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The @baftss.bsky.social special interest group for LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies. Message us or email lgbtqscreenstudies@gmail.com

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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Apologies everyone, both of our wonderful speakers are too poorly to present their research today so we've taken the decision to postpone the event. Hopefully we'll be sending out an invitation for a date next month so we look forward to welcoming you all then
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Please join us for a new year LGBTQ+ Screen Studies work-in-progress seminar this Friday, 16 January, 1-2pm (UK time), online. The speakers will be filmmaker Ireneusz Koper and PhD researcher Naomi Smith. Find out more and sign up here: tinyurl.com/5et6bm8a
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
There's still time to join us online today, 16:30 UK time
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Join us online on Monday, 10 November, 16:30-18:00 (UK time), to hear about new LGBTQIA+ screen studies research. Speakers include Nicholas de Villiers, Beth Bramich and Mike Wyeld. More details and sign-up form here forms.gle/TTGvu4FCmAS8...
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Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)! This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 02/10/2025
Outburst Queer Arts Festival 2025 is now open for booking! Get ur queer theatre, trans poetry workshops, historical opera, food cruising, zines, T*RAI conference & ofc queereoke, Belfast babes. outburstarts.com/festival/
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OUTBURST QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL 2025
Queer Art, Revolutionary imagination
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Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Free article alert! 💞 In this essay, Ankita Deb examines how nontheatrical films on sex education from Europe and North America were recirculated by B-circuit filmmakers in India and, in so doing, suffused with feminist and queer possibilities. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
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Sensationalizing Nontheatrical CinemaThe Feminist and Queer Possibilities of Sex Education Films in Postcolonial India
In this essay, I examine how nontheatrical films on sex education from Europe and North America were recirculated by B-circuit filmmakers in India and in so doing suffused them with feminist and queer...
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
In his book THE SEDUCTION OF SPACE, @julesod.bsky.social cruises French queer cinema www.upress.umn.edu/978151791684...
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The Seduction of Space
A bold and far-reaching new study of French queer cinema reimagines the relationship between sexuality and space Spatiality has long been a crucial and poten...
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
In her funny and provocative study of the US sitcom, CLOSURES, @gracelavery.bsky.social considers the flimsiness of heteronorms www.dukeupress.edu/closures
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Closures
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This special dossier from last Spring's issue of Screen explores queer TV in a globalising Asia, edited by SIG member Jamie J. Zhao doi.org/10.1093/scre...
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Queer TV Asia: emerging studies of queer TV in a globalising Asia Introduction
Queerness, broadly understood, denotes identities, practices, positions and relations that upset mainstream society’s ‘normalizing mandates’ concerning gen
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
From @thepetermarra.bsky.social, QUEER SLASHERS examines the complicated appeal of the slasher film for queer audiences and filmmakers iupress.org/978025307194...
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Queer Slashers
From Norman Bates dressed as "Mother" in Psycho to the rouged cheeks of Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, many slasher icons have borne traces of q...
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Written by our SIG member @maguiregeoff.bsky.social, BODIES OF WATER explores the fluid, queer aesthetics of contemporary Latin American cinema sunypress.edu/Books/B/Bodi...
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Bodies of Water
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Barbara Mennel follows the queer desire swirling through a Prussian boarding school in MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM (1931) and its fragmented afterlife in a BFI Film Classic www.bloomsbury.com/uk/m%C3%A4dc...
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Mädchen in Uniform
Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform (1931) is a groundbreaking German film that showcases women's agency and desire behind and in front of the camera.Adapted fr…
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Paige Macintosh @cornflakerabbit.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
In celebration of Edinburgh Pride (where my publisher @edinburghup.bsky.social is based), I thought I'd share this short Q&A about my upcoming book, Debating Authenticity: Authorship, Aesthetics and Embodiment in Trans Media 🎓🌈 euppublishingblog.com/2025/06/19/t...
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Trans media's expanding horizons | Edinburgh University Press
Paige Macintosh shares what inspired their research on trans media in the current political landscape and what their hopes are for the coming years.
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
In their book CORPSES, FOOLS & MONSTERS, Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay chart the history and future of trans representation on screen www.screenslate.com/articles/cor...
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Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: A Conversation with Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay
In one of the most famous trans allegories in cinema history, The Matrix (1999), directed by the Wachowski sisters, the main character Neo is offered a choice: take the red pill and experience awarene...
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Performance and video artist Dayna McLeod explores ageing queer female subjectivity, homophobia and desire in a 'threesome' of video essays about Donna Deitch's DESERT HEARTS intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
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<em>Desert Hearts</em>: An Aging Queer Trilogy
“Desert Hearts: An Aging Queer Trilogy” is a threesome of video essays that engage with and excavate representations of aging queer female subjectivity, homophobia, and desire in Desert Hearts (direct...
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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
delighted that i can now share the cover of my forthcoming monograph 𝘊𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯. released 6 Jan 2026 with @dukepress.bsky.social in the Camera Obscura series.
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Co-edited by our SIG member Michael Williams, this collection published by @intellectbooks.bsky.social brings together critical perspectives on CALL ME BY YOUR NAME press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Call Me by Your Name
This edited collection explores how Luca Guadagnino’s film Call Me by Your Name speaks powerfully to questions of contemporary sexual identity and romance. Adapted by James Ivory from André Aciman’s n...
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We're highlighting some recent publications in LGBTQIA+ screen studies for Pride month. Message us if there's work you'd like us to share
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Bloomsbury Film & Media @bloomsburymedia.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Explore 100 films that shaped the trajectory of queer cinema and showcased the artistry of queer filmmaking. 100 QUEER FILMS SINCE STONEWALL is out now. Look inside: bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/680a0... Find out more: www.bloomsbury.com/100-queer-fi...
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
What new LGBTQIA+ screen studies scholarship should we be celebrating this pride month? What classic work should we revisit? Tell us about your new projects, or send us your recommendations for books, articles and video essays we should know about
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
What new LGBTQIA+ screen studies scholarship should we be celebrating this pride month? What classic work should we revisit? Tell us about your new projects, or send us your recommendations for books, articles and video essays we should know about
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 11/06/2025
Joelle Taylor on blast at She's Beautiful, Sexy, Angry & Liberated! Barbara Hammer's Lesbian Films of the 1970s tonight at Barbican Cinemas. Opening night of Queer 70s, running until 16 July.
Joelle Taylor, a butch white woman with a grey quiff wearing a sharply tailored grey suit, stands behind a white lectern on a red stage.
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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Over the coming days we will be sharing highlights from the programme. Join the waitlist: tvce2025.eventbrite.com #TransPride #Pride #Pride2025 #Symposium #Conference #AcademicSky 🌈🎓
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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence (TVCE) 1st Annual Symposium
A symposium dedicated to celebrating trans+ lived experiences and academic research.
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Cael M Keegan @caelkeegan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Excited to share that our TSQ issue on trans speculation is live! Please share/check it out: Both intros and River Pruitt's piece are currently free to dl at the link! read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/issue/12...
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Volume 12 Issue 1 | TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly | Duke University Press
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
We're proud that @baftss.bsky.social has issued a strong statement in solidarity with our trans, non-binary and intersex members, in light of the UK Supreme Court ruling last week. You can read the full statement here: www.baftss.org/uk-supreme-c...
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A starter pack of fabulous folk working in LGBTQIA+ screen studies. If you'd like to be added, let us know! go.bsky.app/Asce99Z
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Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 21/04/2025
In light of the, um, attention that trans studies is getting, let's make this list even longer. go.bsky.app/UAtsVTH
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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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Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Had a fantastic time @baftss2025.bsky.social last week - thanks to all the organisers and everyone speaking for their fascinating ideas. I also got a nice haul from @intellectbooks.bsky.social
3 books from Intellect publishing on queer media
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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Hello Bluesky! This is the new account for the BAFTSS LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies special interest group. Follow us and share your queer and trans screen studies news with us 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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