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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

We did it!! New issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social is LIVE. Pleasure working w/ my co-editor @benspky.bsky.social, FMH team @jmbean.bsky.social and @cainmiller.bsky.social, and our brilliant contributors to make special issue on "Nontheatrical Medias" happen. See Ben's thread for issue content! 🥂

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Put the 6 numbers in your phone (all under P for Politician). An example is McCaskill MO, Politician; McCaskill DC, Politician; Politiican Blunt MO, etc., which makes it really easy to click down the list each day.

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

From experience since the election: if you hate being on the phone & feel awkward (which is many people) don’t worry about it—there are a lot of scripts (Indivisible has some and many others floating around these days). After a few days of calling, it starts to feel more natural.

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

6) They may get to know your voice/get sick of you—it doesn’t matter. The people answer the phones generally turn over every 6 weeks anyways, so eve if they’re really sick of you they are likely not a permanent staff member.

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

5) Be clear on what you want—“I’m disappointed that the Senator…” or “I want to thank the Senator for their vote on…” or “I want the Senator to know that voting in________ way is the wrong decision for our state because…”. Don’t leave any ambiguity.

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

4). Pick 1-2 specific things per day. Don’t rattle off everything that concerns you—they’re figuring out what to put on list. So, only 1-2, & ideally something that will be voted on in next few days, but doesn’t really matter—even if no vote, call anyway. It’s important they keep getting calls.

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

3) If you can make it personal, make it personal. “I voted for you in the last election and I’m worried/happy/whatever” or “I’m a teacher, and I am appalled by Betsy DeVos,” or “as a single mother” or “as a white, middle class woman,” or whatever.

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

2). Give them your zip code. They won’t always ask for it, but make sure you give it to them, so they can mark it down. Extra points if you live in a zip code that traditionally votes for them, since they’ll want to make sure they get/keep your vote.

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

you get transferred to that person, awesome. If you don’t, ask for that staffer’s name, and just keep talking to whoever answered the phone. Don’t leave a message (unless the office doesn’t pick up at all—then you can—but it’s better to talk to the staffer who first answered

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

WHEN YOU CALL 1). When calling the DC office, ask for the Staff member in charge of whatever you’re calling about (“Hi, I’d like to speak with the staffer in charge of Healthcare, please”)—local offices won’t always have specific ones, but they might. If

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Calls are what they pay attention to. Every day, the Senator gets a report of the 3 most-called about topics for that day, and how many, sorted by zip code & area code. She said Republican callers outnumber Democrat callers anywhere from 4-1 to 11-1. Republicans have called. Democrats haven’t.

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

YOU SHOULD MAKE 6 CALLS A DAY 2 each (DC office & local offices) to your 2 Senators and your 1 Representative. The staffer was clear that any sort of online contact basically gets ignored, and letters pretty much get thrown in the trash (unless you have a particularly strong emotional story).

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Do NOT bother with online petitions or emailing. 1) The best thing to be heard by your congressperson is to have face-fo-face time—if they have town halls, go. Go to their local offices. If you’re in DC, go to the “mobile offices” that their staff hold (located on each congressperson’s website).

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO TURN ANGER INTO ACTION Here’s advice from a high-level staffer for a Senator. I’m retyping from Allison McGuffie’s post, which she cut and pasted from a friend. There are two things that we should be doing all the time right now, and they’ve by far the most important things.

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Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

And in celebration of Black History Month, this issue will stream freely on the UC Press website through the end of February! We will continue to share and promote the issue's contents throughout the week!

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Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Reminder: Our 11.1 issue is free to read throughout Black History Month 🙂 Here is one of the essays included in the issue:

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ericaannec.bsky.social @ericaannec.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Coming up at the Sundance Festival: the world premiere of KHARTOUM, produced by the Sudan Film Factory with archive research contributed by our King’s College London project SUDAN MEMORY. Watch this space for the European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February.

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Sundance 2025: Poster and First Clips for World Cinema Documentary Contender “Khartoum”

The documentary, created by a collective of filmmakers, centers on five people who reenact their stories of survival after fleeing Sudan’s capital following the outbreak of war.

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I’m gathering a list of #OpenAccess or #freelyaccessible #Film, #Television, #ScreenStudies, #audiovisualmediastudies Publications, Editors and Advocates People at Bluesky. Please let me know if you’d like me to add you. go.bsky.app/NBipNnW

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Natasha Roy @natasharoy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

ICYMI: Last month @rewirenewsgroup.com published a comprehensive guide to protecting your reproductive health during the next Trump administration, including how to stock up on birth control and abortion pills, and how to protect your digital privacy rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/12/16/h...

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How to Protect Your Reproductive Health During Trump’s Second Presidency

Our comprehensive guide for protecting your access to birth control, medication abortion, and emergency contraception before Donald Trump takes office.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

For those of you who want to help, here are some local Altadena organizations who were impacted. These are all groups I have worked with personally and can vouch for the good work they do. Thread. #EatonFire

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Teagan Bradway @teaganbradway.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

It's here!!! I'm extremely excited to share “Unaccountably Queer,” the special issue of Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies that I edited in honor of Judith Butler’s groundbreaking “Giving an Account of Oneself." read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

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Volume 35 Issue 3 | differences | Duke University Press

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

If you wanna reach the historical communities of the blue skies, consider using this established hashtag that reaches out to all fields with historical perspectives: #skystorians So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting

A detail from a broadside from 1617 Germany, showing Martin Luther using a giant quill to post his messages onto a church door is shown. Access the print with the title "Göttlicher Schrifftmessiger/ woldenckwürdiger Traum/ welchen der Hochlöbliche/ Gottselige Churfürst Friedrich zu Sachsen/ ..." here: https://www.bavarikon.de/object/bav:KVC-LUT-0000000000049386?lang=de

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

My amazing colleague @goldenowens.bsky.social rocked this conversation with Boots Riley. I’m a huge fan (of both)! Check it out…

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

via Decolonial Film Festival: un extrait du film Beyrouth, ma ville (1982) de Jocelyne Saab. En tandem avec le dramaturge libanais Roger Assaf, elle décide de parcourir sa ville assiégée par les Israéliens et de rendre compte de la situation à Beyrouth. #arabcinema #lebanon #palestine

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I love every post! A bit of light in these darkening wintry days ☀️

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This whole thread is good— what *is* the humanities anyways? @miriamposner.com never disappoints

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Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Greetings, Bluesky! What better use of a first post than to announce our new CFP! Special Issue on Craftwork with the Digital, guest edited by Christina Corfield and Whitney Trettien. Proposals are due February 15, 2025: online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Are you a film & media scholar who wants to learn how to make video essays? Applications for the two-week June 2025 workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image at Middlebury College in Vermont are now open. Come be a videocamper and spread the word!

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Scholarship in Sound & Image

Workshop on Videographic Criticism

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This may be my favorite video essay ever. I feel seen. And (my rage) revered.

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Spread the word— safe spaces/states for reproductive health in the US

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Weyodi OldBear- The Root and The Seed is available. @weyodi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Next week, the 1st in my 3 book series will go on sale from Greasy Grass Press. Centering around an Indigenous plant geneticist, in a world where corporations have taken the vestiges of power from elected governments, as she goes from submission to rebellion. greasygrasspress.vip/products/the...

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The Root and the Seed

Indigenous Futurism Award Winner, Weyodi OldBear uses her skills as an RPG game developer, her skills at building new worlds, and her skills in solution seeking gained by being an Indigenous woman in ...

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The “book hunt” assignment. Love this idea. Am gonna adopt/translate for 19th and early 20th c. film/media/archeology

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Transphobia isn’t a distraction. It’s an attack on one of the most vulnerable populations and a reinforcement of biological essentialism, a pillar of patriarchal control that trans identity rightfully threatens

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juan barquin @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Great stuff. Been thinking a lot about this very exact thing in the face of Interstella 5555's new re-release, which itself is plagued with a """restoration""" (aka bad upscale) that awkwardly smooths out all the beauty inherent to the animation of the era.

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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 21/11/2024

oh i know this one! if you're on chrome, just go to settings then systems, and turn off graphics accelleration. then reload your browser. i have to do this all the time for cdrama streaming

screenshot of chrome systems settings, showing the toggle for "use graphics accelleration when available"

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 10/05/2023

Y'all I cannot even BEGIN to tell you how good it feels to just post interesting science facts and 1) they get engagement and 2) nobody calls me names.

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Wendy Russell @archiveswendy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My first post! Just wanted to introduce the new BFI Inside the Archive blog: blog.bfi.org.uk/category/kno...

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Inside the Archive – BFI’s ten-year strategy

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Silent films had beautiful color, live music, and lesbian air pirates!!

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A wonderful article on NAKED ACTS! ttps://fnewsmagazine.com/2024/11/the-plea-for-black-visibility/

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The Plea for Black Visibility

The restoration of “Naked Acts” and the burial of Black cinema

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

It’s a solid overview of the situation—three cheers for hanging here, where the skies are blue!

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It was a joy to work with Dan Bustillo on trans Latinx micro-celebrities the past year — let’s encourage more of the same here @bsky.social

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Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Download your free copy of the anthology "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire," which I had the honor of co-editing in 2022. Light in Gaza explores the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and the struggle for liberation. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1861-l...

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Light in Gaza

Light in Gaza gathers a collective Palestinian vision of what a future Gaza could be.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th” When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn

The excerpt from William and the Werewolf showing singular they spelled with a Thorn

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Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I’m making this now—fingers crossed!

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