João Florêncio

Came to @hkw-berlin.bsky.social to see the Global Fascisms exhibition, bought this book I’ve been wanting to read for ages. 🖤

What a time to be alive (derogatory)

WHOLE TALKS: CARING FOR/IN CHEMSEX WHOLE TALKS: CARING FOR/IN CHEMSEX WHOLE 25

Last summer, a bunch of us left the seminar room for the queer rave and talked about sex, drugs, and how to care a little better for one another on.soundcloud.com/zIu9dQtDYmNz...

Also, like, if your knowledge of media theory is so crass that you completely miss the point McLuhan was trying to make (by legit arguing its opposite), perhaps you shouldn’t be volunteering your twopence on media culture. (Also the IGNORANCE on the history of “pornography” as a classificatory term)

This is singlehandedly the first analysis of the contemporary political moment that wholly resonates with my own thinking

One of many nuggets of wisdom and non sequiturs: “To borrow a phrase from Marshall McLuhan; ‘the medium is the message’. If the medium is the ‘sex’ robot, wha tis the message? I will argue that the medium and the message of ‘sex’ robots is pornography. Is he message or pornography is sexual abuse.”🙄

There’s a new book on sex robots by a UK-based radfem philosopher prof., with endorsements by both Kathleen Stock and Julie Bindel. obvs, this fag ordered an exam copy because he loves mess and, let me Itell you, my jaw is on the floor at how basic and boringly unoriginal the argument is.

Moral of the story, my brothers: sex sells. And consciousness rising goes a lot further when riding the D.

But neither the twinks nor the photos by Italian star of homoerotic photography Tony Patrioli (with whom Holm had contact) managed to reverse the decline of Magasin Gay, leading to its eventual closure in 1984, only one year after its first issue.

“Some twink guys hugging each other, half naked. This is not what we wanted,” Dodo Parikas told me in interview.

In an (unsuccessful) attempt to save the magazine, its publisher Revolt Press (still run by Michael Holm and his partner Geurt Staal) decided to bring sexy back to Magasin Gay by reintroducing sexy cover pics and erotic spreads.

Many wrote to the magazine to complain about the loss of porn, calling the editors bourgeois and “moral police,” many subscriptions were cancelled, and and the readership plummeted.

defined Revolt’s mix of sex and political consciousness. So Magasin Gay’s inaugural issue went into circulation armed with the pantheon Genet, Fassbinder, Sarte, Warhol, and Cocteau. The readers were furious.

When, in 1983, Recolt magazine became Magasin Gay, and Michael Holm handed over the editorship to Jon Voss and Dodo Parikas, the new editors wanted to get rid of the porn and turn it into a culture magazine that expanded the fantastic political and long-form articles that had already

Notes from the Swedish field, notes from the Swedish archive, for “The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945–2000” 🧵

Rashid Khalidi on One of the Worst Periods in Palestinian History Rashid Khalidi joins Faisal Al Yafai to discuss two years of war on Gaza and its place in the greater war on Palestine.

This is SO good! newlinesmag.com/podcast/rash...

How dare she break national consensus on stone-cold white Lutheran rational debating? Passion? I don’t even know her! Lol

The autumn TV political debate happened last night and today’s scandal is that “voices were sometimes loud”—how unswedish!—with Center Party leader having likened the passion of the Left leader (POC, daughter of Iranian refugees!) to an “unruly youth centre.” 🙄

Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising 15th October 2025, 18:00 AEDT COLLINGWOOD YARDS STUDIOS 6+ 7 Level 2 Perry st Building

Crossings takes queer sex practices and cultures seriously as ways of knowing and world-making.

RSVP to attend the Melbourne launch of CROSSINGS hosted by APHIDS on 15th October from 6pm AEDT

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Zohran’s most iconic video yet! We need a “cyclist” for every city in the world!

Such great gems about the enmeshment of porn and politics in the interviews I’ve been conducting for my project, The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000.

It’s full of metaphysical considerations, e.g., in episode 2:

“I buried those boobs in Baden-Baden.”

Woke up ridiculously early for some stupid reason, so decided to watch that Victoria Beckham doc on Netflix and I’m living… “I haven’t touched chocolate since the ‘90s… I’m not going to start now.” 🤣🤣🤣

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

Great moments in translation at the university club 🤣🖤

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

"Much of this material consisted of outright falsehoods – e.g. the widely circulated animation alleging that Hamas operated a command centre beneath Al-Shifa Hospital. No such facility was found, but it was used to destroy almost the entire healthcare system in Gaza" www.972mag.com/israeli-army...

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I arrived too late to get the job. It was made for me! 🤣

Had a super fun afternoon at Tema Genus in Linköping - thanks for having me @noisybits.bsky.social and special shoutout for the awesome poster 👌🏼🏳️‍🌈 #queer #boundaries #defence