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Jed Samer @jedsamer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a great day when I get to teach “The Ski Lodge” episode of Frasier, written by the brilliant @joekeenan.bsky.social, in my television studies course!

Slide with classroom discussion prompt guiding students to detangle the many crossed wires in Frasier’s “The Ski Lodge” episode. Includes diagram with correct answers though circles remain unlabeled as to whom they represent.

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Jed Samer @jedsamer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It’s true, I’m bad in bed.

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rachel corbman @rachelcorbman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

sometimes @jedsamer.bsky.social yells “quick give me a phone” and then they return my phone thirty minutes later with 55 videos of Artie cat chirping at birds

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Otherwise Award @otherwiseaward.org · 02/12/2025

Otherwise supports the very sort of fiction that we need today more than ever: visions of possibilities through the fog of the present. Please donate otherwiseaward.org/support-us/d... to our year-end fundraising campaign: otherwiseaward.org/2025/12/help...

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Help Sustain the Otherwise Award! « Otherwise Award

Please donate to help us raise $9,000 for the next year of operations.

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Jed Samer @jedsamer.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

TIP/ALLI sneak peek at Lesbian Lives NYC tomorrow!! We’ve got postcards for those curious about the film/pining for their very own @rachelcorbman.bsky.social pinup, so if that’s you come on by!! 👯‍♀️📽️🌈🚀

Small white dyke in vegan leather jacket holds postcard for Tip/Alli with their own face on it.

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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 06/10/2025

Rejected everywhere, staged as a hoax, and finally published in a lesbian sex mag — Sarah Schulman’s “A Short Story About a Penis” has quite a history. Rachel Corbman uncovers its fascinating legacy in Signs’ new issue: check it out here! (sub. req’d):

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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 1

This introduction to “Lesbian Studies, Now” reflects on the affective, intellectual, and political stakes of invoking “lesbian” as a generative scholarly category in the present as well as the three…

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rachel corbman @rachelcorbman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A history of the Lesbians for Liberty’s 2002 kiss-in protest, my lesbian youth, and the Lesbian Herstory Archives’ upcoming exhibit at Barclays www.them.us/story/lesbia...

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Lesbians for Liberty: Looking Back at the WNBA Kiss-In Protest of 2002

Today, the league largely embraces its LGBTQ+ fandom. But that acceptance was hard-won.

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rachel corbman @rachelcorbman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

We said goodbye to my stepdaughter, Amelie, today. In her nineteen years, she traveled the country, beat up many dogs and cat sitters (she was 6 lb), wrote Jed’s book, ate so much string cheese, and served as a reluctant mentor to five younger cat and dog siblings. We’ll miss her very much.

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rachel corbman @rachelcorbman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

This cat is named Brandy and, like a true New Yorker, she was very interested in the 18 bagels in my suitcase

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Must-read material for SF scholars and fans here:

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Queer and trans film and media scholars, SCMS QTC members, please help me retire as the senior co-chair of @scmsqtc.bsky.social! I am old & tired. We’re looking for secretary nominees until the 25th to hold elections. It’s a 3 year term: secretary ➡️ junior co-chair ➡️ senior co-chair ➡️ retirement.

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Jed Samer @jedsamer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Our special issue of TSQ on speculative media and literature is now out and online! You can read the introduction I wrote with @caelkeegan.bsky.social, “Trans Speculation in the WTF,” here: read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article/... @dukepress.bsky.social

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TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly | Duke University Press

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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 23/03/2025

We're hosting a conversation with two authors we adore: @deanspade.bsky.social & @razorfemme.bsky.social! This online event is a fundraiser for Gazan families, attendees are asked to make a donation in lieu of ticket cost. Live ASL interpretation provided. Register at firestorm.coop/events/3339-...

A promotional graphic for Hooking Up & Raising Hell, a virtual event hosted by Firestorm Books on March 31st at 7pm ET. The image features the cover of "Love in a F*cked-up World" alongside headshots for author Dean Spade and interlocutor Kai Cheng Thom over a photo of asphalt painted with a jagged yellow line.

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

If you’re interested in Restoring Truth and Sanity™️ to history, consider submitting a proposal to the special issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social that I’m editing on “Reproductive Politics and Media Histories.” Due APRIL 1.

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Jed Samer @jedsamer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The purrfect photo subject ❤️

Brown and white spaniel seated before a mural of David Bowie.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Oh, Insta isn't showing the preview? here you gooooooo

Book cover of WE WILL RISE AGAIN: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope, edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older. Cover background is wavy lines and a few circles against a backdrop that ombrés through deep fuschsia-ish purple, bluey green, green, and sandy orange.

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Cael M Keegan @caelkeegan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Trying to get above the noise to share that our entire special issue on Queer World Cinema is currently open access! brill.com/view/journal...

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Jed Samer @jedsamer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

What a fun day for Nathaniel the spaniel…and his humans!

Brown and white spaniel lying under a table at an outdoor cafe.

Brown and white spaniel being hugged by human in front of a cactus.

Brown and white spaniel with his tongue out in the grass upside down.

Brown and white spaniel squinting before a cactus in morning light.

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Jed Samer @jedsamer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

You join this family, you read @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social’s “Disability Works.”

A brown and white Cavalier King Charles spaniel reclines on his back, paw bent, next to a book with the title “Disability Works.”

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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Youth is wild. 22 years ago I had no idea I’d be chasing the high of Diane Keaton saying “soap” in Something’s Gotta Give for the rest of my life.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

There's been so much publicity about the now-Oscar-winning doc No Other Land being unable to find a U.S. distributor (which is appalling) that some people may not realize it's currently on 100 screens here. In Manhattan you can see it at Film Forum; in Brooklyn it's at Alamo Drafthouse.

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Jed Samer @jedsamer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Cats and sex workers getting the thanks they’ve long deserved! #oscars

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rachel corbman @rachelcorbman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

mad that Jed has one upped my “a long story about ‘a short story about a penis” forthcoming article title with a “is that a puppy in your pants or are you just happy to be you?” forthcoming chapter title

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rachel corbman @rachelcorbman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

love a bio with “strut his jock stuff”

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Seeing lots of folks on here not using alt text. Since we're all grappling with how best to respond to a frightening fascist reality, one place to start is with everyday acts of solidarity. Alt text is one thing we can do to increase accessibility & puncture some of that puffed up masculine energy.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

alright you wanna know how to support trans people? hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit. Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.

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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

What with IT ALL, I really think we deserve an oral history of the making of Down with Love from Sarah Paulson and David Hyde Pierce.

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rachel corbman @rachelcorbman.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

big news for lesbians in Phoenix, which has direct flights to/from South Bend

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The Institute of Theater, Film and Media Studies, of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main offers a position as a researcher Post-Doc position (m/f/d) (E 13 TV-G-U) in the AHRC-DFG project “Relocating Filmstrips, Remapping” with a start date of 01.05.2025 and a contract duration of 30 months.

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Jed Samer @jedsamer.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Artie models with her Xmas stocking likeness.

A long-haired tabby sits on a fireplace ledge above a stocking with her image in felt on it.

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rachel corbman @rachelcorbman.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I thought Artie would be excited to see this photo of her and her sister three years ago

Longhaired tabby and a tiny tabby kitten cuddling in a dog bed

The same Longhaired tabby stretches and yawns as I show her a photo on my phone

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Jed Samer @jedsamer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

What BlueSky doesn’t know is that @rachelcorbman.bsky.social isn’t Artie’s only parent.

A long haired tabby cat being pet by a short haired person with glasses.

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differences @differences.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

differences 35.3 is out now! — edited by @teaganbradway.bsky.social, "Unaccountably Queer" features essays from Gila Ashtor, Cassius Adair, Sara Ahmed, Judith Butler, Jules Gill-Peterson, and more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

Cover of "Unaccountably Queer" a special issue of differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies, volume 35, number 3. Yellow background with black text. A pale yellow bar with the journal's title in black crosses over the top quarter.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 29/11/2024

Every academic right now

A version of the kermit vs darth kermit meme where good kermit tells the online academic that they should grade, while darth kermit tells them they should eat more pie.

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Jed Samer @jedsamer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Rachel on Ramon Novarro: “He was gay. So gay. [pauses] Well, there were so many pretty women in the 30s. [pauses again] He was a romantic.”

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Jed Samer @jedsamer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Where’s the age gap discourse about the Barrymore brothers?!

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