Farrah Freibert

Very sad to hear the news about Teresa de Lauretis. I sat on many dissertation committees with her at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social and she was a *force*!! Direct, blunt, unsmiling — and always brilliant. Pushed her students to do their absolute best. RIP

HSWG Queer Horror Conference 2026

Don’t forget the opening session of the virtual queer horror conference hosted by the University of Pittsburgh Horror Working Group & co-sponsored by the @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social is tonight at 6pm EST. Panel sessions are on Friday & Saturday. Registration & schedule:

Come to the book launch for The Intellect Handbook of Adult Film and Media (2026) and Screening Adult Cinema (2025), sponsored by the SCMS Adult Film and Media SIG.

Thankful to welcome 2 new book chapters into the world from opposite ends of my research interests: #romcom & #pornstudies!
An amuse bouche for #comedystudies feast to follow, “Regenerating ‘Radical Romantic Comedy’ for the Twenty-First Century" kicks off @academic.oup.com HANDBOOK OF SCREEN COMEDY

& for dessert...My ode to unrated director's cut of Jane Campion's erotic thriller IN THE CUT (2003) in SCREENING ADULT CINEMA, 2nd vol. in @culturalstudies.bsky.social's SCREENING CINEMA series edited by @garyneedham.bsky.social Bon appetit!
@emersonsofilm.bsky.social @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social

Precarious Labor Organization co-chair here! Join us on Friday, December 5, at 4pm CST (22:00 UTC) for our meeting at the @scmstudies.bsky.social virtual symposium. Much to discuss!

Thank you to the series editors Darren Kerr (@xdkerr.bsky.social) and Donna Peberdy (donnapeberdy.bsky.social), as well as the anonymous peer-reviewers and everyone else along the way!

Book cover of "Nothing Censored, Nothing Gained." The top portion of the background is solid black, the bottom portion is a grainy black and white photograph of the Cinema Theatre and an Adult Movies theater.

My book has a cover, and it comes out at the end of this month as part of @edinburghup.bsky.social's@screeningsex.bsky.social book series!

Please ask your library to purchase it if you can. 30% discount code from the press: NEW30.

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nothing...

The Board of the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus is seeking submissions for the 2025 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize!

Nov 15, 2025 - All Submissions Due
Dec 15, 2025 - Winner Selected
Mar 15, 2026 - Winner Article Revised for Publication

MORE INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZICp...

PSA: Public Scholars

I'm working on a resources page for our website to help scholars find homes for their op-eds, guest blogs, and otherwise expertise.

If you run a site or podcast that regularly posts such things and would like us to share it as a potential place to pitch, please let me know!

FREE RESEARCH ARTICLE! Why did writers say Lara Croft was trans? What was her actual relationship to the “male gamer”? Look out for a guest appearance by Mario, and for the author’s own trans memories from the y2k era.

online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Congratulations @jacobengelberg.bsky.social & @ffreibert.bsky.social!

I can’t wait to read this!

SCMS joins the field in mourning the loss of Ina Rae Hark, Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of South Carolina and a pioneering scholar of film and media studies.

I don’t think enough cis people—unless they’re parenting a trans child—realize how deep and wide the defunding of trans healthcare has gotten in 6 months, and how deadly it is.

The type-set pages are in now for 'Screening Adult Cinema' edited by @ffreibert.bsky.social Peter Alilunas, and Des Embree. My own 'Boys in the Sand' (1971) is one of the 39 chapters in the book. More on the forthcoming book and chapters can be found here: www.routledge.com/Screening-Ad...

The Velvet Light Trap - University of Texas Press

I've got an article in this issue of The Velvet Light Trap that's based on the screen tourism research I was funded for a few years ago. So pleased to see it in print.
utpress.utexas.edu/journals/the...

oh i see sorry for the redundant idea. perhaps you could put in your revision cover letter that that particular requested revision is addressed in a citation that had to be redacted for peer review, or if that's not ideal email one of the journal's editors for advice :)

i consider blind important, so i always save the original and then submit an "anonymous" copy with redacted identifying references in text or in the bib. at the point where I delete it in-text i put something in brackets like [sentence(s) omitted for blind peer-review] or something to that effect.

As #scms25 approaches (first of the post-twitter era!), feel free to follow this conference feed in Bluesky to track the discourse:

flyer for SCMS karaoke: 8:15, Crystal 3rd floor, free, cash bar, all welcome.

yoooooo #scms #scms25, get ready

Text reads: “QueerZine the very best in queer and trans scholarship at SCMS 2025 from the Queer & Trans Caucus” in white letters over a pink and purple cover with film images above and below the text.

BREAKING: @scmsqtc.bsky.social zine just dropped!!!

Check out the latest & hottest in queer & trans cinema & media scholarship; #SCMS2025 panels & the annual QTC🍹

Check your 📧 for the full zine, made by our talented grad re Eduardo Pelligra!

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 (please share). The Centre for Feminist Research at York University invites abstracts from scholars/artists/activists, for Connection: The Fifth Annual Critical Femininities Conference. Conference is virtual August 15-17, 2025. Full CFP: www.yorku.ca/cfr/wp-conte...

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The CFP for the Literature/Film Association Conference 2025 is here: GHOSTED! PRESENCE, ABSENCE, AND ADAPTATION. 👻
Fittingly, we’ll be in Savannah, GA—one of America’s most haunted cities. Will your paper make an appearance… or mysteriously vanish? 👀
Check it out: 🔗 litfilm.org/con.../liter...

This ⬇️ resonates a lot as shoujo fans are held responsible for some series not being successful !!

I really appreciate your kind words! :)

Revisiting @finleyfreibert.bsky.social and 🔥 “Phrases that centralize the straight male reception once again imagine the anime niche market is a straight male market, and in doing so, argue that a release unaccepted by that market is doomed to failure.” iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jam...

Hopefully my thesis soon enough… 🤞🫠 In my opinion, publications such as @finleyfreibert.bsky.social’s article on Yaoi media distribution or Suzanne Scott’s Fake geek girls do a really good job at dissecting the assumption that popular cultures necessarily cater to a hetero-male market

We're on Bluesky (hi!) & we have a new interview on the blog! Darshana Sreedhar Mini @darshanamini.bsky.social discusses new book Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema & Mediations of Desire in India @ucpress.bsky.social with Finley Freibert @finleyfreibert.bsky.social screeningsex.com/2025/02/12/i...

MONSTRUM v7 n2 (December 2024) A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL OF STUDIES IN HORROR AND RELATED AREAS

Out now! MONSTRUM 7.2, “Queer/ing Horror,” guest-ed: @Daynarama.bsky.social. The 9 video essays in this issue think about what queer reuse of queerness looks like through a horror lens, and are also acts of queer re-telling and reviewing practices of horror.
www.monstrum-society.ca/monstrum-v7-...

the inaugural university of pittsburgh's queer horror conference is officially off to a stellar start: sapphic fungus-from-the-body eating, rotting corpses and monstrous wives, confucian ethics and mental breakdowns, and so much more just in the first hour!