#unboxing advance copies of my new book!!! #TransCinema @ucpress.bsky.social
23.02.2026 23:19 β
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I love it! I just watched Big City Blues, too!
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Moviemaking Before Men | Playgirl
Elinor Glyn, June Mathis, Alice Guy-BlachΓ©, 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 womenβs lives."
Love this piece by @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 π
04.02.2026 17:46 β
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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!
05.02.2026 15:13 β
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TRANSGENDER MEDIA PORTAL Donations doubled this Giving Tuesday up to $5450! $263 raised out of $5,450.
We're almost halfway there! Help us out! All donations matched dollar-for-dollar! futurefunder.carleton.ca/campaigns/su...
02.12.2025 21:30 β
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Members of the TMP team holding a pink banner with the Transgender Media Portal name and trans symbol logo at the 2024 Ottawa Trans March. On top of the image is the text βDollar-for-dollar matching this Giving Tuesday!β
Fight trans invisibility this Giving Tuesday!
The Transgender Media Portal is a free online database made and maintained by a lab of student scholarsβand we need your help. Your donation will be matched, dollar for dollar!
Donate today at futurefunder.carleton.ca/campaigns/su...
02.12.2025 13:08 β
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Please donate! π
28.11.2025 23:41 β
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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.
17.11.2025 17:58 β
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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 β
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"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 β
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 6
Feature films? What a concept. They donβt 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 β¦
"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-KaynakΓ§Δ±." Thank you @silentlondon.bsky.social !! β€οΈποΈπ©
silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/09/l...
10.10.2025 00:37 β
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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
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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 β
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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. πβπͺοΈ
π Thursday 9th October, Teatro Verdi in Pordenone
Save the date!
20.09.2025 14:39 β
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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 β
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Not yet - soon!
24.07.2025 20:12 β
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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 β
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Le cinΓ©ma (muet) des "effrontΓ©es"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!! ποΈπ₯ @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 β
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Projecting Homosexuality: Queer and Trans Visions from Cinemaβs First Decades June 4, 11, 18, & 25, 2025
Buckle up for a wild ride through the forgotten corners of early cinema! βProjecting Homosexualityβ 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 worldβs earliest films to lesbian love stories that challenged every social norm, these movies arenβt just history β theyβre a time machine to a more subversive, surprising past that feels irresistibly modern.
This isnβt your grandparentsβ dusty film archive β 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 youβre 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 cinemaβs 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 β 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 β
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The post is blocked so I can't see it!
18.04.2025 20:35 β
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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! πΏπ½οΈ @carletonfass.bsky.social @carleton.ca @mayfairtheatre.bsky.social
07.04.2025 19:02 β
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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. π§΅
03.04.2025 19:10 β
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