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.
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!
Reposted by João Florêncio
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
This official statement by the Journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy, pushing back against sex and porn “addiction” paradigms is phenomenal and timely, given growing tendencies in public discourse (and not just because my work is cited! 🤪) doi.org/10.1080/1468...
Statement from the journal of sexual and relationship therapy: international perspectives on theory, research, and practice on ‘sex addiction,’ ‘pornography addiction’, out-of-control-sexual-behaviour...
Published in Sexual and Relationship Therapy (Ahead of Print, 2025)
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This official statement by the Journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy, pushing back against sex and porn “addiction” paradigms is phenomenal and timely, given growing tendencies in public discourse (and not just because my work is cited! 🤪) doi.org/10.1080/1468...
Good morning to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Today’s the day!
November 4, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Good morning to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Today’s the day!
Gems from the archive for “The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945–2000.”
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Gems from the archive for “The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945–2000.”
What do a cybernetics researcher, a feminist robotics researcher, and a sexuality researcher do on a Saturday night in linköping, you ask?
November 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
What do a cybernetics researcher, a feminist robotics researcher, and a sexuality researcher do on a Saturday night in linköping, you ask?
Hi. What’s up? Horny? 😈👀
October 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Hi. What’s up? Horny? 😈👀
It’s Halloween, so tonight I’m hosting a moose séance innit
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It’s Halloween, so tonight I’m hosting a moose séance innit
So now that it’s been formally announced the prince is no longer prince but a bad apple, I would like to remind people that bad apples often come from bad trees, that they are a symptom, not cause, of the corrupt abusive structures that bred and sustained their existence.
October 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
So now that it’s been formally announced the prince is no longer prince but a bad apple, I would like to remind people that bad apples often come from bad trees, that they are a symptom, not cause, of the corrupt abusive structures that bred and sustained their existence.
Apparently I’m on the walls of Kunstverein in Hamburg.
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Apparently I’m on the walls of Kunstverein in Hamburg.
Darling hold my hand—I’m at Bristol airport, there are at least TWO hen dos and people are downing G&Ts at 7am.
October 25, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Darling hold my hand—I’m at Bristol airport, there are at least TWO hen dos and people are downing G&Ts at 7am.
Join a union; make friends!
Being stuck in England ain’t that bad when your old @ucu.org.uk comrade @profalexp.bsky.social invites you to dinner and you drink and talk politics, HE, and raving in the ‘90s 🥰🥰
October 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Join a union; make friends!
Being stuck in England ain’t that bad when your old @ucu.org.uk comrade @profalexp.bsky.social invites you to dinner and you drink and talk politics, HE, and raving in the ‘90s 🥰🥰
October 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Being stuck in England ain’t that bad when your old @ucu.org.uk comrade @profalexp.bsky.social invites you to dinner and you drink and talk politics, HE, and raving in the ‘90s 🥰🥰
Hello. My flight back to Linköping got cancelled due to strong winds at Schiphol. I’m stuck in England. How was it for you?
October 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Hello. My flight back to Linköping got cancelled due to strong winds at Schiphol. I’m stuck in England. How was it for you?
To this day, my dears, my jaw still drops at how provincial and ignorant so many US commentators are.
The government should now move on to banning restaurants from pretending not to have tap water
October 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
To this day, my dears, my jaw still drops at how provincial and ignorant so many US commentators are.
Reposted by João Florêncio
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Guys, I’ve just landed on TERF Island 😭
October 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Guys, I’ve just landed on TERF Island 😭