"Feminist Necropoetics", my essay on Dwein Baltazar's Oda Sa Wala (Ode to Nothing) is finally out in MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture as part of the special issue on "Dead Women and Gendered Death in Visual Culture"! www.maifeminism.com/feminist-nec...

Feminist Necropoetics: The Female Corpse in Oda sa Wala (2018).

Freibert explores how Dwein Baltazar's Oda sa Wala (2018) cultivates themes of collectivity across the life-death divide.

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MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture@maifeminism.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to share our new issue, guest edited by Devaleena Kundu, Bethan Michael-Fox, and Khyati Tripathi which shows through a diverse range of essays how feminism extends beyond one’s lifespan. www.maifeminism.com/issues/focus... #feminism

BEYOND honored to have a booklet essay included in @cine-matographe.bsky.social’s 4K restoration of William Friedkin’s landmark THE BOYS IN THE BAND!!! Happy Pride!!! 🏳️‍🌈 vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

The Boys in the Band

Note: if you purchased either the Everything Package! or Absolutely Everything, and Then Some Package! during our Flash Pre-Order event, you will automatically be receiving this title. 2026 Subscriber

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Really excited to have contributed an audio commentary to this restoration of William Friedkin's Boys in the Band!

Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media@disc-connected.bsky.social · 3mo ago

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Now available to order (and shipping next week) on #4K/Blu-ray dual format in the US from @vinsyn.bsky.social as part of their @cine-matographe.bsky.social line: #TheBoysInTheBand (1970)! This special limited edition J-card MediaBook slipcase (designed by Court Normandin)

New commentary with writer and professor Farrah Freibert Archival commentary with William Friedkin Your Place In the World - new video interview with actor, and original Boys In the Band cast member, Laurence Luckinbill Something Important to Say - new video interview with film historian Mark Harris

Eagerly awaiting my author copy to arrive! Publications never feel official (to me) until you have the physical copy in your hands. This book gave me the (likely once-in-a-lifetime) opportunity to write about an extremely niche 16mm trade association that existed from 1939 to 1949. 😜

Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS@nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Looks like physical copies of A CENTURY OF 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA are circulating! Editors Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson assembled a ⭐ list of contributors. academic.oup.com/book/61621?l... Photo credit: @tepperman.bsky.social A door stopper at 28mm in width, apparently. IYKYK.

I'm excited to share that the book launch for NOTHING CENSORED, NOTHING GAINED is Friday, April 3, 2026 at 1pm EST with a stellar lineup of panelists: Peter Alilunas, Lynn Comella, Constance Penley, Matthew Tinkcom, and Thomas Waugh! Cosponsored by @scmsqtc.bsky.social and @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social

I'm excited to share that the book launch for NOTHING CENSORED, NOTHING GAINED is Friday, April 3, 2026 at 1pm EST with a stellar lineup of panelists: Peter Alilunas, Lynn Comella, Constance Penley, Matthew Tinkcom, and Thomas Waugh! Cosponsored by @scmsqtc.bsky.social and @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social

Very excited about the latest addition to the Horror Studies series. Huge congrats to @maireadcasey.bsky.social! #horrorstudies #horror @uniwalespress.bsky.social

Well would you look at that! 🥰📚 Hot Connections is real! It was a blast to research & write with @jenmadelene.bsky.social & @susannapaasonen.bsky.social ❤️❤️ blurbs by @alexmonea.bsky.social Tarleton Gillespie & @katha.bsky.social Big thanks to @noahspringer.com & everyone at @mitpress.bsky.social

Very sad to hear the news about Teresa de Lauretis. I sat on many dissertation committees with her at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social and she was a *force*!! Direct, blunt, unsmiling — and always brilliant. Pushed her students to do their absolute best. RIP

El Salto@elsaltodiario.com · 6mo ago

⚫️Obituario | Muere Teresa de Lauretis, la primera persona que dijo las palabras “teoría queer”. https://elsal.to/46365

Don’t forget the opening session of the virtual queer horror conference hosted by the University of Pittsburgh Horror Working Group & co-sponsored by the @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social is tonight at 6pm EST. Panel sessions are on Friday & Saturday. Registration & schedule:

HSWG Queer Horror Conference 2026

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Come to the book launch for The Intellect Handbook of Adult Film and Media (2026) and Screening Adult Cinema (2025), sponsored by the SCMS Adult Film and Media SIG.

Thankful to welcome 2 new book chapters into the world from opposite ends of my research interests: #romcom & #pornstudies! An amuse bouche for #comedystudies feast to follow, “Regenerating ‘Radical Romantic Comedy’ for the Twenty-First Century" kicks off @academic.oup.com HANDBOOK OF SCREEN COMEDY

& for dessert...My ode to unrated director's cut of Jane Campion's erotic thriller IN THE CUT (2003) in SCREENING ADULT CINEMA, 2nd vol. in @culturalstudies.bsky.social's SCREENING CINEMA series edited by @garyneedham.bsky.social Bon appetit! @emersonsofilm.bsky.social @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social

Precarious Labor Organization co-chair here! Join us on Friday, December 5, at 4pm CST (22:00 UTC) for our meeting at the @scmstudies.bsky.social virtual symposium. Much to discuss!

My book has a cover, and it comes out at the end of this month as part of @edinburghup.bsky.social's@screeningsex.bsky.social book series! Please ask your library to purchase it if you can. 30% discount code from the press: NEW30. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nothing...

The Board of the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus is seeking submissions for the 2025 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize! Nov 15, 2025 - All Submissions Due Dec 15, 2025 - Winner Selected Mar 15, 2026 - Winner Article Revised for Publication MORE INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZICp...

PSA: Public Scholars I'm working on a resources page for our website to help scholars find homes for their op-eds, guest blogs, and otherwise expertise. If you run a site or podcast that regularly posts such things and would like us to share it as a potential place to pitch, please let me know!

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!

Jacob Engelberg@jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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...

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.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · last yr.

Clinics across the country are ending or limiting gender-affirming care. Today, Assigned has two stories from opposite sides of the country on the crisis in trans youth care. First, Kaiser Permanente is ending surgical care through age 19. One surgeon told our reporter it was a "tactical retreat."

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...

The Velvet Light Trap - University of Texas Press

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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...

a box of ghost goodies sits on a table next to a book

ALT: a box of ghost goodies sits on a table next to a book

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

Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨@aurelievpetit.bsky.social · last yr.

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...