Farrah Freibert
@ffreibert.bsky.social
She/Her. LGBTQ+ Film & Media Historian. Media Studies Assistant Professor. PhD in Visual Studies. Research Areas: Film Studies & Film History; Media Industries; Bisexual, Trans, Gay, & Queer History; Distribution & Exhibition; Archives; Horror Studies.
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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!
November 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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!
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...
Please ask your library to purchase it if you can. 30% discount code from the press: NEW30.
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nothing...
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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...
Please ask your library to purchase it if you can. 30% discount code from the press: NEW30.
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nothing...
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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...
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...
October 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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...
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...
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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!
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!
October 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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!
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!
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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/...
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
The Male Gamer and the Transness of Lara Croft
This article takes seriously two things: that Lara Croft is trans, and that I, a trans masculine games scholar and game maker, was a male gamer. Many scholars have rightly challenged the assumption th...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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/...
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
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my chapter on one of the first instalments of the 80s bi video boom: BI-COASTAL (1985) is now available! featured in the wonderful SCREENING ADULT FILM, edited by @ffreibert.bsky.social, Peter Alilunas, & Desirae Embree. ask your library to buy it! www.routledge.com/Screening-Ad...
August 31, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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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.
August 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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.
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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.
Clinics across the country are ending or limiting gender-affirming care.
Today, Assigned has two stories from opposite sides of the country on the crisis in trans youth care.
First, Kaiser Permanente is ending surgical care through age 19. One surgeon told our reporter it was a "tactical retreat."
Today, Assigned has two stories from opposite sides of the country on the crisis in trans youth care.
First, Kaiser Permanente is ending surgical care through age 19. One surgeon told our reporter it was a "tactical retreat."
In CA, Access to Top Surgery is Vanishing. One Surgeon Calls it a “Tactical Retreat.” — Assigned
As Kaiser Permanente acts to halt access to gender-affirming surgery for minors and young adults, many providers fear for the well-being of patients. Others are defending the decision.
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July 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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.
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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...
June 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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...
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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...
utpress.utexas.edu/journals/the...
The Velvet Light Trap - University of Texas Press
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April 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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...
utpress.utexas.edu/journals/the...
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March 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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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!
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!
March 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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!
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!
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🚨 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...
March 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
🚨 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...
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...
a box of ghost goodies sits on a table next to a book
ALT: a box of ghost goodies sits on a table next to a book
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February 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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...
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...
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This ⬇️ resonates a lot as shoujo fans are held responsible for some series not being successful !!
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...
February 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This ⬇️ resonates a lot as shoujo fans are held responsible for some series not being successful !!
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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...
February 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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...
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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
February 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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
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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...
February 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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...
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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-...
www.monstrum-society.ca/monstrum-v7-...
MONSTRUM v7 n2 (December 2024)
A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL OF STUDIES IN HORROR AND RELATED AREAS
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February 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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-...
www.monstrum-society.ca/monstrum-v7-...
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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!
February 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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!
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Our roundtable with Peter Alilunas, @drjonessoc.bsky.social, @noisybits.bsky.social and moi is just out as part of @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social 10th year anniversary. 50 freebies here:
Shaping pleasure, shifting boundaries: a roundtable on the future of porn studies
The roundtable, ‘Shaping Pleasure, Shifting Boundaries: A Roundtable on the Future of Porn Studies,’ took place in June 2024 via Zoom and was recorded, transcribed and then edited to cut digression...
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January 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Our roundtable with Peter Alilunas, @drjonessoc.bsky.social, @noisybits.bsky.social and moi is just out as part of @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social 10th year anniversary. 50 freebies here:
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Archiving will be some of the most important work that we can do collectively over the next several years.
February 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Archiving will be some of the most important work that we can do collectively over the next several years.
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If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
February 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
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CALL FOR ZINES! Contribute your zines to the first ever @geographers.bsky.social Zine Fair, happening March 24-28 in Detroit! Find all the info and the submission link on the banner at the top of our homepage: geoz.one. Please spread the word! #geosky
January 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
CALL FOR ZINES! Contribute your zines to the first ever @geographers.bsky.social Zine Fair, happening March 24-28 in Detroit! Find all the info and the submission link on the banner at the top of our homepage: geoz.one. Please spread the word! #geosky