Lol yes it’s my PhD thesis!!!

Things are happening…….

Things are happening…….

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Yes that Winnie the Pooh is me carrying all of my good ideas….. 🍯😮‍💨

Once I submit my thesis, I’ll come back to four articles 🍯 that are waiting to be finalized:

2 on AI and porn from my fellowships

1 on French "anime avatars" (pp manga)

1 on the NoFap movement in relationship to hentai and how I tie this to the hatred for the netorare (cheating) genre

Let me know when we can have a conversation about the people in Naruto calling Akatsuki a "terrorist organization" and the role of Konoha in starting the Second Shinobi World War that made Nagato, Yakiho, and Konan war orphans……

Taking about boycotting, I want to bring back the issue to anime studies for a minute. Back in 2019, I was offered to review "The Anime Boom" (2017) by Michal Daliot-Bul and Nissim Otmazgin. On page xii, it reads: "The research for this book was generously funded by the Israel Science Foundation."

Film français très bouleversant (Soixante-sept Millisecondes de fleuryfontaine -) sur les violences policières projeté hier soir au festival international d’animation d’Ottawa. Bravo le rayonnement de la France à l’international hein #macron

Engaging with this scholarship participates in legitimizing their funding source. I hope that's something anime studies can have a conversation about!

I don't find this statement to be enough but I was 23-24 at the time-still more backbone than a lot of senior academics I've met. Nowadays, I would just refuse to do the review. As I'm finalizing my thesis, I've ultimately decided to delete this source from my bibliography in alignment with PACBI.

the funding provenance of such work matters. A goal of a university should be to create an intellectual community in solidarity with marginalized peoples—especially through postcolonial and feminist hermeneutics. The current state of Israel does not appear to me as compatible with these precepts."

... whose continuous occupation of Palestinian territory in the West Bank renders the funding of this publication complicit in the violence of settler colonialism. While I acknowledge the intellectual and cultural significance of publishing academic works on Japanese animation, I do believe (cont.)

At the time of writing (2020), I added to the beginning of my review: "Before starting this review, I want to acknowledge that this book was made possible through the financial support of the Israel Science Foundation, a scientific organization financially supported by the State of Israel, (cont.)

Taking about boycotting, I want to bring back the issue to anime studies for a minute. Back in 2019, I was offered to review "The Anime Boom" (2017) by Michal Daliot-Bul and Nissim Otmazgin. On page xii, it reads: "The research for this book was generously funded by the Israel Science Foundation."

Writing my thesis acknowledgment…

C'est aujourd'hui que sort mon nouveau livre sur les mangas, co-écrit par @juliapopek.bsky.social et @eckhaert.bsky.social et publié aux éditions Ynnis.

Il est question d'eromanga dans toute sa variété et sa diversité avec des approches historiques, des essais ou encore des interviews.

C'est aujourd'hui que sort notre livre dédié à l'eromanga (nom donné au manga érotico-pornographique) avec @eckhaert.bsky.social et @meloku.bsky.social.

Benjamin a déjà dit l'essentiel dans son fil ci-dessous, donc allez le lire !
Pour compléter…

Writing my thesis acknowledgment…

Deuxième page de ma thèse: Macron est identifié comme un homme politique de droite allez

On a la chance d'avoir pu faire un entretien avec la chercheuse universitaire @aurelievpetit.bsky.social qui a répondu à nos interrogations, notamment sur la législation. Encore merci pour ces précieuses informations qui viennent souligner que le cadre légal de la pornographie est encore complexe.

Aujourd'hui je suis officiellement un auteur publié (en dehors de la presse). Ça sort chez Ynnis et ça parle de 🍑, de 🍆 et dans l'ensemble de 🌶️ avec sérieux et un ton qui se veut vulgarisateur. À mettre sous tous les sapins de Noël (pour adultes, pas de bêtises). ynnis-editions.fr/products/hen...

Just added the little Bluesky butterfly icon 🦋 to my beautiful pink website www.aurelie-petit.com

Ask me how I know this entire article’s biblio was done by ChatGPT… I published in @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social not Media and Communications Studies… and same for all the others. Disappointing bc this was such an interesting article: jplop.neocities.org/teac_online_...