João Florêncio
@noisybits.bsky.social
Prof. of Gender Studies (Sex Media & Sex Cultures) at @liu.se 🇸🇪. Hon. prof. at @exeter.ac.uk 🇬🇧.
Coordinator: NordSex—Nordic Research Network on Sexuality, Media, and Culture
👬: @benwritesthings.bsky.social.
More: linktr.ee/Jpmflorencio
Coordinator: NordSex—Nordic Research Network on Sexuality, Media, and Culture
👬: @benwritesthings.bsky.social.
More: linktr.ee/Jpmflorencio
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João Florêncio
@noisybits.bsky.social
· Apr 19
CROSSINGS is now out on time for you to take it in your next cruising adventure in a historical cruising toilet.
*The model is reading CROSSINGS by João Florêncio and Liz Rosenfeld at the Keith Haring toilet of the LGBT Center in NYC.
*The model is reading CROSSINGS by João Florêncio and Liz Rosenfeld at the Keith Haring toilet of the LGBT Center in NYC.
Reposted by João Florêncio
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Merry Christmas, everyone!
So, because it’s Christmas Day, my dad bough special cans of tuna pâté for cats, and he gave one not only to Tita (the house cat) but also to all the strays who live outside the house. Just like Jesus/Karl Marx intended.
December 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
So, because it’s Christmas Day, my dad bough special cans of tuna pâté for cats, and he gave one not only to Tita (the house cat) but also to all the strays who live outside the house. Just like Jesus/Karl Marx intended.
Most of all: what if sex and sexual fantasy and play were okay and the bad thing be that society as a whole to this day continues to see women as good or bad, mothers or whores, and treat them according to either category?
Wild hot take, but what if misogynistic cultural production was a symptom of the culture that produces it rather than its cause? What if misogyny was structural? What if porn was the telling map of a culture rather than its lone black sheep? What if politicians and commentators could think for once?
December 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Most of all: what if sex and sexual fantasy and play were okay and the bad thing be that society as a whole to this day continues to see women as good or bad, mothers or whores, and treat them according to either category?
Wild hot take, but what if misogynistic cultural production was a symptom of the culture that produces it rather than its cause? What if misogyny was structural? What if porn was the telling map of a culture rather than its lone black sheep? What if politicians and commentators could think for once?
December 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Wild hot take, but what if misogynistic cultural production was a symptom of the culture that produces it rather than its cause? What if misogyny was structural? What if porn was the telling map of a culture rather than its lone black sheep? What if politicians and commentators could think for once?
I have been at my parents’ in Portugal since yesterday and I’ve just had to have that gay talk with my father about overhead lighting.
December 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I have been at my parents’ in Portugal since yesterday and I’ve just had to have that gay talk with my father about overhead lighting.
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives. RIP Rosa Von Praunheim
December 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives. RIP Rosa Von Praunheim
Our rektor’s Christmas message to staff involves him talking to the camera dressed as Father Christmas. I think Vice-Chancellors in the UK are missing an opportunity. 🤣
December 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Our rektor’s Christmas message to staff involves him talking to the camera dressed as Father Christmas. I think Vice-Chancellors in the UK are missing an opportunity. 🤣
Precis! jacobin.com/2025/12/ince...
What Incels Learned From Feminism
Confusing marginality with insight leaves movements vulnerable to reactionary mimicry. A renewed engagement with Karl Marx’s structural account of exploitation can give feminism a path out of standpoi...
jacobin.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Precis! jacobin.com/2025/12/ince...
My latest is out doi.org/10.1017/9781...
The People Against the Body, Queer Bodies Against the Nation (Chapter 20) - 'The People' and British Literature
'The People' and British Literature - December 2025
doi.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
My latest is out doi.org/10.1017/9781...
The last nail in Berlin’s coffin
December 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The last nail in Berlin’s coffin
Tonight I cooked dinner for Ben and I. A taste of the Portuguese seaside in Berlin’s Rote Insel.
December 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Tonight I cooked dinner for Ben and I. A taste of the Portuguese seaside in Berlin’s Rote Insel.
This is tomorrow innit www.kunstverein.de/program/imag...
December 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
This is tomorrow innit www.kunstverein.de/program/imag...
So this happened.
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
So this happened.
Ok, apart from the memes, this is the only Lily Allen discourse I need. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11...
Postscript to an Open Marriage: On Lily Allen’s West End Girl by Jean Garnett
November 20, 2025 – “Whatever else it is (frequently delightful, well crafted, et cetera), West End Girl strikes me as a rather neat, crowd-pleasing, bias-confirming presentation of nonmonogamy that c...
www.theparisreview.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Ok, apart from the memes, this is the only Lily Allen discourse I need. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11...
Hello Hamburg. I’m gonna be in you on the 4th of December!
November 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Hello Hamburg. I’m gonna be in you on the 4th of December!
BOOM! 💥 🔥 👀 😈 ✊
“Queer theory…is in its flop era.” My review of Kay Gabriel’s PERVERTS is out today in @thebaffler.com. Kay’s book is a funny and true antidote to the cheap sentiment of bad queer discourse, a reckoning with sex/gender as pleasure center and system requiring defeat. thebaffler.com/latest/we-wa...
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
BOOM! 💥 🔥 👀 😈 ✊
And then there’s that stupid liberal gay wet dream series “Boots,” which tells you “look, it’s okay because it can also be gay!” 🤮
Their whole personal identity ends up being build on machine guns and killing, and some are thirsty for war just so they can kill. Then some go to war and kill everything that moves and then get PTSD. Others never go to war and their whole identity completely crumbles. What the serious fuck.
The Netflix doc about the Marines is deeply troubling. There are guys who say on camera they enrolled because “I love violence,” “I love guns and I want to kill people.” There are guys who were lost and their veteran fathers told them the marines is the way to a life purpose and being a real man. 😬
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
And then there’s that stupid liberal gay wet dream series “Boots,” which tells you “look, it’s okay because it can also be gay!” 🤮
Their whole personal identity ends up being build on machine guns and killing, and some are thirsty for war just so they can kill. Then some go to war and kill everything that moves and then get PTSD. Others never go to war and their whole identity completely crumbles. What the serious fuck.
The Netflix doc about the Marines is deeply troubling. There are guys who say on camera they enrolled because “I love violence,” “I love guns and I want to kill people.” There are guys who were lost and their veteran fathers told them the marines is the way to a life purpose and being a real man. 😬
November 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Their whole personal identity ends up being build on machine guns and killing, and some are thirsty for war just so they can kill. Then some go to war and kill everything that moves and then get PTSD. Others never go to war and their whole identity completely crumbles. What the serious fuck.
The Netflix doc about the Marines is deeply troubling. There are guys who say on camera they enrolled because “I love violence,” “I love guns and I want to kill people.” There are guys who were lost and their veteran fathers told them the marines is the way to a life purpose and being a real man. 😬
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The Netflix doc about the Marines is deeply troubling. There are guys who say on camera they enrolled because “I love violence,” “I love guns and I want to kill people.” There are guys who were lost and their veteran fathers told them the marines is the way to a life purpose and being a real man. 😬
Once upon a time when UK Universities were cool.
(Report from Mr Leather Europe 1997, and ECMC annual general meeting in Manchester. Projet X, No. 23, Paris, October 1997)
(Report from Mr Leather Europe 1997, and ECMC annual general meeting in Manchester. Projet X, No. 23, Paris, October 1997)
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Once upon a time when UK Universities were cool.
(Report from Mr Leather Europe 1997, and ECMC annual general meeting in Manchester. Projet X, No. 23, Paris, October 1997)
(Report from Mr Leather Europe 1997, and ECMC annual general meeting in Manchester. Projet X, No. 23, Paris, October 1997)
Today’s a great day to dance to one of my favourite tracks!
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Today’s a great day to dance to one of my favourite tracks!