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Cael M Keegan
@caelkeegan.bsky.social
Media nerd, gaymer, teacher, critic, theorist. Associate Professor of Film/Moving Image Studies at Concordia University, Montréal. Bard energy. Author of "Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender" and a bunch of other stuff.
The thing about being a writer is that I kinda do it to save my own life, or at least extend it. If others can come along, that’s good. But outsourcing one of your few tools to see your own mind? To be surprised by what it can express back to you when you ask? That seems incredibly stupid.
This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
Every few months, I ask folks to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Why? Because we live in a world (partially) controlled by mysterious algorithms and rankings. It's not fair, and it's not ideal. But! Your review can get the show in front of more people and help me reach algorithm escape velocity
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Not to kick the hive but crazy that someone like Snyder has spent his whole career attempting the sane tricks and hasn't achieved anything as compelling as CGI rain from 2003
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul LGBTQnation GLAAD finds Hollywood continues reducing the number of LGBTQ+ characters; even worse, GLAAD found ZERO trans characters in 225 films last year and ZERO LGBTQ+ ones in animated and family films. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/holl...
Hollywood stopped making films with trans characters as LGBTQ+ representation declines - LGBTQ Nation
The study also found that there weren't any LGBTQ+ characters in animated or family films in 2025.
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Congratulations to Lindsey Graham for writing his own obituary ten years and two months in advance. The question of who deserves it remains, since the natural world and a whole lot of people in this country and beyond do not deserve it.
The next presidential election needs to focus on making it so NO motion smoothing is the default on all TV's.
Do you, like me, wonder why so many online « Democrats » profess anti-trans ideas in comment sections? Well, a lot of it is fake. Not all of it, but much of it.
On the Flood of Wokeface Transphobic Comments
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1/🧵 We do need to talk more about the illegality and lawlessness of the Cass Review. Hilary Cass cited Anne Wæhre's then-unpublished “study” via “personal communication”. It was later published at doi:10.1007/s00787-024-02508-5 and doi:10.1111/apa.17530, and the papers have now been retracted.
it's so funny that Janice Raymond, Lisa Vogel, & co. went so ballistic over Sandy Stone ruining Olivia Records by fixing their sound and training more women engineers when what really happened to Olivia Records is that capitalism turned it into a travel agency for lesbian cruise ship adventures
new game release: Radiator Forever, a new ongoing re-remastered collection of all my experimental gay games, all in one package!... still free ($0), now on Steam + Steam Deck verified Info + links on my blog (SFW): www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/07/radi...
Radiator Forever is "Gay As A Service" + its debut July 2026 Update is Rinse And Repeat, Now On Steam
Design notes for Radiator Forever, my new all-in-one collection that will contain all my gay games... Eventually. Now Steam Deck verified!
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Here’s our new trailer for Rosa von Praunheim’s rarely-screened masterpiece TALLY BROWN, NEW YORK, which opens a weeklong run at @ifccenter.bsky.social next Friday, July 17th, in a recent restoration by the Deutsche Kinemathek. Tickets and more info: www.ifccenter.com/films/tally-...
Two more to the pile. @caelkeegan.bsky.social’s Lily and Lana Wachowski: Sensing Transgender. I wish I could quote the entire book. And a reread of @tillybridges.bsky.social’s fantastic Transmission Received: The Trans Allegories of the Matrix. If you’re a Matrix fan, you need both. 7/
Spread the word! We're hiring two new research assistants at the Transgender Media Portal. Open to anyone based in Canada. Application deadline July 31, 2026. carleton.ca/transmediala...
Call for applications: Research Assistants at the Transgender Media Lab
September 1, 2026 to April 30, 2027 Fully remote or hybrid (shared office available at Carleton University in Ottawa, ON) Salary: C$47.41/hour 150 hours total (2 all-day work “sprints” per month, plus...
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Correction: Mortal Shell 2 is Aug 20th. Dark fantasy AA gaming niche is trying to destroy me. Anyone know a good osteopath in Montreal?
Turns out real writing is like a bomb going off.
A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books
Did the Weather Underground have a point?
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I feel like it’s totally okay to get together with the boys and drink some frosty ones and talk about how impressive Kate Bush is
ahoy! my pal @samfeder.bsky.social's film Heightened Scrutiny is available free to stream for a week starting tomorrow! check out trans people just wanting to live their lives while horrible Supreme Court and NYT weirdos try to legislate us out of public space! also Chase Strangio is a dreamboat!
HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY - Video On Demand - Gathr
With the dangerous SCOTUS decision upholding the ban on life-saving healthcare, Heightened Scrutiny is an urgent call to action against bigotry and injustice. HEIGHT...
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The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
People always think I'm being ungenerous or misstating their views, but this is very explicitly what the "gender-critical" crowd says: Their *best case* against gender affirming care for kids is that the research says it works, but the research doesn't count. (this is from the Cass report)
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last yr.I'm not exaggerating, that is the transphobes' *entire argument*: The near-unanimous positive findings on youth transition do not count because we have methodological quibbles with the research. In any other field you would look at early, promising research and go "yep, keep expanding."
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.
Excited to share that our TSQ issue on trans speculation is live! Please share/check it out: Both intros and River Pruitt's piece are currently free to dl at the link! read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/issue/12...
Volume 12 Issue 1 | TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly | Duke University Press
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