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[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New issue just launched, with nine new video essays on topics including Red Desert, One Night in Miami, surveillance footage, visual representations of sound, feminist zombie narratives, the British cine-club movement, and Before Sunrise! Check them out: intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1969/i...

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[in]Transition | Issue: Issue: 3(13) (2026)

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Farrah Freibert @ffreibert.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"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...

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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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kyle 中和 turner @tylekurner.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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/...

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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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Farrah Freibert @ffreibert.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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

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Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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. 😜

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Farrah Freibert @ffreibert.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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

Book Launch flyer with the following information:
Friday, April 3, 2026
1pm EST (10am PST, 6pm GMT)
Zoom
Register at:
https://us05web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0zyHvo4jT7KzYQz_ILjDQA

VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH &
PANEL DISCUSSION

Farrah Freibert
Nothing Censored, Nothing Gained: Obscenity Law and Histories of Queer Distribution and Exhibition (Edinburgh University Press 2025)

Panelists (in alphabetical order):
Peter Alilunas, University of Oregon
Lynn Comella, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Constance Penley, UC Santa Barbara
Matthew Tinkcom, Georgetown University
Thomas Waugh, Concordia University

Co-Hosted by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Queer and Trans Caucus and the Adult Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group

Includes cover of NOTHING CENSORED, NOTHING GAINED book.

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Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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

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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

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

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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:

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HSWG Queer Horror Conference 2026

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Patrick Keilty @patrickkeilty.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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.

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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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

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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

& 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

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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!

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Farrah Freibert @ffreibert.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

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...

Book cover of "Nothing Censored, Nothing Gained." The top portion of the background is solid black, the bottom portion is a grainy black and white photograph of the Cinema Theatre and an Adult Movies theater.

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SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus @scmsqtc.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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...

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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!

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Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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/...

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The Male Gamer and the Transness of Lara Croft

This article takes seriously two things: that Lara Croft is trans, and that I, a trans masculine games scholar and game maker, was a male gamer. Many scholars have rightly challenged the assumption th...

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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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.

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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.

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Gary Needham (they/them) @garyneedham.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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...

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Dr Death and Bones (she/her) @memorieschild.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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...

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The Velvet Light Trap - University of Texas Press

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

As #scms25 approaches (first of the post-twitter era!), feel free to follow this conference feed in Bluesky to track the discourse:

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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!

Text reads: “QueerZine
the very best in queer and trans scholarship at SCMS
2025 from the Queer & Trans
Caucus” in white letters over a pink and purple cover with film images above and below the text.

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

🚨 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...

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Seda Öz @ssedaozz.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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...

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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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Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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

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Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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...

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Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Hopefully my thesis soon enough… 🤞🫠 In my opinion, publications such as @finleyfreibert.bsky.social’s article on Yaoi media distribution or Suzanne Scott’s Fake geek girls do a really good job at dissecting the assumption that popular cultures necessarily cater to a hetero-male market

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Screening Sex @screeningsex.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We're on Bluesky (hi!) & we have a new interview on the blog! Darshana Sreedhar Mini @darshanamini.bsky.social discusses new book Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema & Mediations of Desire in India @ucpress.bsky.social with Finley Freibert @finleyfreibert.bsky.social screeningsex.com/2025/02/12/i...

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Out now! MONSTRUM 7.2, “Queer/ing Horror,” guest-ed: @Daynarama.bsky.social. The 9 video essays in this issue think about what queer reuse of queerness looks like through a horror lens, and are also acts of queer re-telling and reviewing practices of horror. www.monstrum-society.ca/monstrum-v7-...

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MONSTRUM v7 n2 (December 2024)

A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL OF STUDIES IN HORROR AND RELATED AREAS

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

the inaugural university of pittsburgh's queer horror conference is officially off to a stellar start: sapphic fungus-from-the-body eating, rotting corpses and monstrous wives, confucian ethics and mental breakdowns, and so much more just in the first hour!

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 03/02/2025

Archiving will be some of the most important work that we can do collectively over the next several years.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

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e. kinkaid (they/them) @queergeog.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

CALL FOR ZINES! Contribute your zines to the first ever @geographers.bsky.social Zine Fair, happening March 24-28 in Detroit! Find all the info and the submission link on the banner at the top of our homepage: geoz.one. Please spread the word! #geosky

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🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com · 17/01/2025

PLUM PLEASED to share my latest, out now in Porn Studies: 💥Porn scholars coming together💥 In this interview, 5 veteran porn researchers recount the 2014 origins of @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social & reflect on a decade of developments in our field. DM for access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

a screengrab of the article abstract for "Porn scholars coming together: founders reflect on 10 yearsof the SCMS Adult Film History Scholarly Interest Group", published today in Porn Studies Journal

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

New from the Queer and Trans SCMS Caucus: a starter pack to stay in touch! We’ve read your responses to our survey asking to transition from Meta to Bsky & we’re starting by offering this pack. A QTC account will follow. We’re excited to connect, lmk if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/G4eA51z

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Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Woop woop I’m taking over as Guest Editor for Porn Studies’ upcoming Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence, Porn, and Sex Work” ✨🤲💗✨🤖 I’m interested in adding non-peer-reviewed papers to the issue (films/fest/book reviews, interviews, forums, roundtable, etc.) 📩 Reach out if you have an idea!

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Yigit @yigitindenial.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

(1/3)‼️Call for Papers: Porn Studies Special Issue on Digital-Only Sex Work The special issue aims to bring together contributions from a range of cultures and locations on digital-only sex work. For more information: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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International Digital Sex Work

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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Grad students & adjunct/underemployed faculty: Apply for travel grants to help with #SCMS25 expenses! Grants are selected by lottery. Learn more and apply here: buff.ly/408zERW. Deadline: Jan 6, 2024.

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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The ⁠#SCMS25 preliminary conference program draft is now live! Find your session, check details, & submit corrections by Jan 15. Check your email for info on chair volunteer assignments, caucus/SIG panel sponsorships, and much more!

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Farrah Freibert @ffreibert.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The SCMS Adult Film & Media Scholarly Interest Group has an account here, please go give them a follow: @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social Also, a friendly reminder, here is a porn studies starter pack I made a bit ago. I'm continuing to edit and add folks upon request: bsky.app/profile/finl...

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SCMS Adult Film & Media @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

📣Our CFP is LIVE! We are seeking submissions from early career scholars, independent scholars, contingent faculty members, and pre-tenure faculty members. *must have membership in good standing with SCMS *must be a member of our SIG *deadline: February 15, 2025 Link to full CFP in 🧵 below!

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13/12/2024

I'm tired of the framing of trans suicides as an entirely internal struggle detached from the realities of a deeply hostile culture hell-bent on denying us care, dignity, and autonomy. Every trans suicide is a social murder, because you cannot ignore a society actively trying to eradicate us.

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