João Florêncio

Like, girlies, it’s 2026.

Ok. Britain is clearly a country desperate to cling on to something

Ottawa: a talk was given to a really engaged audience, a PhD on chemsex was examined, great food and cocktails were had, friends old and new were met, and came back to Europe with a page of Jean Cocteau’s 1923 Dessins, and two C-prints of Eve Fowler’s series Hustlers (1993-1998). 🥵🥵

Guys, it’s very cold in Ottawa and people ice skate on the river.0 p

Not as much!

Packing for Canada and no homophobic -20°C will stop me from wearing a few thirsty fag looks! Come see it for yourself, Ottawa! 😈👀🍆

Amazing stuff! #UCU members, please vote for @markpendleton.bsky.social and @suzitoole.bsky.social for the joint HE and FE VP roles, and the other amazing candidates on the slate. We can do this!

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You can now say even more things!!

As you should! I’ve just read it on a plane 🤣

Yup! 10/10!

If anyone ever writes anything rebuttal of my work like this I will leave the room quietly before I lose any dignity I may have left. 😬🤪

Got it!

Ooo gonna download!

Thank you Glasgow, thank you @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social! You’ve been amazing! 🖤

Who’s in Glasgow on Friday and gonna invite me for a deep-fried mars bar, please? 😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Do me a favour and hear @reproutopia.bsky.social out! 🖤 doi.org/10.1353/sor....

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And comrades in the right place!

This was first delivered last year to someone not at my old Exeter address but on the same street. They looked me up and called the Uni of Exeter, my previous employer, to tell them they had a parcel for me. Exeter then contacted me and I got an ex-colleague to pick it up & post it to me in Sweden.🤣

I was re-reading Guattari’s The Three Ecologies, written in 1989, and found this incredibly prescient passage about the DJT

Hi London! Sharing this on behalf of a colleague.

Hal Fischer: Seminal Works (2025) | Aperture Photobooks Seminal Works brings together rarely seen early photography and essays that consider queer culture and social change in San Francisco.

This beautiful thing is out in the world next month with Aperture, and available for pre-order, and I’m delighted to have my essay “Attack of the Clones: Sampling, Seriality, and Queer World-Making” included in it. aperture.org/books/hal-fi...

Imagining Sex, Imagining Us: Pornography, Transnational Print Culture, and the Invention of "Gay Europe" - Carleton University Art Gallery

February 4 in Ottawa! cuag.ca/event/imagin...

I’m from 1983!!

I’ve just realised that the 1st English edition of Foucault’s The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 shares its publication year (1978) with Stuart Hall et al.’s Policing the Crisis, and I find that incredible, magical, and heartwarming.

I’m gonna put it out there: I tried watching Heated Rivalry earlier today and couldn’t get through the first episode.

Abolish “LGBT” fiction.

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O Canada! (Come hang out in Ottawa next month!)

How Consent Can—and Cannot—Help Us Have Better Sex The idea is legally vital, but ultimately unsatisfying. Is there another way forward?

This is VERY good, @newyorker.com! How Consent Can—and Cannot—Help Us Have Better Sex www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...