Are you a fan of the 1978 film THE WIZ? I would LOVE to chat with you about your fandom for a book on THE WIZ. You only need to be 18 years old or older and love the film. DMs open and please share.
17.11.2025 17:58 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 17 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2
This was so fantastic! Lined up beautifully with some of the issues we were discussing in my Queer and Trans Art HIstories class so I might have to add it to the "Dr. R. has a problem" pile on our CMS (which already has work by @laurah.bsky.social and Eva Hayward in it!)
26.09.2025 00:09 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
"The theme was Dressed for Chaos: Costumes, Nasty Women and Social Change. But what does that mean? Well, it means a fun, informative, often rousing hour in the company of silent comediennes, and three women who dearly love them." @hennefem.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social
10.10.2025 00:37 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 6
Feature films? What a concept. They donโt always seem to be the dominant form here at Pordenone. But this afternoon was an exception to that rule, with a triple-bill of four-to-six-reelers back to โฆ
"A real highlight of the day arrived with the UCLA David C. Copley Lecture on Costume Design and Silent Cinema, this year presented by the Nasty Women Triumvirate: Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Elif Rongen-Kaynakรงฤฑ." Thank you @silentlondon.bsky.social !! โค๏ธ๐๏ธ๐ฉ
silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/09/l...
10.10.2025 00:37 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
YouTube video by Le Giornate del Cinema Muto
COSTUME DESIGN AND SILENT CINEMA UCLA| Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025
If you missed the nasty women deliver the UCLA Copley lecture on silent film costume design in Pordenone, you're in luck!! It's now on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IEG...
*The audio-visual quality isn't stellar, but the slides are beautifully chaotic. @hennefem.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social
15.10.2025 14:07 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
In Conversation with Eva Hayward
Join Eva Hayward, a gender studies scholar at the University of New Mexico, in conversation with Laura Horak, Director of the Transgender Media Lab at Carleton University.
Next week! Thursday at 6:30PM ET on Zoom. Free! Open to all! In English with simultaneous French interpretation. Listen to Eva Hayward and @laurah.bsky.social chat about the artist Erica Rutherford and her work, as well as trans rights today. www.gallery.ca/whats-on/cal...
17.09.2025 21:33 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Word is out!!! The curators of Cinema's First Nasty Women -- Elif Kaynakci, @hennefem.bsky.social, @laurah.bsky.social -- will co-deliver the UCLA Copley on Silent Cinema & Costume Design at the Giornate del Cinema Muto this year. ๐โ๐ช๏ธ
๐ Thursday 9th October, Teatro Verdi in Pordenone
Save the date!
20.09.2025 14:39 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
In Conversation with Eva Hayward
Join Eva Hayward, a gender studies scholar at the University of New Mexico, in conversation with Laura Horak, Director of the Transgender Media Lab at Carleton University.
Next week! Thursday at 6:30PM ET on Zoom. Free! Open to all! In English with simultaneous French interpretation. Listen to Eva Hayward and chat about the artist Erica Rutherford and her work, as well as trans rights today. www.gallery.ca/whats-on/cal...
17.09.2025 21:35 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Not yet - soon!
24.07.2025 20:12 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A brown-skinned trans woman in an astronaut's helmet and white tunic floats in front of a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. Text: "Trans Cinema" Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds. Laura Horak"
Lookee here! My book has a cover!
Coming from @ucpress.bsky.social in April 2026. Many thanks to Tourmaline for allowing us to use her photograph "Summer Azure"!
24.07.2025 20:02 โ ๐ 63 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 3
Le cinรฉma (muet) des "effrontรฉes"https://static.wixstatic.com/media/524063_440a22aaa21b4f8088c564d236b30188~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_750,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/524063_440a22aaa21b4f8088c564d236b...
"Breaking Plates" de Karen Pearlman
Great review of Breaking Plates & our Nasty Women extravaganza at the @cinemathequefr.bsky.social by Nicolas Villodre!! ๐๏ธ๐ฅ @karenpearlman.bsky.social @richardjamesallen.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social
www.leshumanites-media.com/post/le-cin%...
20.06.2025 14:46 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Projecting Homosexuality: Queer and Trans Visions from Cinemaโs First Decades June 4, 11, 18, & 25, 2025
Buckle up for a wild ride through the forgotten corners of early cinema! โProjecting Homosexualityโ is a groundbreaking film series that will blow your mind with rarely seen gems from the dawn of moviemaking. Imagine stumbling into a secret world where gender-bending performers, radical social uprisings, and forbidden desires dance across the silver screen. From a beefcake muscleman posing in the worldโs earliest films to lesbian love stories that challenged every social norm, these movies arenโt just history โ theyโre a time machine to a more subversive, surprising past that feels irresistibly modern.
This isnโt your grandparentsโ dusty film archive โ this is a revolution captured on celluloid. Spanning from the United States to Sweden, France, Germany, and Japan, these films will make you laugh, gasp, and see early 20th-century culture in a radically new light. Whether youโre a film buff, a queer history enthusiast, or just someone who loves discovering incredible stories that have been hidden for a century, this series promises an unforgettable journey. Get ready to peek through the keyhole of cinemaโs most daring and delicious secrets.
Through the Keyhole: Shorts Program
Reception 7:30 pm | About the films | June 4, 2025, 8:00 pm-
Buy Tickets |119 minutes + intermission
Learn about the films here.
FEATURED SPEAKER: Laura Horak โ Curator of The First Homosexuals Film Series. Laura Horak is Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University and director of the Transgender Media Lab and Transgender Media Portal.
Chicagoans! Come to my queer and trans silent film series every Wednesday night in June! This Weds I'll be there in person introducing a program of shorts like you've never seen before!!! @facetschicago.bsky.social
02.06.2025 13:57 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The post is blocked so I can't see it!
18.04.2025 20:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
A young Matthew Broderick smiles at the camera. FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF SUNDAY AT THE MAYFAIR. 13 April 3:30PM. Free admission thanks to Carleton's School for Studies in Art and Culture, but donations are gratefully accepted! ($15 suggested but any amount welcome) HELP SUPPORT THE FILM STUDIES TIFF 2025 TRIP! 1074 Bank St, Ottawa, ON K1S 2W3
Ottawans - spread the word! Have a fun day at the movies and help support our students! ๐ฟ๐ฝ๏ธ @carletonfass.bsky.social @carleton.ca @mayfairtheatre.bsky.social
07.04.2025 19:02 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. ๐งต
03.04.2025 19:10 โ ๐ 3054 ๐ 941 ๐ฌ 59 ๐ 151
BREAKING โ Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) staffers who were put on admin leave on Monday just got letters letting them know theyโre a part of a Reduction in Force (RIF) and that their job will be โabolishedโ effective May 4th in accordance with Trumpโs EO, per copy reviewed by me.
03.04.2025 19:33 โ ๐ 973 ๐ 486 ๐ฌ 34 ๐ 35
I checked, itโs open access and excellent!
@scmsqtc.bsky.social
12.03.2025 14:01 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
For the first time in a decade, I canceled my #SCMS participation. W/ TSA harassment & travel doc confiscations of trans people, ICEโs treatment of visa holders, for political & random reasons, & the measles outbreakโI donโt feel safe traveling to the U.S. as a trans, immunocompromised immigrant.1/4
20.03.2025 19:11 โ ๐ 54 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 1
Happening in two hours!
With all the travel restrictions on trans folks and additional flight delays, if youโre 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 yโall!
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@scmsqtc.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social
#SCMS25
03.04.2025 12:56 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Iโm heartbroken that so many brilliant scholars could not attend #SCMS25 out of the completely understandable and real fear for their safety.
03.04.2025 16:40 โ ๐ 35 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
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!
03.04.2025 16:54 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
Thanks, Chris! ๐ ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
01.04.2025 18:10 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Sneak peek ๐ซฃ of the Queer and Trans Caucus 2025 zine
@caelkeegan.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social @scmsqtc.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social #SCMS25
01.04.2025 14:03 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
It was a thrill to co-present GENDER ADVENTURES at the Cactus Theatre in Lubbock, TX with my partner-in-crime, @laurah.bsky.social!! ๐๏ธ๐๐ตBig thanks to the organizers of Sexism/Cinema for inviting us!! โค๏ธ
05.03.2025 23:09 โ ๐ 26 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
they/them, Art Historian
I care a lot (too much?)
Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Univ. of British Columbia Assoc Prof, German & Nordic, queer things, media, book history, disability, cats. Nerd. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Vancouver ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ
Assoc. Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Carleton University. Studying comic cons and festivals as interfaces between media industries and fan communities. Reading comics, playing TTRPGs, cooking Chinese food. #CatDad
Film is cool. Nitrate is hot. ๐ฅ Join us May 29โJune 1, 2025 for the festival of film conservation at George Eastman Museum's Dryden Theatre in Rochester, NY.
Reserve your pass: eastman.org/nitrate-picture-show
A queer Latina femme fighting for a Free Palestine ๐ต๐ธAuthor of ๐Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex//Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings//Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces juanamariarodriguez.com
Chair in Transgender Studies (๐ง transchair@uvic.ca) & The Transgender Archives (๐ง transarc@uvic.ca) โ World's Largest Collection of Trans History
linktr.ee/transchair
"the human form of Snopes" | coordinator @jhrnews.bsky.social, contributing editor @xtramagazine.com | they/them | tobinng.wordpress.com
VUCAVU.COM | "Artist-driven. Independent. Canadian film, video, and media art on demand." // ยซโAxรฉ sur lโartiste. Indรฉpendant. Le cinรฉma, la vidรฉo et lโart mรฉdiatique canadien sur demande.โยป
Exploring the contributions women have made to the emergence and development of film and television.
Next conference: DWFTH7, Lincoln, 18-20 July 2025
Website: https://wfthn.com/
Queering history in every imaginable way!
linktr.ee/outhistory
Ottawa-based Indivisible group advocating for democracy, maintaining Canadaโs sovereignty, and showing up for people targeted by the current US administration. We welcome Americans, Canadians et al.
To join, email indivisibleOttawa (at) proton (dot) me
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (@scmstudies.bsky.social) Queer and Trans Caucus.
@javiperezosorio.bsky.social, Senior co-chair
@jbcole-kurz.bsky.social, Junior co-chair
Michael M. Reinhard, Secretary
@edoardopucla.bsky.socialโฌ Grad Represen
The @baftss.bsky.social special interest group for LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies. Message us or email lgbtqscreenstudies@gmail.com
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre is Canada's foremost non-commercial distributor of independent and artists' #films. www.cfmdc.org
lambda poetry fellow, fawc scholar ๐ธ disney and nintendo studies ๐ฐ edits at IHLR, JCMS ๐ perpetually sleepy ๐ค she/her ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
jennessahester.com
Cinephile, music lover & library worker originally from San Francisco now living in Maine. These are personal opinions that may not reflect the views of my employer.
new to BSky ...
queer cinema history | contemporary lesbian film
archive-ology | historiography | creative practice
use: she/her - them/they also ok
www.susanpotter.me
Professor of queer and trans history. Author of CONTESTED CURRICULUM: LGBTQ HISTORY GOES TO SCHOOL (Rutgers UP, 2025); editor of ROUTLEDGE HISTORY OF QUEER AMERICA.
Linktree for publications, book talks, and media:
https://linktr.ee/donromesburg
