Feminist Media Histories
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Feminist Media Histories examines the role gender has played in media across a range of historical periods and global contexts. Published quarterly by UC Press.
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See 2024 winner Samantha Silver's “'Funnier Than Moms Mabley': The Stand-Up Comedy of Hattie Noel" (FREE for the month of October: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....). And watch out for 2025 winner Isabel Bartholomew's "'Ugh, As If!': Clueless and the Incest Plot" in July's special issue on "Fashion and Media"
https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2025.11.1.172)—and
October 3, 2025 at 3:49 AM
See 2024 winner Samantha Silver's “'Funnier Than Moms Mabley': The Stand-Up Comedy of Hattie Noel" (FREE for the month of October: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....). And watch out for 2025 winner Isabel Bartholomew's "'Ugh, As If!': Clueless and the Incest Plot" in July's special issue on "Fashion and Media"
The article also previews research on Jolie’s celebrity philanthropy—which shooting Tomb Raider on location in Cambodia launched—that Molloy and Meryl Shriver-Rice are currently undertaking for a book on Jolie’s cinema and activism.
September 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The article also previews research on Jolie’s celebrity philanthropy—which shooting Tomb Raider on location in Cambodia launched—that Molloy and Meryl Shriver-Rice are currently undertaking for a book on Jolie’s cinema and activism.
In our last free article in honor of Trans Day of Visibility, Cassius Adair looks at how certain print pornography was part of a distributed information and care network by and for US transfeminine people between the 1970s and 1990s.
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Solidarity in the CenterfoldTrans Social Safety Networks in the Adult Magazine
This essay argues that certain print pornography featuring “crossdresser,” “transvestite,” and “transsexual” subjects was, counterintuitively, part of a distributed information and care network by and...
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April 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
In our last free article in honor of Trans Day of Visibility, Cassius Adair looks at how certain print pornography was part of a distributed information and care network by and for US transfeminine people between the 1970s and 1990s.
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
Today's piece is authored by Dan Bustillo and focuses on the work of trans Latinx micro-celebrities as they maintain visibility on social media platforms, despite the phobic constraints of platform corporate policies and social practices.
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Transing the “Problem”Trans Latinx Micro-Celebrity Media Activism
On social media platforms, micro-celebrities need visibility to build community. Yet, the promise of online community is challenging for creators who contend with media platforms’ corporate policies o...
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April 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Today's piece is authored by Dan Bustillo and focuses on the work of trans Latinx micro-celebrities as they maintain visibility on social media platforms, despite the phobic constraints of platform corporate policies and social practices.
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
Continuing our week of free essays in honor of Transgender Day of Visibility, today's article is authored by Whit Pow who analyzes the glitch as a historically trans mode of media production.
Read the full essay here:
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Read the full essay here:
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A Trans Historiography of Glitches and Errors
In 1978, queer and transgender programmer Jamie Faye Fenton created the first piece of experimental video glitch art, Digital TV Dinner, using the Bally Astrocade, a home computer and game console of ...
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April 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Continuing our week of free essays in honor of Transgender Day of Visibility, today's article is authored by Whit Pow who analyzes the glitch as a historically trans mode of media production.
Read the full essay here:
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
Read the full essay here:
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
In our first piece, Chase Joynt and Jules Rosskam ask what might be possible in envisioning, theorizing, and enacting a trans cinematic method—a praxis for artists and scholars alike to be in meaningful, mutually supportive, world-sustaining relationships.
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
Toward a Trans Method, or Reciprocity as a Way of Life
It is reductive yet accurate to assert that Chase Joynt and Jules Rosskam first met because they are both trans people who make documentary films. While the alignment of these affinities does not nece...
online.ucpress.edu
March 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
In our first piece, Chase Joynt and Jules Rosskam ask what might be possible in envisioning, theorizing, and enacting a trans cinematic method—a praxis for artists and scholars alike to be in meaningful, mutually supportive, world-sustaining relationships.
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...