SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus

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...

@slavagreenberg.bsky.social @javiperezosorio.bsky.social @jbcole-kurz.bsky.social @edoardopucla.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social

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...

Preparing to deliver my talk "From Striver to Disaster:
The Bisexual as Figuration of Contemporary Socioeconomic Decline" at Bi Research Group Conference; join online! www.bisexualresearch.com
#IBRC2025 #bisexualresearch
@emersonsofilm.bsky.social @bisexualmovies.bsky.social @scmsqtc.bsky.social

@scmstudies.bsky.social @edoardopucla.bsky.social

❗Deadline extended to August 10❗

If you’d like to connect with fellow caucus members working on related topics, please sign up for the #QTCConnectProgram by emailing scmsqueer@gmail.com with “QTC Connect” as the subject line @javiperezosorio.bsky.social @jbcole-kurz.bsky.social

Thanks for the enthusiasm for the Alex Doty Mentorship Program, especially with the quick deadline! We have decided to extend the deadline to July 6 to welcome more signups. We especially encourage more mentors to join us. Mid-career folks can be both a mentor and mentee! Check SCMS email for info.

Last but not least, we want to extend our deepest thanks to @slavagreenberg.bsky.social, whose term as Senior Co-Chair is concluding. Slava has been an extraordinary advocate and organiser for the QTC community, and we’re incredibly grateful for his leadership. Thank you, Slava!

Second, we are happy to share that Edoardo Pelligra will be continuing into the second year of his term as Graduate Student Representative.

First, please join us in warmly welcoming Michael M. Reinhard as our new Secretary!

With this transition, @javiperezosorio.bsky.social and @jbcole-kurz.bsky.social will now step into the roles of Senior and Junior Co-Chair, respectively.

We’re excited to share a few important leadership updates for the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus! @scmstudies.bsky.social

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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.

I’m re-sharing the QTC starter pack in hopes of finding our new secretary.

Are you out there?

@scmsqtc.bsky.social
@scmstudies.bsky.social

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We are extending the deadline until May 25th!

Please send your nominations for the role of Secretary. More information below.

@slavagreenberg.bsky.social @javiperezosorio.bsky.social @jbcole-kurz.bsky.social

Your active participation will be crucial to our collective achievements.

As board member, this role will share responsibilities that contribute to the success of the QTC community. These include planning QTC conference events, attending various conference meetings, helping with QTC social media accounts, and organising the QTC mixer.

The Secretary manages the Alex Doty Mentorship Programme with the Junior Co-Chair (pairing up new participants in the program and checking in on existing pairs each year) and takes minutes during the annual conference meeting.

The Secretary serves a three-year term, beginning as Secretary, becoming Junior Co-Chair in their second year, and then Senior Co-Chair in their third year.

Dear QTC members,

We are looking for a new caucus Secretary!

If you are interested in nominating yourself for this position, please email a bio of 100-200 words and a platform of 200-300 words to scmsqueer@gmail.com by the end of the day on Friday, May 16th.

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Our panel “Queer, Queerness, and Its East Asian (in)Adaptability” is happening at 9AM on Sunday! Hoping to see many scholars of queer & Asian media there :) #SCMS25 @scmsqtc.bsky.social

I’m heartbroken that so many brilliant scholars could not attend #SCMS25 out of the completely understandable and real fear for their safety.

Photo of a hotel conference room, few people visible from their backs. On stage behind a podium white woman in black jacket on screen trans guy in T shirt with pink triangle.

Sitting in the forest looking at a photo of myself presenting at #SCMS25 is kinda uncanny.

Thank you @javiperezosorio.bsky.social for the pic and @laurah.bsky.social for orgenizing and chairing the most complicated panel ever!

En route to Chicago for #SCMS25 #SCMS2025! Excited to present on Saturday!

SCMSers, please come to our panel tomorrow if you're able to: Friday, April 4th, 11:00 am -12:45 pm. Session G14. We'll be in the Geneva room in the Swissotel, so pop across the street from the Fairmont! And don't forget to check out the @scmsqtc.bsky.social zine! #SCMS25 🏳️‍⚧️🎓🏳️‍🌈

Happening in two hours!

With all the travel restrictions on trans folks and additional flight delays, if you’re around, be a pal, come say hi to @laurah.bsky.social and send me a pic, pleaseeeee! I so wish I could be there with y’all!

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@scmsqtc.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social
#SCMS25

@slavagreenberg.bsky.social @javiperezosorio.bsky.social @jbcole-kurz.bsky.social

We're very excited to see many of you at this year's conference in Chicago #SCMS2025.

We've prepared the following zine with information about all the panels with queer and trans themes. (Sorry if we missed anything; the program is long!)

Download the QueerZine here:
wetransfer.com/downloads/4b...

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@scmsqtc.bsky.social
#SCMS25

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.

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!

For the first time in a decade, I canceled my #SCMS participation. W/ TSA harassment & travel doc confiscations of trans people, ICE’s treatment of visa holders, for political & random reasons, & the measles outbreak—I don’t feel safe traveling to the U.S. as a trans, immunocompromised immigrant.1/4