Also well-timed, my chapter forthcoming in SCREENING WOMEN FILMMAKERS from @routledgebooks.bsky.social's Screening Cinema series ed. @garyneedham.bsky.social Watch this space for updates! www.routledge.com/Screening-Ci... @emersonsofilm.bsky.social @bellecobb.bsky.social @dorianawards.bsky.social

Forthcoming volumes in the "Screening Cinema" series. Each volume has between 50-60 chapters devoted to individual films. I wanted the series to rally around the screening, keeping it central to film and screen studies pedagogy, providing short, focused, and insightful readings. #FilmStudies

Sneak peek of the cover of SCREENING WOMEN FILMMAKERS — massive new collection of *59* essays edited by @bellecobb.bsky.social @cinemariasf.bsky.social and Dijana Jelǎca under the direction of series editor @garyneedham.bsky.social

Save 30% on #NewBook "Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression" by @jacobengelberg.bsky.social, which calls for a bisexual reimagining of queer film studies. buff.ly/IALTfpW

it's the official publication date for my first book CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION. don't forget you can get 30% off at @dukepress.bsky.social (dukeupress.edu/cinemas-of-b...) & @mngupbooks.bsky.social (mngbookshop.co.uk/978147803298...)

… and nothing not in English right? This seems off-brand even for him.

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Am I right that all but one of these were directed by a man?

It’s #WorldAIDSDay - Did you know sanitation and barriers are industry standard in tattooing because Cliff Raven, a gay tattooer from Chicago, made sure he could still provide service to his own community as most shops refused to tattoo homosexuals when the AIDS crisis emerged?

queers, Is it just not happening here is it or is that me? Seem to have given up on having a queer life on bluesky. All my people/content still on the insta (meta, I know don't @ me). On Friday convo with Dina Xtravaganza (Angie's daughter, Venus' sister), trans legacies events, fab night's out etc.

& 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

One thing with librarians is that they’re acutely aware of *who uses libraries* - many of us might go though our whole adult lives without setting foot in a library, but for people who are a little lost and need somewhere to be, they’re a lifeline.

It’s “Mrs. Powers” during my day job@mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

Event this Friday organized by faculty member Gary Needham! COSME presents "Paris is Burning at 35" in conversation with a legend: Dinah Bons Xtravaganza from NYC's House of Xtravaganza. Limited seating, please reserve a spot using the link below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paris-is-b...

check out the bisexuality-related films discussed in my forthcoming book, CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION, here on Letterboxd: boxd.it/LLSt0

100% Hence the screen grab not giving them traffic from a link

So Mayer@suchmayer.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I hate the Guardian framing of conversation respectability politics, surface bourgeois fakeness & its dining across the divide crap. "Oh let's all be polite to fascists & maybe they'll be cuddly!" Absolute English poison.

Honestly folks it's fine just to talk real shit. Or to understand there's no such thing as small talk, there's learning another person's way of engaging & exchanging social cues, or offering our own cues of listening & kindness on a brief meeting -- nothing small about that.

Gary Needham (they/them)@garyneedham.bsky.social · 9mo ago

...said no autistic person ever

I was being a touch sarcy there and can, like most of us, do it flawlessly but it is goes in the "high-masking mode activity" category for me. Public transport and queues at the checkout tho' 😮‍💨

So Mayer@suchmayer.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Honestly folks it's fine just to talk real shit. Or to understand there's no such thing as small talk, there's learning another person's way of engaging & exchanging social cues, or offering our own cues of listening & kindness on a brief meeting -- nothing small about that.

If you are in Nijmegen, Netherlands, in December - or can get there! www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

Research Symposium: The Cultural Memory of AIDS | Radboud University

In this symposium, experts reflect on cultural responses to AIDS through keynotes, a roundtable on memory, and staged readings by Underground Theatre Nijmegen.

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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-...

IMAGINING TRANS FUTURES

Relaxed live conversation on trans academia and politics, including facilitated networking for project sharing (Homotopia 2025: Uprising!)

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...said no autistic person ever

Hasn't the Pope heard of "Gospel House"? 👇 Barbara Tucker - I Get Lifted (1994) The Absolute - I Believe - Mark's Full On Gospel Mix (1996) Dennis Ferrer - How Do I Let Go (2006) · etc. etc. etc.

David✶🇬🇹@vuc.bsky.social · 9mo ago

He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

I'm nearly at the end of 12 weeks of 'Queer Film, Video, and Documentary' (a huge 106 students in that class) but they absolutely love Riggs, Dunye, Chocolate Babies, Gregg Bordowtiz, anything AIDS crisis-related, crip theory etc. But, they always really struggle with the end scene of The Living End

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I wasn't entirely happy with how this unit went. I've noticed a reactionary response to these films from students, which they mask as enlightened."We [undefined] have moved on as a society, so there's no need to watch such confrontational films anymore." Needless to say, I disagree.

This book has been a labor of love! It's Linda Williams' final writing alongside brilliant essays by great scholars, examining the role of melodrama in current life and politics across the globe. Available for pre-order from the always-wonderful @dukepress.bsky.social

Jungle Jump by Patrick Cowley ♨️ an interstellar floor-filler, which pits whirling beats with dub-laced swirls of synth 🪩 “Jungle Jump” has a clammy drum breakdown that draws a line from mid-‘80s Chicago to early ‘90s London. - @andrewryce.bsky.social 🎥 "The Grease Monkeys" (1979)

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-...

IMAGINING TRANS FUTURES

Relaxed live conversation on trans academia and politics, including facilitated networking for project sharing (Homotopia 2025: Uprising!)

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Age yourself with gaming 🎮

Dr Matt Lodder@mattlodder.com · 9mo ago

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

Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · 9mo ago

In "Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression," @jacobengelberg.bsky.social reimagines queer film studies, using transgressive cinematic figures to challenge binary notions of sexuality. #QueerStudies #FilmStudies Read the intro now and preorder at 50% off during our fall sale! 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....

Critical aunty studies: an auntroduction

Though aunties are ubiquitous figures across global public cultures, they have received limited scholarly attention. Given the location of these women, femme, and queer figures at the periphery of ...

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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.

Adam Steinbaugh@adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A Texas public university administrator's notes for a meeting with faculty. "No daylight": faculty "cannot discuss or teach anything regarding transgender - only male and female." They must "scrub" syllabi for "transgender items." And keep everything out of writing: "Don't email; talk directly."

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.