Laura Horak

Ticket giveaway! 🎟️🎟️🎟️ Repost to be entered into a drawing for a free ticket to this screening. Winners notified on Friday. For more about the event: www.iffo.ca/2026/we-are-...

Happy International Nasty Women's Day!!!! No better way to celebrate than by nabbing your copy of these **feminist film books**--extant & forthcoming--by our curators and sisters! 😍🎞️📚

Links in the comments below... What feminist films books are lighting up your life right now? ⁉️

If you're in Ottawa, come to our screening on Saturday, March 14th! After the movie, Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social will be talking with Tom McSorley about her new book, TRANS CINEMA: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds (2026)! www.iffo.ca/2026/we-are-... @ottawaartgallery.bsky.social

Fantastic mail day! Congrats @laurah.bsky.social!

#unboxing advance copies of my new book!!! #TransCinema @ucpress.bsky.social

I love it! I just watched Big City Blues, too!

Moviemaking Before Men | Playgirl Elinor Glyn, June Mathis, Alice Guy-Blaché, Lois Weber: The many women who achieved dazzling success in the first years of Hollywood.

"These women used mass media to critique the damaging effects of unfettered capitalism on women’s lives."

Love this piece by @laurah.bsky.social:

Moviemaking Before Men | Playgirl Elinor Glyn, June Mathis, Alice Guy-Blaché, Lois Weber: The many women who achieved dazzling success in the first years of Hollywood.

Great piece by WFPP contributor @laurah.bsky.social!

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Moviemaking Before Men | Playgirl Elinor Glyn, June Mathis, Alice Guy-Blaché, Lois Weber: The many women who achieved dazzling success in the first years of Hollywood.

It was only a matter of time before the Nasty Women infiltrated Playgirl Magazine!! Great piece by our own @laurah.bsky.social.

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1910 E4 of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever is live! @laurah.bsky.social wrote Girls Will Be Boys so it makes sense that much of our discussion deals with the transgression, or lack thereof, of cross-dressing women. It's a rich topic! Plus: the electricity of Asta Nielsen in her debut. Links 👇

Here is an excerpt from my conversation with @laurah.bsky.social about THE ABYSS for The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever: 1910. Links in quoted post!

Lecturer or Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, School for Studies in Art and Culture (Film Studies) - Office of the Deputy Provost (Academic Operations and Planning) About the Position The School for Studies in Art and Culture invites applications for a one-year appointment at the rank of Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, beginning 1 July 2026, from q...

Want to come work in my Film Studies department in Ottawa, Canada, for a year? Application deadline is March 6. All areas of specialization welcome. Please spread the word! @carleton.ca carleton.ca/deputyprovos... #filmstudies #jobopportunity

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The Transgender Media Portal is a free online database made and maintained by a lab of student scholars—and we need your help. Your donation will be matched, dollar for dollar!

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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.

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!)

"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

Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 6 Feature films? What a concept. They don’t 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 …

"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-Kaynakçı." Thank you @silentlondon.bsky.social !! ❤️🎞️🎩

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The curators of Cinema's First Nasty Women presenting the annual Copley lecture on Silent Film Costume Design -- "DRESSED FOR CHAOS" -- at the Giornate del Cinema Muto! 🎊🎞️👗🧯 @hennefem.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social #GCM44

COSTUME DESIGN AND SILENT CINEMA UCLA| Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025 YouTube video by Le Giornate del Cinema Muto

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.

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*The audio-visual quality isn't stellar, but the slides are beautifully chaotic. @hennefem.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social

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...

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. 👒☔🌪️

📍 Thursday 9th October, Teatro Verdi in Pordenone
Save the date!

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...

Not yet - soon!

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"!

Le cinéma (muet) des "effrontées"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!! 🎞️🔥 @karenpearlman.bsky.social @richardjamesallen.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social

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It's been a whirlwind week on the road w/ @nastysilents.bsky.social & Breaking Plates at Women & the Silent Screen, @cinemathequefr.bsky.social, & Eye Filmmuseum!!! Feeling very energized and grateful for all my dish-breaking feminist comrades!!!! 🎞📽🎶‼️🎊🥳

No Kings, Yes Nasty Women!!! Beautiful day of screenings & dialogue in Paris at the @cinemathequefr.bsky.social!!! Long live Léontine AND Breaking Plates!!! 🎞️🎶🎊

@karenpearlman.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social @richardjamesallen.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

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