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Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social · 24d

Next week! Thursday at 6:30PM ET on Zoom. Free! Open to all! In English with simultaneous French interpretation. Listen to Eva Hayward and @laurah.bsky.social chat about the artist Erica Rutherford and her work, as well as trans rights today. www.gallery.ca/whats-on/cal...

In Conversation with Eva Hayward

Join Eva Hayward, a gender studies scholar at the University of New Mexico, in conversation with Laura Horak, Director of the Transgender Media Lab at Carleton University.

www.gallery.ca

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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 21d

Word is out!!! The curators of Cinema's First Nasty Women -- Elif Kaynakci, @hennefem.bsky.social, @laurah.bsky.social -- will co-deliver the UCLA Copley on Silent Cinema & Costume Design at the Giornate del Cinema Muto this year. 👒☔🌪️

📍 Thursday 9th October, Teatro Verdi in Pordenone
Save the date!

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Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social · 24d

Next week! Thursday at 6:30PM ET on Zoom. Free! Open to all! In English with simultaneous French interpretation. Listen to Eva Hayward and chat about the artist Erica Rutherford and her work, as well as trans rights today. www.gallery.ca/whats-on/cal...

In Conversation with Eva Hayward

Join Eva Hayward, a gender studies scholar at the University of New Mexico, in conversation with Laura Horak, Director of the Transgender Media Lab at Carleton University.

www.gallery.ca

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Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social · Jul 24

Not yet - soon!

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Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social · Jul 24

Lookee here! My book has a cover!

Coming from @ucpress.bsky.social in April 2026. Many thanks to Tourmaline for allowing us to use her photograph "Summer Azure"!

A brown-skinned trans woman in an astronaut's helmet and white tunic floats in front of a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. Text: "Trans Cinema" Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds. Laura Horak"

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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · Jun 20

Great review of Breaking Plates & our Nasty Women extravaganza at the @cinemathequefr.bsky.social by Nicolas Villodre!! 🎞️🔥 @karenpearlman.bsky.social @richardjamesallen.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social

www.leshumanites-media.com/post/le-cin%...

Le cinéma (muet) des "effrontées"https://static.wixstatic.com/media/524063_440a22aaa21b4f8088c564d236b30188~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_750,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/524063_440a22aaa21b4f8088c564d236b...

"Breaking Plates" de Karen Pearlman

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Jun 16

It's been a whirlwind week on the road w/ @nastysilents.bsky.social & Breaking Plates at Women & the Silent Screen, @cinemathequefr.bsky.social, & Eye Filmmuseum!!! Feeling very energized and grateful for all my dish-breaking feminist comrades!!!! 🎞📽🎶‼️🎊🥳

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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · Jun 14

No Kings, Yes Nasty Women!!! Beautiful day of screenings & dialogue in Paris at the @cinemathequefr.bsky.social!!! Long live Léontine AND Breaking Plates!!! 🎞️🎶🎊

@karenpearlman.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social @richardjamesallen.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · Jun 5

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...

Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

www.queensu.ca

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Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social · Jun 2

Chicagoans! Come to my queer and trans silent film series every Wednesday night in June! This Weds I'll be there in person introducing a program of shorts like you've never seen before!!! @facetschicago.bsky.social

Projecting Homosexuality: Queer and Trans Visions from Cinema’s First Decades June 4, 11, 18, & 25, 2025

Buckle up for a wild ride through the forgotten corners of early cinema! “Projecting Homosexuality” is a groundbreaking film series that will blow your mind with rarely seen gems from the dawn of moviemaking. Imagine stumbling into a secret world where gender-bending performers, radical social uprisings, and forbidden desires dance across the silver screen. From a beefcake muscleman posing in the world’s earliest films to lesbian love stories that challenged every social norm, these movies aren’t just history – they’re a time machine to a more subversive, surprising past that feels irresistibly modern.

This isn’t your grandparents’ dusty film archive – this is a revolution captured on celluloid. Spanning from the United States to Sweden, France, Germany, and Japan, these films will make you laugh, gasp, and see early 20th-century culture in a radically new light. Whether you’re a film buff, a queer history enthusiast, or just someone who loves discovering incredible stories that have been hidden for a century, this series promises an unforgettable journey. Get ready to peek through the keyhole of cinema’s most daring and delicious secrets.

Through the Keyhole: Shorts Program
Reception 7:30 pm | About the films | June 4, 2025, 8:00 pm-
Buy Tickets |119 minutes + intermission

Learn about the films here.

FEATURED SPEAKER: Laura Horak – Curator of The First Homosexuals Film Series. Laura Horak is Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University and director of the Transgender Media Lab and Transgender Media Portal.

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Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social · Apr 18

The post is blocked so I can't see it!

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Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social · Apr 7

Ottawans - spread the word! Have a fun day at the movies and help support our students! 🍿📽️ @carletonfass.bsky.social @carleton.ca @mayfairtheatre.bsky.social

A young Matthew Broderick smiles at the camera. FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF SUNDAY AT THE MAYFAIR. 13 April 3:30PM. Free admission thanks to Carleton's School for Studies in Art and Culture, but donations are gratefully accepted! ($15 suggested but any amount welcome) HELP SUPPORT THE FILM STUDIES TIFF 2025 TRIP! 1074 Bank St, Ottawa, ON K1S 2W3

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Apr 3

As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Apr 3

BREAKING — Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) staffers who were put on admin leave on Monday just got letters letting them know they’re a part of a Reduction in Force (RIF) and that their job will be “abolished” effective May 4th in accordance with Trump’s EO, per copy reviewed by me.

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · Mar 12

I checked, it’s open access and excellent!

@scmsqtc.bsky.social

Cael M Keegan @caelkeegan.bsky.social · Mar 12

Trying to get above the noise to share that our entire special issue on Queer World Cinema is currently open access!

brill.com/view/journal...

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · Mar 20

For the first time in a decade, I canceled my #SCMS participation. W/ TSA harassment & travel doc confiscations of trans people, ICE’s treatment of visa holders, for political & random reasons, & the measles outbreak—I don’t feel safe traveling to the U.S. as a trans, immunocompromised immigrant.1/4

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · Apr 3

Happening in two hours!

With all the travel restrictions on trans folks and additional flight delays, if you’re around, be a pal, come say hi to @laurah.bsky.social and send me a pic, pleaseeeee! I so wish I could be there with y’all!

🏳️‍⚧️🎥📺✨
@scmsqtc.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social
#SCMS25

Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · Apr 2

Come to our panel tmrw!

@laurah.bsky.social "Translating Trans Film History into @transmediaportl.bsky.social"
@caelkeegan.bsky.social
"Why Trans Cinema Doesn't
Exist"

æryka hollis o'neil "Got to be Real: The Edges & Ends of Trans Narrativity"

Me "Reenacting the Trans-Crip History of K"
#SCMS25

B13 Trans, Nonbinary, Racialized, and Mad Cinema/tic Configurations
FAIRMONT
CHAIR: Laura Horak • Carleton University
• Cael Keegan • Concordia University • "Why Trans Cinema Doesn't
Exist"
•æryka hollis o'neil • University of Toronto • "Got to be Real: The Edges and Ends of Trans Narrativity"
• Slava Greenberg • University of Amsterdam • "Reenacting the Trans-Crip History of Ketamine"
• Laura Horak • Carleton University • "Translating Trans Film History into the Transgender Media Portal"

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John Paul Stadler @johnpaulstadler.bsky.social · Apr 3

I’m heartbroken that so many brilliant scholars could not attend #SCMS25 out of the completely understandable and real fear for their safety.

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · Apr 3

Sitting in the forest looking at a photo of myself presenting at #SCMS25 is kinda uncanny.

Thank you @javiperezosorio.bsky.social for the pic and @laurah.bsky.social for orgenizing and chairing the most complicated panel ever!

Photo of a hotel conference room, few people visible from their backs. On stage behind a podium white woman in black jacket on screen trans guy in T shirt with pink triangle.

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Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social · Apr 1

Thanks, Chris! 😀 🎉🏳️‍⚧️

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Christopher Wolff @respectthecows.bsky.social · Mar 25

Congrats @laurah.bsky.social ! 🥳 newsroom.carleton.ca/2025/2025-do... #carleton #ottawa #transmedialab

Two Carleton Researchers Win 2025 Dorothy Killam Fellowships

Carleton University researchers, Jenny Bruin and Laura Horak, have been awarded 2025 Dorothy Killam Fellowships, one of Canada’s top academic honours.

newsroom.carleton.ca

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · Apr 1

Sneak peek 🫣 of the Queer and Trans Caucus 2025 zine
@caelkeegan.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social @scmsqtc.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social #SCMS25

Top: over pink background texts reads Thursday, April 3, 11 am
B2 The New Internet Press Tour
Stars, Formats, and Institutions in Digital Promotional Culture
° FAIRMONT
CHAIR Cory Barker • Pennsylvania State University
• Michael Reinhard • Emory University • Queer Kinships: Female Celebrity, Podcasting's Relational Labor, and LGBTQ+ Audiences"
• Cory Barker • Pennsylvania State University • *Hot Wings & Closet
Picks: Celebrity Authenticity in Contemporary Film Promotion*
B13 Trans, Nonbinary, Racialized, and Mad Cinema/tic Configurations
° FAIRMONT
CHAIR: Laura Horak • Carleton University
• Cael Keegan • Concordia University • *Why Trans Cinema Doesn't
Exist™
• aryka hollis o'neil • University of Toronto • "Got to be Real: The Edges and Ends of Trans Narrativity™
• Slava Greenberg • University of Amsterdam • "Reenacting the Trans-Crip History of Ketamine*
• Laura Horak • Carleton University • Translating Trans Film History into the Transgender Media Portal"
Bottom: image of Black butch in a beanie with DVDs all around. (Cheryl Dunye)

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Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social · Mar 25

For those of you in Chicago for #SCMS2025: www.mobilize.us/indivisiblec...

Hands Off! Rally and March to Rise Up and Fight Back Against Trump/Musk Attacks · Indivisible Chicago

Join the Chicago Federation of Labor, Equality Illinois, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Indivisible Chicago, Personal PAC, Sierra Club Illinois, and many others to rally and marc...

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Mar 5

It was a thrill to co-present GENDER ADVENTURES at the Cactus Theatre in Lubbock, TX with my partner-in-crime, @laurah.bsky.social!! 🎞️🌈🌵Big thanks to the organizers of Sexism/Cinema for inviting us!! ❤️

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · Mar 10

Tomorrow I'll be at Carleton University speaking about Trans Technologies! Thanks @laurah.bsky.social @transmediaportl.bsky.social and Rena Bivens for organizing!

carleton.ca/filmstudies/...

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