protests against the Supreme Court judgement (Green markers for completed demos, red for upcoming) www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e... 82 protests and counting! Keep following and supporting @whatthetrans.com for updates