Gary Needham
@garyneedham.bsky.social
he/they, film and screen media, the University of Liverpool - queer, autistic, Scottish - currently writing 'Sex, Guys, and Videotape: American Independent Cinema and the AIDS Crisis' and co-authoring the Queer Film Classic on 'Buddies' (1985)
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IMAGINING TRANS FUTURES
Relaxed live conversation on trans academia and politics, including facilitated networking for project sharing (Homotopia 2025: Uprising!)
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Join us on Sunday 23rd for "Imagining Trans Futures" with Mijke van der Drift (co-author of Trans Femme Futures) and Deity Evans (trans activist-socialist) - location: Liverpool, Blue Coat gallery. For more info, to book a place, and please, see eventbrite link www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-...
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check out the bisexuality-related films discussed in my forthcoming book, CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION, here on Letterboxd: boxd.it/LLSt0
November 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
check out the bisexuality-related films discussed in my forthcoming book, CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION, here on Letterboxd: boxd.it/LLSt0
100% Hence the screen grab not giving them traffic from a link
I hate the Guardian framing of conversation respectability politics, surface bourgeois fakeness & its dining across the divide crap. "Oh let's all be polite to fascists & maybe they'll be cuddly!" Absolute English poison.
November 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
100% Hence the screen grab not giving them traffic from a link
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Honestly folks it's fine just to talk real shit. Or to understand there's no such thing as small talk, there's learning another person's way of engaging & exchanging social cues, or offering our own cues of listening & kindness on a brief meeting -- nothing small about that.
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Honestly folks it's fine just to talk real shit. Or to understand there's no such thing as small talk, there's learning another person's way of engaging & exchanging social cues, or offering our own cues of listening & kindness on a brief meeting -- nothing small about that.
I was being a touch sarcy there and can, like most of us, do it flawlessly but it is goes in the "high-masking mode activity" category for me. Public transport and queues at the checkout tho' 😮💨
Honestly folks it's fine just to talk real shit. Or to understand there's no such thing as small talk, there's learning another person's way of engaging & exchanging social cues, or offering our own cues of listening & kindness on a brief meeting -- nothing small about that.
...said no autistic person ever
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I was being a touch sarcy there and can, like most of us, do it flawlessly but it is goes in the "high-masking mode activity" category for me. Public transport and queues at the checkout tho' 😮💨
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If you are in Nijmegen, Netherlands, in December - or can get there!
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Research Symposium: The Cultural Memory of AIDS | Radboud University
In this symposium, experts reflect on cultural responses to AIDS through keynotes, a roundtable on memory, and staged readings by Underground Theatre Nijmegen.
www.ru.nl
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
If you are in Nijmegen, Netherlands, in December - or can get there!
www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
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Join us on Sunday 23rd for "Imagining Trans Futures" with Mijke van der Drift (co-author of Trans Femme Futures) and Deity Evans (trans activist-socialist) - location: Liverpool, Blue Coat gallery. For more info, to book a place, and please, see eventbrite link www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-...
IMAGINING TRANS FUTURES
Relaxed live conversation on trans academia and politics, including facilitated networking for project sharing (Homotopia 2025: Uprising!)
www.eventbrite.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Join us on Sunday 23rd for "Imagining Trans Futures" with Mijke van der Drift (co-author of Trans Femme Futures) and Deity Evans (trans activist-socialist) - location: Liverpool, Blue Coat gallery. For more info, to book a place, and please, see eventbrite link www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-...
...said no autistic person ever
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
...said no autistic person ever
Hasn't the Pope heard of "Gospel House"?
👇
Barbara Tucker - I Get Lifted (1994)
The Absolute - I Believe - Mark's Full On Gospel Mix (1996)
Dennis Ferrer - How Do I Let Go (2006) ·
etc. etc. etc.
👇
Barbara Tucker - I Get Lifted (1994)
The Absolute - I Believe - Mark's Full On Gospel Mix (1996)
Dennis Ferrer - How Do I Let Go (2006) ·
etc. etc. etc.
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Hasn't the Pope heard of "Gospel House"?
👇
Barbara Tucker - I Get Lifted (1994)
The Absolute - I Believe - Mark's Full On Gospel Mix (1996)
Dennis Ferrer - How Do I Let Go (2006) ·
etc. etc. etc.
👇
Barbara Tucker - I Get Lifted (1994)
The Absolute - I Believe - Mark's Full On Gospel Mix (1996)
Dennis Ferrer - How Do I Let Go (2006) ·
etc. etc. etc.
I'm nearly at the end of 12 weeks of 'Queer Film, Video, and Documentary' (a huge 106 students in that class) but they absolutely love Riggs, Dunye, Chocolate Babies, Gregg Bordowtiz, anything AIDS crisis-related, crip theory etc. But, they always really struggle with the end scene of The Living End
I wasn't entirely happy with how this unit went. I've noticed a reactionary response to these films from students, which they mask as enlightened."We [undefined] have moved on as a society, so there's no need to watch such confrontational films anymore." Needless to say, I disagree.
Prepping for to teach my Intro students film history through a case study of New Queer Cinema. It's probably a sign of how bad things have gotten that I'm actually more nervous about how they'll respond to these films than I am when I screen parts of Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will.
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I'm nearly at the end of 12 weeks of 'Queer Film, Video, and Documentary' (a huge 106 students in that class) but they absolutely love Riggs, Dunye, Chocolate Babies, Gregg Bordowtiz, anything AIDS crisis-related, crip theory etc. But, they always really struggle with the end scene of The Living End
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This book has been a labor of love! It's Linda Williams' final writing alongside brilliant essays by great scholars, examining the role of melodrama in current life and politics across the globe. Available for pre-order from the always-wonderful @dukepress.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This book has been a labor of love! It's Linda Williams' final writing alongside brilliant essays by great scholars, examining the role of melodrama in current life and politics across the globe. Available for pre-order from the always-wonderful @dukepress.bsky.social
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Jungle Jump by Patrick Cowley ♨️ an interstellar floor-filler, which pits whirling beats with dub-laced swirls of synth 🪩
“Jungle Jump” has a clammy drum breakdown that draws a line from mid-‘80s Chicago to early ‘90s London. - @andrewryce.bsky.social
🎥 "The Grease Monkeys" (1979)
“Jungle Jump” has a clammy drum breakdown that draws a line from mid-‘80s Chicago to early ‘90s London. - @andrewryce.bsky.social
🎥 "The Grease Monkeys" (1979)
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Jungle Jump by Patrick Cowley ♨️ an interstellar floor-filler, which pits whirling beats with dub-laced swirls of synth 🪩
“Jungle Jump” has a clammy drum breakdown that draws a line from mid-‘80s Chicago to early ‘90s London. - @andrewryce.bsky.social
🎥 "The Grease Monkeys" (1979)
“Jungle Jump” has a clammy drum breakdown that draws a line from mid-‘80s Chicago to early ‘90s London. - @andrewryce.bsky.social
🎥 "The Grease Monkeys" (1979)
Join us on Sunday 23rd for "Imagining Trans Futures" with Mijke van der Drift (co-author of Trans Femme Futures) and Deity Evans (trans activist-socialist) - location: Liverpool, Blue Coat gallery. For more info, to book a place, and please, see eventbrite link www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-...
IMAGINING TRANS FUTURES
Relaxed live conversation on trans academia and politics, including facilitated networking for project sharing (Homotopia 2025: Uprising!)
www.eventbrite.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Join us on Sunday 23rd for "Imagining Trans Futures" with Mijke van der Drift (co-author of Trans Femme Futures) and Deity Evans (trans activist-socialist) - location: Liverpool, Blue Coat gallery. For more info, to book a place, and please, see eventbrite link www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-...
Age yourself with gaming 🎮
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Age yourself with gaming 🎮
A few pics from the launch for photographer Ming De Nasty's "Residents" project at Liverpool's Open Eye Gallery. Part of city-wide arts festival Homotopia. The portrait exhibition captures Liverpool's broad LGBTQAI+ community around politics, identity, and place.
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www.homotopia.net/events/resid...
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
A few pics from the launch for photographer Ming De Nasty's "Residents" project at Liverpool's Open Eye Gallery. Part of city-wide arts festival Homotopia. The portrait exhibition captures Liverpool's broad LGBTQAI+ community around politics, identity, and place.
www.homotopia.net/events/resid...
www.homotopia.net/events/resid...
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the preface & introduction of my forthcoming book is now freely available to read! & you can also pre-order it at 50% off buff.ly/ehSkevd
In "Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression," @jacobengelberg.bsky.social reimagines queer film studies, using transgressive cinematic figures to challenge binary notions of sexuality. #QueerStudies #FilmStudies Read the intro now and preorder at 50% off during our fall sale! buff.ly/ehSkevd
October 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
the preface & introduction of my forthcoming book is now freely available to read! & you can also pre-order it at 50% off buff.ly/ehSkevd
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Can’t help but wonder if I would still be employed right now and, if so, for how long if I hadn’t left my position in Texas in the fall.
A Texas public university administrator's notes for a meeting with faculty.
"No daylight": faculty "cannot discuss or teach anything regarding transgender - only male and female." They must "scrub" syllabi for "transgender items."
And keep everything out of writing: "Don't email; talk directly."
"No daylight": faculty "cannot discuss or teach anything regarding transgender - only male and female." They must "scrub" syllabi for "transgender items."
And keep everything out of writing: "Don't email; talk directly."
October 18, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Can’t help but wonder if I would still be employed right now and, if so, for how long if I hadn’t left my position in Texas in the fall.
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i'm very happy to share these endorsements for my forthcoming book, CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION. it means the world to have such generous words from scholars i respect so deeply.
September 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
i'm very happy to share these endorsements for my forthcoming book, CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION. it means the world to have such generous words from scholars i respect so deeply.
100% I would also add Clara Law to the "best of" too! I used to teach her Farewell China
I get it, but the way it’s pitched as “the best of HK cinema” is irksome.
September 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
100% I would also add Clara Law to the "best of" too! I used to teach her Farewell China
It seems to be a curation exclusively from the "Golden Princess Film Production" catalogue which I assume is why there's no Ann Hui. It is a pretty small roster of films from what I remember but includes those John Woo/Tsui Hark big hitters.
Great. But where’s Ann Hui?? Six-time Best Director at the HK Film Awards and *only* director whose work has won a Grand Slam (Best Picture/Director/Screenplay/Actor/Actress) — not once but twice. Lifetime Achievement Awards at Venice, Asian Film Awards and HK Fest.
🚨🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨🚨Starting next month, make the Criterion Channel your home for the best in Hong Kong cinema! On October 1, a major selection of long-unavailable movies from the Golden Princess library will make their streaming debuts on the Channel
September 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It seems to be a curation exclusively from the "Golden Princess Film Production" catalogue which I assume is why there's no Ann Hui. It is a pretty small roster of films from what I remember but includes those John Woo/Tsui Hark big hitters.
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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 5:14 PM
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...
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Are you neurodivergent & have done, or considered, a PhD? We’re researching how doctoral study works (or doesn’t) for neurodivergent people. Take our 30min survey & help make academia more inclusive forms.office.com/e/ft9jyWsPUW
Questions? Email [email protected]
#PhD #Neurodivergent
Questions? Email [email protected]
#PhD #Neurodivergent
July 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Are you neurodivergent & have done, or considered, a PhD? We’re researching how doctoral study works (or doesn’t) for neurodivergent people. Take our 30min survey & help make academia more inclusive forms.office.com/e/ft9jyWsPUW
Questions? Email [email protected]
#PhD #Neurodivergent
Questions? Email [email protected]
#PhD #Neurodivergent
The most scary and dystopian thing about Alien: Earth is that the only consumable media in the future appears to be Disney. In the first episode two scenes in which media content is watched in different geographies, locales is other Disney texts including Peter Pan and Pixar's Ice Age.
August 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The most scary and dystopian thing about Alien: Earth is that the only consumable media in the future appears to be Disney. In the first episode two scenes in which media content is watched in different geographies, locales is other Disney texts including Peter Pan and Pixar's Ice Age.
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Post from @caitgauthor.bsky.social on the ableism behind “write every day!”
I am definitely writing my book on crip time. Bc I must, there is no other way for me.
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I am definitely writing my book on crip time. Bc I must, there is no other way for me.
caitgordon.com/2022/09/16/t...
The Ableism and Privilege Behind “You Must Write Every Day”
You are the expert on yourself. (This article first appeared in Write, the official magazine of the Writers’ Union of Canada, Summer 2022 edition.) One of my favourite things about being in a…
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August 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Post from @caitgauthor.bsky.social on the ableism behind “write every day!”
I am definitely writing my book on crip time. Bc I must, there is no other way for me.
caitgordon.com/2022/09/16/t...
I am definitely writing my book on crip time. Bc I must, there is no other way for me.
caitgordon.com/2022/09/16/t...