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Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨
@aurelievpetit.bsky.social
postdoc IANF at @inrsciences.bsky.social // phd from Concordia University // working on anime, gender & technology // prev intern at Microsoft Research, Uottawa, UQAM 🤖💋 // she/her // 📍MTL 🇨🇦
https://www.aurelie-petit.com
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I am SO HAPPY to announce that this morning I defended my dissertation "Of Tentacles and Men: How anime shaped the internet as we know it"🥹🥹 I got no revisions and an OUTSTANDING (💅) grade for the presentation wowowow it has been such a journey, thank you to everyone!! 👩🏻‍🎓🎓🫶🥹❤️‍🔥✨✨✨
Lectures binômes….
January 5, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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The two genders:
Woman working on her computer
Girl running to school
January 4, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.
January 4, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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Hi folks! I’m currently co-editing a special issue for GAME about queer and trans games studies. Find the full cfp here www.gamejournal.it/n-132025-bey..., deadline for abstract submission is 12 January 2026!
December 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The rebranding of Monchhichis as babies when they’re supposed to be forest monkeys living in an autonomous society….
December 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I love bree.odnl’s work and I’m VERY much looking forward to the animated feature but that’s such an odd collab with The Sims!! It’s not the same animated style as the Sims, it doesn’t show anything game-related, and without the plumbob it would just be a regular animation
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Five Oscar-qualified indies, five radically different paths. Directors from 'Endless Cookie,' 'Boys Go to Jupiter,' 'Dog of God,' 'Black Butterflies,' and 'Slide' join our awards season Rogue Roundtable to discuss craft, constraint, and self-promotion.
www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...
Five Indie Features, Five Paths: Our Rogue Roundtable
Directors of 'Endless Cookie,' 'Black Butterflies,' 'Boys Go to Jupiter,' 'Dog of God,' and 'Slide' discuss their 2025 indie gems.
www.cartoonbrew.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
📍Amsterdam, NL
December 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Got a rejection from mechademia womp womp
December 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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🇳🇱 I'm presenting my paper "Not Safe for Work, Not Safe from AI: Creative porn workers and the monetization of Generative AI in the platform economy" in Amsterdam next week! I explore the challenges faced by creative porn workers during the rise of AI content on monetization platforms like Patreon ✨
December 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
When you’re 17, people will tell you you shouldn’t major in Film Studies because you won’t be able to do anything with it… it’s very important you don’t listen to them. 💛 My little film degrees got me to travel around the world, get paid to write and research, get featured in the media…
December 13, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Got a burning hot piece of music fan studies research? There's still time to submit to our special issue!

As a reminder, we welcome the following formats:

Articles (8k max words)
Symposium (4k max words)
Book Reviews (2.5k max words)
Multimedia: 10 images or 5–8 minutes of audiovisual content.
NEW CFP ALERT 📣 Check out the details of our upcoming special issue on Music Fandom guest edited by @jenessawilliams.bsky.social & @lucykbennett.bsky.social at the follow link: buff.ly/YDOflaI...! Deadline is 01/01/2026!
December 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
🇳🇱 I'm presenting my paper "Not Safe for Work, Not Safe from AI: Creative porn workers and the monetization of Generative AI in the platform economy" in Amsterdam next week! I explore the challenges faced by creative porn workers during the rise of AI content on monetization platforms like Patreon ✨
December 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Saving literacy by uninstalling Grammarly from my friends’ laptops
December 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Everytime I see the academic who called me unprofessional posts about the requirements about professionalism in academia……. rules for thee but not for me etc etc etc
December 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Manifesting my "Zero Tolerance: The web beyond moderation" book project for after my thesis…..
December 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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"If it is tempting to summarize the relationship between regressive politics, the alternative web, and anime to a cross-platform genealogy of 4chan and its “godparent” platform 2channel–or even to rely on awkward parallels between the localized Japanese phenomenon of super-fans (the otaku) and…
December 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"If it is tempting to summarize the relationship between regressive politics, the alternative web, and anime to a cross-platform genealogy of 4chan and its “godparent” platform 2channel–or even to rely on awkward parallels between the localized Japanese phenomenon of super-fans (the otaku) and…
December 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Now shopping for a publisher
December 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Now shopping for a publisher
December 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Aaaand I’ll announce officially what l’ll be doing next very soon!! 😸 postdoc era 🎓
December 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Félicitations to my friend and comrade-in-tentacles Aurélie for this amazing achievement!

I remember back when we were on the same panel in Lisbon and *I* was the one talking about tentacle porn!

They grow up so fast—*sniff!
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Hier, j’ai soutenu ma thèse « Of Tentacles and Men: How anime shaped the internet as we know it" hier 🥹🥹🥹 !!! Le résultat de BEAUCOUP d’années de travail et j’ai passé sans aucune révision avec la note « exceptionnelle » pour la présentation !! 🥹👩🏻‍🎓🎓😸🩷✨
I am SO HAPPY to announce that this morning I defended my dissertation "Of Tentacles and Men: How anime shaped the internet as we know it"🥹🥹 I got no revisions and an OUTSTANDING (💅) grade for the presentation wowowow it has been such a journey, thank you to everyone!! 👩🏻‍🎓🎓🫶🥹❤️‍🔥✨✨✨
December 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I love Aurélie's work!
Do you believe me if I say I bought this magazine just to read her article on the history of hentai anime in France? (not sure my wife believed me ToT)
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM