Mars Nicolí
@marsnicoli.bsky.social
One of those queers. PhD candidate on Trans Horror. He/him ze/hir
Sheffield's Trans Film Club is proud to present Northern Trans Shorts, an evening of trans short films from the North of England followed by a Q&A with the directors :) 21st of October Plot22 - Sheffield 6.30pm start Full details and tickets at www.trybooking.com/uk/HCDN
This is actually the most important theme in the movie
Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · 3w agoI really liked the movie
Whether intentional or not, what @lillywachowski.bsky.social has said is *precisely* what needs to be said, at *precisely* the time it needs to be said. This puts Rowling on her back foot at the worst possible time for the HBO series. Brava, Lilly!
Dr. Catherine Strickson@brigitteempire.bsky.social · last mo.Eye-wateringly stupid defence from Rowling’s team here - ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’ - Really? So that £70,000 towards the bathroom ban was by accident? The JKR Women’s Fund was made by an impersonator? At least have the spine to admit you want us dead
Essential thread from @sexabolition.blog - white supremacy, transphobia, misogyny, xenophobia, eugenics - it's all tied up together, and we must fight back together or lose everything.
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 2y agoThe trans liberation struggle is tied through our common enemies in "White Replacement" narratives which stand out bold as anything on the covers of key propaganda texts against trans people - if you allow this transgender craze to take over who is going to carry the white babies of tomorrow?
Still a few days left to send me your films for a screening in Sheffield in October! If your film has a connection with transness and with the North of England, send along :)
I've just popped up another talk for later in the month! Come here Dr Lucy Allan talk about the history of Queered Frankenstein adaptations 27th September at 10am and 7pm BST 10 - buytickets.at/romancingthe... 7 - buytickets.at/romancingthe...
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An Introduction to Queered Frankenstein with Lucy Allan – Zoom, Sun 27 Sep 2026 - Our series of talks is funded exclusively by donations. The talks are free to access but if you can support the projec...
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Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Did you miss last week's talk on Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms and transgender technohorror? Catch it here! youtu.be/6nci9cPlK1Y
Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms and Transgender Technohorror with Mars Nicoli
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I imagine this is a worry for people at the moment. To be clear, my classes are explicitly and actively trans inclusive. People can feel excluded from Higher Education for a whole host of reasons from disability, to neurodivergence, to race, to queerness, to class. If you have any worries, DM me.
Dr Sam Hirst@romgothsam.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm running another online course through Liverpool University in October! Come join me for an exploration of the early Gothic in its many forms www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
Top-tip: if anyone wants to give you the kind of "mentorship" that you being unionised would prevent, get a new mentor fast.
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 2mo agoOpinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
If you're free tonight I'm giving this talk again!! 💕
Dr Sam Hirst@romgothsam.bsky.social · 2mo agoHave you got your (free) tickets for today's talk yet? We're joined at 10am and 7pm by Mars Nicoli to talk Transgender Technohorror! 10 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1992718274... 7 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1992718272...
Ok, so this was excellent. Roll up, roll up! There's still time to get tickets for the second one.
Dr Sam Hirst@romgothsam.bsky.social · 2mo agoHave you got your (free) tickets for today's talk yet? We're joined at 10am and 7pm by Mars Nicoli to talk Transgender Technohorror! 10 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1992718274... 7 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1992718272...
‘A whack-a-mole approach to … regulation is simply not acceptable when young people’s lives are at stake. We’ve seen this fail when it comes to social media bans: 81% of Australian teenagers can still access social media despite that country’s ban.‘ Regulate companies, not users! #auspol
THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 2mo ago“Losing a loved one to online harms in 2022, I’ve witnessed firsthand the most devastating impacts of unregulated social media”: @adelewalton.bsky.social on the bittersweet spectacle of Meta’s historic $18bn lawsuit www.thenerve.news/p/adele-walt...
I've noticed a return of the expression "my spirit animal" amongst white people. I truly thought we'd left that in 2015
When the woman who made the fucking *Matrix* can't get funding for a project because the queerness scares the VC horses, you know we're all fucked Support trans creators. Publish trans books. Visibility STILL MATTERS
The A.V. Club@avclub.com · 2mo ago"People like it," the Matrix co-creator said of her new script The Hunted. "But they really don’t want to make it because it’s [got a] wall-to-wall trans cast." www.avclub.com/lilly-wachow...
'Will the woman he loves love the woman he wants to be?' coming to cinemas this fall. a heartwarming story about lives in transition. youtu.be/m4bMbH_9XZU
Castration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage (Trailer)
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Tired: using torrents to download the latest Harry Potter movie. Wired: using torrents to download the Amnesty International report that JK Rowling wants to censor.
Aida@aidap.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis was document freely available and free to distribute. Lets preserve it the old fashioned way: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:eb3e6f89f9c71404643bc7b9bb6d74963017dda9&dn=Report_A_growing_threat_the_anti_rights_movement_in_the_UK_July.pdf Pop that into your friendly torrent program, no host to dmca.
One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.
In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.
This afternoon, we welcome our first permanent resident to our trans and non-binary social housing initiative. Their deposit has been covered by the community, and their move-in costs are just the remainder of the 1st months rent. 1/2
the french social media ban law got killed by the constitutional court, who says the law is a disproportionate restriction on freedom for no measurable benefit
Sandrine Rousseau@sandrousseau.bsky.social · 2mo agoCette loi était une loi d’adultes en incapacité de gérer les adultes propriétaires de ces réseaux et les autres adultes trolls sur ces mêmes RS. Leur seule réponse a été l’interdiction autoritaire aux jeunes. Une réaction adultiste. www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...
The excesses of woke 1 were shit like trans people being able to make silly queer fun media with references to psychiatric violence so we can't have that anymore. Humanity is on an austerity budget. You'll consume your Marvel DC Disney Adult media and you'll fucking like it.
The A.V. Club@avclub.com · 2mo ago"People like it," the Matrix co-creator said of her new script The Hunted. "But they really don’t want to make it because it’s [got a] wall-to-wall trans cast." www.avclub.com/lilly-wachow...
“Until there’s a clear plan to protect everyone from the extreme heat, it’s up to us to keep our colleagues & community safe by removing ourselves from unsafe workplaces. ...we’re supporting the bus drivers voting to strike when it’s too hot to work... join your union & join the Heat Strike"
PM rejects unions and climate activists' calls to set maximum workplace temperature
PRIME Minister Andy Burnham rejected calls to set a maximum workplace temperature by a coalition of unions and climate activists today, as the Met Office predicted this summer will become Britain’s wa...
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