João Florêncio
@noisybits.bsky.social
Prof. of Gender Studies (Sex Media & Sex Cultures) at @liu.se 🇸🇪. Hon. prof. at @exeter.ac.uk 🇬🇧.
Comrade.
Coordinator: NordSex—Nordic Research Network on Sexuality, Media, and Culture
👬: @benwritesthings.bsky.social
More: linktr.ee/Jpmflorencio
Comrade.
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.
This beautiful thing is out in the world next month with Aperture, and available for pre-order, and I’m delighted to have my essay “Attack of the Clones: Sampling, Seriality, and Queer World-Making” included in it. aperture.org/books/hal-fi...
Hal Fischer: Seminal Works (2025) | Aperture Photobooks
Seminal Works brings together rarely seen early photography and essays that consider queer culture and social change in San Francisco.
aperture.org
January 14, 2026 at 6:47 AM
This beautiful thing is out in the world next month with Aperture, and available for pre-order, and I’m delighted to have my essay “Attack of the Clones: Sampling, Seriality, and Queer World-Making” included in it. aperture.org/books/hal-fi...
February 4 in Ottawa! cuag.ca/event/imagin...
Imagining Sex, Imagining Us: Pornography, Transnational Print Culture, and the Invention of "Gay Europe" - Carleton University Art Gallery
cuag.ca
January 13, 2026 at 9:19 PM
February 4 in Ottawa! cuag.ca/event/imagin...
I’ve just realised that the 1st English edition of Foucault’s The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 shares its publication year (1978) with Stuart Hall et al.’s Policing the Crisis, and I find that incredible, magical, and heartwarming.
January 11, 2026 at 12:30 PM
I’ve just realised that the 1st English edition of Foucault’s The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 shares its publication year (1978) with Stuart Hall et al.’s Policing the Crisis, and I find that incredible, magical, and heartwarming.
I’m gonna put it out there: I tried watching Heated Rivalry earlier today and couldn’t get through the first episode.
Abolish “LGBT” fiction.
Abolish “LGBT” fiction.
January 10, 2026 at 9:27 PM
I’m gonna put it out there: I tried watching Heated Rivalry earlier today and couldn’t get through the first episode.
Abolish “LGBT” fiction.
Abolish “LGBT” fiction.
O Canada! (Come hang out in Ottawa next month!)
January 9, 2026 at 11:46 PM
O Canada! (Come hang out in Ottawa next month!)
This is VERY good, @newyorker.com! How Consent Can—and Cannot—Help Us Have Better Sex www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Consent Can—and Cannot—Help Us Have Better Sex
The idea is legally vital, but ultimately unsatisfying. Is there another way forward?
www.newyorker.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:50 AM
This is VERY good, @newyorker.com! How Consent Can—and Cannot—Help Us Have Better Sex www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Merry Gay Christmas to all who celebrate! youtu.be/VhxIcmhydos?...
Robyn - Talk To Me (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Robyn
youtu.be
January 7, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Merry Gay Christmas to all who celebrate! youtu.be/VhxIcmhydos?...
More Glasgow, in the evening this time www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crossings-...
Crossings: An encounter with Liz Rosenfeld and João Florêncio
Artist Liz Rosenfeld and academic João Florêncio present an expanded conversation and book launch on and around cruising and making
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 1:13 PM
More Glasgow, in the evening this time www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crossings-...
Glasgow, come hang out with us and think cruising as creative practice! Register by 15 January. tockify.com/sgsah/detail...
Cruising Creative Queer Methodologies: Masterclass
Fri 30 Jan, 10:00 - 16:00 [GMT]: ‘Cruising Creative Queer Methods’ is a two-part session exploring cruising as a mode of thinking with the body and communicating through sexuality and the entanglement...
tockify.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Glasgow, come hang out with us and think cruising as creative practice! Register by 15 January. tockify.com/sgsah/detail...
Not a documentary about the history of the Portuguese Communist Party on morning TV! ❤️🖤✊☭
January 6, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Not a documentary about the history of the Portuguese Communist Party on morning TV! ❤️🖤✊☭
This is Judith, of whom I’ve just become the godfather. She’s part of a herd of 180 goats owned by a village cooperative near my parents’. They roam the mountain and help manage the vegetation to prevent wild fires. I get free cheeses and an annual walk on the mountain with the herd and shepherds.🐐🥰
January 5, 2026 at 12:17 AM
This is Judith, of whom I’ve just become the godfather. She’s part of a herd of 180 goats owned by a village cooperative near my parents’. They roam the mountain and help manage the vegetation to prevent wild fires. I get free cheeses and an annual walk on the mountain with the herd and shepherds.🐐🥰
This one is a couple of months old but it lays down the risks of doing what the US has just done. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Peril of Ousting Maduro
Only a gradual transition—not regime change by corce—can restore Venezuela’s democracy.
www.foreignaffairs.com
January 3, 2026 at 5:10 PM
This one is a couple of months old but it lays down the risks of doing what the US has just done. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Honestly, people of the USA, what are you going to do about the unhinged animal running your government?
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Honestly, people of the USA, what are you going to do about the unhinged animal running your government?
Hello, it’s me on the sea side of southern Portugal. If I were to swim all the way to the left, I’d reach Palestine. 🇵🇸🥰 ✊
December 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Hello, it’s me on the sea side of southern Portugal. If I were to swim all the way to the left, I’d reach Palestine. 🇵🇸🥰 ✊
Reposted by João Florêncio
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Merry Christmas, everyone!
So, because it’s Christmas Day, my dad bough special cans of tuna pâté for cats, and he gave one not only to Tita (the house cat) but also to all the strays who live outside the house. Just like Jesus/Karl Marx intended.
December 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
So, because it’s Christmas Day, my dad bough special cans of tuna pâté for cats, and he gave one not only to Tita (the house cat) but also to all the strays who live outside the house. Just like Jesus/Karl Marx intended.
Most of all: what if sex and sexual fantasy and play were okay and the bad thing be that society as a whole to this day continues to see women as good or bad, mothers or whores, and treat them according to either category?
Wild hot take, but what if misogynistic cultural production was a symptom of the culture that produces it rather than its cause? What if misogyny was structural? What if porn was the telling map of a culture rather than its lone black sheep? What if politicians and commentators could think for once?
December 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Most of all: what if sex and sexual fantasy and play were okay and the bad thing be that society as a whole to this day continues to see women as good or bad, mothers or whores, and treat them according to either category?
Wild hot take, but what if misogynistic cultural production was a symptom of the culture that produces it rather than its cause? What if misogyny was structural? What if porn was the telling map of a culture rather than its lone black sheep? What if politicians and commentators could think for once?
December 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Wild hot take, but what if misogynistic cultural production was a symptom of the culture that produces it rather than its cause? What if misogyny was structural? What if porn was the telling map of a culture rather than its lone black sheep? What if politicians and commentators could think for once?
I have been at my parents’ in Portugal since yesterday and I’ve just had to have that gay talk with my father about overhead lighting.
December 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I have been at my parents’ in Portugal since yesterday and I’ve just had to have that gay talk with my father about overhead lighting.
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives. RIP Rosa Von Praunheim
December 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives. RIP Rosa Von Praunheim
Our rektor’s Christmas message to staff involves him talking to the camera dressed as Father Christmas. I think Vice-Chancellors in the UK are missing an opportunity. 🤣
December 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Our rektor’s Christmas message to staff involves him talking to the camera dressed as Father Christmas. I think Vice-Chancellors in the UK are missing an opportunity. 🤣
Precis! jacobin.com/2025/12/ince...
What Incels Learned From Feminism
Confusing marginality with insight leaves movements vulnerable to reactionary mimicry. A renewed engagement with Karl Marx’s structural account of exploitation can give feminism a path out of standpoi...
jacobin.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Precis! jacobin.com/2025/12/ince...
My latest is out doi.org/10.1017/9781...
The People Against the Body, Queer Bodies Against the Nation (Chapter 20) - 'The People' and British Literature
'The People' and British Literature - December 2025
doi.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
My latest is out doi.org/10.1017/9781...
The last nail in Berlin’s coffin
December 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The last nail in Berlin’s coffin